Troy Aikman Believes Cowboys Will Bring Back Mike McCarthy

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Cowboys fans hoping for a new head coach might have to wait a while longer ... Troy Aikman tells TMZ Sports he thinks his former team will stick with Mike McCarthy in 2025.

The current Dallas sideline manager's contract expires following this season ... and after his team has floundered to a 5-8 record so far this year -- there's been a whole lot of people in Texas eager to see a new face in the Cowboys' headset.

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But, when we caught up with Aikman on Wednesday ... he told us he doesn't believe Mike's going anywhere.

"My gut tells me, right now, he will be back," the Hall of Famer said. "That's an assumption on my part, but that's kind of what I'm…