During a radio spot last week, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones stopped well short of endorsing coach Mike McCarthy, amid a wave of firings in the NFL. But on a Friday appearance on 105.3 The Fan, he said that he was posturing as he sought to keep defensive coordinator Dan Quinn in place, and McCarthy was never “twisting in the wind.”
On Thursday, it was confirmed that Quinn will remain with Dallas in 2022, after helping revamp the defense that struggled mightily a year before his arrival. He was a candidate for multiple head coaching jobs around the league.
“What I wanted to clear up was that this was a competitive situation, in my view. Dan Quinn was really being pursued as a potential head coach,” Jones said. “I’ve experienced seeing coaches turn down a head job for our situation, and so I really was trying hard, meeting with Dan Quinn.
