Keeping Mike McCarthy was Cowboys’ best move — like it or not

Ralph Vacchiano

NFC East Reporter

Jerry Jones has always been a little more patient with his head coaches than he probably should be. He’s often given them a year or two longer than anyone thought they reasonably deserved.

But that’s not the case this time.

This time, Jones was right to do what he did on Wednesday night — announce that Mike McCarthy will return for his fifth season as head coach of the Dallas Cowboys. It would’ve been easy to let him go after their disastrous, 48-32, first-round playoff loss to the Green Bay Packers on Sunday. It would’ve been a popular move among the Dallas fan base, too.

It just would’ve been wrong, because McCarthy is not to blame for the Cowboys’ latest failure. He’s not the one who built their one-dimensional offensive roster. He’s not responsible for the defense that looked dazed and confused in the wild-card round. And firing him would’ve ignored all the progress he’s made, particularly with a very good quarterback who may soon get a very lucrative new contract.

“I believe this team is very close and capable of achieving our ultimate goals and the best step forward for us will be with Mike McCarthy as our head coach,” Jones said in his Wednesday night statement. “There is great benefit to continuing the team’s progress under Mike’s leadership as our head coach. Specifically, there are many layers of success that have occurred this season as a result of Mike’s approach to leading the team, both with individual players and with our team collectively.”

Understandably, very few Cowboys fans want to hear that right now — not when they’re getting dangerous close to celebrating the 30th anniversary of their last trip to the Super Bowl (28 and counting)! For America’s Team, for an 81-year-old owner and for an increasingly disillusioned fan base, there really is only one thing that matters. 

And McCarthy’s team fell short. That’s particularly glaring given the who’s who of…

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Publish date : 2024-01-18 05:34:37

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