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The Dallas Cowboys are an underwhelming 3-3 on the season and have yet to win a game at home. Team owner Jerry Jones isn’t considering a head coaching change, however, even after a 47-9 blowout loss at home to Detroit in Week 6 — the worst home loss of the Jones era, which started in 1989, and the worst at AT&T Stadium, which opened in 2009.
The 82-year-old Jones got extremely defensive during a radio interview earlier this week, saying that he feels “sick about what happened” vs. the Lions but that he wasn’t going to sit there and be told “all of the things that [he’d] done wrong.”
Jones’ remarks prompted Troy Aikman, who quarterbacked the Cowboys for 12 seasons from 1989 to 2000 and took them to three Super Bowls in four years in the 90s, to blast the team this week, saying their route-running was “terrible” and that they sometimes look “lazy” coming off the line of scrimmage.
“I’m not impressed,” Aikman said, via Sports Illustrated.
Colin Cowherd is on the same page, saying that he believes head coach Mike McCarthy’s days are already numbered.
“[Dallas] can no longer compete at home with the better teams: Green Bay, Detroit, Baltimore,” he said on Friday’s edition of “The Herd.” “They couldn’t compete at home when the Saints were healthy. That’s a problem. Jerry Jones can get on local radio and bang on the hosts all he wants, but when Troy Aikman calls you lazy and when Michael Irvin … calls you soft — Mike McCarthy’s career is over. … It’s just not official.
“In five seasons, Mike McCarthy [has] one playoff win. … When you have Aikman and Irvin going out and willing to say this publicly in the same week, the messaging is pretty clear. Mike’s out. Jerry wants him out. Make the landing soft, but they can’t compete at home. And lazy receiver routes? That’s on coaching.”
[Read more: Cowboys Corner: Grading the season so far, including an ‘F’ for defense]
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