Mike McCarthy is predicted to pursue different teaching alternatives when his contract formally expires with the Dallas Cowboys on Tuesday evening.
A number of reviews indicated the Cowboys and McCarthy broke off contract talks on Monday as a result of they could not agree on the size of a brand new deal. McCarthy’s contract ended on the finish of the season with Dallas holding unique negotiating rights till midnight on Jan. 14.
McCarthy spent 5 seasons in Dallas, together with three 12-5 campaigns sandwiched between dropping seasons in his first (2020) and, barring a last-minute reversal, closing yr with the franchise in 2024.
The Cowboys final week denied a request from the Chicago Bears to interview McCarthy, and proprietor Jerry Jones mentioned in December he anticipated different groups to point out curiosity due to the coach’s resume and historical past growing quarterbacks. The Bears drafted Caleb Williams No. 1 total within the 2024 draft.
McCarthy, 61, mentioned after the regular-season finale that he wished to return as Jones confirmed some indecision in public feedback that lacked a transparent dedication to conserving him.
“I do not know that I’m contemplating making a change is admittedly what I am making an attempt to say,” Jones mentioned on the finish of the common season. “Mike’s the most effective coaches that I believe there’s. He was made the coach right here as a result of I believed that, and he is finished completely nothing to decrease my opinion of him as a coach.”
This could be the seventh teaching change within the NFL with solely one of many vacant spots stuffed. The New England Patriots fired Jerod Mayo one season after hiring him to switch Invoice Belichick and moved rapidly to make former Titans coach and Patriots linebacker Mike Vrabel their head coach in 2025.
Dallas gained 4 of its closing seven video games regardless of a major run of accidents to key personnel, together with a season-ending harm to quarterback Dak Prescott and a month with out high cross rushers Micah Parsons and DeMarcus Lawrence.
McCarthy missed the playoffs for the second time as head coach of the Cowboys, who additionally failed to achieve the postseason in his first season operating the group in 2020.
–Subject Stage Media