The Cowboys’ impressive 2023 regular season ended unceremoniously in an all too familiar fashion when the team lost at home to the Packers much earlier into the playoffs than expected. Despite many fans and pundits claiming they’ve seen enough of head coach Mike McCarthy in Dallas, Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that the fourth-year Cowboys coach will return for the 2024 season. 
The Cowboys have not advanced past the divisional round of the playoffs since the last time they won the Super Bowl in 1995. Since then, they have seen early exits from the playoffs in 13 seasons, and frustratingly enough, their season has been ended by the Packers in heartbreaking fashion three times in the last nine years.
McCarthy has a long history of coaching winning football as a head coach. Before his time in Dallas, McCarthy spent 13 years as the head coach in Green Bay, amassing a 125-77-2 regular season record. Under McCarthy, the Packers made the playoffs nine times, including eight straight years from 2009-16. While they only won a single Super Bowl in that time, McCarthy still left Green Bay with a winning record in the playoffs (10-8) and advanced to the NFC championship game four times.
After the 28 years of failing to make it to the league’s semifinal game, Dallas invited McCarthy with open arms in 2020. He replaced Jason Garrett, who had been in place with the Cowboys for 10 years, making him the second-longest tenured head coach in Dallas history behind Tom Landry. Garrett went 85-67 during his time and led the team to the playoffs three times, all three times losing in the divisional round, two of those times to the Packers.
Since McCarthy has taken over, the Cowboys have been nothing if not consistent. After a getting-to-know-you introductory season that saw the team go 6-10, Dallas has gone 12-5 in each season since, winning the NFC East in two of those years. Unfortunately, McCarthy’s playoff success from Green Bay hasn’t quite translated. Under McCarthy, the Cowboys have only gone 1-3 in three playoff appearances, twice being the dreaded one-and-done team.
In a statement, team owner/president/general manager/supreme ruler Jerry Jones touted McCarthy’s .627 winning percentage as the Cowboys’ head coach, the highest percentage for a head coach in Dallas’ storied history. Jones claimed that the team will “dedicated (themselves), in partnership with (McCarthy)” to translate his regular season success into postseason victories, per Tom Pelissero of NFL Network.
Jones historically has a pretty long fuse with head coaches. According to Albert Breer of Sports Illustrated, during Jones’ 35 years of ownership, only two coaches failed to make it through four years on the job. That being said, he didn’t fire Garrett before hiring McCarthy; he simply allowed Garrett’s contract to expire and made the decision not to extend him for more time.
With that in mind, McCarthy is headed into the final year of his contract in Dallas. It wouldn’t be out of Jones’ pattern of behavior to use 2024 as a prove-it year for McCarthy. Jones pronounced his dedication to McCarthy in today’s statement, but an extension within the next year would be a much louder statement. Until we see a new contract for McCarthy or a postseason with multiple wins, McCarthy’s seat in Dallas is going to continue feeling hot.
so the losing continues
As long as dak is under center and old man jones owns the team, it really doesn’t matter who the head coach is.
100% correct….dumping $ for Dak, Parsons….not worth it IMO..could sign more players…
lol
lol.
Wow. Jerry has finally just given up.
I’m thinking for the first time in recent memory, Jerry is actually behaving like a mature owner and showing some restraint. As opposed to the Teppers, Irsays and Strunks of spoiled kid land.
Restraint? How long did he hold onto Jason Garrett before pulling the plug? That was restraint 10x.
I’ve almost forgotten about that man… thank you for bring that nightmare up.
Jerrah is 81. You’d think he would make changes because he is running out of time but I guess patience is his new mantra. Harbaugh and Belichick are out there and he’s just going to run it back again.
Probably thinks he can buy time, which in his case is more realistic than buying a ring for his team.
He went 12-5 and put up big numbers with Dak but cowboys can’t get over the hump and make it to nfc finals let alone the Super Bowl. Dak is about to demand more money soon too. What happens next?
Dak put up big numbers against garbage defences and during garbage time. Overrated.
By nfl standards still impressive but it’s all empty calories. Dallas is medias go to sports team. If they can’t make it to nfc finals or Super Bowl changes will be made and scrutiny is always there. You’re paying a qb elite qb money just to lose every year in wild card or divisionals
He has time to ensure the team is “ready”
Next they’ll give Dak an extension, they want to make sure they lose in the first round of the playoffs next year. The Vikings need somebody to keep them company.
And just like that, they lost in the 2024-2025 WC round.
If they make the playoffs …
They will make the playoffs. They will get a guaranteed 4+ wins from the division (probably two each from my Giants and the Commanders, maybe even both from the Eagles if they don’t make any changes). They just need to play .500 ball against the rest of the league in order to make the playoffs.
Really thought this was going to be where Belichick landed.
Belichick working with the ultimate meddling owner? It would have been fun to watch, but it was never going to happen.
Terrible clock management, terrible game caller and only had a 10-8 record in postseason with one of the greatest QBs to ever play the game. McCarthy is so over-rated and Jones keeps falling for his BS. Time for Mike to go back to his toll both.
The funny thing is that people predicted that this would happen as soon as he was hired.
I know I did.
Yeah, I was one of them.
Jones needs to step away. Stop doing interviews post game, stop doing radio interviews during the week, stop wanting the spotlight. It’s obsurd. No other owner does this stuff. The dude is a clown
Jim Irsay is a close second…
OH BOY!!! Can’t wait for next year’s Jerry Meltdown!!!!
Senility has set in, that’s only way 2explain it. Glad I’m not Dallas fan.
Another one and done in ‘25 Wild Card
Afsooner. EXACTLY.
The defense was way way more of a problem than the offense against the Pack. I don’t really follow the cowboys because I’m not a fan but damn that defense looked like like crap last Sunday
The Diggs injury really hurt them and Parsons was quiet so takes those two away from this defense and that’s what you get
The Bills lost more top-line defensive players in one week and are still crushing things in the playoffs.
The Bills D beat Mason Rudolph. They’ll get a real test this weekend.
The Bills D was depleted when they faced KC in KC. Key players who were missed last week are expected back this Sunday.
Yes!!!
lol, Tomlin and McCarthy.. tell me you are absolutely committed to mediocrity without telling me that you are absolutely committed to mediocrity..:
McCarthy is mediocre, Tomlin is not.
Quinn is mediocre too also over rated
Neither has gotten a team anywhere in the playoffs in years.
Tomlin hasn’t had a QB that can get it done in half a decade. Ben was great but we all need to remember what those last 3 years actually looked like and now the last 2 years he’s had nothing at QB. Hell he won 10 games this year playing 3 different QBs.
Excuses for a guy who had input on choosing his QB room. The GM doesn’t operate in a vacuum in Pittsburgh
When you have a coach that never had a losing season you don’t draft in the top 10. If you don’t draft in the top 10 you don’t get to draft elite QB talent. Simply how it works.
I definitely wasn’t buying Jerry wanting Belichick. The gigantic ego of those two. It wouldn’t have worked. You could make the same case for Jim Harbaugh as well.
THIS. All the pundits insisting Belichick would go to Dallas seemed to want to believe that he would be content with “just coaching”. Which Bill Belichick were they talking about?
That photo of Mike McCarthy tells you everything you need to know about his coaching style. No discipline. No attention to detail. Disgusting. Not a leader of men.
But if you needed someone to lead the team through the Golden Corral all-you-can-eat buffet you have the right guy.
The only owner stupid enough to part ways with a back to back Super Bowl winning coach and bring back a clown that that loses in embarrassing fashion 3 years in a row. He knows he’s to old to have the team start over and they are not actually even close
McCarthy isn’t the issue with this team being 1st round exits each year. I like that he’s coming back
That defense totally let them down on Sunday. Fans are pointing the finger at the offense. Should be pointing the finger at Quinn also
When it was 48-16 in the 3rd quarter, it was a total team failure Head Coach down to the 3rd string QB. Jerry has to take some of the blame he pays the bills.
My guess is they made a couple of calls to the big names (Harbaugh/Belichick) and found they weren’t interested.
Just not that talented. Period.
lol
Jerrah messed up by not going after Sean Payton last year.
Absolutely. McCarthy should have been fired a year ago. Everyone not named Jerry Jones knew how this movie was going to end. But it looks like Jerry wants more of the same.
Payton has too big of an ego to work with Jerrah, lmao
There is a name conspicuously missing from all these interview lists – i.e., last year’s darling, Eric Bieniemy.
There’s a reason for that.
can we replace mike mccarthy with melissa mccarthy ? that would be fun .
Do we know for certain they are not the same person?
Next to Notre Dame football the Cowboys are the most overrated team. Jerry Jones is the problem, not the solution.
And everyone seems to know that except Jerry Jones. Hmm.
The retention of McCarthy says this to Cowboy fans, Jerry is happy with the season, and that he rather have the opportunity to get to the playoffs instead of winning a Super Bowl. Jerry will come out and say like he always says every year that this team is built for the Super Bowl. The team is built for a regular season to look good 10 to 12 wins just to get into the playoffs and to keep the fan base pleased. The only thing I can say about the Cowboys they are “allergic to prosperity.” Jerry just quit saying your team is built for the Super Bowl in training camp, because a championship is your focus it is not.
Despite what the National Sports Media may think, the Dallas Cowboys are still America’s Team. Why else would a playoff loss to Green Bay get 40 million viewers?
I’d be embarrassed that 40 million people watched my team get boat raced by the 7 seed.
America’s team, and yet for 3 quarters you could clearly hear fans of the visiting team at the game saying “Go Pack Go”
Also, you think maybe some of the TV viewers might have been Green Bay fans..?
im wondering if Bill Belichik has a deal already in Atl.
If BB is gone, who would Jerry go after? Pete Carroll?
Joke
Winning percentage be damned. This game is ultimately about trophies, getting it done
— not stats.
Jones needs to drop McCarthy for the same reason Elway dropped Fox
— No vigor, no fight.
If you let this stand, you’re telling the team that what happened was okay.
Wow, Jerry & Co. are too soft on losing. We’ll be here next year, seriously.
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