Jerry: 'Why I'm Keeping McCarthy - 100% Support!' Cowboys Owner In His Own Words

Jerry Jones: 'Why I'm Keeping Mike McCarthy - 100% Support!' Dallas Cowboys Owner In His Own Words

FRISCO - Here's Jerry Jones, the Dallas Cowboys owner, in his own words, unedited and without editorial comment, on what we can essentially call 'Why I'm Keeping Mike McCarthy - with 100% Support!'' ...

“I believe this team is very close and capable of achieving our ultimate goals and the best step forward for us will be with Mike McCarthy as our head coach. There is great benefit to continuing the team’s progress under Mike’s leadership as our head coach. Specifically, there are many layers of success that have occurred this season as a result of Mike’s approach to leading the team, both with individual players and with our team collectively. 

"Mike has the highest regular-season winning percentage of any head coach in Cowboys history and we will dedicate ourselves, in partnership with him, to translating that into reaching our postseason goals. Certainly, Mike’s career has demonstrated postseason success at a high level, and we have great confidence that can continue.

"Further, our loss on Sunday is shared by everyone here, not just Coach McCarthy. Our players. Our coaches. Our front office. Myself. There is accountability for our results. I am accountable for our results. The lens we use to view and evaluate Coach McCarthy is holistic. 

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"While we’re all disappointed with the result on Sunday and with our playoff record, I am 100-percent supportive of him as our head coach and ability to reach our goals.

"We will start our process of review and decision making regarding everything that impacts our team and roster and, while we’re not going to address specific players and extensions or free agents at this point, it deserves our deepest review and consideration, and it will get it.”