Jerry Jones with some praise for coach Mike McCarthy
Maybe it is just the spirit of Thanksgiving. Or the afterglow of the upset win over the Washington Commanders.
On his weekly radio show appearance, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was in a good mood about his head coach Mike McCarthy.
“I don’t think that’s crazy at all. That’s not crazy,” Jones said. “Listen, Mike McCarthy is an outstanding coach … Mike McCarthy has been there, done that. He’s got great ideas. So the bottom line is in no place in my body language or anything else have you seen an indication about what we’re going to be doing relative to this staff at the end of this year. And we shouldn’t. We’ve got a lot of football left.”
Prior to this season, the Cowboys coach had three consecutive 12-win seasons. Injuries and the usual chaos around Dallas saw the team fall to 3-7 before the win at Washington.
“I just think the game is too important. The win is too important,” Jones said. “You look at a coach and, boy, a coach is sitting there, don’t think they don’t add up their wins and losses during their career and they don’t like to have a loss on there if they can just ask for it. And so my point is, for all of us, a win is a very satisfying thing under any circumstance and it helps you build.
“And so there’s a lot of ambiguity with those draft picks. As you know, I’ve had draft picks that were extraordinarily high that didn’t work. I’ve had them low that knocked it out of the park. And so you’ve got to weigh what happens when you get the picks and the odds of you knocking one out of the park there as well, as opposed to winning a game.”
