From final offseason by means 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 reasonably than on the truth that he and his whole workers have 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 could possibly 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 residence 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 positively conscious of it. I’m not fascinated by it proper now, however, yeah, I’m positively in tune with that.”
Whereas the Cowboys went 12-5 each season from 2021-23 underneath 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 just lately, his workforce entered Week 6 at 3-2 earlier than an injury crisis sparked a dropping streak from which Dallas by no means totally recovered. The Cowboys later received 4 of 5 video games to get to 7-8, however they however have been eradicated from the postseason match earlier than they performed in Week 16.
In accordance to Machota, Cowboys chief working officer Stephen Jones stated as just lately as Thursday that he and workforce proprietor/basic 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 have not actually even thought of it by way of timing,” Stephen Jones defined. “Clearly, Mike McCarthy and his workers have accomplished a hell of a job for us.”
The Cowboys reportedly “are usually not leaning in a single route” relating to McCarthy heading into this weekend, and he was just lately linked with a Chicago Bears workforce that may have quarterback Caleb Williams on a cheap rookie contract throughout the following a number of seasons. For what it is value, Conor Orr of Sports activities Illustrated wrote in a chunk printed Friday morning that he thinks the Cowboys and McCarthy “may discover widespread floor on a form 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.
