The Dallas Cowboys are at a crossroads. As their 3-6 season spirals ever downward, team owner Jerry Jones faces a huge decision at season’s end: identifying the next coach of the Cowboys.

While Mike McCarthy remains in the job (as he has since 2020), other candidates such as Bill Belichick and Deion Sanders have emerged in recent days. Sanders, a former star player in Dallas, has led the Colorado Buffaloes to a successful season in 2024 — and not everyone believes Coach Prime when he says he wants to remain in the college ranks, especially when the Dallas job is within touching distance.

McCarthy’s house is reportedly up for sale

In apparent knowledge of his fate as the Cowboys’ coach, McCarthy has reportedly decided to sell his $5.7 million mansion located in the Dallas area. Assuming it is true that McCarthy is selling his home — situated in nearby Allen, Texas — then the beleaguered coach is surely preparing for his next NFL job, wherever that may be.

When the Cowboys hired McCarthy in January 2020, the message and the goal were clear: to compete for Super Bowl titles and return the Cowboys to glory. But despite three successive 12-5 seasons between 2021 and 2023, Dallas never made it past the divisional round of the playoffs — as has been the case for the Cowboys every year since their last Super Bowl win in 1995.

The bottom has completely fallen out for McCarthy and the Cowboys in 2024. Injuries to star players Dak Prescott and Micah Parsons have seen results take a sharp decline; Dallas has had one of the NFL’s worst defenses all season, and the Prescott-less offense will likely have trouble putting up points on the board for the remainder of the season.

That all leaves McCarthy in the firing line, with eight games still to go in what has already been a long, long season for “America’s Team“.