Mac Engel of the Fort Price Star-Telegram not too long ago poured chilly water over the concept Dallas Cowboys proprietor and basic supervisor Jerry Jones may change head coach Mike McCarthy with former New England Patriots coach Invoice Belichick this winter.
ESPN NFL insider Dan Graziano adopted in Engel’s footsteps following Dallas’ 48-32 wild-card playoff loss to the Inexperienced Bay Packers on Sunday afternoon.
“First, we haven’t any purpose to consider, aside from these outdoors rumblings, that Jones would even contemplate firing McCarthy,” Graziano defined for a bit revealed Monday. “Once more, he has received 12 video games in every of the previous three seasons. This season, he took over the offense, and each that unit and (quarterback Dak Prescott) obtained higher. Every little thing I’ve heard from contained in the Dallas constructing is that the crew may be very proud of the job McCarthy is doing. May one thing like Sunday change that? Certain. However we needn’t assume it would.”
It was extensively thought main as much as the playoffs that McCarthy might should information the Cowboys to at the least the NFC Championship Recreation to make sure Jones would not attain out to Belichick this month. As a substitute, McCarthy now has misplaced three of 4 postseason matchups throughout his Dallas tenure that started in 2020.
Matt Vautour of MassLive talked about on Monday that Jones has “thought of hiring Invoice Belichick for nearly 30 years.” Even when that is true, Graziano pointed on the market’s no assure Belichick needs to work for Jones.
“The Dallas head coach needs to be somebody who’s snug with the very lively and public position that Jones performs,” Graziano continued. “The Cowboys are as public with their enterprise as any crew within the league, and Belichick famously needs to by no means reveal something about what his crew is doing. He and Jones may not be capable of work collectively.”
Graziano went on to call present Cowboys defensive coordinator Dan Quinn as “the most certainly 2024 Cowboys coach” if Jones blows issues up. As for Belichick, ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler reported over the weekend that the six-time Tremendous Bowl champion head coach and the Atlanta Falcons have “mutual curiosity” in a working relationship.
