Jerry Jones has backed the Dallas Cowboys to break their playoff curse next season, using a basketball analogy to express his comfort with his team's current situation on Tuesday.
The Cowboys' third consecutive 12-win season ended in an embarrassing wild-card round loss to the Green Bay Packers in the playoffs.
Furthermore, Dallas had won the NFC East prior to the postseason. Jones elected to continue with head coach Mike McCarthy for a fourth season following the shocking first-round loss, despite the latter's 1-3 playoff record over the previous four seasons.
According to Michael Gehlken of The Dallas Morning News, the 81-year-old millionaire told reporters at the Reese's Senior Bowl about his recent employment decision and goals for next season:
What I'd say is that I hope it's the same in the first playoff game, where we're seeded second. I hope it isn't any different from when we received the second seed.
'Now, let's talk about how we can make it different when we play that game and win, OK? We need to improve our stopping abilities,
become more physically active, and, most importantly, run better. We need to do such types of things.And so, when I look at that,
I think we made a fantastic decision four years ago when we recruited Mike McCarthy, and he's had some great in-season success.