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Getty Images The Cowboys opened the season facing questions about when they are going to get a contract extension done with quarterback Dak Prescott and they are opening the offseason with the same question on the table. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and executive vice president Stephen Jones have...

Getty Images The Cowboys had an unprecedented dismissal of a head coach. It took a week before the team moved on from Jason Garrett, beginning the search for a possible replacement first. Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones explained Friday that Garrett “wasn’t in any hurry” for the...

Getty Images The Cowboys might keep running backs coach Gary Brown, who has served in that role since 2013. Or they might not. The team is interviewing University of Texas associate head coach and run game coordinator Stan Drayton today, Todd Archer of ESPN reports. Drayton is intriguing...

Getty Images Mike McCarthy has worked with better quarterbacks than Dak Prescott, having coached Joe Montana, Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers. But the Cowboys new head coach has not worked with a better running back in his prime than Ezekiel Elliott. McCarthy had Frank Gore as a rookie in 2005...

Getty Images The NFL has announced the 32 nominees for its annual Don Shula NFL High School Coach of the Year Award, and one of them is a familiar name to football fans. George Teague, head coach at John Paul II High School in Plano, Texas, is the Cowboys’ nominee for the Shula Award. Teague...

Getty Images The Cowboys have two more Pro Bowlers on their roster. The team announced that wide receiver Amari Cooper and linebacker Jaylon Smith have been added to the NFC Pro Bowl roster. They are taking the places of Buccaneers wide receiver Mike Evans and Panthers linebacker Luke Kuechly...

Getty Images With Mike McCarthy beginning to bring his staff together in Dallas, a pair of current Cowboys assistants will be looking for new opportunities. Per multiple reports, the Cowboys are moving on from offensive line coach Marc Colombo and wide receivers coach Sanjay Lal. The parting...

Getty Images New Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy was involved in one of the worst moments in Cowboys history five years ago, when he was coaching the Packers and a Dez Bryant catch in the fourth quarter of a playoff game was overturned on replay when McCarthy challenged it. Today, McCarthy was...

Getty Images Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers thinks his old coach, Mike McCarthy, was hired as coach of the Cowboys in part because Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has seen first-hand how McCarthy coaches. Rodgers noted that the Packers won some big games over the Cowboys during McCarthy’s tenure...

Getty Images The Cowboys waited longer than other teams to announce that they were making a head coaching change this month, but they ultimately did decide to move on without Jason Garrett. That process involved several meetings and a variety of reports about what might be going on behind...

Getty Images Joe Philbin took over as the interim head coach in Green Bay when Mike McCarthy was fired last season and it looks like the two men will be back together in 2020. Todd Archer of ESPN.com reports that Philbin is expected to be McCarthy’s offensive line coach. Marc Colombo took on...

Getty Images The Cowboys officially introduced Mike McCarthy as their new head coach at a press conference at their facility in Frisco and team owner Jerry Jones opened the event by sharing some of what made McCarthy an appealing candidate for the team. Jones said McCarthy’s experience with a...

Getty Images Mike McCarthy’s first coaching staff with the Cowboys is taking shape and it appears it will include Kellen Moore. Moore served as the Cowboys’ offensive coordinator in 2019 and word on Tuesday was that McCarthy wants him to remain in the same role for the 2020 season. Moore was...

Getty Images Sometimes, a spitball lands in reasonable proximity to the bull’s eye. On Tuesday, we suggested that the screwball timeline of the Dallas Cowboys’ hiring and firing practices could have been the result of a fairly simple strategy: “Maybe the explanation is hiding in plain sight...

Getty Images Marvin Lewis understands there’s a problem. But beyond increasing the opportunities for younger coaches in coordinator positions, he’s not sure what more can be done to increase the number of minority coaches in the NFL. “You keep beating your head up against the wall, but I...

Getty Images There were reports about the Giants’ interest in interviewing Jason Garrett on Tuesday before and after word came that they’ve hired Joe Judge as their new head coach, but it appears that nothing is on the schedule for the moment. The first report was that the Giants requested...

Getty Images New Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy is busy building his staff. He has hired Mike Nolan as defensive coordinator and could keep offensive coordinator Kellen Moore and defensive passing game coordinator and secondary coach Kris Richard on staff. McCarthy is targeting former 49ers head...

Getty Images Wade Phillips isn’t the only coordinator leaving the Rams. Michael Gehlken of the Dallas Morning News reports that Rams special-teams coordinator John Fassel will be joining Mike McCarthy’s coaching staff with the Cowboys. The 45-year-old son of former Giants coach Jim Fassel...

Getty Images To say that the Rooney Rule isn’t working is to presume that it ever did. It never truly did, at least not in the way it was intended. Ideally, the rule requiring at least one minority candidate to be interviewed for every head-coaching vacancy will prompt owners to engage in a...

Getty Images Some wondered if the Cowboys were squatting on Jason Garrett for a week to keep him away from their division rivals, in case the Giants were in a hurry to hire a head coach. But according to one report, Garrett could only be on the radar for the Giants if today’s business doesn’t...