Despite an ugly and shocking 48-32 upset loss to the Green Bay Packers in the wild-card round of the NFL playoffs last weekend, the Dallas Cowboys are bringing back head coach Mike McCarthy for another year, team owner/general manager Jerry Jones announced Wednesday evening.
McCarthy led the Cowboys to a 12-5 regular-season record for the third straight year, but with accomplished head-coaching candidates like Bill Belichick, Jim Harbaugh and Mike Vrabel available, many believed it was an opportune time for Jones to ditch McCarthy and bring in a different head coach to lead a talented Cowboys roster to the franchise’s first Super Bowl since the 1995 season.
Nick Wright is one of those people. And after Jones announced McCarthy’s return for 2024, Wright had some choice words on Thursday’s edition of “First Things First.”
“I no longer believe Jerry Jones’ No. 1 goal is winning a Super Bowl,” Wright said. “I believe Jerry Jones would like to win a Super Bowl, but I believe Jerry Jones’ number one goal is to be the face, the voice and have full control of the Dallas Cowboys.
“There is no other realistic explanation for [keeping McCarthy]. This is not a typical coaching market. This is a coaching market that has the greatest coach of all time [Belichick] available, that has a really good — in his coaching prime, if you will — coach in Mike Vrabel available, that has one of the only coaches we’ve ever seen succeed in the collegiate and pro level [Harbaugh] available. By the way, two of the only other ones who have did it, did it for your Dallas Cowboys, so you know that model can work.”
Wright was referring to Jimmy Johnson and Barry Switzer, who both led the Cowboys to Super Bowl titles in the 1990s after success in college football at Miami and Oklahoma, respectively. Johnson, the current NFL on FOX analyst who helped Jones rebuild the Cowboys in the late 1980s, was recently inducted to the team’s ring of honor after a long feud between Johnson and his old…
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