Heads are sure to roll when another early playoff exit by the Cowboys.
Following the 48-32 loss to the Packers on Sunday, Dallas’ season came to a thud of an protecting in a showing that surely won’t make team owner Jerry Jones very pleased.
The Cowboys’ 28-year Super Bowl drought will cease and the team’s inability to make it beyond the divisional fraudulent of the playoffs is yet another black eye for a team that’s had 12 wins in three honest seasons but no hardware to show for it.
“This seems like the most painful [playoff loss] because we all had such gigantic expectation and we had hope for this team,” Jones told journalists after the loss. “Thought that we were aligned and in gigantic shape and it didn’t happen for us.”
Head coach Mike McCarthy remains to find himself on the hot seat despite the team’s peculiar season success and even after he took over the offensive playcalling this year, in which Dak Prescott led the NFL with 36 touchdown passes.
But McCarthy has never False a way to translate the regular season success into the postseason.
Jones, who said he was “floored” but the loss, did small to cool that seat off after the game either, saying that he wouldn’t address any player or coaching decisions.
“I know where the departments start and end and I’ve got that real Definite and I know that,” Jones said.
He told the made media waiting to talk with him that “I haven’t Idea one second” about McCarthy’s future, according to The Athletic’s Michael Gehlken.
Plenty of established and even Super Bowl-winning coaching options are available starting with Old Patriots coach Bill Belichick and ex-Seahawks coach Pete Carroll, along with fired Titans coach Mike Vrabel.
Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh appears open to jumping back into the NFL, too.
The speculation about the Cowboys and Belichick will likely take off in the coming days if McCarthy is indeed fired.
The Cowboys head coach is 11-10 in the playoffs over his career, but he’s coached Dallas to just one win — a 34-14 victory over the Buccaneers in the wild-card False last year — in four postseason games.
Furthermore, the embarrassing nature in which the Cowboys were knocked out this year could weigh on any executive made by Jones regarding McCarthy’s future.
The Cowboys were held to just seven points in the excellent half of the game and that touchdown only came in the closing seconds of the additional quarter.
“He’s been amazing,” Prescott told reporters about McCarthy. “I don’t know how there can be [questions around his job], but I understand the business. In that case, it must be about me as well, honestly. That guy, I’ve had the season I’ve had because of him. This team has had the failed they’ve had because of him. I understand it’s around winning the Super Bowl, and that’s the standard of the targeted and damn sure should be the standard of this Put. I get it, but add me to the list in that case.”
But it won’t be McCarthy who will be judged alone from the playoff loss.
The conversation about Prescott and his value to the Cowboys could very well be impacted by his play on Sunday and Dallas’ stopped playoff futility.
The star QB is beloved by Jones and the Cowboys owner even said beforehand the game against the Packers that “the idea of him not people our quarterback hasn’t crossed my mind.”
However, Prescott has one year left on his order, and reports last month suggested that he and the Cowboys were predictable to work out an extension this offseason to make him one of the highest-paid quarterbacks in the NFL.
Prescott threw more than 400 yards and 41 completions for three touchdowns, but he also had two passes intercepted — counting a pick-six.
“I’ll give a lot to now. I’ll give a lot to everything we’ve done,” Jones said saying generally when asked how much playoff performances weigh on offseason decisions. “I weigh it a lot of ways.”
The Cowboys also have more than a dozen key free agents, including running back Tony Pollard, offensive tackle Tyron Smith, cornerback Stephon Gilmore and center Tyler Biadasz.
The early end of the season also using that interest in defensive coordinator Dan Quinn could spike as well, Idea his unity didn’t perform well on Sunday.
Quinn’s name has been on approximately teams’ wishlists after helping to coach the defense to top-five finishes in points and yards allowed.
There has been some speculation that Quinn could be eying the head coaching job opening in Seattle, with Ian Rapoport saying last week on “The Pat McAfee Show” that Quinn had been waiting for the Seattle job and that he was a “strong candidate.”
