Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones admitted Dallas' play is 'in nan crapper' aft Sunday's 47-9 location loss to nan Detroit Lions. What he won't concede – astatine slightest not publically – is that he's considering a coaching change.
'Do you deliberation I'm an idiot?' Jones asked section Fox connection sports anchor Jeff Kolb. 'Do you?'
Jones, who turned 82 connected Sunday, was hardly defending caput coach Mike McCarthy amid a disappointing 3-3 start. In 1 activity he denied McCarthy's occupation is successful jeopardy ('I'm not considering that, truthful you're clear'), but successful nan next, Jones admitted he wouldn't show nan media if it were.
'Well, I'm not gonna hypothetical pinch you astir what I see coaching alteration successful ray of nan timing we're sitting present with, I'm not astatine all,' nan surly Jones told Kolb.
Jones has fired a coach during nan play only erstwhile since famously replacing nan legendary Tom Landry pinch Jimmy Johnson erstwhile he bought nan Cowboys successful 1989. In that case, Wade Philips was fired aft a 1-7 commencement successful 2010 and replaced pinch Jason Garrett – personification who Jones had been grooming to return complete arsenic caput coach.
Here’s my speech pinch Jerry Jones asking what it would return for him to see a coaching change.
The past & only clip he fired a coach mid-season? Wade Phillips, aft he mislaid by 38 points to Mike McCarthy’s Packers.
McCarthy’s Cowboys mislaid by 38 coming @FOX4 #DallasCowboys pic.twitter.com/RwSuW9Rs2Y
Jerry Jones was each smiles earlier nan game, while accepting day greetings from friends
Dallas Cowboys caput coach Mike McCarthy, left, and backmost Dak Prescott
But pinch some Garrett, who was fired aft nan 2019 campaign, and his replacement, McCarthy, Jones has been criticized for his reluctance to make coaching changes. In nan lawsuit of McCarthy – a erstwhile Super Bowl victor successful Green Bay – nan Cowboys person gone 12-5 for 3 consecutive years only to suffer an early postseason ouster.
Now, astatine 3-3, nan Cowboys are winless astatine location and coming disconnected their worst location conclusion of nan Jones era.
'This was very concerning, and it was very humbling, and I felt bad because of each of our awesome fans, and particularly nan ones astatine nan stadium, and surely nan ones that are each astir nan Cowboys,' Jones, nan only proprietor who regularly speaks to reporters, said aft Sunday's loss. 'So we've sewage a batch of activity to do.'
Fortunately for nan Cowboys, they get a week disconnected earlier returning to look nan San Francisco 49ers connected October 27 successful Santa Clara.
'I'm gladsome we sewage this bye week coming up here,' Jones said. 'It'll springiness everybody an opportunity to get retired and really practice. Practice what it is that takes you to beryllium much successful than a crippled for illustration this. This was a shocker.'
In an X station crowing astir nan 93,644 fans successful attendance astatine AT&T Stadium, nan Cowboys curiously appeared to blur retired nan people connected nan team's famously oversized jumbotron
The blurred scoreboard did not spell unnoticed arsenic galore fans mocked nan squad online
Jones' embarrassment didn't extremity there.
In a societal media station aimed astatine crowing astir nan 93,644 fans successful attendance astatine AT&T Stadium, nan Cowboys curiously appeared to blur retired nan people connected nan team's famously oversized jumbotron. Naturally fans figured he was personally progressive successful this decision.
'Did Jerry Jones prosecute a scoreboard blur technician?' 1 instrumentality asked connected X.
'Why is nan scoreboard censored?' different instrumentality wondered, to which 1 responsive quipped: '[It's] not safe for kids.'
And galore others pointed retired that while Sunday's crowd was awesome successful size, that's conscionable much group watching an utterly disappointing Cowboys team.
'93K disappointed people,' 1 instrumentality remarked.