Following the shocking wild-card defeat, Mike McCarthy will rejoin the Dallas Cowboys as their coach.
Mike McCarthy will get another chance to end a nearly three-decade stretch without a deep playoff run for the Dallas Cowboys, a decision that ends three days of intense speculation over the coach’s future.
Owner and general manager Jerry Jones said Wednesday night that McCarthy will be back for a fifth season after a stunning 48-32 wild-card loss to Green Bay.
Since the 14-team system was implemented in 2020, the Cowboys became the first club ranked second to lose to the final team to qualify. In the last two weeks, Dallas dominated the NFC East and earned the opportunity to host at least two postseason games.
McCarthy’s club, on the other hand, is the first after three straight 12-win postseason seasons to miss out on a conference title game.
“With multiple allusions to the heartbreak of the playoff defeat, there is tremendous benefit to continuing the team’s progress under Mike’s leadership as our head coach,” Jones stated in a statement. We will commit to working with Mike, who has the greatest regular-season winning % of any head coach in Cowboys history, to turn that into accomplishing our postseason objectives.”
McCarthy was brought on board to help Dallas get past the divisional stage for the first time since the legendary team’s five Super Bowl victories in 1995.
In his more than twelve seasons as the Packers’ coach, the sixty-year-old coach made it to the NFC championship game three more times and won a Super Bowl with Green Bay thirteen years ago.
In the middle of Green Bay’s second straight losing season in 2018, McCarthy was let go. Before Jones hired him in 2019, he had retired from football. His record with Dallas is 42-25 and overall 167-102-2.
McCarthy’s contract is expiring in one year. An extension was not mentioned in Jones’ remarks.
Dak Prescott, the quarterback with one year remaining on his four-year, $160 million contract, did not perform well in the
