BREAKING: Will McClay Says No To Job Interviews, Stays with Jerry Jones' Cowboys; Here's Why

Dallas BREAKING: Will McClay Says No To NFL Job Interviews, Stays with Jerry Jones' Cowboys; Here's Why

FRISCO - Consider it another bogus national-media rumor shot down by reality: Dallas Cowboys personnel boss Will McClay is not leaving "America's Team'' for another job.

In fact, he's not even leaving for a visit with other NFL teams like the Commanders and Chargers who'd requested interviews.

“He is very happy with being here,” a source tells DFW-based beat writer Todd Archer, who writes that McClay "will not he will not interview with other teams. that McClay  Washington and the Los Angeles Chargers had sought permission to meet with McClay. 

“He is very happy with being here,” the source said.

CowboysSI.com can now confirm all of that ... and more.

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All of this fits with CowboysSI.com's reporting on the subject of both McClay's history with Dallas and staff changes in general. The Cowboys are prepared to lose defensive coordinator Dan Quinn. But there has never been real concern - despite his qualities - about McClay leaving.

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And why not? Didn't ESPN national write something contrary to that?

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They did indeed. And we wrote how wrong they were, how sloppy they were, in using "loose sources'' that we don't believe actually exist.

In what is now a tradition in Dallas of more than a half-decade, other NFL teams absolutely investigated the idea of luring McClay away from the warm and familial embrace of the Jones family by offering him a GM title.

And maybe, one of these days, McClay will change his tune and he will listen - especially after his teenage son Gabe finishes high school in DFW. (He'll be a senior next year ... at which time the Cowboys Nation worrying about Will's future here can again commence.) But what ESPN national either doesn't know or neglects to report: In addition to the non-issue of salary (McClay is already paid "like a GM'' and staff budget, a concern for some franchises, is not a concern here), the lure of a "title'' in another city would have a difficult time being more powerful than McClay's connection here.

We've had this conversation with McClay often. While outsiders are bothered by it, he's not troubled by the fact that team owner Jerry Jones holds the GM title here.

McClay has GM-like authority and an GM-like salary; if he doesn't care whether it says "GM'' on his business card, why do fans and the media care?

ESPN national keeps doing the "Some people think'' style of reporting. And now they have egg on their face because they forgot to factor in what Will McClay thinks. And Will McClay thinks he's got a heck of a deal in helping to run - with a fine salary and grand authority - the Dallas Cowboys.