Cowboys brass 'didn't anticipate' miserable record, season

Jerry Jones has overseen his just stock of seasons that person fallen abbreviated of, met oregon exceeded expectations. But, the Cowboys' ongoing 2024 run was not thing helium expected.

The Cowboys volition participate Week 12 with conscionable 3 wins nether their belt. After Dallas dropped a 5th consecutive crippled connected Monday night, the longtime Cowboys proprietor and wide manager reflected connected his archetypal twelvemonth of ownership.

"We won 1 crippled my archetypal year," Jones said aft the Houston Texans' 34-10 triumph implicit the Cowboys. "One. And truthful person we had unsmooth seasons? Yes. Yeah, I've been around. Certainly we have. And we've had different pugnacious years. And this one, we didn't expect the record. And the mode we're playing close now, we wouldn't person anticipated that. But, not, this isn't – y'all person heard maine archer these aged stories until you're sick – but not, you enactment successful this league agelong enough, you'll person times similar this."

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Jerry Jones earlier the crippled against the Falcons astatine Mercedes-Benz Stadium connected Nov. 3, 2024, successful Atlanta. (Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)

The Cowboys volition apt person a agelong database of questions to reply and issues to code aft the season.

But, owning a 3-7 grounds does enactment the Cowboys successful presumption for a top-10 draught pick. Head manager Mike McCarthy is successful the past twelvemonth of his contract, and it remains unclear whether Jones would opt to bring him oregon immoderate members of the existent coaching unit back.

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Nevertheless, the uncertainty of McCarthy's aboriginal has not spilled implicit to the locker room, according to Jones.

"That losing the squad stuff, that's truthful overblown," Jones said. "These guys are so, archetypal of all, they're earthy competitors. Secondly, they're truthful arrogant of the information that they are nonrecreational and disappointed successful possibly the mode they executed the play, but that's not thing that's member oregon archetypal relative to springiness up.... Everybody's surely disappointed, but that's a large quality successful not knowing that you got to enactment the ft successful beforehand of the different to go."

Dallas Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones answers questions with caller caput manager Mike McCarthy during a property league astatine Ford Center astatine the Star successful Frisco, Texas, connected Jan. 8, 2020. (Matthew Emmons-USA Today Sports)

The Cowboys are not conscionable losing, they've often been dominated successful games. Teams visiting AT&T Stadium person outscored Dallas by an eye-popping 118 points this season.

McCarthy expressed his vexation with the five-game skid, which matches the longest losing streak he's experienced arsenic an NFL coach.

"Explain it? I deliberation it's precise frustrating. It's frustrating for everybody. Frustrating for the players, frustrating for the coaches. I cognize it's disappointing for the fans," McCarthy said. "But we just, we person a batch of moving parts going on, and we conscionable person to beryllium cleaner and much elaborate successful definite spots. We're not playing good enough, not executing good enough, coaching good capable to flooded immoderate of the mistakes we're making successful captious times of the game."

Dallas Cowboys caput manager Mike McCarthy walks disconnected the tract aft the Philadelphia Eagles crippled successful Arlington, Texas, Sunday, Nov. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Jeffrey McWhorter)

Dak Prescott was officially placed connected injured reserve earlier this week, but helium was successful attendance for the Cowboys-Texans game. McCarthy acknowledged the rash of injuries the Cowboys person battled this season, but besides said helium remains steadfast successful his content successful the locker room.

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"I consciousness successful times of adversity, the confirmation comes into what you cognize from your past experiences but besides conscionable spot the radical successful the room, the radical that are doing the work. And I do," McCarthy said. "I judge successful this locker room. Our leadership, astir of it has been injured. There is bully coming retired of this. 

"You don't spot it due to the fact that we're not winning games, but there's young men that are getting an accidental to bash more. And I bash judge that volition wage forward. It needs to hurry the hellhole up due to the fact that we request it successful six days. But this is conscionable the world of what we're going through. I bash judge due to the fact that not lone what they bash for the enactment but the vigor and the effort they springiness me. I person each crushed to judge that we tin play better."

The Washington Commanders volition big the Cowboys connected Sunday, earlier Dallas returns location for its yearly Thanksgiving Day game.

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