Jones stays vague on coach’s future
The first chance Cowboys owner Jerry Jones had to clarify Mike Mccarthy’s coaching future in Dallas came Sunday immediately after the firstround playoff loss to the 49ers.
Jones declined.
“I don’t even want to discuss anything like that at this particular time,” Jones said. “... That’s not on the table. The game speaks for itself.”
His second chance came Friday.
In a local radio interview, Jones gave the topic the fourth-and-20 treatment, punting on the opportunity to say whether Mccarthy will be the Cowboys’ coach in 2022.
“I’m not going to get into any conversations that I’ve had with anybody relative to anything to do with the staff,” Jones said. “I understand the interest in it, but there’s nothing compelling me. I’ve got everyone under contract that I want to have under contract. And so that’s where we are.”
Bills exec Schoen to be Giants’ GM
Joe Schoen topped the New York Giants’ list of candidates when they started their search for a new general manager, and the Buffalo Bills assistant GM never left that spot.
The Giants hired the 42-year-old Schoen as their general manager Friday, replacing the retired Dave Gettleman.
Schoen got the nod over San Francisco 49ers assistant general manager Adam Peters and Kansas City executive director of player personnel Ryan
Poles, who also got second interviews.
73 early entrants cleared for draft
The NFL announced that 73 underclassmen have been granted special eligibility for the draft, the fewest in nine years.
All-american linebacker Nakobe Dean was one of four players from national champion Georgia on the list, along with receiver George Pickens, safety Lewis Cine and defensive lineman Travon Walker.
Mississippi’s Matt Corral is one of only two quarterbacks on the list, and a contender to be one of the first quarterbacks selected in the draft scheduled for April 28-30 in Las Vegas.
Alabama, which lost to Georgia in the national title game, also had four underclassmen granted special eligibility for the draft, including All-america receiver Jameson Williams, who tore a ligament in his left knee in the championship game.
Odds and ends
Cowboys defensive end Randy Gregory was scheduled to have surgery on his left knee Friday but should be ready for offseason workouts, ESPN reported. He’s set to become an unrestricted free agent, and Dallas is expected to try to re-sign him . ...
The Cowboys appear to have lost their first assistant of the offseason. No, it’s not Dan Quinn or Kellen Moore (yet). But consultant and former Giants head coach Ben Mcadoo reportedly will be hired by the Panthers as their new offensive coordinator.