The NFL Network reported Monday that the Dallas Cowboys would not re-sign coach Mike McCarthy to a new contract (his original five-year deal expires Tuesday).
For championship-starved Cowboys fans, the news was a bit infuriating — why the delay of a week, if not months, in making a coaching change? That's a time period where top potential candidates have either come off the market or gone far down the road in the interview process with more aggressive franchises.
Then came the truly baffling, if telling, news. The reason for the parting was that after a week of meetings between McCarthy and owner Jerry Jones, “the two sides could not come to terms on an agreement on the length of a new contract.