Maybe this marriage was never meant to last after it started with a lie.
Jerry Jones introduced Mike McCarthy as the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys on January 8th, 2020.
Fast forward five years later, and McCarthy is now out of Dallas, as Jones decided to part ways with the Super Bowl winning head coach.
In hindsight, maybe the Jones and McCarthy pairing was doomed to fail after McCarthy admitted at his opening press conference that he lied to the Cowboys owner to get the job.
Since McCarthy’s dismissal, that clip has resurfaced and is making its’ rounds through the internet.
” I need to confess, I told Jerry I watched every play of the 2019 season, but I wanted the job,” McCarthy playfully told the media, as he was sitting in between Jones and his son, Stephen Jones.
The younger Jones gave an awkward, and unbeknownst at the time, ominous laugh as McCarthy revealed his omission.
“I haven’t watched every play of the season, but you do what you got to do, right?”
It was playful banter at the time, and five years later, it is still nothing more than harmless internet fodder.
Unfortunately for McCarthy, the clip just looks a little worse now than it organically did.
The former head coach of ‘America’s Team,’ spent five seasons in Dallas, where he accumulated a 49-35 record, including three straight 12-5 seasons.
His tenure was by no means a failure.
However, McCarthy was just 1-3 in the postseason and never inspired true confidence at the helm.
After an injury-ravaged 7-10 season, Jones decided it was time to part ways with McCarthy.
Jones’ search is now underway for a new head coach.
The job is certainly sure to attract some of the biggest names in the sport, such has Bill Belichick, Deion Sanders, Jon Gruden, etc.
Jones and the Dallas front office will leave no stone unturned.
As for McCarthy, it isn’t all bad.
He is set to interview with the Chicago Bears this week, with the New Orleans Saints also wanting to speak with him.
He will land on his feet as teams scramble to find their next head coach.
For as much flak as McCarthy got in Dallas, he won a lot of games and is more than capable of leading a franchise.
Remember the time he won the Super Bowl with the Green Bay Packers in 2010?
Yeah, he’s plenty capable.
And a tip to the Jones family, if the guy you are hiring says he watched every snap of the Cowboys’ 2024 season, don’t believe him.
It probably won’t work out anyway.
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