The Dallas Cowboys were eliminated from playoff contention Sunday, but owner Jerry Jones made it clear afterward head coach Jason Garrett won't be left to pay for the disappointment.
"Just so we're clear about it, I do understand frustration right after you lose a game that has as much meaningfulness as this ballgame, but I get to look at a lot of different things and have been around a lot of head coaches and coordinators," Jones said, via Todd Archer of ESPN. "I feel good about our head coach."
A year after they won 13 games and earned the top seed in the NFC, the Cowboys were bounced from the 2017 playoff picture with a 21-12 loss at home to the ailing Seattle Seahawks.
Dallas owns an 8-7 record this year, and is 66-52 over Garrett's tenure as head coach. However, the team has won just one playoff game since he took the reins in 2010.
"We'll just look at everything," added Jones. "We certainly will look at this game. We played a team that's got a good chance to be in the playoffs out there, and we will have a lot of time to think about it when that's not us in there. Believe you me, we'll be second-guessing some play-calls for sure, but that's not really what happened out there today. We played a good team. We let them hang in there way too long, and then as good teams do, they got inspired by some turnovers, and there you go."
Garrett has long been under scrutiny, but Jones seemingly has never come close to pulling the trigger.
