Mickey Loom is saying they’ve been consumed by this coaching search. They’re still early in the process and didn’t want to talk about any of the details of anyone they’ve interviewed so far. He is just worried about hiring the right head coach, and he says this job is still very attractive, great owner, great fan base, and stability, and he was also very adamant by saying they didn’t have to sell this job to anyone. We can answer questions certainly and they’re there’s gonna be questions about how you know each each each, um. Each coach, each candidate is gonna have things that are important to them, and they’re gonna wanna understand, you know, those things from us and, and we’ll answer those we’ll be transparent. Transparency also means admitting to having *** problem after their worst season since 2005 and on top of that they fired their head coach Dennis Allen. That isn’t just the coach, you know, that’s we gotta look at ourselves, you know, I gotta look at the way. You know I’m operating and I get to look at the way that all of us in football operations are operating all the way down to like like I said, the injury issue it doesn’t mean by the way. Because the results aren’t what we want, doesn’t mean that we’re doing something wrong. There may be some circumstantial things here, but we have to look at all of it and Be honest with ourselves. Gayle Benson has been looking and watching all of it, and honestly, if you think fans are unhappy, imagine how Ms. Benson feels after her team missed the playoffs for *** 4th straight season. She’s like the rest of us, disappointed, frustrated, you know, wants the team to be successful, so she’s been nothing. but supportive and and uh encouraging and you know able to provide as many resources we need to get the best uh best coach we can get and Mickey Loom is saying the new head coach will have control on who will be on his coaching staff plus who will be his quarterback next season and Meta is Sharif Isak WDSU News.
Deion Sanders, Jerry Jones discuss Dallas Cowboys head coach position
Updated: 9:57 PM CST Jan 13, 2025
Mike McCarthy will not return as coach of the Dallas Cowboys, who are going on three decades since their last Super Bowl title, owner Jerry Jones said Monday.Jones said the organization and McCarthy mutually agreed to part ways. A search for the team’s next coach begins immediately, he said.“I have great respect for Mike, and he has led the team through some very unique and challenging times during his tenure,” Jones said in a statement.McCarthy’s contract expired on Jan. 8 following a 7-10 season. Dallas was 12-5 each of the three years before that under him, but still hasn’t been past the divisional round of the NFC playoffs since its last Super Bowl at the end of the 1995 season.University of Colorado coach Deion Sanders — who played on the last Super Bowl-winning Cowboys team — has a good relationship with Jones and could emerge as a coaching candidate. The two have discussed the job, according to a person with knowledge of the conversation. The person, speaking on condition of anonymity because a formal interview hasn’t been arranged, said the team was still in the process of gathering candidates.The Cowboys had an exclusive negotiating window with McCarthy through Tuesday, but the parties decided to split ahead of the deadline.At least one NFL team asked during that time about talking to the 61-year-old coach, who won a Super Bowl with Green Bay. Next season will be the 30th for the Cowboys since winning the last of their five Super Bowl titles.Before taking the Dallas job after a full season out of coaching, McCarthy was with the Packers for 13 seasons and had a 125-77-2 record from 2006-18. He was 10-8 in the playoffs and led Green Bay to a Super Bowl title at AT&T Stadium, the home of the Cowboys, 14 years ago.There were also three other NFC championship games for McCarthy in Green Bay, and that is what Jones envisioned — and more — when he hired the coach in 2020 after Jason Garrett never got that far in his 10 years. McCarthy finished with a 50-38 record in Dallas, including a 1-3 mark in the playoffs. That included last season, when the Cowboys were NFC East champions and had won 16 consecutive home games before trailing by 32 points in the fourth quarter of a 48-32 wild-card loss to the seventh-seeded Packers.Dallas played the final nine games this season without franchise quarterback Dak Prescott because of a torn hamstring. Top receiver CeeDee Lamb, seven-time Pro Bowl guard Zack Martin, cornerback Trevon Diggs and rushing defending DeMarcus Lawrence also finished the season on injured reserve.Garrett had the franchise’s second-longest coaching tenure. Hall of Fame coach Tom Landry was the coach for the Cowboys’ first 29 seasons, the same number of seasons they have now gone since winning a Super Bowl. Jones fired two-time Super Bowl winner Landry when he bought the Cowboys before the 1989 season.Only 12 NFL coaches have more career regular-season wins than McCarthy’s 174, which is still far behind Don Shula’s record 328. The only active coaches with more wins than McCarthy are Andy Reid (302 in 29 seasons) and Mike Tomlin (183 in 18 seasons).Jones’ next coach will be his ninth. He hired Jimmy Johnson from the University of Miami, and the Cowboys won back-to-back Super Bowls in the 1992-93 seasons before the college teammates at Arkansas had an acrimonious split.Barry Switzer replaced Johnson, a Pro Football Hall of Fame coach, and won a Super Bowl in his second season but was fired two years later following a 6-10 season. Bill Parcells, another Hall of Famer, led the Cowboys to the playoffs twice in four seasons from 2003-06 but lost in the wild-card round both times.
Mike McCarthy will not return as coach of the Dallas Cowboys, who are going on three decades since their last Super Bowl title, owner Jerry Jones said Monday.
Jones said the organization and McCarthy mutually agreed to part ways. A search for the team’s next coach begins immediately, he said.
“I have great respect for Mike, and he has led the team through some very unique and challenging times during his tenure,” Jones said in a statement.
McCarthy’s contract expired on Jan. 8 following a 7-10 season. Dallas was 12-5 each of the three years before that under him, but still hasn’t been past the divisional round of the NFC playoffs since its last Super Bowl at the end of the 1995 season.
University of Colorado coach Deion Sanders — who played on the last Super Bowl-winning Cowboys team — has a good relationship with Jones and could emerge as a coaching candidate. The two have discussed the job, according to a person with knowledge of the conversation. The person, speaking on condition of anonymity because a formal interview hasn’t been arranged, said the team was still in the process of gathering candidates.
The Cowboys had an exclusive negotiating window with McCarthy through Tuesday, but the parties decided to split ahead of the deadline.
At least one NFL team asked during that time about talking to the 61-year-old coach, who won a Super Bowl with Green Bay.
Next season will be the 30th for the Cowboys since winning the last of their five Super Bowl titles.
Before taking the Dallas job after a full season out of coaching, McCarthy was with the Packers for 13 seasons and had a 125-77-2 record from 2006-18. He was 10-8 in the playoffs and led Green Bay to a Super Bowl title at AT&T Stadium, the home of the Cowboys, 14 years ago.
There were also three other NFC championship games for McCarthy in Green Bay, and that is what Jones envisioned — and more — when he hired the coach in 2020 after Jason Garrett never got that far in his 10 years.
McCarthy finished with a 50-38 record in Dallas, including a 1-3 mark in the playoffs. That included last season, when the Cowboys were NFC East champions and had won 16 consecutive home games before trailing by 32 points in the fourth quarter of a 48-32 wild-card loss to the seventh-seeded Packers.
Dallas played the final nine games this season without franchise quarterback Dak Prescott because of a torn hamstring. Top receiver CeeDee Lamb, seven-time Pro Bowl guard Zack Martin, cornerback Trevon Diggs and rushing defending DeMarcus Lawrence also finished the season on injured reserve.
Garrett had the franchise’s second-longest coaching tenure. Hall of Fame coach Tom Landry was the coach for the Cowboys’ first 29 seasons, the same number of seasons they have now gone since winning a Super Bowl. Jones fired two-time Super Bowl winner Landry when he bought the Cowboys before the 1989 season.
Only 12 NFL coaches have more career regular-season wins than McCarthy’s 174, which is still far behind Don Shula’s record 328. The only active coaches with more wins than McCarthy are Andy Reid (302 in 29 seasons) and Mike Tomlin (183 in 18 seasons).
Jones’ next coach will be his ninth. He hired Jimmy Johnson from the University of Miami, and the Cowboys won back-to-back Super Bowls in the 1992-93 seasons before the college teammates at Arkansas had an acrimonious split.
Barry Switzer replaced Johnson, a Pro Football Hall of Fame coach, and won a Super Bowl in his second season but was fired two years later following a 6-10 season. Bill Parcells, another Hall of Famer, led the Cowboys to the playoffs twice in four seasons from 2003-06 but lost in the wild-card round both times.
