NFL Community personalities Ian Rapoport and Tom Pelissero reported on Friday that Dallas Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy will technically stay below contract till Jan. 14, despite the fact that the season ends this Sunday, when Dallas performs the Washington Commanders at residence.
Later within the day, NFL insider Mike Florio of Professional Soccer Speak defined how Cowboys proprietor and basic supervisor Jerry Jones might make issues a minimum of considerably annoying for McCarthy if the 61-year-old desires to comb the open market sooner fairly than later.
“The threshold query is whether or not the Cowboys will play hardball with McCarthy, forcing him to attend till Jan. 14 to interview with different groups,” Florio mentioned. “They may maintain agency, just because proprietor Jerry Jones would possibly favor to commandeer the information cycle for many of the week earlier than leaking and saying the information on McCarthy’s future throughout one of many playoff video games. …That’s what occurred 5 years in the past. Throughout a Seahawks-Eagles playoff sport, stories surfaced that the Cowboys wouldn’t be signing coach Jason Garrett to a brand new contract. Additionally, the Cowboys leaked the news of quarterback Dak Prescott’s new deal on the morning of the primary Sunday of the common season.”
McCarthy was not too long ago linked to a Chicago Bears staff in search of an offensive thoughts to function its subsequent head coach and work with rookie quarterback Caleb Williams. On Friday morning, Albert Breer of Sports activities Illustrated talked about that McCarthy “is a reputation to think about” for the New Orleans Saints.
Nevertheless, ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler reported on Thursday that “extra {industry} sources than [he] anticipated imagine McCarthy has a small likelihood to remain [with Dallas], partly due to what’s thought-about a weak candidate pool.” Sports Illustrated’s Conor Orr additionally speculated that McCarthy and Jones “might discover widespread floor on a form of ‘extension’ that wouldn’t be a full-on, new, four- or five-year industry-standard contract.”
On Friday, Jones seemingly poured chilly water over Fowler’s replace:
