Jon Machota on McCarthy's interest in other jobs, Zimmer's future, Tyreek Hill

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News broke this afternoon that the Bears requested to interview Mike McCarthy for their vacant coaching position as he sits without a deal to return to Dallas. Jon Machota from the Athletic joined the GBag Nation to discuss the interest McCarthy is getting from other NFL teams, if Mike Zimmer's future in Dallas is tied to McCarthy's, if Dolphins WR Tyreek Hill could force a trade to Dallas this offseason, and more.

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00:00John Meshota joins you now here on the fan and a good afternoon sir how the heck are

00:19you?

00:20I'm doing well guys thanks for having me on.

00:23Well yeah thanks for joining us what a day as the Bears have asked for permission to

00:27chat with Mike McCarthy.

00:29Is there any indication yet the Cowboys have granted that permission?

00:33I have no knowledge of that and that will be fascinating to see if they do because that

00:37seems like that would be kind of telling that if they were to grant that permission that

00:41would seem like they are ready to move in another direction.

00:44I would think that the longer that no other teams talk to Mike McCarthy and the longer

00:49things go on I would think that that means that Mike is probably coming back so that

00:54was an interesting report to surface recently but you know when Jerry was asked about it

00:58after the game he kind of compared it to the Ezekiel Elliott situation where he's

01:02like well Ezekiel Elliott wanted out and so I allowed him to you know go see what other

01:06opportunities are out there and that he wants people around that want to be here so almost

01:11making it sound like that if Mike was to talk to another team then maybe he doesn't want

01:14to be here and so he would allow that to happen well we'll see if he allows that.

01:18Yeah that's fascinating do you think there's a chance that as this reported meeting between

01:23Mike and Jerry gets underway either this afternoon or evening that we could have a deal tonight

01:28you think or early tomorrow morning?

01:30I mean it's possible I just felt like the way the Cowboys operate it's probably something

01:35that happens you know let's be honest it wouldn't surprise me if it was something that happened

01:40at the end of the week or even going into these wildcard games just because that's how

01:45Cowboys do business I mean that's how it was with Jason Garrett you know I think Jerry

01:50will allow Mike to do all these interviews all his players those usually take a couple

01:54days and then he'll meet with Mike at the end of all of those and so yeah maybe it comes

01:59together quickly but I just I don't know it's like covering the Cowboys there's just so

02:04few things that come together quickly I mean you obviously see it with the contract extensions

02:09for the top players that you know that they want to bring back and they constantly go

02:12until like the 11th hour until they finally get done and so because of that it's kind

02:18of like I'll believe when I see it I just think it's going to be kind of dragged out

02:21a little bit.

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