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Mike McCarthy Leaves Dallas: Cowboys Seek New Coach
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1/14/2025
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And in Dallas, Joe, it really came down to today.
00:04
It's when Mike McCarthy's current contract expires and he would be a free agent.
00:11
We knew that was going to be the case, but it seemed as though in the last week after
00:15
the Cowboys denied the Bears permission to interview Mike McCarthy and we had some further
00:21
reports that maybe, just maybe, the Dallas locker room and Jerry Jones was starting to
00:26
believe that Mike McCarthy would be there for 2025 and beyond, and a new deal might
00:31
be reached.
00:33
Nope, not the case yesterday.
00:35
The two sides agreeing to part ways is how they are putting it.
00:41
NFL Network's Tom Pelissero reporting that the two sides could not agree on a contract
00:47
length of this new deal.
00:49
Regardless, for Mike McCarthy, he is now a coaching free agent and the Cowboys now need
00:55
a new head man.
00:57
Joe, what did you make of this process, and maybe better yet, the timeline that led to
01:02
the decision ultimately in Dallas that Mike McCarthy would not return as the head coach
01:07
for next season?
01:10
It's a dumpster fire.
01:12
I just don't know how else to put it where everybody before this season, the minute that
01:19
McCarthy did not have an extension, they didn't work out a new contract, he was basically
01:25
a lame duck coach, and everyone thought, yeah, it's just a matter of time before he's
01:29
fired here.
01:30
But the other problem is that they set him up to fail.
01:34
I mean, they spent an NFL, oh, 20 million in free agency, just 20 million since the
01:41
end of last year.
01:42
So they didn't invest in the roster outside of the draft.
01:46
They didn't invest in Mike McCarthy as the head coach because they let him hang around
01:51
all season long, Ben, wondering if they, and the players wondering, is this guy even
01:56
still going to be here?
01:58
You basically set him up to fail and how it took you that long to figure out that he wasn't
02:04
the guy or that you wanted to move on, it just, it screams that there is something going
02:10
on in the hierarchy here at Dallas that is not right here.
02:15
And until, if you're not going to invest from the top down, starting with the head coach
02:20
and giving him some say and some power, I don't know what they, who in their right mind
02:25
wants to take this job right now here, Ben.
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