Stephen A. Smith emphatically calls for Mike McCarthy's firing from the Dallas Cowboys

The Dallas Cowboys‘ 48-32 loss to the Green Bay Packers on Sunday night caused a near-total loss of faith in head coach Mike McCarthy. Although team owner and general manager Jerry Jones has not made the call yet to move on from the fourth-year skipper, there are plenty of prominent sports figures calling for the end of the McCarthy tenure.

On First Take, Stephen A. Smith made his case for why Jones needs to look seriously at firing the head coach with a 1-3 record in the playoffs.

“He has to go. He has to go, and I’m going to tell you why,” Smith said. “It’s not just about the 12 wins in the regular season and then you wet the bed in the postseason, it’s about the fact that Jerry Jones is 81 years of age. When you look at the personnel on the Dallas Cowboys, we expect better come postseason time. It’s about the mandate, you took the job knowing what the mandate was and you failed to live up to it.”

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— Stephen A Smith (@stephenasmith) January 15, 2024

The Cowboys looked ill-prepared and were out-played against the Packers who barely scraped by to make it into the playoffs. Dallas’s loss was the first loss to a No. 7-seed in NFL playoff history.

Smith would also like to see Dak Prescott leave the organization. However, the QB’s contract makes that extremely painful for Dallas to accomplish. He has a no-trade clause and a cap hit of $59.4 million next year. Defensive coordinator Dan Quinn is on the chopping block as well, even as he was taking in interview requests for head coaching jobs last week.

Michael Irvin also calls for new leadership for Cowboys

Cowboys legend Michael Irvin is sick and tired of watching one embarrassing playoff exit after another under the current Dallas regime. He knows the owner isn’t going anywhere, so the Hall of Fame wideout is calling for a massive coaching overhaul.

“This kind of a loss and this kind of a stench in this place can’t stay around,” Irvin declared to start his Cowboys rant on Fox Sports’ Undisputed Monday morning following the Packers loss. “You can’t sell hope to the fanbase next year with this intact as is. It’s just going to be impossible.”

Despite immense success in the regular season of late and having actually made the playoffs in years were many teams would just love to get in, the lack of success in the postseason demands a change in Irvin’s eyes.

“I know they had three 12-win seasons, but you lose two of those three playoff games in the wildcard round and one in the division round. It’s not just that you lost those games, but it’s also when you look back at how you lost those games. They were disasters, all of them.”

Michael Irvin is fed up with these infuriating playoff losses under McCarthy and believes it’s time to move on. It’s about as much as the team can do since the core players, including Dak Prescott, likely aren’t going anywhere.

On3’s Alex Weber contributed to this report.