Cowboys keeping Mike McCarthy as head coach for 2024 season: report

The Dallas Cowboys will not be moving on from head coach Mike McCarthy, as ESPN reported Wednesday he will stay on board for the 2024 season. 

The Cowboys’ disastrous loss at home to the Green Bay Packers this past weekend – a 48-32 stunner – had many questioning McCarthy’s future as the team’s head coach. ESPN previously reported McCarthy was always going to be judged on how the final game of the year went. 

Despite a third straight 12-5 regular season, this one ending with an NFC East title, Dallas fell short of its Super Bowl aspirations again. 

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Mike McCarthy of the Dallas Cowboys before kickoff against the Green Bay Packers during an NFC wild-card playoff game at AT&T Stadium Jan. 14, 2024, in Dallas. (Cooper Neill/Getty Images)

However, owner Jerry Jones seems content to give McCarthy another chance at redemption heading into next season as the leader on the sideline. 

The Cowboys have been a fantastic regular season team under McCarthy, but they have just one playoff win to show for it during his four-year tenure (he went 6-10 in his first season in 2020). For a team that hasn’t been to the Super Bowl since 1995, with an owner that demands success and nothing but a Vince Lombardi Trophy ever season, that’s just not good enough. 

Jones said after the game that he was “floored” by the loss to Jordan Love and the Packers, who came out firing in the first half, while Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott looked the exact opposite of his regular-season self. 

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“This is beyond my comprehension,” Jones told reporters. 

He also had no comment on McCarthy’s future, which brought about speculation. Coaching candidates like Mike Vrabel, Bill Belichick and Jim Harbaugh are perusing the head coach vacancies in the NFL right now, and some believed Dallas would snatch one of them up while they had the chance. 

But McCarthy, a Super Bowl champion with the Packers in 2010 and a career 167-102-2 in 17 years as a head coach, is someone ownership wants to give another shot. 

Jones, who initially said “we’ll see how each game goes in the playoffs” when discussing McCarthy’s future, turned course prior to the matchup with the Packers. 

Head coach Mike McCarthy of the Dallas Cowboys during the second quarter against the Buffalo Bills at Highmark Stadium Dec. 17, 2023, in Orchard Park, N.Y.  (Rich Barnes/Getty Images)

“I couldn’t be more pleased with what he’s done, and I really mean it,” he said on 105.3 The Fan.

“He’s the big difference this year. … So, the last thing that I want to do is spend any time talking with him about these kinds of things — agreements, extension of agreements — especially when I’ve got one. So, that’s it.”

Now, McCarthy’s contract with the Cowboys expires after the 2024 campaign, which adds even more pressure to win when next season kicks off.

The Cowboys looked like a well-oiled machine to get the No. 2 seed in the playoffs, which guaranteed two home games. But snapping this playoff curse, one Cowboys fans have dreaded for quite some time, is the main priority moving forward. 

Dallas Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy speaks at a news conference after an NFL divisional round game against the San Francisco 49ers in Santa Clara, Calif., Jan. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar)

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It’s fair to say that will determine if McCarthy gets an extension or will have to find work elsewhere. But he doesn’t have to do so just yet.