NFL insider questions Bill Belichick to Cowboys chatter
Mac Engel from the Star of Fort WorthThe suggestion that Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones would bench head coach Mike
McCarthy in favor of former New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick for the upcoming season was recently shot down by Telegram.
After Dallas’ afternoon 48-32 wild-card playoff loss to the Green Bay Packers, ESPN NFL insider Dan Graziano did the same.
“First, we don’t have any reason to believe, other than those outside rumblings, that Jones would even consider firing McCarthy,” Graziano
explained for a piece published Monday. “Again, he has won 12 games in each of the past three seasons.
This season, he took over the offense, and both that unit and (quarterback Dak Prescott) got better.
Everything I’ve heard from inside the Dallas building is that the team is very happy with the job McCarthy is doing. Could something like Sunday
change that? Sure. But we don’t need to assume it will.”
It was widely thought leading up to the playoffs that McCarthy may have to guide the Cowboys to at least the NFC Championship Game to ensure
Jones wouldn’t reach out to Belichick this month. Instead, McCarthy now has lost three of four postseason matchups during his Dallas tenure that began in 2020.
Matt Vautour of MassLive mentioned on Monday that Jones has “thought about hiring Bill Belichick for almost 30 years.” Even if that’s true,
Graziano pointed out there’s no guarantee Belichick wants to work for Jones.
“Belichick famously wants to never reveal anything about what his team is doing, so the Dallas head coach has to be someone who’s comfortable
with the very active and public role that Jones plays. He and Jones might not be able to work together,” Graziano continued, naming current
Cowboys defensive coordinator Dan Quinn as “the most likely 2024 Cowboys coach” if Jones blows it. As for Belichick, ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler
reported over the weekend that the six-time Super Bowl champion head coach and the Atlanta Falcons have “mutual interest” in a working relationship..
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