The Mike McCarthy era in Dallas is now finally over. As of less than a half hour ago, it was reported that McCarthy will not return as the Cowboys head coach for the 2025 season.
The two sides could not come to terms on an agreement on the length of a new contract, NFL Network Insider Tom Pelissero reported first.
McCarthy, whose contract is set to expire on Tuesday, will now look for a new team after five seasons and three playoff appearances with Dallas.
McCarthy is expected to be a candidate in Chicago and New Orleans. The Bears is a place that a lot of people have said they could see him coaching for.
Why Wait?
You all have been wondering the same thing I have been, why did Jerry Jones wait this long? He denied the Bears a chance to interview him only let him go a handful of days later.
Let’s first say that Jerry Jones is not right for playing with another mans job, and he is the biggest problem in Dallas.
His tenure in Dallas ends after five seasons, finishing 49-35 over that span, and now while every other organization has gotten the upper hand on the coaching field by bringing them in for interviews, they now have to search for that guy who will take his place.
Not only that, they will either have to let Brian Schottenheimer calls the plays and keep the same Texas Coast offense, or start from the bottom and get a new HC and OC and start to build it again.
After they denied the man an interview for the Bears, I thought he would be coming back, now here we are, most fans got what they wanted, but at what cost?
Jerry Jones played with his mans future, and who knows what the next move is going to be for this football team.
This team won a lot of games with big Mike, but in the end I think the 2021, 2022 and 2023 playoff losses did him in, and yes, part of that is on Dak Prescott, part of that is on the defense, part of this is on everyone, but you are locked into Dak, and here we go again.
Who Is Next?
Well, let’s see since Jerry played with this man job and waited an extra week to let him go, now they are behind the 8-ball on who they can talk to as most of the best guys are outside of the window.
Aaron Glenn has transformed the Detroit Lions’ defense into one of the NFL’s top run-stopping units. Under Mike McCarthy, the Cowboys’ greatest weakness has consistently been their inability to stop the run, he could be looked at.
Ben Johnson is the guy everyone wants, and no way he will be willing to take a job like the Cowboys as his first, when he has like no say in anything he wants to do since it is all run by Jerry Jones.
Don’t even get me started with the Deion Sanders garbage either, he is not coming to Dallas and if anyone thinks he would be a good coach in the NFL has no idea what they are talking about.
At this point, I have no idea who they will even look at, maybe Kellen Moore or Jason Witten, who knows!
What I do know is that if it is Kellen Moore I will hate every second of it. He has been through three different teams now, he isn’t a good play caller. Give me the PS5 controller, it is not hard to hand the ball of to Barkley 35 times a game.
I am just unhappy with the way Jerry handled this and all the Cowboys fans can be happy Mike is gone, but the fact that Jerry Jones did what he did is uncalled for.
Let’s all take some time to see if the Jones family says anything, and what they do moving forward, but right now this is really annoying.