After an unexpected wild-card loss, Mike McCarthy will rejoin the Dallas Cowboys as head coach.

For the Dallas Cowboys, Mike McCarthy will have one more opportunity to put an end to nearly three decades without a deep playoff run.

Following a shocking 48-32 wild-card loss to Green Bay, owner and general manager Jerry Jones announced on Wednesday night that McCarthy will return for a fifth season in charge of the team.

Since the 14-team system was implemented in 2020, the Cowboys were the first club ranked seventh to lose. In the last two weeks, Dallas stormed to the NFC East title and earned the opportunity to host numerous home playoff games.

McCarthy’s squad, on the other hand, is the first after three straight 12-win postseason seasons to miss out on a conference championship game.

“With multiple allusions to the heartbreak of the playoff defeat, there is tremendous benefit to continuing the team’s progress under Mike’s leadership as our head coach,” Jones stated in a statement. “We will commit ourselves, in collaboration with Mike, to translating his record of the highest regular-season winning percentage among all Cowboys head coaches into accomplishing our postseason objectives.”

McCarthy was brought on board to help Dallas advance past the divisional stage for the first time since the legendary team’s final five Super Bowl victories, which occurred in 1995.

The sixty-year-old led the Packers for more than twelve seasons, winning a Super Bowl with Green Bay thirteen years ago. He also made it to the NFC championship game three more times.

In the middle of Green Bay’s second straight losing season in 2018, McCarthy was dismissed. Before Jones hired him in 2019, he had retired from football. His record with Dallas is 42-25 and overall 167-102-2.McCarthy’s contract is set to expire in one year.An extension was not mentioned in Jones’ statement.

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