Days after undergoing an emergency appendectomy, Dallas Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy is ready to go for the team’s pivotal Week 14 “Sunday Night Football” home game against the Philadelphia Eagles.
Earlier this week, McCarthy needed surgery to have his appendix removed. Despite the health scare and required surgery on Wednesday, McCarthy expects to be on the sidelines for Sunday’s game at AT&T Stadium.
“I’m feeling great,” McCarthy said, per Jon Machota of The Athletic. “I anticipate everything staying normal come Sunday night.”
Machota had reported on Thursday night that McCarthy was at home and expected to return to the team on Friday. That turned out to be exactly the case.
McCarthy and the Cowboys enter Sunday’s game with a 9-3 record. With a victory over the Eagles, the Cowboys would split the season series and be tied for first in the NFC East. A San Francisco 49ers loss to the Seattle Seahawks would have Dallas and Philly in a two-way tie for the conference’s top seed, too.
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The 60-year-old McCarthy is in his fourth season with the Cowboys. After going 6-10 in 2020 (Dak Prescott missed the final 11 games with a gruesome ankle fracture), McCarthy led Dallas to consecutive 12-win seasons in 2021 and 2022.
Though McCarthy has endured plenty of regular season success in Dallas, he’s always going to be measured by how the team does in the postseason. McCarthy is 1-2 as the Cowboys’ head coach in the playoffs, well off the stellar 10-8 record in the postseason as the Green Bay Packers’ HC.
