The Cowboys have a very successful coach, Mike McCarthy, and enter the playoffs as the NFC’s No. 2 seed after winning the NFC East. They’ll host the seventh-seeded Green Bay Packers on Sunday at AT&T Stadium, where they have a 16-game winning streak. They’re attempting to make the franchise’s first Super Bowl appearance since the 1995 season. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has called this the team’s best Super Bowl opportunity since the 2007 season, when it went 13-3 with Tony Romo at quarterback but lost a divisional-round game to the New York Giants.
Even so, there has been practically annual speculation that Jones could move on from McCarthy if the Cowboys falter in the postseason again. A year ago, such conjecture focused on Sean Payton, the Super Bowl-winning former coach of the New Orleans Saints who spent last season out of the NFL. That pairing didn’t materialize. McCarthy stayed in place with the Cowboys, even after a playoff loss to the San Francisco 49ers. The Denver Broncos hired Payton.
Could Belichick’s availability prompt Jones to fire McCarthy if the Cowboys fall short again? That remains to be seen. After the Cowboys clinched the division with a 38-10 victory over the Commanders on Sunday at FedEx Field, Jones declined to fully commit to retaining McCarthy, telling reporters that “we’ll see how each game goes” in the playoffs. That created a bit of a stir, which Jones called surprising during a radio interview Tuesday with Dallas-area station 105.3 the Fan. In that interview, Jones praised McCarthy’s coaching, pointed out that he’s under contract for next season and said McCarthy’s job security is “not an issue.”
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