{"id":16560,"date":"2025-01-03T03:12:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T03:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=16560"},"modified":"2025-01-03T03:12:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T03:12:03","slug":"breaking-cowboys-head-coach-mike-mccarthy-knows-his-bags-are-packed-for-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=16560","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Cowboys’ head coach Mike McCarthy knows his bags are packed for him.."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Week 18 could be Mike McCarthy’s final game with the Dallas Cowboys and it sounds as if he believes it will be.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Mike McCarthy is\u00a0entering his 84th game\u00a0as the head coach of the\u00a0Dallas Cowboys\u00a0this weekend. While he can’t finish this campaign with a winning record, he reeled off three straight 12-5 seasons and is 49-34 overall in Dallas.<\/p>\n

The problem is that he’s just 1-3 in the playoffs and their last postseason defeat was about as ugly of a loss as you could imagine.<\/p>\n

That’s why he went into the year without a contract beyond 2024. The belief was that he needed playoff success to convince Jerry Jones to\u00a0keep him around\u00a0and that won’t happen since they failed to even make the postseason.<\/p>\n

Perhaps that’s why McCarthy sounds like a man who knows his days are numbered. When speaking with the media ahead of the Week 18 finale, McCarthy said he has a “strong emotional attachment” to AT&T Stadium where he won a Super Bowl with the\u00a0Green Bay Packers. He added that he was “in tune” with the fact that this could be his final game with the franchise.<\/p>\n

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