Sources: Cowboys to retain Mike McCarthy as head coach – ESPN
This will now be put to mattress, the 2024 Dallas Cowboys might be coached by Mike McCarthy.
The Dallas Cowboys won’t be making a head teaching change, as Mike McCarthy will return for the 2024 season, sources instructed ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Wednesday.
Cowboys proprietor and common supervisor Jerry Jones had been silent about McCarthy’s future since Sunday’s loss to the Inexperienced Bay Packers within the wild-card spherical.
McCarthy, who has another yr left on his contract, is 42-25 in 4 common seasons with the Cowboys, together with three straight 12-win campaigns and NFC East titles in 2021 and 2023. He has only one playoff victory with Dallas, nevertheless.
A lot of Dallas gamers, together with quarterback Dak Prescott and left guard Tyler Smith, stood up for McCarthy following the loss to the Packers. They mentioned they appreciated McCarthy’s willingness to maintain their well being and well-being in the course of the course of the season.
3 inner defensive coordinator choices for Cowboys if Dan Quinn leaves – Reid Hanson, USA Immediately
If there’s a coordinator shakeup, the substitute could already be in-house.
Coordinator Candidate No. 1: Al Harris
Harris is seemingly everybody’s favourite assistant coach in Dallas. The previous Inexperienced Bay CB has been teaching for 12 years within the NFL. In his brief time in Dallas, he’s produced two of the NFL’s greatest ballhawks. Trevon Diggs led the league in interceptions in 2021 and DaRon Bland led the league in 2023.
Harris’ success in creating CBs has made him a weekly dialog piece throughout Cowboys broadcasts. Logging extra screentime than Taylor Swift, Harris has a celeb standing in Dallas and is a scorching identify throughout the NFL.
The bounce from DB coach to DC is a gigantic one, but when anybody has the juice to make that leap, it’s Harris.
Coordinator Candidate No. 2: Joe Whitt Jr.
Whitt, Quinn’s No. 2 in command, is the odds-on favourite of the interior candidates. It’s Whitt who fills in for Quinn as play-caller on events, and Whitt who holds the official put up of secondary/defensive passing recreation coordinator with the Cowboys.
Whitt comes with 16-years of NFL teaching expertise, teaching one season for Quinn in Atlanta and 11 seasons beneath McCarthy in Inexperienced Bay. He’s probably the most certified coach on the workers and understands the personnel throughout the roster pretty much as good as anybody in Dallas.
If Quinn takes a head teaching place this offseason, it’s attainable he might ask Whitt to come back alongside and coach his protection. However Whitt’s ties to McCarthy and the chance to teach a protection as proficient as Dallas’ could be too good to go up.
Cowboys’ success with No. 24 draft decide is clear – Patrik Walker, DallasCowboys.com
The Cowboys have the twenty fourth decide on this yr’s draft, and their historical past at that spot is promising.
1969 – Calvin Hill, RB (Yale): Diehard Cowboys’ followers know all about Calvin Hill, one of many extra in style halfbacks of his period. He obtained the decision from Dallas because the No. 24 decide in 1969 and flew out of the gates on the skilled stage — named AP Offensive Rookie of the Yr and a First-Staff All-Professional. Hill immediately turned a gold commonplace for the way to decide late within the first spherical.
1992 – Robert Jones, LB (East Carolina): Jones got here as a first-round package deal deal in 1992 alongside cornerback Kevin Smith, who was chosen at No. 17 in the identical draft, however kudos to a participant from a small faculty like East Carolina having the ability to not solely get the nod from America’s Staff, however to additionally produce a mixed 108 tackles in 13 starters en path to AP All-Rookie Staff honors, and a UPI NFC Defensive Rookie of the Yr nod, deserves a salute.
2010 – Dez Bryant, WR (Oklahoma State): Essentially the most heralded Cowboys’ decide at this spot, of all-time, undoubtedly belongs to “X” himself. Jerry Jones and the entrance workplace traded up 2 spots from No. 26 to seize Bryant in 2010, and the interstellar wideout went on to have the most effective and most spectacular careers in franchise historical past. His model nonetheless rings loudly all through the league and Cowboys nation as a complete, and throwing up the X will without end be related.
2022 – Tyler Smith, OL (Tulsa): Although the preliminary reception for Smith’s decide by followers was the polar reverse of what Bryant obtained, all of the Tulsa product went on to do was save the day at left deal with, and as a rookie who had solely taken coaching camp reps at guard, no much less, within the wake of shedding Tyron Smith; and his sophomore season noticed him return to left guard earlier than changing into the most effective at that place [as well] in all the league. From being much-maligned to an All-Professional honor within the span of two seasons is sort of an enormous deal.
Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones sends clear message to gamers: ‘We obtained to win, that is the Dallas Cowboys’ – Garrett Podell, CBS Sports activities
Regardless of the playoff loss, a number of Cowboys gamers have nice respect for Coach McCarthy.
McCarthy addressed the 2023 iteration of the Cowboys for the ultimate time Monday morning, sharing a message of compassion and remorse.
“He felt for us,” Lewis mentioned relaying McCarthy’s message to the workforce immediately. “He needed it actually unhealthy for us given the caliber of men we’re all collectively. We needed it.”
Staff proprietor and common supervisor Jerry Jones additionally addressed the squad, airing out his annoyance and misery concerning the Cowboys early postseason exit.
“We obtained to win,” Lewis mentioned when relaying Jones’ message in a gathering with the gamers on Monday. “That is the Dallas Cowboys, we had all the things to win. We are able to’t let this sense preserve occurring. I simply really feel like he (Jones) needs to win proper now. The urgency is now. It was all the time that, and we all the time had that on our shoulders, however he made that clear. That was his level.”
[KaVontae] Turpin mentioned Jones, 81-years-old, emphasised the ticking clock of Father Time.
“Jerry talked about how he doesn’t have too a few years left on this enterprise,” Turpin mentioned. “He simply needs it unhealthy. He needs a hoop unhealthy.”
Lewis, a Cowboys third spherical decide within the 2017 NFL Draft, is one among 16 of Dallas’ pending unrestricted free brokers, and probably seeing his profession his the workforce that drafted him finish that is painful for the 28-year-old defensive again.
“I simply needed to assist the workforce win,” Lewis mentioned. “We’ve been right here collectively, all of us, for 3 years now, and I simply needed to complete it the proper method. It harm that we didn’t get the possibility to do this. It’s life. It hurts that we misplaced like that. I may not be part of this subsequent yr, so it sort of hurts.”
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