If the 2023 Dallas Cowboys offense becomes one to remember as the team intends by giving the play-calling responsibilities to Mike McCarthy, quarterback Dak Prescott already took care of the historians' jobs by nicknaming the team's scheme.

"This is the Texas Coast," Prescott told reporters on Wednesday. "We've just renamed that, the quarterbacks."

Talk about a perfect way of describing the blurry situation the Cowboys offense is going through heading into the 2023 NFL season. 

McCarthy is taking over the offense as a known West Coast specialist. It's the offense that he was very successful with in Green Bay and he's been working in it for the longest of times. Years before arriving with the Packers as a quarterbacks coach in 1999, he was in the Kansas City Chiefs staff that landed Joe Montana, the most emblematic West Coast quarterback in NFL history. 

McCarthy's scheme worked at Green Bay and even yielded a Super Bowl ring with Aaron Rodgers quarterbacking it. But we shouldn't fall into a trap. The track record of winning a Lombardi Trophy shouldn't blind Cowboys fans to two key truths.

1) Things didn't end great for the Packers as McCarthy's offense was accused of becoming predictable and 2) The Cowboys' offense over the last four years has actually been very productive and shouldn't be taken down completely.

Sure, following back-to-back playoff losses to the San Francisco 49ers in which the offense looked underwhelming, the Cowboys are moving on from Kellen Moore. But to suggest it was all bad during Moore's reign as offensive coordinator would be unfair at best.

In fact, Moore's time as the play-caller yielded one of the best and most efficient in the entire league. With a quarterback and a group of playmakers like CeeDee Lamb and Tony Pollard that have been working on that system for years, it would be foolish to tear it all down and let McCarthy scratch everything, right? 

The good news is the Cowboys are looking to take the best of both worlds.

"Definitely some West Coast principles but it has a little bit of what we've done in the past," added Dak. "And (we're) Marrying it together with a lot of detail and maybe in a sense (it'll be) a system that it's not out there."

McCarthy has hinted at a couple of key changes over the last few days, suggesting that the team's outside zone run game will significantly change as well as pass protection schemes.

When it comes down to it, the biggest changes in the Cowboys' offense won't really be about having a brand new playbook but a different way of using it on game day. 

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