Cowboys’ Jerry Jones breaks silence on not firing Mike McCarthy after playoff pain.
Jerry Jones still believes in Mike McCarthy despite his recent failure to lead the Cowboys to the Super Bowl.
Jerry Jones continues to have faith in Mike McCarthy despite the Dallas Cowboys’ devastating 2024 NFL Playoffs Wild Card exit. Following his choice to retain the seasoned strategist as their head coach, the team owner stated as much on Wednesday.
The past few days after the Cowboys’ Wild Card playoff loss to the Green Bay Packers raised serious concerns about McCarthy’s future. There had been rumors that McCarthy’s future will be determined by the team’s performance in the championship game, and many people anticipated that Jones would cut ways with McCarthy following the team’s devastating defeat to Jordan Love and company.
Interestingly, Jones decided to keep McCarthy, at least for now as the head coach enters the final year of the season. According to Jones, he made the decision because they were “very close” to achieving their goals with McCarthy leading the way.
“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. There is great benefit to continuing the team’s progress under Mike’s leadership as our head coach,” Jones explained, via Adam Schefter of ESPN.
In particular, Mike’s style of team leadership has resulted in numerous levels of success this season for both our team as a whole and individual players. We will work with Mike to translate his record of the highest regular season winning percentage among all Cowboys head coaches to achieving our postseason objectives. Undoubtedly, Mike’s career has shown excellent post-season success, and we are very certain that it can continue.
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In addition to defending Mike McCarthy’s involvement in their loss to the Packers, Jerry Jones noted that the head coach is not solely to blame for the outcome. The owner of the Cowboys stressed that the squad as a whole bears some of the blame for the defeat.
“We are responsible for our outcomes. I take responsibility for our outcomes. We examine and assess Coach McCarthy via a comprehensive viewpoint. Even though our playoff record and the outcome on Sunday disappointed us all, I fully support him in his role as our head coach and our capacity to accomplish our objectives. Jones continued
As for the Cowboys’ next steps, Jones revealed that they will start the “process of review and decision making regarding everything that impacts our team and roster.” He noted that while they are not going to address the contract situations of the players, they will make a deep “review and consideration” on the matter.
McCarthy will stay on as the Cowboys’ head coach for the time being. However, he just has one year remaining on his contract, so he will also need to demonstrate in 2024 that he can lead Dallas to the Super Bowl. After yet another disappointing season, Jones and the ownership would undoubtedly search elsewhere for a different guy who might lead them to their desired destination.
The Cowboys have now missed the playoffs for almost thirty years; their most recent trip to the big stage came in 1995, when they also won the championship. Indeed, they would prefer not to have that drought last precisely 30 years. McCarthy is under pressure to prevent that from occurring.
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