Cowboys reportedly hire former Packers head coach Mike McCarthy

Mike McCarthy.
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"America's Team" has a new head coach.

In what appeared to be a very difficult decision for him, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones on Sunday officially informed the team's former head coach Jason Garrett that his contract wouldn't be renewed after the team underachieved in 2019, finishing 8-8 and missing the playoffs. And he found a replacement pretty quickly.

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.