Cowboys’ Micah Parsons feels worse for players like Zack Martin than Mike McCarthy amid 3-6 season

McCarthy led the Inexperienced Bay Packers for 13 years, together with one Tremendous Bowl win, earlier than becoming a member of Dallas in 2020. In his fifth season, the 61-year-old is within the closing 12 months of his contract. At 3-6, with 4 consecutive losses (together with a number of blowouts), McCarthy might be enjoying out the string.

Parsons’ feedback communicate to the character of the enterprise. Excessive-profile coaches normally discover work in some style after getting fired — as an offensive coordinator, senior-level analyst, and so forth. — whereas gamers’ careers have a shelf life. There are solely so many blocks and tackles in a physique.

Requested if McCarthy ought to coach the Cowboys subsequent 12 months, Parsons mentioned it was “above my pay grade.”

McCarthy instructed reporters on Monday that he and Parsons mentioned his feedback “like males ought to deal with it.”

“With postgame remarks, when it creates questions for others within the locker room, it is one thing I’ve at all times finished — a dialog has to occur,” McCarthy mentioned, by way of ESPN. “So Micah and I had a dialog this morning about it.”

Whereas requires the coach’s job will solely get louder, proprietor Jerry Jones mentioned he has zero want to make an in-season change.

“Mike is a heck of a coach, an awesome coach in my thoughts,” Jones mentioned of McCarthy’s standing, by way of The Athletic. “[He] has and may have the chance to do higher than we’re enjoying proper now. I have never had good expertise altering coaches in the midst of the season.

“I’ve modified coaches within the season with Wade (Phillips) and have at all times regretted it. As a matter of reality, I made a change with Chan Gailey after two years. I regretted that. That is not sufficient. You must give your self an opportunity. I’ve had much more rope than that, in my time. I have never had anyone pull it brief on me.”

Three of the Cowboys’ subsequent 4 video games are stand-alone contests, beginning with subsequent Monday evening’s tilt in opposition to the Houston Texans.