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Cowboys HC Mike McCarthy Speaks Out on Potential Firing
If that was Mike McCarthy’s swan tune with the Dallas Cowboys — 23-17 loss to the San Francisco 49ers within the NFC Wild Card spherical — the grizzled head coach is embracing its tune.
“I don’t have any considerations,” McCarthy claimed after the sport relating to his future, via ESPN’s Ed Werder. “I’m proud to be standing right here right now. I’m happy with this soccer staff.”
Stories of McCarthy’s potential demise are widespread following the Cowboys’ first-round playoff exit, a bitterly disappointing conclusion for a 12-win membership that not way back seemed the a part of a Tremendous Bowl contender.
The one-possession loss, marred by an NFL-record-tying 14 penalties and questionable teaching practices, instantly fell at McCarthy’s ft — and it simply might bury him.
“There’s going to be plenty of inside dialogue,” CBS Sports’ Jason La Canfora reported Monday, January 17. “Am I 100% satisfied that Mike McCarthy is the pinnacle coach of the Dallas Cowboys per week from now? I’m not.”
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Cowboys May Dump McCarthy to Save Quinn
A number of league and staff insiders have speculated on the plan of action for Cowboys proprietor/common supervisor Jerry Jones, who’s “extraordinarily disappointed” by the membership’s residence “letdown” in opposition to San Francisco.
Jones is claimed to “love” defensive coordinator Dan Quinn, who’s drawn head-coaching curiosity from a number of NFL organizations, together with the Broncos, Jaguars, Dolphins, and Vikings. Quinn is scheduled to interview with Denver on Tuesday, January 18, and thought of the frontrunner for the job.
Thus, Sports activities Illustrated’s Albert Breer postulated, Jones “might act with extra urgency than he has prior to now,” probably axing McCarthy and selling Quinn to the large seat.
“The mix of a membership playoff file for penalties, and game-management points on the finish of Sunday’s recreation places McCarthy in a bizarre spot popping out of the season,” Breer wrote on Monday, January 17. “The Cowboys brass loves defensive coordinator Dan Quinn, and the staff appears to be on the precipice of shedding him (he’s a frontrunner for the Broncos’ job, and has gotten curiosity from nearly each staff with a gap). Would they shuffle issues round to hold on to Quinn? We’ll see.
“Jerry Jones’s postgame message shouldn’t be ignored, both. He clearly believes his staff is in a championship window. And he’s proper about that. So he might act with extra urgency than he has prior to now.”
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Stephen Jones ‘Assured’ in McCarthy’s Return
Employed in 2020 to succeed Jason Garrett, the previous Tremendous Bowl-winner with the Inexperienced Bay Packers limped by a COVID-impacted 2020 marketing campaign that was torpedoed by damage to franchise quarterback Dak Prescott. Dallas completed 6-10 and McCarthy was retained for a second go-round.
The Cowboys started white-hot this previous regular-season earlier than slumping round midseason, ratcheting up hypothesis about McCarthy’s standing. The staff closed out the yr with a 12-5 file and NFC East title, which makes its fast postseason bouncing all that a lot worse.
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