Nick Harris from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram joined the Fan After Dark to talk about the Cowboys denying the Bears' interview request with Mike McCarthy, what his gut tells him about if Mike returns in 2025 or not, who should replace him if he does leave, and more.
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00:00I'm betting Mike McCarthy wish that he had the same kind of excitement that we have.
00:21What do you think his mood around the Cowboys have been with all the news of getting denied
00:25interviews?
00:27What's kind of the sense and the energy you're feeling around the Cowboys front office right
00:30now?
00:31Yeah, it's very quiet.
00:32And I think anybody would tell you that across the board right now, they're keeping their
00:35cards close to the vest.
00:37We know when you when you think you know one thing, you don't know another.
00:40And a lot of false information getting put out by by people as well, just about certain
00:45things.
00:46So it's, there's a lot going on.
00:48But I think truly, at the end of the day, no one really knows what's going on behind
00:52closed doors.
00:53I mean, you look at the Chicago Bears trying to request an interview with Mike McCarthy
00:57yesterday, took the Cowboys a little over 24 hours to respond, they eventually said
01:01no.
01:03My assumption of that and that that's really all we can do as reporters take take the context
01:07that we know from, you know, the the years gathered over, you know, covering McCarthy
01:12covering these covering this team covering the Joneses, and try to apply it to the situation.
01:16You know, my interpretation of that is that, you know, the two met and they had to sit
01:19down about okay, hey, is this an interview you want to take?
01:23And if he said no, then they declined the request.
01:25And they have until January 14, to have exclusive negotiating rights with Mike McCarthy, his
01:30contract technically ends on Wednesday, tomorrow, but they have the rights to exclusively negotiate
01:35with him until next Tuesday.
01:37So it looks like they're going to take that period at least as of now, to figure out a
01:42deal for both sides.
01:43But you look at the comments that Jerry Jones made after the game on Sunday, and you see
01:47him say that the determining and the negotiating is all in one swing.
01:53And that sentence tells me that Jerry Jones has an idea of what a return for Mike McCarthy
01:57looks like.
01:58And if Mike McCarthy can agree to what that idea looks like, then he'll be back.
02:01But if not, then they're probably going to go in a different direction.