The Dallas Cowboys could be seeing a former face in the near future. Earlier this week the New York Giants dismissed Brian Daboll as their head coach, he literally never won a game against the Cowboys,
and they are now the second team in the NFL who will officially be looking for a new skipper come 2026 (Tennessee Titans).
Early odds are out for who will be the next coach to lead the Giants, and the betting favorite is man who preceded Brian Schottenheimer as the Cowboys head coach in Mike McCarthy. Wouldn’t that be something?
McCarthy defeated Daboll’s Giants in six of the seven games that the latter lost to Dallas (the Giants lost to the Cowboys early this year with Schotty in charge) and the Cowboys at large have owned their division rivals for about a decade now. It is often noted how quarterback Dak Prescott has not lost to them personally, he has missed a couple of games, since his rookie season of 2016.
As far as McCarthy is concerned, it would make sense for him to re-enter the coaching circuit after a year away from the game. This is what he did before getting the Cowboys job in the first place as he sat out 2019 following his firing from the Green Bay Packers midway through the 2018 season.
Interestingly, if McCarthy were to get the Giants job, it would mark the second time in a row that the Giants were the first place of work for a Cowboys head coach that was ousted. When McCarthy got the Dallas job it was because they need to replace Jason Garrett. The same Garrett who the Giants immediately hired to be their offensive coordinator, a project that lasted only one season.
What would you make of Mike McCarthy coaching the Giants?
