Dallas Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy came into the 2024 season needing to prove his worth to ownership in the final year of his coaching contract. The Cowboys are 3-7 after a 34-10 blowout loss to the Houston Texans at AT&T Stadium on Monday night.
Dallas has not won a game at home in 2024. The local crowd in North Texas is so apathetic about the team that many didn’t bother to show up at the stadium that had a lot of Texans fans in attendance. Some Cowboys fans wore paper bags over their heads.
Jerry Jones doesn’t want to change up the Dallas Cowboys midseason
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said after the team’s 34-6 Week 10 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles that he has no intentions of making a coaching change midseason, and regretted deciding to fire Wade Phillips after a 45-7 loss in Week 9 to the Green Bay Packers during the 2010 season.
Following the Cowboys’ second lopsided defeat in as many weeks, Jones said McCarthy hadn’t lost the locker room, and indicated the former Super Bowl-winning coach will stay through at least Week 18. McCarthy is now 45-31 with Dallas.
That doesn’t mean McCarthy is doing the job of coaching. In fact, McCarthy seems to be doing the opposite of what a head coach does. McCarthy said during his postgame presser that he regretted not putting in backup quarterback Trey Lance at the end of the game.
Mike McCarthy isn’t making coaching decisions
Jones told reporters after Monday night’s loss that he wants the Cowboys to stay with Rush because he believes the veteran quarterback gives Dallas the best chance of winning. Jones’ comments confused NFL fans who realized that such a decision should belong to the head coach.
“See what I mean? Whyyyyyy is the Owner making decisions the Coach should be making,” asked a fan on X.
“So Jerry is head coach again to? Last time I remember the head coach makes the starter calls,” wrote another.
Per the Cowboys’ website, Jones doubled down on his comments to support Rush Monday night during his appearance on 105.5 The Fan on Tuesday morning.
“We know that we’ve got limited time to work with these quarterbacks [Rush and Lance] at this particular time, and I would look for us to stay with the experience.” Jones said.
McCarthy is a figurehead at this point. The Cowboys are saving him the embarrassment of being fired. But he’s not really the man making…coaching decisions.
One has to wonder when Jones started making those types of coaching decisions, and if McCarthy had much chance to save his job at all after Jones chose not to go “all-in” in the offseason.
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