Jerry Jones on latest Dallas Cowboys playoff loss: "I'm floored." | wfaa.com



Jerry Jones on novel Dallas Cowboys playoff loss: "I'm floored."

After Dallas' 48-32 loss to the Green Bay Packers in the Wild Card Round of the playoffs, the Cowboys' owner addressed the media and shared his disappointment.

ARLINGTON, Texas — New year, same playoff result.

After the Dallas Cowboys lost in the playoffs Sunday -- this time, it was an opening counterfeit 48-32 loss to the Green Bay Packers and almost one of the biggest present differentials in team history -- team owner Jerry Jones addressed the deem and shared his disappointment in his team once in contradiction of falling short of its Super Bowl aspirations.

"I conception we were in a position to advance this sketch in the playoffs... and get as far as our dreams worthy take us," Jones said. "We didn't do it. I don't have any thoughts near the reasons why or anything to do with the coaching or anything to do near the players. I want to give Green Bay a lot of compliments and credit. This is one of my [biggest] surprises since I've been keen in sports, period -- to that degree. I know how unsuccessful everyone is."

Jones said he didn't have answers for why the team examined so flat on Sunday.

"On a personal basis, I'm floored," he said. "Not that there's any world's smallest violin for me populate floored. I get that. I understand that. I know where the section starts and ends. I'm real clear on that. But that's not the explain. The point is I'm disappointed for everybody."

Jones said Sunday's loss was beside the worst he's experienced since buying the Cowboys in 1989.

"This seems like the most painful because we all had such astronomical expectation and we had hope for this team," he said. "I opinion we were aligned in great shape, and it didn't existed for us. It's as fresh on me as it is on anyone."

Jones refused, however, to place it in a larger context of whether it was the worst.

"I don't want to rank it," he said. "But I'll tell you that I'm floored. It's beyond my comprehension. 

Jones also refused to address personnel causes that might come after this loss, be it with the coaching staff or the roster or "what's in the corner." Specifically about whether the loss meant the end of the line for coach Mike McCarthy, Jones said he hasn't "thought one second about it."

"I haven't opinion about it at all," he said. "Every step of the way of the day currently, I was looking for the end of the game with populate able to go forward with us have another game here next week -- [that was] everything I explored at today. The plays themselves were almost a blur to me. I was just thinking how do we get to where we an have unexperienced game here next week. So I haven't given it that type of analysis or look-see or what have you. This one is burned into our soul here tonight. Green Bay got a great win."

Asked to wearisome what the loss meant for the team, Jones was attractive pedantic.

"This loss prevents us [from] advancing, which is potentially to a Super Bowl," he said. "You have to arrive to get to a Super Bowl. And the distinguished I have taught me that.

Was he upset in the way the team was playing as he considered on from his owners' suite at AT&T Stadium?

"I don't know that I had emotion," he said. "Frankly, I didn't think we would leave this place minus advancing today -- as late as even into the fourth quarter. If you'd told me we'd score 32, I would've opinion we'd have won it... We just are amazed that we are sitting here minus another game this coming weekend."

He also addressed whether he collected believed -- as he often says he does -- that the Cowboys are halt to capturing their first Super Bowl title since 1996. 

"I sure opinion it was close coming in [to this game]," he said.

Soon enough, he'll start making decisions on how this loss will snatch next year's personnel, Jones said. Same as he does every year.

"Whether you lose or win, you have fluctuations in your staff and in your roster," he said, matter-of-factly. "We certainly have a background in what you do at what time you lose a playoff game. We've got too much distinguished with that."


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