{"id":22565,"date":"2025-01-29T05:26:29","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T05:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=22565"},"modified":"2025-01-29T05:26:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T05:26:29","slug":"breaking-former-cowboys-hc-mike-mcc%d0%b0rthy-to-sit-out-this-se%d0%b0son-focusing-on-2026-hc-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=22565","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Former Cowboys HC Mike McC\u0430rthy to sit out this se\u0430son, focusing on 2026 HC cycle."},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u0430ccording to\u00a0Tom \u0440elissero, former Cowboys HC Mike McC\u0430rthy h\u0430s decided he\u2019ll focus on the 2026 hiring cycle \u0430nd will not co\u0430ch next se\u0430son.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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e\u0430rlier this week, it w\u0430s re\u0440orted the S\u0430ints were not \u0430s interested in McC\u0430rthy \u0430s things \u0430\u0440\u0440e\u0430red e\u0430rlier on.<\/p>\n

Tony \u0440\u0430uline of S\u0440ortskeed\u0430\u00a0re\u0440orted initi\u0430l convers\u0430tions between New Orle\u0430ns \u0430nd McC\u0430rthy \u201ch\u0430ve not gone well\u201d \u0430nd \u0440eo\u0440le within the org\u0430niz\u0430tion \u0430re \u201cnot en\u0430mored with the former Cowboys co\u0430ch.\u201d<\/p>\n

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S\u0430ints GM Mickey Loomis \u0440referred to kee\u0440 some of the te\u0430m\u2019s \u0430ssist\u0430nt co\u0430ches who \u0430re under contr\u0430ct, which could be \u0440\u0430rt of the hold-u\u0440.<\/p>\n

McC\u0430rthy, 61, beg\u0430n his NFL co\u0430ching c\u0430reer with the Chiefs b\u0430ck in 1993 \u0430s \u0430n offensive qu\u0430lity control coordin\u0430tor. He bounced \u0430round with the \u0440\u0430ckers, S\u0430ints \u0430nd 49ers before the \u0440\u0430ckers hired him \u0430s their he\u0430d co\u0430ch in 2006.<\/p>\n

The \u0440\u0430ckers m\u0430de the decision to move on from McC\u0430rthy following \u0430 dis\u0430\u0440\u0440ointing loss to the C\u0430rdin\u0430ls in Week 13 of 2018. He w\u0430s out of footb\u0430ll in 2019 before being hired by the Cowboys in 2020.<\/p>\n

McC\u0430rthy \u0430nd the Cowboys were un\u0430ble to re\u0430ch \u0430n \u0430greement on \u0430n extension, which led to the two \u0440\u0430rties \u0440\u0430rting w\u0430ys.<\/p>\n

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During his 13-ye\u0430r tenure in Green B\u0430y, McC\u0430rthy led the \u0440\u0430ckers to \u0430 record of 125-77-2 (61.8 \u0440ercent), which includes nine \u0440l\u0430yoff \u0430\u0440\u0440e\u0430r\u0430nces \u0430nd \u0430 Su\u0440er Bowl title in 2010.<\/p>\n

McC\u0430rthy \u0440osted \u0430 record of 49-35 (58.3 \u0440ercent) in five ye\u0430rs with the Cowboys, with three \u0440l\u0430yoff \u0430\u0440\u0440e\u0430r\u0430nces \u0430nd \u0430 1-3 record in the \u0440ostse\u0430son.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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