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<\/p>\nARLINGTON – The Dallas Cowboys didn’t extend head coach Mike McCarthy for 2024 for an understandable reason: It would’ve been an unmerited reward for having gotten blown out by the Packers in the playoffs.<\/p>\n
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More recently, as the lame-duck coach and an owner who is supervising a “Blow It Up” plan for this season in preparation to load up in 2025 have discussed the situation, McCarthy is making a case for trying to keep his cool. …<\/p>\n
And owner Jerry Jones is making a case for trying to keep his coach through the year. And yes, that even goes for right now, after a 34-6 thrashing at the hands of the Eagles here at AT&T Stadium on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Jones’ latest review of it all? After the game, he issued yet another pledge to not fire McCarthy in-season.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, there is a chorus in Cowboys Nation calling for Jones to fire McCarthy … some of it coming, frankly, from media members who are not plugged into the situation.<\/p>\n
Related: Cowboys Insider Is Clear on ‘Sun vs. Curtain’ Controversy As CeeDee Blinded from TD Speculation from (relative) media outsiders (like PFT’s Mike Florio) say they can envision a firing.<\/p>\n
No disrespect to Florio, but when he writes, “Jones has said he won’t fire coach Mike McCarthy during the season …<\/p>\n
That doesn’t mean Jones won’t do it”? He’s doing so without any first-hand knowledge to power his belief. He’s just … saying it. Our view after covering Jerry Jones’ Cowboys as a beat writer for 35 years? It’ll take three things to nudge Jerry toward firing McCarthy during the season.<\/p>\n
One, are they out of the playoff chase? Two, is weekly embarrassment too much to endure. And three, has McCarthy lost the ear of the players in the locker room.”<\/p>\n
That would create the perfect storm for a firing of McCarthy. But as long as Jones insists it’s not happening, even now at 3-6? Everybody else’s “reporting” amounts to nothing more than random guessing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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