After the Cowboys beat the Washington Redskins on Monday to move one game back from the NFC East lead, you'd think that Jerry Jones would have been euphoric. However, that wasn't the case.
Instead of patting his team on the back and complimenting the coaching staff, Jones ripped Jason Garrett.
First, Jones gave no credit to the Cowboys coaching staff for the 19-16 win, saying that Dallas "won on will, not tactical mastery."
"That's not a criticism, but that's where we are as a team," Jones said on Monday night.
Kind of sounds like a criticism.
Jones also went on to criticize the coaching staff for not winning any games while Tony Romo was out with a broken collarbone until Monday night's victory.
"I am stunned that we haven't been able to win more games without Tony," Jones said, via the Star-Telegram. "And I would have thought that we could have coached it up enough, and put it together enough, that we would not have lost those games without Romo early. We would be in better shape than we are right now."
It's easy to see why Jones is "stunned," but it doesn't make much sense to pin it on the coaching staff.
Jones is upset because if the Cowboys would've won just one game while Romo was out from Weeks 3 thru 10, then the Cowboys would be 5-7 and tied for first place. Instead, the Cowboys went 0-7 without Romo and are sitting at 4-8.
If Jones wants to be mad at someone though, he should look in the mirror. Garrett and the coaching staff didn't pick their backup quarterback; they were stuck with whomever the front office brought in, and that was Brandon Weeden, followed by Matt Cassel.
When Romo went down, Weeden started three games for the Cowboys and went 0-3.
That was followed by four games where Cassel started. Cassel went 0-4, which wasn't surprising because he only got four weeks to learn the Cowboys offense before he was forced to make his first start in Week 7.
Despite being stuck with those two at quarterback, the Cowboys were competitive in every game but one. Five of the seven losses came by one score.
As things stand now, the Cowboys might be 4-8, but they're also just a game out of the division lead. Jones isn't looking at that silver lining, though.
"I look at it as 4-8 and won't look at it any differently as we move up the ladder until something really special happens," Jones said.
