It feels like a long time ago that we were debating whether keeping Mike McCarthy made sense, and where we should turn if he didn’t come back. Jerry Jones initially wanted to keep McCarthy, but the two couldn’t come together on a deal with contract length reportedly a sticking point.
Once McCarthy decided to leave, plenty of names surfaced as a replacement. Remember the Jason Witten/Deion Sanders rumors? Or the possible return of the anointed one, Kellen Moore? Names were floated, but in the end the Cowboys decided to promote from within and moved offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer into the role, his first as a head coach in the NFL.