UPDATE (12:45p): Mike McCarthy visited with the media on Friday afternoon and confirmed that he will coach on Sunday.
"Feeling great. ... I anticipate everything staying normal, come Sunday night," McCarthy said via Patrik Walker of DallasCowboys.com.
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Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy returned to the team's headquarters at The Star in Frisco on Friday morning less than two days after undergoing surgery for acute appendicitis.
The Cowboys have said this week that the plan is for McCarthy to be recovered in time to still coach in Sunday's monumental game against the Philadelphia Eagles, and Cowboys owner and GM Jerry Jones confirmed Friday morning that he expects McCarthy to be on the sideline on Sunday.
"There's no change in anything he's gonna be doing (Sunday night). We'll be business as usual from a coaching standpoint," Jones said when he joined the K&C Masterpiece on Friday morning on 105.3 The Fan.
Cowboys defensive coordinator Dan Quinn, special teams coordinator John Fassel, and offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer have been running the team's practices while McCarthy has been away from the team.
Quinn filled in for McCarthy at his previously scheduled press conference on Wednesday morning at The Star and said that the team "fully anticipates" McCarthy coaching on Sunday.
“You think that tough Irishman is gonna miss this game? We certainly expect him to be rocking by gameday," Quinn said.
