Source: Mike McCarthy Meeting with Cowboys’ Jerry Jones ‘Like a Job Interview’
FRISCO - Coach Mike McCarthy is already under contract with the Dallas Cowboys for one more season. But he will nevertheless be figuratively presenting his resume to team owner Jerry Jones when he meets with the team owner this week in what one source tells CowboysSI.com “will be “like a job interview.”
How did we go from 12-5 and Jerry’s “Not an issue” and “He’s doing an outstanding job” to this?
Our semi-facetious “50-0 loss/football disaster,”that’s how.
Packers 48, Cowboys 32 is history-making. Could it mean history for the coach who has orchestrated three straight standout regular seasons only to fail to climb the postseason hump?
“I don’t have any comments or questions or answers for how and why we didn’t do what we wanted tonight,” owner Jones said after the Sunday failure. “I say this to our fans, how much you deserve us not to have this ending.
“This seems like the most painful (loss) because we all had such great expectations and we had hope for this team.”
Do those “expectations” mark doom for McCarthy? He and Jones meet with the team on Monday. A “come-to-Jerry” meeting inside The Star - maybe on Tuesday - is coming.
Does it help McCarthy’s case that, for instance, he had won a league-best 16 consecutive games at home? Or does it hurt him that the streak just ended?
Does it help him that he has the backing of team leaders like Dak Prescott?
“He’s been amazing,” Prescott said. “I’ve had the season that I’ve had because of him. This team has had the success that they’ve had because of him.”
Or does it hurt him because a “leak” now paints a bit of a different picture? (See below.)
Does the availability of Bill Belichick and other coaches matter to Jones? Or can poorly on McCarthy present a forward-moving plan (likely featuring succession thoughts on replacing defensive coordinator Dan Quinn, likely bound for his own head-coaching job?
Or - what if Quinn moves up a chair and doesn’t leave Dallas … because McCarthy is shown the door?
McCarthy’s lone answer to all of this was about Sunday night avoidance.
“I think the biggest thing is, we’re disappointed,” he said. “I got a whole team in the locker room that’s hurting. I haven’t thought past the outcome of this game.”
Well, McCarthy is “thinking about it” now. And so is his boss, about to discuss the coach’s presentation in a “Come to Jerry” session here at The Star.
