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.Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones says he’s seen worse. His Cowboys, led by head coach Mike McCarthy, are 3-7 in 2024, and they’ve lost five in a row. They’ve been injury stricken — having lost quarterback Dak Prescott and now safety Markquese Bell to season-ending surgeries while also dealing with injuries to star pass rusher Micah Parsons — and frankly, they’ve just been playing downright bad football.
Still, Jones insists he’s seen worse times in Dallas.
“We won one game my first year. One. And so, have we had rough seasons? Yes. Yeah, I’ve been around. Certainly we have,” Jones said after the Cowboys’ latest loss, a 34-10 loss to the Houston Texans on Monday Night Football, per ESPN. “And we’ve had other tough years. And this one, we didn’t anticipate the record… the way we’re playing right now, we wouldn’t have anticipated that. But, not, this isn’t — y’all have heard me tell these old stories until you’re sick — but not, you stay in this league long enough, you’ll have times like this.”
The Cowboys have seen the NFL mountaintop — with wins in Super Bowls VI, XII, XXVII, XXVIII, and XXX — but to Jones’ point, they’ve also seen some bad times. Their last Super Bowl win was in 1995, nearly 30 years ago. They haven’t been to the NFC Championship game since that season, and they’ve been knocked out of the Wild Card round in two of the last three seasons despite having arguably one of the most talented rosters in the NFL.
And that’s been the problem as of late for the Cowboys. They’ve been consistently underperforming when it matters most, but even when there’s nothing on the line anymore, they’ve been coming up more than a few dollars short. The Cowboys lost in Week 10 to the Philadelphia Eagles, 34-6. In Week 11 against the Houston Texans, they lost 34-10.
Do that mental math real quick, and you’d realize that the Cowboys have been outscored 68-6 in their past two games, and both of those games were in front of the home fans at AT&T Stadium. That would lead an even halfway awake observer of the Cowboys to assume that they’ve quit trying on this season, as the plug was unofficially pulled when Prescott went down for the season, and Cooper Rush threw for just 45 total yards in his first start after that injury.
Pay even more attention to the trends around Dallas for the past few seasons, and it would seem like McCarthy has completely lost the thread, though. He was always somewhat of a questionable hire after he completely lost Aaron Rodgers and the locker room in Green Bay before being fired in Week 13 of the 2018 season. The doubts were calmed a bit by three straight seasons of 12-5 records, but again, the Cowboys have flamed out in the postseason in each of their last three trips.
Now? They can’t even seem bothered to play competitive...
