No coaching seat in the NFL is hotter before the upcoming season than Mike McCarthy’s with the Dallas Cowboys. McCarthy reportedly wouldn’t have taken the contract job if he knew what a mess the front office would make it in year five.
McCarthy has a 42-25 regular-season record with Dallas. However, he’s 1-3 in the postseason, and the Cowboys have failed to advance past the Divisional Round. In January, the Cowboys were upset by the youngest team in the league, the Green Bay Packers, in the Wild Card round in Dallas.
The Dallas Cowboys are procrastinating
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones stood by McCarthy when many thought they should move on and hire Bill Belichick. Jones is letting McCarthy play out the final season of his contract. It’s the same business tactic quarterback Dak Prescott will probably play under this season with Dallas, as he and fellow stars CeeDee Lamb and Micah Parsons have not signed new deals this offseason.
Mike McCarthy was ‘fed up’ this summer
According to Tyler Dunne of Go Long, McCarthy was getting “fed up” this summer with how the Cowboys’ offseason was going. While he was on the hot seat, the Cowboys chose to let key pieces of their team leave in free agency and failed to sign free agents in the first wave. The Cowboys are sticking with their plan of building through the draft and McCarthy’s hopes rest on rookie talent.
The Cowboys are obviously trying to facilitate the start of a rebuild this season. They could have extended their core contracts and moved their 2024 money around so they could add pieces to compete with the Philadelphia Eagles and San Francisco 49ers.
McCarthy knows he’s in a bind.
If McCarthy knew what he knows now
Per an update from Dunne, McCarthy is regretting taking the Cowboys job after seeing how the front office works firsthand:
One source who’s plugged into the Cowboys indicated to me that McCarthy wouldn’t have even taken the job if he knew it’d be like this.
Naturally, my response was something down the lines of, Uhh… has Mike seen what’s happened to Cowboys coaches past? Since the Bill Parcells split in 2007, this is an owner determined to hire coaches he can control. Jones would rather lose his way, than win someone else’s way. It felt hollow when Parcells turned his team around.
As this source said, it’s human nature for all of us to see the good in a situation.
McCarthy understands where the ship is headed. There’s a reason sports bettors are tanking the Cowboys’ win total for the season.
The Captain sank the ship in March.
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I think the Jones are playing their own game unless they are really clueless.They aren’t concerned about this season.Maybe even more worried about next year’s draft cus they aren’t making playoffs this season.They are getting everything loaded up fr Bill Bellicheck.They can say it’s Bills way to get rid of high priced guys for the team.Who goes into a season with out a #1 rb. No #2 Wr. Give up hof. Lt. willing to play cheap. So unknown Lt. No nose guard,DT ???.