The Dallas Cowboys are an underwhelming 3-3 on the season and have but to win a sport at dwelling. Crew proprietor Jerry Jones is not contemplating a head teaching change, nonetheless, even after a 47-9 blowout loss at dwelling to Detroit in Week 6 — the worst dwelling lack of the Jones period, which began in 1989, and the worst at AT&T Stadium, which opened in 2009.
The 82-year-old Jones obtained extraordinarily defensive throughout a radio interview earlier this week, saying that he feels “sick about what occurred” vs. the Lions however that he wasn’t going to sit down there and be informed “the entire issues that [he’d] completed mistaken.”
Jones’ remarks prompted Troy Aikman, who quarterbacked the Cowboys for 12 seasons from 1989 to 2000 and took them to a few Tremendous Bowls in 4 years within the 90s, to blast the staff this week, saying their route-running was “horrible” and that they often look “lazy” coming off the road of scrimmage.
“I am not impressed,” Aikman stated, by way of Sports activities Illustrated.
Colin Cowherd is on the identical web page, saying that he believes head coach Mike McCarthy’s days are already numbered.
“[Dallas] can not compete at dwelling with the higher groups: Inexperienced Bay, Detroit, Baltimore,” he stated on Friday’s version of “The Herd.” “They could not compete at dwelling when the Saints had been wholesome. That is an issue. Jerry Jones can get on native radio and bang on the hosts all he needs, however when Troy Aikman calls you lazy and when Michael Irvin … calls you smooth — Mike McCarthy’s profession is over. … It is simply not official.
“In 5 seasons, Mike McCarthy [has] one playoff win. … When you may have Aikman and Irvin going out and keen to say this publicly in the identical week, the messaging is fairly clear. Mike’s out. Jerry needs him out. Make the touchdown smooth, however they cannot compete at dwelling. And lazy receiver routes? That is on teaching.”
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After profitable its season opener, Dallas misplaced to New Orleans, 44-19, in Week 2 after permitting the Saints to attain a landing on every of their first six possessions. Dallas adopted that up by dropping to Baltimore, 28-25, in Week 3. The Cowboys’ three wins have come on the highway towards the Cleveland Browns (Week 1), the New York Giants (Week 4) and the Pittsburgh Steelers (Week 5). They’re in third place within the NFC East, forward of solely the Giants. Dallas has a much-needed bye in Week 7, adopted by a highway tilt towards the San Francisco 49ers subsequent weekend on Sunday Night time Soccer.
Offensively, Dallas is averaging 259.3 passing yards (third within the NFL), 77.2 dashing yards (final), 336.5 complete yards (14th) and 21.0 factors (nineteenth) per sport. Defensively, the Cowboys are surrendering 213.3 passing yards (sixteenth), 143.2 dashing yards (twenty fifth), 356.5 complete yards (twenty fourth) and 28.0 factors (thirtieth) per sport. They’ve a brand new defensive coordinator in Mike Zimmer, who changed Dan Quinn after he left following the 2023 season to develop into the brand new coach of the Commanders.
The Cowboys have racked up 1,654 complete passing yards, good for third-highest within the league, by way of six video games. Star receiver CeeDee Lamb, who not too long ago inked a four-year, $136 million contract with Dallas, has simply 467 yards and two receiving touchdowns on the season. What’s extra, practically half of all of the Cowboys’ factors this season have come from kicker Brandon Aubrey (roughly 49.2%) versus their offense.
Dallas is a mixed 45-28 within the common season and 1-3 within the postseason underneath McCarthy, who’s within the ultimate season of a five-year deal. The Cowboys have posted three consecutive 12-plus-win seasons and gained the NFC East in two of the previous three seasons however are coming off a loss at dwelling to the Packers within the NFC wild-card spherical final season.
Dallas prolonged quarterback Dak Prescott (4 years, $240 million) simply hours earlier than the beginning of the 2024 common season. Prescott, a three-time Professional Bowler, has thrown six interceptions — which has him on tempo to throw a career-high — boasts a career-worst 85.5 passer ranking and has accomplished simply 63.4% of his passes, his lowest mark since 2017.
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