Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is confident the players still believe in under-pressure coach Mike McCarthy.
The Cowboys slumped to their fifth straight defeat last night, going down 34-10 to the Houston Texans on Monday Night Football.
The defeat also means it is the first time in 35 years that Dallas have lost their first five games at home in a single season.
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McCarthy is out of contract at the end of the season and Jones may already be plotting a change, not that he was showing any sign of losing faith in the 61-year-old and he believes the players feel the same way.
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These guys are natural competitors – Jones
He said: “That losing the team stuff, that’s so overblown.
“These guys are natural competitors. Secondly, they’re so proud of the fact that they are professional and disappointed in maybe the way they executed the play, but that’s not anything.
“Everybody’s certainly disappointed, but that’s a big difference in not knowing that you got to put the foot in front of the other to go.”
Mixon dominates Cowboys
Joe Mixon scored three touchdowns as the Texans cruised to victory in Arlington.
Dallas are now 3-7 for the season and Jones admitted it was a difficult situation for everyone.
He added: “That was a hard one, I thought we’d give a better account of how we played but we didn’t and we are looking ahead now.
“We’re in a hole and we all understand it. We just aren’t playing very well.”
Jones was the owner when the Cowboys won three Super Bowls in the 1990s but it hasn’t always been golden in Texas.
He said: “We won one game my first year.
“One. And so have we had rough seasons? Yes. Yeah, I’ve been around. Certainly we have. And we’ve had other tough years. And this one, we didn’t anticipate the record. And the way we’re playing right now, we wouldn’t have anticipated that. But you stay in this league long enough, you’ll have times like this.”
