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Jerry Jones Says He Won't Make Coaching Change Due to Past Regrets

Jones is looking at the past to determine how to handle his team.

Josh Wilson

Jones does not want to make a coaching change at this point.
Jones does not want to make a coaching change at this point. / Matthew Emmons-Imagn Images
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The Dallas Cowboys dropped to 3–6 in Week 10 with a blowout loss to the Philadelphia Eagles. The Cowboys very well may be without their quarterback, Dak Prescott, to finish the season. Prescott suffered a hamstring injury and is reportedly weighing surgery that would end his season.

One would think it might be a very good time to reassess, well, everything. Instead, owner and general manager Jerry Jones is resolute: He won't be making changes at head coach. He spoke with media after the game and told the scrum that he won't fire Mike McCarthy because he has regretted it every time he's fired coaches mid-season previously.

It's hard to judge the reasoning without more context on the thought, but it's curious reasoning to say the least. Just because something hasn't worked in the past doesn't mean it won't work now. Plus, one would think refreshing and resetting the locker room could even save the Cowboys' season at this point. Look how reenergized the Saints looked this week under interim head coach Darren Rizzi in his first game.

If nothing else, it would give the Cowboys lots of time to telegraph their opening to possible quality head coach candidates this offseason.

Even more curious is that Jones has only ever fired one head coach midseason: Wade Phillips.

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JOSH WILSON

Josh Wilson is the news director of the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. Before joining SI in 2024, he worked for FanSided in a variety of roles, most recently as senior managing editor of the brand’s flagship site. He has also served as a general manager of Sportscasting, the sports arm of a start-up sports media company, where he oversaw the site’s editorial and business strategy. Wilson has a bachelor’s degree in mass communications from SUNY Cortland and a master’s in accountancy from the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois. He loves a good nonfiction book and enjoys learning and practicing Polish. Wilson lives in Chicago but was raised in upstate New York. He spent most of his life in the Northeast and briefly lived in Poland, where he ate an unhealthy amount of pastries for six months.

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