After spending the last several days discussing the 2024 campaign and the team's future, NFL Media reports that Jones and McCarthy are expected to open up contact talks that would keep McCarthy in Dallas. Both sides remain open to moving forward together.

If you’ve followed the Cowboys over the past year, then you’re aware that Dallas’ front office tends to move at a glacial pace, very often to its detriment, and to the detriment of the team. That’s been the case with coach Mike McCarthy, who is wrapping up the last year of his contract and will be a full-fledged free agent in just four days.

Dallas seems in no hurry to make a head coaching decision, leaving Mike McCarthy's status in limbo now four days into their

Mike McCarthy has not secured his spot as the Dallas Cowboys' head coach in 2025, but the job is not yet vacant. McCarthy's contract with the Cowboys expires Tuesday (Jan. 14) but the franchise maintains an exclusive negotiating window and owner Jerry Jones plans to open contract talks Friday with designs on retaining the coach,

The way Jerry Jones is handling Mike McCarthy’s expiring contract has Jason Garrett writing all over it. His refusal to part ways with a coach who has reached their peak with the team is an all too familiar feeling Cowboys fans are groveling in.

According to Tom Pelissero from NFL Network, the Dallas Cowboys and Mike McCarthy "remain open to moving forward together and the sides are expected to open talks today on a new contract to keep him in Dallas.

McCarthy's current deal expires next Tuesday, and owner Jerry Jones has yet to commit to him moving forward after the team went 7-10 and missed the playoffs.

Cowboys fans' worst nightmare has officially come true as Jerry Jones decided to keep Mike McCarthy as head coach.