Mike McCarthy will return as Dallas Cowboys coach after stunning wild-card loss

first No. 7 seed to lose since the 14-team format was implemented in 2020, owner and general manager

Jerry Jones announced on Wednesday night that coach Mike McCarthy will return for a fifth season.

This will give McCarthy another opportunity to end nearly three decades without a deep playoff run for

the team.

McCarthy’s club, on the other hand, is the first after three straight 12-win postseason seasons to miss out

on a conference title 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 expiring in one year. An extension was not mentioned in Jones’ statement.

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