Mike McCarthy’s critics may get a late Christmas present in Dallas, where the Cowboys coach could be heading for the door in the midst of a miserable 7-8 campaign.
Now fourteen years removed from winning the Super Bowl with the Green Bay Packers, the embattled McCarthy recently hired Tom Brady’s former agent Don Yee. USA Today announced this. And that decision has led to questions about McCarthy’s declining contact and his future in Dallas.
Yee recently signed major deals for coach Jim Harbaugh with the Los Angeles Chargers and Sean Payton with the Denver Broncos, but has yet to engage in any meaningful conversation with Cowboys owner Jerry Jones or his son Stephen about the matter, according to the USA Today piece McCarthy.
And as USA Today columnist Jarrett Bell put it, “McCarthy could choose to leave and become a coaching free agent.”
McCarthy is 49-33 in regular season games with the Cowboys, and just 1-3 in the playoffs.
While he expressed how proud he was of the team and how they played for McCarthy, Jones still wasn’t ready to address the coach’s contract status — or the lack of a deal beyond this season.
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“All I can say is what a good job he’s doing,” Jones said. “Don’t have any thoughts I would share about what we’re doing… after we’re done playing this year.”
That will be in ten days.
No one was happier to see the report than sports expert and die-hard Cowboys fan, Skip Bayless.
“PLEASE GET ANOTHER JOB, MIKE MCCARTHY,” Bayless wrote on X.
After posting that, Bayless expressed some skepticism about the report: “Baffled by how a team could be interested in a Mike McCarthy who was in charge of the Cowboys and who got blown out at HOME six times in a row, starting with the play last year’s Green Bay Packers off-game – worst six-game home stretch in NFL history!’
The Cowboys were officially eliminated from the playoffs before kicking off Sunday night.
Still, they then went out and made Jones proud, with a 26-24 victory over the playoff-chasing Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
With all the lingering questions about McCarthy’s future, with his contract expiring and the Cowboys far from being able to repeat as NFC East champions, they won for the fourth time in their last five games – all without the injured franchise – quarterback Dak Prescott. .
‘Proud of those boys. They wouldn’t give up out there. So I’m really proud of them,” Jones said. “And Mike McCarthy, he just doesn’t let them think they’re playing for the Super Bowl. He won’t let them do it. I’m so proud of that.’
Don Yee, who also represents Tom Brady and Jim Harbaugh, recently signed Mike McCarthy
After three consecutive playoff appearances, the Cowboys were out of contention for a postseason berth with three games remaining – the first they have been eliminated since 2015. That’s two games now, next week against the division-leading Philadelphia Eagles (12-3). ) before the regular season finale at home against Washington (10-5).
The Commanders’ 36-33 victory over Philadelphia earlier Sunday ended all hope for the Dallas.
What seemed inevitable, especially after a five-game losing streak before their late-season surge, became a reality and hit both the owner and his fifth-year coach hard when they saw each other before the game.
“We both looked like we had lost someone, and so it was something you had to get over the reality that we weren’t going to go,” Jones said.
“Before the game it was a real punch in the heart to say the least,” McCarthy said. “You just take that moment to sit back and watch, how some of the guys warm up, what the interactions are like in the locker room. Wasn’t much different than a normal game. You just want to keep your mind on it and stay focused. I thought our guys did a great job.”
Yee did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com’s request for confirmation.