Many felt like it was high time for the Dallas Cowboys to make a coaching change after yet another failure in the playoffs in 2024, with Mike McCarthy and his men falling flat against the Green Bay Packers in the NFL Wild Card Round, 48-32. For a team that pundits pegged as the one that had the best defense, allowing quarterback Jordan Love to carve up the defense may require some wholesale changes on the coaching front to get the best out of a talented roster when the games matter the most.

Alas, the Cowboys have decided to bring McCarthy back despite yet another disappointing playoff showing. McCarthy may have helmed the Cowboys' turnaround since 2021, but even for good teams, it sometimes takes a coaching change to take a team from good to great.

But here the Cowboys are, content to run it back — eliciting quite a spiritedly negative response from notorious pundit Skip Bayless.

“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!” Bayless wrote on his official Twitter (X) account.

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Now that is quite the response to the Cowboys' decision to retain Mike McCarthy. Skip Bayless is famously a fan of the Cowboys, so that reaction of his merely mirrors the way fans of the team have grown frustrated over the years when it comes to McCarthy's brand of leadership and how it translates to playoff performance.

Bayless even went as far as to say that the Cowboys' loss to the Packers was his “lowest moment” as a fan of the team “x1000”. After all, on paper, the Dak Prescott-led team looked like the deeper, more stacked team. But games aren't won on paper, but rather, on the field, and the Cowboys have fallen short in three straight years, failing to make it past the Divisional Round.

At the end of the day, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones continues to have faith in Mike McCarthy's suitability to helm the team and lead it to its first Super Bowl since 1995. Jones said that the team is “very close” and is “capable of achieving” their ultimate goal, which is to be the last team standing. Only time will tell if this faith of his works out, but for Skip Bayless and the rest of the fanbase, their patience is wearing thin.