Mike McCarthy

ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is “in favor” of retaining Mike McCarthy as head coach.

This was a report before Sunday’s game, but the added context of Jerry Jones’ answer on Sunday of “I don’t know that I am considering making a change” adds fire to the idea that the Cowboys will simply retain McCarthy. Because Dallas promoted Jason Garrett from his role as OC in 2010 and interviewed only McCarthy and Marvin Lewis in the 2020 cycle, it could be argued that they haven’t done an expansive and real coaching search since they fired Bill Parcells. Jones may just be comfortable keeping on at this point despite a down year from McCarthy.