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Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones seems to believe that head coach Mike McCarthy’s play-calling could be in part to blame for the team’s 3-3 start to the season.
“The types of things that we all think we should be looking at is we’re designing bad plays, or we’re designing bad concepts,” Jones said in a Tuesday appearance on Audacy’s 105.3 The Fan (h/t DallasCowboys.com’s Tommy Yarrish.) “The facts are that there’s some of that but there’s also some of execution.”
The Cowboys most recently recorded 251 total yards of offense, including just 53 rushing yards, in a 47-9 blowout loss to the Detroit Lions in Week 6.
After a Week 7 bye, Dallas is preparing to face the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday.
The Cowboys turned over the balls five times in the loss to the Lions, and McCarthy told reporters on Monday that the team would be focused on addressing their “glaring” turnover ratio of minus-six coming out of the bye.
“We thought Detroit was weak in the secondary, so we came out firing at the secondary. That was our game plan, to fire at the secondary. Had you had it to do over again, you might have done it a different way,” Jones said.
The Week 6 loss marked the team’s fourth consecutive home loss, stretching back to last season’s wild-card loss to the Green Bay Packers.
The Cowboys have allowed 167 points against in that span, the third-most allowed in four straight home games in NFL history, per Schuyler Dixon of the Associated Press.
Prior to that streak the Cowboys had won 16 home games in a row.
Those offensive struggles at home are in part due to Dallas’ struggles to get their run game going. The Cowboys have recorded 463 rushing yards for just two rushing touchdowns through six games.
Dallas has been largely leaning on first-year starter Rico Dowdle to drive the team’s run game, and he recorded a season-high 20 carries in a Week 5 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers.
But it was Ezekiel Elliott receiving the most touches during the Week 6 blowout loss, after which McCarthy told reporters that Dowdle “definitely needs to touch the ball more.”
When asked what the Cowboys needed to address during the offseason, Jones said that “every one of us need to evaluate where we made decisions that we’d like to have back.”
“Mike has to do that, from his standpoint. He said that yesterday,” Jones said. “And then he has to ask each player, let’s sit down, and see what we can do.”
The Cowboys have lost three straight games to the 49ers and recorded their last win against the team in 2020. McCarthy will look to break that streak, while keeping the team’s road record unblemished, possibly in the
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