Jerry Jones’ Cowboys have long been linked to two big names as potential replacements, Bill Belichick and Deion Sanders. But there are facts and details here, not just opinions and agendas.
FRISCO – Everybody is entitled to their own opinion and everybody is entitled to their own agenda. But at CowboysCountry.com, the facts trump both “opinions” and “agendas.”
So we are going to continue to tell the truth: The Dallas Cowboys will almost certainly have a new head coach in 2025. And there no present plan to hire Deion Sanders as his replacement.
Our Mike Fisher has for months offered details backing up those two facts.
The first fact and details: Mike McCarthy entered this year as a lame-duck coach in what the franchise privately plotted to be a “Blow It Up” season in preparation for a remodel in 2025. Arguably, through no particular fault of his own – except for supervising the shocking playoff loss to Green Bay to end last season – McCarthy does not figure in Dallas’ future plans.
The second fact and details: The Cowboys have long been linked to two big names as potential replacements, Bill Belichick and Deion Sanders. Belichick and Cowboys owner Jerry Jones have spent the last year dropping hints and playing media “footsie” to help feed the idea … adding to the concept’s viability.
But we asked Sanders about making the jump from being the University of Colorado head coach to moving to the NFL, Cowboys or otherwise. His answer was clear.
“I don’t have any desire or ambition to coach in the NFL,” Sanders said to us. (See the entire video here.) “I have a problem with men getting their checks and not doing their jobs. I would be too tough as a coach in the NFL because I still have those old-school attributes.”
Fish, who has covered the Cowboys for 35 years, has carefully noted that this is “a never-say-never league,” and that Jerry’s money or Deion’s ego or the fact that the Sanders kids are moving to the NFL next spring could change things – but that Deion deserves to be taken at his word here.
Now along comes a national media voice to chime in with Fisher in The Athletic’s Dianna Russini.
“Coach Prime isn’t landing at The Star,” Russini wrote. “The 57-year-old coach and Pro Football Hall of Fame cornerback has said publicly he wants to stay in college football, despite some theories that Jerry Jones is targeting his former star.”
That doesn’t have to be the end of the speculation or the opinions or the agendas. (We certainly respect Michael Irvin’s urging of Jones to hire best pal Deion). But facts are facts, and Russini offers another powerful one that goes beyond Dallas.
“As of now, I have not spoken to a team decision-maker interested in bringing Sanders in as an NFL head coach,” she writes.
At the risk of “burying the lead,” that’s a blockbuster … except for the fact that given Fisher’s report on Sanders not wanting to move … why would teams who respect his word put him high on their wish list?
