Yep.
Workers have to know whom they’re working for and players have to know whom they’re playing for. It can’t be two guys, because you can’t make two bosses happy at once when those two bosses are not on the exact same page as one another.
Either Jones is running the team or McCarthy is, and if the players never know who it is, then really no one is running the team.
Here was the interview.
Jerry: “Are you willing to be my puppet?”
McCarthy: “Anything you say, Jerry!”
Jerry: “Ok, you’re hired!”