Schefter: No substantial discussions regarding future contract

[windward]

I mean, the Bears and Patriots are leaking stories daily. But no news from the Cowboys front office is somehow “clickbait”.

Lol

I get that people hate Jerry, but the conclusions drawn as a result of their discontent is often incoherent.

 

[Blitzen]

End of deal is 3 days away. If they haven't talked about a deal yet, then that's a pretty tight window to hammer out a lot of important details.

It’s how they handle the bigger contracts. It does not take long to decide on these things. Perhaps 24 hours of off and on discussion. If the team wanted to proceed with McCarthy, they only need to contact his agent to find out their thoughts and what terms they would accept. Then make the offer or go in another direction.

The timing is 100% media attention driven. Milk a story. Anyone telling you different is either lying or clueless. If they did not think a deal was possible they could just move in another direction. They obviously do think a deal is possible, and could come to terms in under 30 seconds. Pay no attention-either the deal gets done or it doesn’t.

 

[Redsfan_83]

Once the extension for MM is announced at 9am on Monday morning (we know that's what going to happen), the best thing to happen is nobody reports it. Jerry is an attention seeking you know what, so for the world to put him on notice at a time where he wants to grab the headlines, would be such a sight to see

 

[Kingofholland]

May mean nothing and Jerry still plans to bring him back or maybe he's comfortable sitting back and letting him test his market. Later he comes back and says we made an honest offer to Mike, but weren't comfortable paying at the threshold he wanted.

 

[ICP]

In the long run does it really matter if it's McCarthy coaching the Cowboys or somebody else?

 

[Whiskey Cowboy]

Jerry is going to wait until Super Bowl week and resign Mike to make cheap headlines. Always has to have that attention, amIrite?

 

[phildadon86]

Then they didn't give him anything. They made him take Zeke when they could have signed Henry. The team still played hard for him.

Played hard for him?

Ok. I’ll bite.

Explain the penalty issue that hasn’t been addressed since his team that was playing hard for him had 14 penalties in a playoff game against San Fran. To which he said. “I’ll fix that in the off-season”

That is a fireable offense to me.

Explain the constantly getting blown out at home. I’m not even going to put the numbers up because unless you’re an ostrich you know them.

Explain not scoring a touchdown at home for 4 games. He’s a offensive genius right?

You need to stop with this. Please. It’s exhausting. I know you wake up and put on your Jerry PJs after he makes you a bowl of cereal. But you need to wake up. This team isn’t going anywhere under this leadership.

2007, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2022 are the most recent years where this team could have done something and didn’t.

Please tell me. What did Jerry do to IMPROVE THE TEAM. In any of those years?

He says it in the trailer for his new documentary. Out of his mouth.

Results don’t matter. He doesn’t want to win. Wake up.

 

[Coogiguy03]

Once the extension for MM is announced at 9am on Monday morning (we know that's what going to happen), the best thing to happen is nobody reports it. Jerry is an attention seeking you know what, so for the world to put him on notice at a time where he wants to grab the headlines, would be such a sight to see

if only that could happen, these media drool at being the first to report it, then they all report it simultaneously, shefter, rappaport, clarence hill, michota, then like 12 minutes later ed werder lol

 

[nate dizzle]

There's no point in getting rid of Mike for at least the next couple of years. What are you going to do? Bring in some dynamic, offensive innovator and try to teach Dak a new playbook? He's had this one for 10 years and they still have to dumb it down for him. What a waste of time that would be.

 

[Sarge]

In the long run does it really matter if it's McCarthy coaching the Cowboys or somebody else?

Nope.

 

[Hadenough]

I think people should stop assuming that Jerry and his family are in it to win football games. That is clearly not a priority.

The Cowboys are a brand that has gotten old. Jerry is all about finding ways to invent hope. The problem is that he is running out of ways to do it. Nothing would bring more hope than trading up and drafting a QB. They could sign big name free agents defensive ends, wide receiver, DT, but none of them will bring more hope than a QB.

 

[Hadenough]

Kellen Moore 2025

That's Jerry playing musical chairs.

 

[maryquality]

I post them the day after each date. It is only fair that I give Jerry Jones the benefit of the doubt from midnight to midnight.

Is it time yet? I feel like a little kid in the back seat of a car yelling to his parents, "are we there yet?" a hundred times!!

 

[MS17]

Once the extension for MM is announced at 9am on Monday morning (we know that's what going to happen), the best thing to happen is nobody reports it. Jerry is an attention seeking you know what, so for the world to put him on notice at a time where he wants to grab the headlines, would be such a sight to see

and there are some who say at 4:25 ET today, Jerruh issues a statement that terms for an extension with MM have been agreed upon by both parties.
(5 minutes before Eagles v Packers kickoff). The grabbing headlines strategy is strong with this one.

 

[Aven8]

Expect a deal today by around 3:20…..right before the Eagles game

 

[DallasEast]

Is it time yet? I feel like a little kid in the back seat of a car yelling to his parents, "are we there yet?" a hundred times!!

I am waiting out Jerry Jones' latest endgame (link):

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and McCarthy remain open to moving forward together, and the sides are expected to open talks Friday on a new contract to keep him in Dallas, NFL Network Insider Tom Pelissero reported, per sources informed of the situation.

The article was published Friday. No news yet for a situation that Jones had literally one year to prepare for and far too much opportune time to rectify it along the way.

Mike McCarthy's contractual circumstances seem similar to Dak Prescott and CeeDee Lamb's, where he strategically (lol) waited until almost the last second to create news of himself, I mean, to secure their services.

Jones does not need McCarthy's services. Head coaches come-and-go. Same goes for the offensive and defensive schemes they implement. So, when is the newsflash Jones may have been planning all this time IF McCarthy will comply--because all professional partnerships must be agreed upon by multiple parties. Time is running out for him. Let's see...

• All eyes are on the NFL today, as two NFC and a single AFC wildcard game will be played. Will the NFL Network break the news first? Or
• Wildfires moved the Vikings and Rams to Glendale, Arizona and a totally unexpected 'Are you ready for some MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALLLLL?' playoff game. Get ready for breaking news on ESPN Sportscenter! Or
• As all talk swirls around the first-round games and their impact of the upcoming divisional round, sports talking heads will dilute their Tuesday broadcasts, podcasts and articles with the usual 30-year Jones clickbait.

Which landing is PT Barnum piloting his Apollo 'big top tent' 11 towards this time--IF that has been his intent all along? Stay tuned. The circus music grows louder...

 

[CCBoy]

Nope.

Which leads to the biggest issue. McCarthy was brought in to get this team over the hump, and despite having the opportunity to do so, he’s failed. While this study was just done on regular-season games, when we take a deeper dive into the playoffs, it paints an even bleaker picture.

In the Cowboys 2023 playoff game against the Green Bay Packers, the Cowboys were dealt a 48-32 loss, at home, against a team most thought was the underdog coming into AT&T Stadium. In 2022, the Cowboys seemed to have turned the corner, beating the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on the road in the Wild Card round, before losing on the road to the San Francisco 49ers 19-12. In 2021, the Cowboys were again embarrassed at home by the 49ers in a 23-17 loss in the Wild Card round.

The Cowboys hired Mike McCarthy to do what former head coach Jason Garrett could not. Get them to and through the playoffs. After falling flat on that responsibility for five years, it leads a lot of fans questioning why McCarthy would return to the Cowboys on a new contract after following the path Garrett did for over a decade. While the lack of ideal candidates in this head coaching cycle is a real thing, McCarthy has shown for five years what he can do against the top half of league and in the playoffs and it has not been good enough. In fact, in their best years against those teams, with a positive point differential, McCarthy was not calling plays and was not the team’s offensive coordinator.

https://www.bloggingtheboys.com/202...teele-tyler-guyton-dak-prescott-mike-mccarthy

McCarthy hasn't earned earned retention and for the exact reason he was hired to replace Garrett.

He hasn't earned the privilege. Earning it always matters.

This is still the unchanged reason demanding an altered accountability standard: For a team that has fallen flat in the playoffs for almost two decades now, a lot of fans hope for change, but not blindly as to directions missed.

 

[Sydla]

So what’s happening here is Jerry had a box that the next coach has to fit into (salary, control demands, staffing control, etc,). If that coach doesn’t fit in the box, well no contract.

Instead of going out and getting the very best coach, Jerry will pass on good coaches because they don’t fit into his box.

My bet is McCarthy no longer fits in that box and Jerry won’t budge and is waiting for McCarthy to come back to him. If he doesn’t, then Jerry will find the next coach willing to cram his expectations down to fit into Jerry’s criteria.

Such a crap way to run a football franchise.

 

[CyberB0b]

Hopefully Mike says he’s done with Jerry antics and leaves. But then it’ll be the same rhetoric with the new head coach because Jerry can’t stay out of anyone else business.

Mike will take what he can get. He’s done if Jerry doesn’t resign him.

 

[Jarv]

Which leads to the biggest issue. McCarthy was brought in to get this team over the hump, and despite having the opportunity to do so, he’s failed. While this study was just done on regular-season games, when we take a deeper dive into the playoffs, it paints an even bleaker picture.

In the Cowboys 2023 playoff game against the Green Bay Packers, the Cowboys were dealt a 48-32 loss, at home, against a team most thought was the underdog coming into AT&T Stadium. In 2022, the Cowboys seemed to have turned the corner, beating the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on the road in the Wild Card round, before losing on the road to the San Francisco 49ers 19-12. In 2021, the Cowboys were again embarrassed at home by the 49ers in a 23-17 loss in the Wild Card round.

The Cowboys hired Mike McCarthy to do what former head coach Jason Garrett could not. Get them to and through the playoffs. After falling flat on that responsibility for five years, it leads a lot of fans questioning why McCarthy would return to the Cowboys on a new contract after following the path Garrett did for over a decade. While the lack of ideal candidates in this head coaching cycle is a real thing, McCarthy has shown for five years what he can do against the top half of league and in the playoffs and it has not been good enough. In fact, in their best years against those teams, with a positive point differential, McCarthy was not calling plays and was not the team’s offensive coordinator.

https://www.bloggingtheboys.com/202...teele-tyler-guyton-dak-prescott-mike-mccarthy

McCarthy hasn't earned earned retention and for the exact reason he was hired to replace Garrett.

He hasn't earned the privilege. Earning it always matters.

This is still the unchanged reason demanding an altered accountability standard: For a team that has fallen flat in the playoffs for almost two decades now, a lot of fans hope for change, but not blindly as to directions missed.

Mike, Garrett and Dak all did not deserve an extension of their services yet jerry deemed otherwise.

At this point I will always expect jerry to do the opposite of what I would do as an owner and fail miserably at it.