{"id":15198,"date":"2024-12-28T09:04:06","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T09:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=15198"},"modified":"2024-12-28T09:04:06","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T09:04:06","slug":"cowboys-tabbed-ideal-fit-for-controversial-coach-to-replace-mccarthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=15198","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys Tabbed \u2018Ideal Fit\u2019 for Controversial Coach to Replace McCarthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/GettyImages-1743200469-e1735338639819.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" alt=\"Cowboys potential coaching candidate Brian Flores\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\" class=\"wp-caption \">\n<div class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n<div class=\"c-post-image-caption-text\">Cowboys potential coaching candidate Brian Flores<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/sports\/nfl\/dallas-cowboys\/\">Cowboys<\/a>\u00a0could well be careening toward one of the most unexpected coaching moves in what has been a year packed with head-scratching coaching decisions: Dallas could keep coach Mike McCarthy on hand, even after his team\u2019s implosion in the playoffs last year was followed by an injury-wracked season that is likely to end in a sub-.500 year here in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>But owner Jerry Jones has spoken glowingly about the effort Cowboys players have shown to close the season despite a heap of injuries and very little to play for.<\/p>\n<p>As Jones said on Dallas radio, via\u00a0Todd Archer of ESPN, the conversations he has with McCarthy are all about the future, so it stands to reason that McCarthy might be around to see that future through.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of the time when you\u2019re discussing a situation on this football team, you\u2019re talking about the future,\u201d Jones said. \u201cNow the future might be the next game, or it could be next month but it\u2019s always not so much dwelling on what happened last Sunday or what happened two weeks ago, not so much there. \u2026 The future is where our decision-making is.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Cowboys\u2019 Mike McCarthy Could Take a Job Elsewhere<\/h2>\n<p>But McCarthy still is a lame-duck coach, with no extension in the offing. And it still makes eminent sense for Dallas to move on and bring in a new voice. Also, there is a new possibility that has risen up in the past couple of weeks: Maybe if the Cowboys want to keep McCarthy, he will be the one to say, \u2018Thanks, but no thanks,\u2019 and instead find a head coaching job elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>If that is how things pan out for the Cowboys and McCarthy, Dallas will need a new leader. And if they\u2019re looking for a coordinator to push up the ranks to a top job, Bleacher Report has the ideal candidate. Writing in an article titled, \u201cIdeal NFL Team-Coach Pairings Amid Latest Coaching Cycle Rumors,\u201d Kristopher Knox pegs Vikings coordinator Brian Flores as the Cowboys\u2019 top fit.<\/p>\n<p>Flores comes with a sterling reputation as a defensive mastermind, one of the main reasons the\u00a0Vikings\u00a0have been the No. 3 defense in scoring allowed and No. 1 in takeaways. He also has the bonus of having been a head coach, for two seasons with the\u00a0Dolphins.<\/p>\n<div class=\"intersectionObserverRefElement\">\n<p class=\"\">Wrote Knox: \u201cThe 43-year-old has been a head coach before and he fared well, winning 19 games in his last two seasons in Miami. He\u2019s also helped forge a playoff-caliber defense in Minnesota, a potential selling point for the Cowboys \u2026 (who) rank 27th in total defense and 30th in points allowed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"intersectionObserverRefElement\">\n<p class=\"\">\u201cPairing a defensive coach with a competent offensive play-caller would be a sound strategy for Dallas. \u2026 With a playoff-caliber defense, Dallas could be a contender once again.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Brian Flores Still Flagged by Controversy<\/h2>\n<p>Not mentioned in all of that, though, is that Flores has known a fair bit on controversy lingering from his time as a head coach in Miami. After he was fired by the Dolphins, Flores brought a bombshell lawsuit alleging discrimination by the team, and other NFL clubs, that was packed with headline-grabbing allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Flores\u2019 lawsuit has been lingering for two years, though, and took a hit this season when Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa alleged that Flores was borderline verbally abusive and a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/40918015\/candid-tua-tagovailoa-calls-brian-flores-coaching-style\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">terrible person.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have a terrible person telling you things that you don\u2019t want to hear or probably shouldn\u2019t be hearing, you\u2019re going to start believing that about yourself. And so that\u2019s what sort of ended up happening,\u201d Tagovailoa said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cowboys potential coaching candidate Brian Flores The\u00a0Cowboys\u00a0could well be careening toward one of the most unexpected coaching moves in what has been a year packed with head-scratching&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hot-news","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cowboys Tabbed \u2018Ideal Fit\u2019 for Controversial Coach to Replace McCarthy - 24\/7 News America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=15198\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cowboys Tabbed \u2018Ideal Fit\u2019 for Controversial Coach to Replace McCarthy - 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