Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz, senior NFL reporter Charles Robinson, and senior NFL writer Frank Schwab discuss whether hiring Deion Sanders as head coach would be a wise decision for the Cowboys and if not, what kind of coach Dallas should be looking for if they move on from Mike McCarthy. Hear the full conversation on “Inside Coverage” - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

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Could the cowboys hire Dion?

I don't put anything past Jerry Jones at this stage.

Honestly, if he's going to sit there and continue to walk out and talk to reporters about 30 years ago when this guy did that and 30 years ago when this guy did, you know this other thing or Michael Irvin was crying or, you know, this memory that's caked in to make some kind of connection to 2024.

I absolutely can't look at that man and say there's no way he will look at Deion Sanders and go.

Uh, no, I can't have that guy as my head coach and, and by the way, let's be real about Deion Sanders.

He's done a good job at Colorado, right?

I mean, they're seven and two, they've got a chance to, to fight their way into the college football playoff.

Um, there's, there's zero question in my mind that at least what he's been able to do on the college level works.

But I would remind people it doesn't work the same way in the NFL on the NFL level.

You're gonna criticize a hell of a lot more than you do every day.

Far more, far more and there's gonna be questions constantly, especially if you're struggling.

Well, how long is Jerry?

Is Jerry gonna do?

Like, is he gonna fire Dion?

Like when do they move out to Dion?

And every opening press conference every year is gonna be about?

Well, ok, you didn't get to the Super Bowl.

So what's the deal?

What like what's the mandate?

How, what's the timeline?

It just everything about it to me screams AAA major catastrophe.

Dion is very interesting.

He's very charismatic.

He has turned look as everybody knows, I'm based in Colorado and from when I moved here in 2003 to a couple of years ago, I honestly never had any decent conversation about Colorado football, which is weird how anonymous they were in this market because they won a national championship in 1990.

Like th this was a, a A T program for a while.

Nobody cared any iota about Colorado football.

Then Dion showed up and that's all anybody wants to talk about.

He has completely transformed that program for just interest stand point from how good they are.

But I don't think his act plays in the NFL.

The Cowboys are all about ego.

They're, they're literally every day.

Their primary owner wakes up the, the, the one man who's the general manager and the, and the head coach of that team for decades, wakes up.

It's all about ego.

Can I ask you a question because this, this does interest me.

We talk about the dance stuff and that whatever.

But what type of coach do the Cowboys get or should they get?

Is it like some offensive guru who could turn that side around?

Is it a disciplinarian?

Is it a defensive guy?

Is it a, a sec, a guy who's on his second time around?

A young guy?

Like what profile can at cowboys coach can fix the Cowboys going forward.

It's a motivator and a tactician.

I think you want a motivator in, uh, personally, I think in the top spot is where I would want my motivator and at the offensive coordinator spot is where I'd want my tactician.

You hire that tactician, he's going to be tied to D A for the next however many years they're together, you know, he can game plan, you know, he's ahead of the curve right now.

When it comes to offenses in the league, there's a slot there for the Dallas Cowboys, particularly if they can get an innovator at the head coach position.

There's a defensive coordinator slot there that should be attractive to some coaches out there who have the ability to use it as a springboard pretty quickly.

And, and if rel is not going to get another job, a head coaching job, which we'll see if they can get the, the, the right head coach to pair with Dak at the top.

I hate, it's just totally scooping dirt.

I'm Mike mccarthy here.

Um, I think that's the t, yeah, I know all of a sudden right there.

That's the first Mike mccarthy reference in all of this.

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