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FRISCO, Texas — Just over three hours. That’s how long — 3 hours, 9 minutes to be exact — it took for the second-seeded Dallas Cowboys’ 2023 season to come to end in their 48-32 home loss in Super Wild Card Weekend against the seventh-seeded Green Bay Packers on Sunday.
Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy informed local media at his end-of-season press conference on Thursday that his one-on-one meeting on Wednesday with Dallas owner and general manager Jerry Jones lasted about the same duration. It was during that sit down that the two came to the conclusion that McCarthy would return for a fifth season as the Cowboys head coach in 2024 and finish out his original contract with the franchise.
“(We) talked about a number of topics,” McCarthy said Thursday. “First topic was obviously the disappointment of the ending of the season. Went through all of the layers of that. We talked about pretty much everything in the football program.”
The Cowboys entered the postseason with a 12-5 record. They were the NFC’s No. 2 seed — guaranteeing home playoff games for at least the first two rounds of the postseason and boasted the NFL’s highest-scoring offense (29.9 points per game). Quarterback Dak Prescott led the NFL in touchdown passes (36), wide receiver CeeDee Lamb led the league in receptions (135) and they possessed the NFL’s only perfect record at home (8-0). None of it mattered.
Dallas has at least 12 wins for three seasons in a row under McCarthy. This stretch marks the second time in franchise history for that to occur, joining the Cowboys’ 1990s dynasty run from 1992-1995 in which they won three Super Bowls in four seasons. McCarthy is the first Cowboys head coach to accomplish this feat. Only the reigning Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs (37) have more regular-season wins than Dallas since 2021.
However, McCarthy’s Cowboys also became the first team to win 12 games in…
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Author : Garrett Podell
Publish date : 2024-01-18 21:22:57
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