Dallas Cowboys fans aren’t sure why the team isn’t letting go of Mike McCarthy. After the Cowboys’ final game of the season, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was non-committal to firing McCarthy despite not making the playoffs this season.

“I’ll follow the kind of the timeframe that I’ve done in the past” said Jones to reporters. “So the way that it’s evolved in the past will be a timeframe, and I can tell you the past is not necessarily consistent in terms of a timeframe. … At the risk of talking about something that I don’t want to talk about at this time, but we’ve got a lot of work to do, but certainly we’re all looking for ways to get better.

“… That’s what the next few days and weeks or about now, founded on everything that’s happened this year and everything that’s happened over the last four years, for they’re not really much different than any time that we’ve had a year that is over.

I’ve had coaches under contract that I thought we might consider a change and they were thinking maybe a change under contract. So this business of under or out of contract is not an influencer with me at all.”

On Tuesday night, ESPN’s Adam Schefter released a bombshell report revealing that the Chicago Bears had inquired about interviewing McCarthy but were blocked by the Cowboys.