The Dallas Cowboys parted ways with Mike McCarthy on Monday morning. That this was the second Monday of the offseason made matters more interesting given that a week before would have made more sense.
Dallas spent the first week of the offseason thinking and believing they would-resign McCarthy. In that time, the Chicago Bears formally requested to interview him and the Cowboys denied that which only reinforced the notion of a McCarthy return.
Maybe the Cowboys had every intention of bringing McCarthy back and things did in fact just fall apart in the end.