Dallas Cowboys: Mike McCarthy to be 'facing heat' early in season claims Colin Cowherd

Broadcaster Colin Cowherd has claimed that Dallas Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy could find himself in trouble early on in the season. 

Mike McCarthy came to the Dallas Cowboys with a pretty decent reputation under his belt following his years with the Green Bay Packers, having won a Super Bowl with them during the 2010 season, and compiling a record of 125-77-2 during the regular season, winning the NFC North 6 times and going 10-8 in the playoffs. 

Contrast that to the man that he replaced at AT&T Stadium in Jason Garrett who had a record of 85-67 in the regular season, 3 NFC East titles and 2-3 in the playoffs (two of those losses ironically coming at the hands of McCarthy’s Packers), a reasonable record, but not enough to really take the Cowboys forward as a franchise.

The Cowboys and owner Jerry Jones are a team that are used to winning, having won 5 Super Bowl titles, although their last one came in the 1995 season, but whilst McCarthy has shown some progress, it may well be that he’s running out of time already before the team have to look elsewhere.

McCarthy got off to something of a rough start in Dallas, with the Cowboys going 6-10 in his first season in charge, although given various restrictions in the preseason as a result of the pandemic and things not being normal that season, he deserves something of a pass.

Especially because in his second season he lifted them back to being competitive with a 12-5 record and the #3 seed in the NFC, before losing at home to the San Francisco 49ers in the first round of the playoffs. 

But whilst progress is progress, each year presents a new challenge, and if they suffer a bad start to the year, then it might well be that McCarthy’s future in Dallas will be brought into