From final offseason by way of Week 17 of the continued marketing campaign, Dallas Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy seemingly did the whole lot attainable to focus on performing duties associated to his job slightly than on the truth that he and his whole workers had been engaged on expiring offers.
Because the 7-9 Cowboys put together to shut the season out with a house sport in opposition to the 11-5 Washington Commanders on Sunday, McCarthy addressed the chance that he might be on the verge of teaching his remaining contest along with his present employer.
“I’ll be trustworthy with you: I’m going to the stadium a lot earlier this time in my profession than I used to,” McCarthy stated whereas talking with reporters on Thursday, as shared by Jon Machota of The Athletic. “I won a Super Bowl in that house locker room at AT&T Stadium. So I’ve a really sturdy emotional attachment that it hits me each time I stroll in there and each time I stroll out. So, yeah, I’m undoubtedly conscious of it. I’m not excited about it proper now, however, yeah, I’m undoubtedly in tune with that.”
Whereas the Cowboys went 12-5 each season from 2021-23 below McCarthy, it is believed he did not obtain a contract extension final winter as a result of he to date has recorded solely a single playoff win throughout his Dallas tenure. Most lately, his group entered Week 6 at 3-2 earlier than an injury crisis sparked a shedding streak from which Dallas by no means totally recovered. The Cowboys later gained 4 of 5 video games to get to 7-8, however they however had been eradicated from the postseason event earlier than they performed in Week 16.
In accordance to Machota, Cowboys chief working officer Stephen Jones stated as lately as Thursday that he and group proprietor/normal supervisor Jerry Jones have not but “gotten to that time” because it pertains to making a remaining name on McCarthy’s future.
“We have been so targeted on this season that we’ve not actually even thought of it when it comes to timing,” Stephen Jones defined. “Clearly, Mike McCarthy and his workers have achieved a hell of a job for us.”
The Cowboys reportedly “are usually not leaning in a single path” concerning McCarthy heading into this weekend, and he was lately linked with a Chicago Bears group that can have quarterback Caleb Williams on a reasonable rookie contract throughout the subsequent a number of seasons. For what it is value, Conor Orr of Sports activities Illustrated wrote in a bit revealed Friday morning that he thinks the Cowboys and McCarthy “may discover frequent floor on a type of ‘extension’ that wouldn’t be a full-on, new, four- or five-year industry-standard contract.”
Maybe the events will put pen to paper on such an settlement earlier than Sunday afternoon rolls round.
