Dallas Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy stays within the remaining season of his contract as backup quarterback Cooper Rush, taking part in rather than the injured Dak Prescott, has helped the membership go from 3-7 to 6-8.
Following Dallas’ 30-14 win on the lowly Carolina Panthers (3-11) on Sunday, NFL insider Albert Breer of Sports activities Illustrated requested Rush if he and others within the locker room are taking part in for McCarthy to obtain both an extension or a brand new deal.
“It’s simply extra who he’s — it’s simply been the angle the final couple of years,” Rush stated about McCarthy. “He does an awesome job having a pulse of the staff, conserving guys collectively, conserving us collectively within the locker room and creating that tradition that irrespective of who we’re taking part in, what we’re doing. If you happen to’re on the market, you’re competing your butt off. He has us nicely ready.”
Some questioned after the Cowboys misplaced seven of their first 10 video games amid an harm disaster this season if staff proprietor and normal supervisor Jerry Jones might half methods with McCarthy earlier than Week 18. Nevertheless, it was reported final week shortly after Invoice Belichick agreed to turn out to be the brand new head coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels that there was a “feeling across the league” that Jones will look to carry McCarthy again for not less than the 2025 marketing campaign.
McCarthy has guided the Cowboys to only one playoff win over 5 seasons, and the NFL’s web site confirmed on Monday that Dallas has lower than a 1% probability to qualify for the upcoming postseason match. With that stated, Jones should be not less than slightly impressed that his gamers are nonetheless competing for McCarthy late into what many assumed was a misplaced marketing campaign for the group earlier than Thanksgiving.
“It’s simply who we’re, a bunch of men that like to compete, plenty of winners on this staff, plenty of wins over the previous couple of years with coach McCarthy and these core gamers,” Rush instructed Breer. “There’s a tradition there — you’re going to go on the market and play your butt off and compete it doesn’t matter what.”
As of Monday afternoon, DraftKings Sportsbook listed the Cowboys as four-point underdogs for this coming Sunday’s prime-time dwelling recreation versus the 8-6 Tampa Bay Buccaneers. It will likely be attention-grabbing to see how McCarthy’s gamers strategy that matchup relying on what happens earlier within the day.
