Mike McCarthy could be fired if something bad happens in Dallas. Will the Cowboys’ next coach be Bill Belichick?

Mike McCarthy could be fired if something bad happens in Dallas. Will the Cowboys’ next coach be Bill Belichick?

They’re used to being hurt and let down in Dallas. It’s like the Super Bowl used to be for them every winter.

As much as they want to believe it, they know that the Cowboys will always pull the red carpet out from under them.

This one felt different, though. It was worse this time. It’s possible that this was the Cowboys’ best chance to get to the Super Bowl in almost 30 years. It’s not likely that Jerry Jones is going to allow this to occur without making someone pay.

After the Cowboys’ 48–32 loss to the Green Bay Packers in the NBA wild-card playoffs on Sunday, all eyes and ears will be on the team’s 81-year-old owner within the coming days.

He told his boss, Mike McCarthy, that the team he had given him was “certainly capable of beating the whole thing.”

They had been set to play two possible playoff games at home, in a field where they had prevailed in 16 straight games. This made him very happy.

Jones said right after the game was over, “This seems like the worst (playoff loss) because everybody had such high hopes.”

“And we had high hopes for this group and believed we were on the right track.” I have no idea what this means.

Everyone else was too. At halftime, the second-seeded Cowboys were down 27–7, 41–16, and 48–16 with six minutes left.

It was hard to understand why Dallas tried to make up points against the Packers’ second team.

When Cowboys fans left in the second half, AT&T Stadium sounded such as Lambeau Field South because they were that bad.

Jones said, “I didn’t think for one second” regarding McCarthy’s situation or what he could do next after the game.

The Cowboys coach also deserves all the bad things that will happen because of this. From the beginning, it looked like his team wasn’t ready for anything the Packers hurled at them.

His offense, which was his baby because he called the plays, was especially bad. From the very first drive on, they looked like they were out of touch, even though they were in a stadium in which they usually won games 37-16.

His quarterback, Dak Prescott, who could be MVP, “sucked,” in his own words. He was inches away from throwing two Pick-6s, missed a third pass, and had only 210 passing yards after three quarters.

His only steady tool all year, No. 1 receiver CeeDee Lamb, almost vanished. In the very first three quarters, he caught just seven passes for 51 yards.

At the start of the game, Prescott and Lamb didn’t look like they knew each other. As soon as the ball was thrown to Lamb, it was dropped twice. They seemed to be having a great time talking after every game.

It was the last time his team made it to an NFC championship game. That year, they won the Super Bowl. Since then, the Dallas Cowgirls have had terrible playoff records, going 5-13 or seven times going one-and-done.

After Dallas’ shocking end to their 16-game home victories on Sunday, there will be more rumors about McCarthy’s work situation.

From the start, the seventh-seeded Packers had been way ahead of the second-seeded Cowboys. On social media, jokes were going around about whether Jones could sign Bill Belichick at halfway.

This loss or the way it happened, with Green Bay’s Matt LaFleur being a much better coach than McCarthy, was so bad that it added a lot of fuel to the fire around McCarthy. At a minimum, it makes people think that Jones might have reached out to Belichick.