The Dallas Cowboys have struggled in 2024.
A season that started with hopes of a playoff run has light into one that will see them miss the postseason altogether for the primary time in 4 years.
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Dallas have a 4-7 file and sit third within the NFC East heading into Thanksgiving.
So as to add to the distress, quarterback Dak Prescott is out for the season attributable to a torn hamstring that required surgical procedure.
It seems to be the just like the Cowboys will fall wanting their lofty ambitions as soon as once more, and barring a turnaround in fortunes, questions will quickly be raised about what wants to alter in 2025.
Proprietor Jerry Jones has spent a lot of his time in latest weeks insisting he isn’t going to make a midseason teaching change, with some followers calling for Mike McCarthy to get replaced.
Talking this week, following an enormous win towards the Washington Commanders – a divisional rival – Jones risked additional irritating Cowboys followers by suggesting he might as a substitute lengthen McCarthy’s contract.
“I do not assume that is loopy in any respect.” Jones mentioned of the concept, chatting with 105.3 The Fan.
“That is not loopy. Hear, Mike McCarthy is an impressive coach.
“It is a Tremendous Bowl-winning coach. Mike McCarthy has been there, performed that, he is bought nice concepts.
“Backside line is, there is no place in my physique language or the rest that you’ve got seen indications about what we will be doing relative to this workers on the finish of this 12 months. And we should not. We have got numerous soccer left.”
In slightly below 5 years with the Cowboys, McCarthy has gone 1-3 within the postseason – a far cry from his 2010 Tremendous Bowl season with the Inexperienced Bay Packers.
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Sunday’s wild 34-26 win towards the Commanders snapped a five-game shedding streak, throughout which McCarthy appeared all however completed in Dallas.
However even that victory, and the truth that the Cowboys are going through 4 groups at the moment sitting underneath .500 within the subsequent 4 weeks, has not been sufficient to persuade followers that the pinnacle coach needs to be given extra time.
“Cowboys are so cooked,” one particular person wrote on X, responding to Jones’ feedback.
“If we’ve realized something about Jerry Jones, he actually doesn’t care about fan sentiment,” one other mentioned.
“This staff is about to be the subsequent Panthers,” a 3rd wrote.
“Mike McCarthy hasn’t coached a single good sport for the Cowboys. Embarrassing organisation,” a fourth concluded.
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With a lift of confidence from proprietor Jones, McCarthy and his staff shall be seeking to make it two wins on the bounce once they host the struggling New York Giants at AT&T Stadium on Thanksgiving.
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