The Dallas Cowboys are a bad football team and getting worse, quickly. They are 3-6 after their latest loss at the hands of the division rival Philadelphia Eagles, their fourth defeat in a row. They haven’t scored more than 24 points since Week 3, their star quarterback is out for the season, their star wide receiver is banged up, they are still without several of their best defensive players… you get the idea. Their season is, for all intents and purposes, done. They are merely playing out the string, both on the 2024 campaign and, likely, Mike McCarthy’s tenure as head coach.
Dallas hired McCarthy in 2020 and gave him an incredibly low bar to clear: Go further in the playoffs than Jason Garrett did in his decade (!) as head coach. McCarthy lost Dak Prescott for the season early in his debut year with the Cowboys, but his teams then lost to the 49ers in back to back seasons, once in the first round and once in the divisional round, before getting blown off the field by the Packers last year — with all of those losses coming at home in AT&T Stadium. In the final year of his deal, McCarthy is coaching his worst Cowboys team yet.
That preamble brings us to Friday afternoon. During his weekly radio appearance (the owner has a weekly radio appearance!), Jones was — for some reason — asked if former Cowboys tight end Jason Witten could be an NFL head coach. And he took the opportunity to answer in exactly the way that you’d expect he would, if you have been following anything Jones has said over the past three-plus decades.
“Yes. Without hesitation, yes,” Jones said, via DallasCowboys.com. “He has something you can’t draw up, reminds me a lot of our other tight end, he’s the head coach up at Detroit right now.”
