The Dallas Cowboys are in need of a new head coach after moving on from Mike McCarthy on Monday afternoon. McCarthy, who won a Super Bowl in Green Bay, had been the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys since 2020.

The Dallas Cowboys and head coach Mike McCarthy are running out of time to get a deal done. On Tuesday, January 14, the team's exclusive negotiation period with the coach expires. At that point, McCarthy would be free to look elsewhere, and why would he want to return to a team that was dragging its feet for the past year?

McCarthy was hired to do what Jason Garrett never did, win in the playoffs. McCarthy won a playoff game in his tenure with the Cowboys, a 2023 wildcard round win in Tampa that was the final game of Tom Brady’s career.

Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys have finally made their decision on head coach Mike McCarthy, and it was one that we all saw coming from a mile away after Jerry continued to drag his feet. Mike McCarthy is out as head coach, and the search for a new head coach is now underway in Big D.

For the Cowboys, the decision to keep coach Mike McCarthy is the beginning, not the end. The two sides will have to negotiate a contract. And the Cowboys might not want to make the same five-year commitment that they did when they hired McCarthy in 2020.

It is preposterous that there still isn't a clear solution to the Mike McCarthy saga. While it was reported Friday that the Dallas Cowboys are working toward bringing McCarthy back, Jerry Jones better hope he and McCarthy reach an agreement soon because he is miles behind the interview process relative to other teams with head coach vacancies.