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WATCH: Did Cowboys legend Jimmy Johnson just retire from TV in weird A.I. segment before Super Bowl?

From @ToddBrock24f7: A lengthy computer-generated tribute had viewers wondering if Jimmy Johnson is stepping away from his ‘NFL on Fox’ studio job.

Jimmy Johnson has seen quite a few of his biggest life moments unfold on live television.

The former coach who took over the doormat Cowboys in 1989 and then turned them into one of the most dominant teams in NFL history with back-to-back Super Bowl wins learned he was going to the Pro Football Hall of Fame while on the air at Fox Sports. Then he found out he was finally being put into the Cowboys’ Ring of Honor in the same way.

On Sunday, a lengthy video tribute to Johnson that recapped his entire football life in emotional detail had viewers of Super Bowl LIX’s pregame show thinking another big reveal was coming from the 81-year-old.

So… did Johnson just retire… or not???

The NFL on Fox crew set up the piece as “a one-of-a-kind look back” at Johnson’s legendary career, using artificial intelligence. Then, using computer-generated effects, a CGI Johnson strode onto the field at a virtual AT&T Stadium.

With Johnson’s digitally-altered voice providing the narration, the next four and a half minutes took viewers back in time to Johnson’s days as an defensive lineman at Arkansas in 1964. A young-looking Johnson avatar told his own story of his college days, including his friendship with teammate Jerry Jones and the national championship their team won.

A tour through his college coaching stops followed, foreshadowing his later pairing with Terry Bradshaw (then a Johnson recruit at Louisiana Tech) and recalling the famous “Hail Flutie” play that shocked the world while Johnson was on staff at Miami.

His AI self sporting a touch of grey in his perfectly-coifed hair (not to mention that sweet Apex jacket, for those that remember), Johnson next walked viewers through the dramatic turnaround he engineered as Cowboys head coach in the early 1990s.

His Dolphins stint earned a mention, but the piece ended with the real Johnson in footage that looked to be shot at the real AT&T Stadium, being welcomed back to the set by his real deskmates. After a quick moment between the modern-day Johnson and his 21-year-old self, it was back to the live Super Bowl set in New Orleans, where an emotional Johnson was in tears.

What followed was strange, to say the least, The coach, in a shaky voice, went on to thank a long list of people for his career in the game, including his family and the players and coaches he’s worked with along the way.

Johnson’s co-hosts were gathered around the set and took turns practically eulogizing the legendary coach and waxing very poetic about his life, his character, and how much they all loved him.

It sounded for all the world like a big farewell was coming. Curt Menefee even asked after all the gushing, “Was that goodbye?”

“One day at a time, Curt. One day at a time,” was Johnson’s reply.

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Social media was divided about what they had just seen.

Johnson has recently hinted at hanging up his microphone. He told Awful Announcing just this week, “I used to say ‘One more year,’ and then it got to be, ‘Well, I don’t know,’ and now it’s ‘One more day at a time.’ I never know. I’ll just see how I feel here going into next year.”

So was it just high-tech filler for the pregame show or was it a retirement announcement?

No one seems to know. Maybe not even Johnson.

Whether you found Johnson’s AI video tribute incredibly moving and heartfelt or incredibly creepy and weird, nearly everybody found the whole thing at least a little confusing.

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Emmitt Smith: Cowboys shouldn’t draft RB Ashton Jeanty for one key reason

From @ToddBrock24f7: The all-time rushing king thinks his former team is currently too focused on building a brand instead of a championship football team.

The NFL’s all-time rushing king has seen some impressive ballcarriers come and go since he last wore the star in 2002.

And while the Hall of Famer has never been shy about calling for his former team to get back to establishing a smashmouth run game like the one that got him over 17,000 yards in Dallas, Smith doesn’t believe the Cowboys should be too quick to select Boise State phenom Ashton Jeanty with their first-round pick in the upcoming draft.

It’s a surprising stance from one of the greatest running backs the sport has ever seen. But his reason for saying so is even more of an eye-opener.

In New Orleans ahead of Super Bowl LIX, Smith sat down with the crew from All DLLS. Talk naturally turned to the Cowboys’ current need to find a rushing attack after a season in which they placed at or near the bottom of the league in total rushing yardage, yards per carry, and rushing touchdowns.

The most popular fix in the mock draft world is Jeanty, who logged an incredible 2,601 yards in 2024 (just 27 yards shy of the collegiate single-season record) and scored 29 touchdowns on the ground (almost five times what the entire Cowboys ground attack tallied in three more games).

But when asked if the Cowboys should select Jeanty with the 12th overall pick, Smith was blunt.

“I don’t think so.”

It’s not, Smith went on to explain, because he doesn’t think the Frisco native is a talented young star in the making.

In fact, that’s exactly why Smith says he hopes this current iteration of the Dallas organization steers clear.

“I don’t think the Cowboys clearly understand what they really want,” the three-time Super Bowl winner said. “They’re after excitement and thrills and stuff, and they don’t have a plan. First of all, they don’t even have a plan, truly, for Dak Prescott, let alone CeeDee Lamb. Where’s the plan? The plan they have right now has not made sense over the last couple years, so all of a sudden you’re going to wake up and come up with a plan for a new kid?”

Smith- and other former Cowboys players- have been increasingly vocal about the Cowboys’ apparent lack of direction in recent years: playing games with superstars’ contracts, refusing to spend on high-quality free agents, and paying nothing more than lip service to the idea of assembling a roster designed to contend for championships on a regular basis.

Adding another playmaker to an offense that is already fumbling about with Prescott and Lamb in the huddle is not the answer, according to Smith.

“Plan for what you already have and allow things to fit that plan and be committed to that plan,” Smith said, “and I think that’s been the problem.”

He pointed to the Cowboys team that drafted him 17th overall in 1990. With head coach Jimmy Johnson firmly in control of all football operations, the team improved from 1-15 the year before Smith’s arrival to 7-9 in his rookie season to a playoff berth the following year and a Super Bowl win the next. (And then two more over the next three years.)

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Cowboys fans can guess what “problem” Smith is really alluding to: the team’s ownership. For too many years, owner Jerry Jones has treated the football team as just one product line offered by the larger $10 billion brand of the Dallas Cowboys. Victories on the field are great, and titles would boost the bottom line. But win or lose, there are headlines to make and jerseys to sell and season tickets to hawk and corporate sponsorships to negotiate and a stadium to fill with high-priced events the other 355 days a year.

The Cowboys brand can succeed- and is clearly doing so- even if the team is losing. Smith clearly believes too much effort is being placed on the former… and not nearly enough is being done to address the latter.

And not even the addition of Jeanty would be enough. At least not all by itself.

“There’s been a commitment to excellence on the brand side, but on the operations, when it comes down to the football side, there’s no commitment to who we are and the brand that was built,” Smith offered. “And the brand that was built was balance: Troy, Michael, myself. That’s why you call us the Triplets. You cannot have one without the other; you’ve got to have it all. You’ve got to have a ground attack as well as an air attack.

“Now, Ashton Jeanty could be good for us under the right plan and under the right commitment and under the right vision. Right now, I think these things are bifurcated, and that’s why you’re getting all this disjointedness throughout the last 25, 30 years.”

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Cowboys’ Darren Woodson waits for Canton call; ‘probably deserves to be in’

From @ToddBrock24f7: Woodson has been a semifinalist 9 times and a finalist the last 3 years, but recent rule changes have made the Hall even more exclusive.

Darren Woodson will learn in just a few hours if he will be a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s Class of 2025.

But for the legendary Cowboys safety, the wait for Canton has really been going on for years.

Woodson, now 55, is a nine-time semifinalist. This year marks his third straight as a finalist.

And while the franchise’s all-time leading tackler, three-time Super Bowl champ, five-time Pro Bowler, and three-time first-team All-Pro has been in the Cowboys’ Ring of Honor since 2015, getting a gold jacket is proving to be a much tougher quest.

“I just feel like my body of work probably deserves to be in,” Woodson said, per Calvin Watkins of the Dallas Morning News. “It’s not up to me. It’s up to the writers if I should be in or if I shouldn’t be in.”

Woodson is up against some very prominent names this time around: Eli Manning, Adam Vinatieri, Antonio Gates, Steve Smith, Reggie Wayne, and Torry Holt, to name just a few. And the 49-person selection committee can pick no more than five of the 15 modern-era nominees.

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The Hall has always been meant to honor the best of the best, but rule changes adopted this past August have made enshrinement even more exclusive than the eight previous times Woodson’s name has been in the mix.

If chosen, Woodson will become the 33rd Cowboys player to have a bust in Canton. Only the Bears (39) and Packers (34) have more; the Giants, Steelers, and Commanders are currently tied with Dallas at 32 members each. Cowboys greats DeMarcus Ware and Chuck Howley were inducted last year as part of the Class of 2024.

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Cowboys add 4th former Bears assistant to defensive coaching staff under Eberflus

From @ToddBrock24f7: Bryan Bing was the Bears’ assistant DL coach last year in Chicago. He’ll reunite with Matt Eberflus in the same role in Dallas in 2025.

The Cowboys defense in 2025 could have a decidedly Chicago feel to it, at least based on the most recent hires to the coaching staff on that side of the ball.

Whether or not that’s a good thing may depend on what stats are being considered.

The Cowboys on Wednesday named Bryan Bing the team’s new assistant defensive line coach, according to a report from ESPN’s Todd Archer. Bing most recently served in the same capacity for the Bears last season, which was his first in that role under then-head coach Matt Eberflus.

Since being named defensive coordinator in Dallas, Eberflus has brought several of his Bears defensive staffers with him, with Bing being the fourth so far.

Andre Curtis (passing game coordinator), Dave Borgonzi (linebackers coach), and David Overstreet (assistant defensive backs coach) have all rejoined Eberflus since he was named the DC in Dallas on Jan. 28.

With Bing and those assistants, Chicago’s defense allowed 370 points in 2024. That was good for a 13th-place ranking leaguewide and was, notably, nearly 100 points better than the Cowboys.

Yardage-wise, though, the Bears gave up the sixth-most over the course of the season, ending one spot- and just 17 yards- better than Dallas. The Bears were tied for second-worst in yards allowed per play, with 5.9.

And when it comes specifically to run defense, where Bing focused his efforts along the defensive line, Chicago finished neck-and-neck with the Cowboys, logging almost identical numbers near the bottom of the NFL in both total rushing yards allowed and rushing yards allowed per carry.

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The Bears gave up “only” 20 rushing touchdowns in 2024 (tied for seventh-worst), as compared to the league-worst 25 allowed by the Cowboys. And while the Cowboys’ red-zone defense was the league’s most porous, allowing a touchdown 75% of the time, Chicago’s was second-best with a conversion rate from opponents of just 46%.

Dallas did end the season with more sacks and a better pressure rate than Chicago.

Prior to last season with the Bears, Bing spent the 2023 season on a coaching fellowship in Indianapolis. That came after a seven-year college coaching career that took him to five different schools and culminated in two seasons as the D-line coach at Wofford.

Dallas’s assistant DL coach spot was filled last year by former Cowboys player Greg Ellis, Sharrif Floyd in 2023, and franchise legend Leon Lett for three seasons prior to that.

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Report: Cowboys to hire RB coach with ties to Alvin Kamara, Austin Ekeler

From @ToddBrock24f7: Derrick Foster served as RB coach in New Orleans for 2024 and was with the Chargers for Austin Ekeler’s three most productive seasons.

The Cowboys have made up their minds on a key member of Brian Schottenheimer’s coaching staff.

The team will hire Derrick Foster to be their running backs coach, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram‘s Nick Harris, who cited multiple sources in a Monday midday post to X.

Foster, 38, will come to Dallas from New Orleans, where he served as RB coach this past season and helped guide Alvin Kamara to 950 rushing yards in 14 games and a yards-per-game average (67.9) that was 12th-best in the league for 2024.

He was in same position for the Chargers prior to that and was instrumental in helping Austin Ekeler deliver the three highest season yardage totals of his NFL career.

Foster had interviewed with the Cowboys last week, as had former Dallas running back Tashard Choice, currently the position coach at Texas. Oregon running backs coach and Metroplex product Ra’Shaad Samples was also reportedly on the candidate list.

Both Choice and Samples were highly regarded, though there was speculation that either would have had to take a significant pay cut to leave their premier Power Five programs to work for Jerry Jones, who has a reputation for giving budget-conscious contracts to his coaches.

Like those individuals, Foster also has extensive college experience, dating back to 2011 with stints on staff at Valdosta State, Tennessee, Northwestern State, Samford, and three seasons at Iowa before making the jump to the NFL in 2021. His role at nearly all of those stops focused on running backs.

The Cowboys will look to turn around their ground game in 2025 after a season in which they ranked 27th leaguewide in rushing yards, were third-worst in yards per carry, and had the fewest number of rushing touchdowns of any team in the NFL.

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Rico Dowdle finished the season ranked 12th in rushing yards with 1,079. He didn’t see consistent usage as the Cowboys’ lead ballcarrier until late November, though, as the team insisted on forcing a committee approach with Ezekiel Elliott for the first half of the season.

Elliott was released prior to Week 18, and Dowdle is now set to enter free agency this offseason. The Cowboys are widely expected to address the running back position in either the draft or free agency, or both.

And it will fall largely on Derrick Foster to restore the once-great Cowboys ground attack into a source of strength for the team in Schottenheimer’s first season.

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WATCH: Cowboys return ace KaVontae Turpin dominates Pro Bowl… on defense?!?

From @ToddBrock24f7: The only player to notch both a punt return TD and a kick return TD this year also tallied two sacks while playing defense in the Pro Bowl.

Speed kills in the NFL. Even more so in flag football.

So it’s perhaps no surprise that Cowboys return specialist KaVontae Turpin, easily one of the fastest men in the league, stood out even among the sport’s all-stars in the flag football finale of the 2025 Pro Bowl Games in Orlando.

But Turpin being the NFC’s most impactful defensive player? That wasn’t on anyone’s bingo card.

The third-year pro had an outstanding season, despite the Cowboys’ thoroughly underwhelming 7-10 record. Of all kick returners leaguewide who had more than 12 chances, Turpin’s 33.6-yard average was tops, and his 10.9-yard punt return average was seventh-highest among those with double-digit tries. Most notably, he was the only player in the NFL to return both a punt and a kickoff for a touchdown in 2024, with his 99-yard spin-move house call versus Washington serving as one of the most electrifying moments of the entire 272-game schedule.

Special teams is what put him into his second Pro Bowl, one of five Cowboys honored with a berth this year. But Cowboys fans saw Turpin take a leap in his pass-catching prowess, too. After being used only sparingly in the passing attack over his first two seasons, the 28-year-old was Dallas’s fourth-most-targeted wide receiver, earning his first two starts at WR and finishing the 2024 campaign with 31 catches for 420 yards (all far and away career-highs) while playing on nearly 27% of the offense’s snaps.

But it was Turpin’s pass-rush skills that caught everyone’s attention on Sunday. Sent on with the defense by NFC coach Eli Manning, Turpin used his otherworldly quickness to catch Joe Burrow well behind the line of scrimmage for one sack on a two-point conversion attempt…

…And then pinned Russell Wilson for a nine-yard loss later in the game.

All told, Turpin ended the exhibition with five tackles, including a touchdown-saving stop when he chased down Brian Thomas Jr. from behind and pulled his flag at the 1-yard-line.

It was a dominant effort playing a completely foreign position, enough so that Turpin himself thought he’d be coming home with some hardware.

“I feel like on defense on the blitz I got the quarterbacks rattled and had them throwing fast balls,” Turpin said per the Orlando Sentinel. “I was supposed to win MVP. I don’t know why they didn’t give it to me. But it’s all fun and games and I feel like everybody had fun and it was all worth it.”

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(Jared Goff and Byron Murphy ended up taking home the MVP trophies after the NFC’s 76-63 win.)

Turpin’s performance, though, may have some legitimately wondering if he’ll be deserving of a spot on the Team USA roster when flag football makes its debut at the 2028 Olympic Games. At the very least, maybe new Cowboys defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus would want to consider designing a few special packages that use Turpin in 2026.

Of course, Turpin may find a bit more pass-rush resistance when the opposing team is allowed to deploy actual offensive linemen.

But for one day in Orlando, at least, Turpin was a one-man wrecking crew… on defense.

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2nd interview scheduled for Cowboys OC frontrunner as new candidate emerges

From @ToddBrock24f7: Scottie Montgomery has led Detroit’s RBs to excellent numbers. He’ll interview for the OC job, but Klayton Adams is on his follow-up chat.

The Cowboys appear to be closing in on their next offensive coordinator, but names of candidates are still being added to the mix.

Reports indicate that Arizona offensive line coach Klayton Adams is interviewing in-person at The Star on Friday. It’s the second interview for the 41-year-old, following a previous virtual conversation with the front office.

Though he has not yet been in an OC role, Adams is considered an up-and-comer within coaching circles and is thought by many to be the strong frontrunner for the job in Dallas, where newly-named head coach Brian Schottenheimer will call his own plays during games.

But a member of Dan Campbell’s staff in Detroit is also getting a look from the Cowboys, per reports. According to ESPN’s Todd Archer, the team also interviewed Lions running backs coach and assistant head coach Scottie Montgomery for the position.

Montgomery, 46, worked as the Colts’ running backs coach in 2021 and 2022 after a long stint in the college ranks in various roles, including OC duties at both Maryland and Duke and three years as head coach at East Carolina.

While his name may not be one that most Cowboys fans are immediately familiar with, his former coordinator in Detroit has no doubt he’s ready for the next step in his NFL coaching journey.

“He’s got a unique perspective because he’s been in that head chair at the college level, and you feel that when you’re in the meeting room,” Ben Johnson said just last month of Montgomery, per The Detroit News. “He understands how lonely it can be at the top at times.”

Johnson now finds himself at the top in Chicago, and he believes Montgomery is on the same track.

“He’s certainly ready to call plays,” Johnson added. “He’s done that in the past. Whenever he gets that opportunity, he’ll do that. And I think he’s going to be a heck of a great head coach one day when he gets that chance.”

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Under Montgomery’s tutelage, the Lions finished the 2024 season ranked sixth in the league in rushing yards and yards per carry and were tied for the second-most rushing touchdowns. The previous year, Detroit ranked fifth in the same yardage categories and were tied for league lead in ground scores.

Falcons tight ends coach Kevin Koger has also sat down with the Cowboys about their offensive coordinator vacancy. Additionally, former Browns and Bills OC Ken Dorsey was supposedly drawing interest from the Dallas front office, but no interview with him has been made public.

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Cowboys sign TE coach Lunda Wells to contract extension

From @ToddBrock24f7: The popular TE coach has been with the Cowboys for 5 years but had received interest from the Bears recently.

The Cowboys have had to fend off suitors for Lunda Wells in recent offseasons, blocking an interview request as recently as last February after Dan Quinn expressed interest in bringing the well-respected tight ends coach to Washington.

Now he’s officially off the market for this hiring cycle, too. Wells will stay in Dallas for Brian Schottenheimer’s first year as head coach, according to the 41-year-old himself via a report from Patrik Walker of the team website.

Wells and the team have agreed on a contract extension that will keep him on staff, maintaining some continuity on the offensive side of the ball as Schottenheimer, the former offensive coordinator, continues to build his staff.

It was not immediately specified if Wells will return to the Cowboys as tight ends coach or perhaps, as some have proposed, in another capacity.

Wells had reportedly gotten some interest from the Bears and new head coach Ben Johnson; he visited with Chicago earlier in the week.

Wells was an assistant O-line coach with the Giants for several years before taking over their tight end room for the 2018 and 2019 seasons. He joined the Cowboys staff as tight ends coach in 2020, where he has overseen the development of Blake Jarwin, Dalton Schultz, and Jake Ferguson, who was named to the Pro Bowl in 2023.

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The Louisiana native has also been instrumental in the progress shown by 2023 second-round draft pick Luke Schoonmaker. As a rookie, Schoonmaker put up very meager stats over his first 17 games as a pro. In his second season, the Michigan man more than doubled his targets, more than tripled his catches, and saw a 270% increase in receiving yards.

This contract extension for Wells will bring him back to Dallas for a sixth season with the Cowboys.

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Report: Cowboys ‘are considering’ controversial twice-fired candidate for OC role

From @ToddBrock24f7: Ken Dorsey lasted 1 year in Cleveland after almost 5 in Buffalo. No interview is scheduled yet, but the Cowboys reportedly have interest.

The Cowboys caused quite a stir when they announced the hiring of Brian Schottenheimer as the 10th head coach in the franchise’s history. Since then, though, their initial assembly of a coaching staff to serve under the first-time head coach has drawn widespread praise and even optimism within Cowboys Nation.

The latest name to surface in the offensive coordinator search, however, is not being received quite so well.

The Cowboys are considering former Browns OC Ken Dorsey to serve the same role in Dallas, according to a report Thursday from ESPN insider Jeremy Fowler. While an interview has yet to be scheduled at the time of this writing, the two sides are said to be discussing the logistics of a meeting.

Dorsey, 43, was fired in Cleveland after one season in which the Browns went 3-14 and averaged a league-worst 15.2 points per game. The offense also finished in the bottom five in yards per game, yards per play, plays per drive, time of possession, third-down conversions, and red zone TD percentage.

Those numbers represented a significant dropoff from the previous season, when the team ended 11-6 and made the playoffs under OC Alex Van Pelt.

Prior to Cleveland, Dorsey had been with the Bills for five seasons, working his way up from quarterbacks coach to passing game coordinator to offensive coordinator for his last two years in Buffalo. Though Josh Allen and the Bills won AFC East titles in both of those seasons, Dorsey was not there for all of it; he was fired 10 games into the 2023 campaign due to offensive struggles.

The California native went memorably viral early in the 2022 season for a meltdown in the coach’s box during a last-second loss to the Dolphins.

Dorsey’s first NFL coaching job was as Carolina’s QB coach from 2013 to 2017.

Apart from his booth tantrum while with Buffalo, Dorsey is likely best remembered as the winningest quarterback in Miami Hurricanes history, a national champion with the 2001 squad, a two-time Quarterback of the Year, and holder of most of the school’s passing records.

A seventh-round draft pick by the 49ers in 2003, his pro career was far less stellar. He played in 11 games over two seasons in San Francisco and then made just five more appearances with the Browns, compiling a 2-11 record in 13 NFL starts. He threw for just over 2,000 yards total and amassed eight touchdowns and 18 interceptions before moving to the CFL as a backup for one last season in 2010.

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The Cowboys’ apparent interest in an offensive coordinator who has been fired from that position in each of the last two seasons is curious to many, especially since he would be the right-hand man in Dallas to a head coach in Schottenheimer who is brand-new to that role and will reportedly be calling his own plays on gameday.

Dallas has reportedly already interviewed Falcons tight end coach Kevin Koger and Cardinals offensive line coach Klayton Adams for their OC opening. Adams, in particular, has been viewed as a strong candidate who is on track toward an OC slot somewhere sooner or later.

Of course, even if the Cowboys do interview Dorsey for the current offensive coordinator vacancy, he could also be considered for another function on Schottenheimer’s staff.

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Cowboys extend contract of most important front office member of last decade

From @ToddBrock24f7: The man who has drafted 15 Pro Bowlers to Dallas in the past 10 years will remain with the Cowboys for the foreseeable future.

The man that most believe to be the most critically important contributor to any success the Cowboys organization has on the field is staying put, despite a vast sea of current offseason changes all around him.

Will McClay, the team’s vice president of player personnel, has signed a multiyear extension to remain with the Cowboys, according to ESPN’s Todd Archer.

The 58-year-old has been with the Cowboys since 2002, first as a pro scout, and he’s served in his current role since 2017. He signed his most recent contract in 2022, but that deal expired earlier in January along with the deals of the rest of the Cowboys coaching staff.

McClay has been considered a potential general manager candidate for other clubs in the past. The Commanders, Panthers, and Chargers all requested permission from the Cowboys to interview him for their open GM positions just last year before McClay announced he “didn’t want to waste anybody’s time” and wouldn’t be fielding offers to leave Dallas.

The Tennessee native’s son was also entering his senior year of high school, and McClay made it clear that helped influence his decision to stay in Dallas for the final year of his contract. With his son now set to graduate in the spring, the Cowboys staff undergoing massive turnover, and the Jerry/Stephen Jones power structure in Dallas firmly locked in place, some wondered if the writing was on the wall for McClay to finally take an official GM job somewhere else.

But McClay has been evaluating college prospects this week at the Reese’s Senior Bowl, perhaps a sign that coming to terms on a new contract was simply a formality for both sides.

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Before leaving for Mobile, however, McClay was included in the front office’s head coaching search and helped the Cowboys finally land on hiring Brian Schottenheimer.

“I think the greatest part is being aligned from the top down,” McClay said of giving the longtime offensive coordinator his first head coaching job. “That’s one of the commitments we all made sitting in there about what we’re going to do and how we’re going to do it. He’s got a plan, he’s got a vision. We’re going to support that. We’re going to add good players. I have a great feeling about what Schotty and what he’s looking for.”

McClay certainly has a proven track record of identifying talented players for the Cowboys. He has found 15 Pro Bowlers and six All-Pros through the draft since taking over the club’s scouting efforts in 2014.

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