Jerry Jones: No Coaching Changes for Cowboys After 33-30 OT Loss to Cardinals
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said he is not considering firing head coach Brian Schottenheimer or defensive coordinator Christian Parker after the team's 33-30 overtime loss to the Arizona Cardina
Jerry Jones: No Coaching Changes for Cowboys After 33-30 OT Loss to Cardinals Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said he is not considering firing head coach Brian Schottenheimer or defensive coordinator Christian Parker after the team's 33-30 overtime loss to the Arizona Cardinals dropped them to 3-5. The Dallas Cowboys lost 33-30 in overtime to the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday, dropping their record to 3-5. The defeat came after Dallas led 14-0 in the second quarter but watched the lead vanish in the fourth quarter. Cardinals backup quarterback Gardner Minshew replaced benched starter Jacoby Brissett and threw three fourth-quarter touchdowns. Chad Ryland kicked the game-winning field goal in overtime. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was visibly upset when Ryland's kick went through. He appeared to shout an expletive and slammed his hands on the rail in front of him.Jerry Jones Defends Coaches After LossAfter the game, Jones addressed reporters and said he is not considering any coaching changes. He expressed continued confidence in head coach Brian Schottenheimer and defensive coordinator Christian Parker."I made a change, and I don't want to mention it because I'm not proud of it. But I made a change with Wade Phillips there in the middle of the season, and I don't see that here at all," Jones said. The reference was to his 2010 midseason firing of Phillips. Jones also said, according to The Dallas Morning News' Calvin Watkins, "None of us are getting it done and that should be my concern.So I'm not pointing at Schotty, I'm not pointing to anybody, but none of us have it done.Jones Blames Team For Cardinale Defeat" Jones added, "I haven't been involved in too many games that we should have wanted and we had the opportunities we had to win this game. So that is a big snapshot that we want to put above our mirror." When asked about Schottenheimer's job specifically, Jones said he still has faith in him and is not going to fire him. The plural word changes suggested Parker's job is also safe. In a quote that felt straight out of the Twilight Zone, Jones told reporters that a lot of people let Brian Schottenheimer down during the game against the Cardinals."And so, for whatever criticism we want to have of Brian, we can all get in line and that was a total, to use a cliche, that was a total team effort out there for us," Jones said. "We have to be, for our fans, better than that when we have our hands on a win and then drop the ball." The loss was especially ugly because the Cowboys were cruising in the first half and showed a promising defensive performance. But Dallas had to play two halves, and the second went much differently. The defense reverted to the pathetic mess it has been all season, and the offense could not finish drives to put the game away. The result was one of the ugliest losses in recent memory.Analysts Question Cowboys Coaching StabilityIf a loss like Sunday's was not enough to get Schottenheimer and Parker fired, no loss will be enough. As long as Jones continues to cling to two terrible coaches in Parker and Schottenheimer, there is no hope for this team to improve. If Jones thinks a trade will solve the team's problems, he is kidding himself. The Cowboys are much more than one player away from getting on track.Truth be told, a coaching change probably would not even save this team, but that is really all that is left to try because absolutely nothing else has worked. The Cowboys are 3-5 and not where they thought they would be this season, and that has Schottenheimer on the hot seat. But Jones told reporters he was not thinking about a coaching change.Still, it was not necessarily a full-throated vote of confidence either when Jones was asked if there had been concerns that Schottenheimer was not getting the job done.
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