Cowboys EVP Stephen Jones joined the K&C Masterpiece to react to yesterday's blowout loss to the Eagles, how he evaluates Mike McCarthy through this trying season, why Trey Lance didn't see more snaps late in this loss, and more.
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00:00Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Dallas Cowboys.
00:20Thanks to our friends at North Texas Ford Dealers.
00:22Ford is the best in Texas.
00:24See Stephen Jones here on 105.3 The Fan.
00:27Stephen, appreciate the time as always.
00:29I know it's difficult coming after a loss as always.
00:33Boy, those Philly fans weren't exactly treating you guys very good from what I saw in the
00:39box.
00:40Well, that's just what comes with going to Philadelphia.
00:45That's one of the things that makes the NFL so colorful.
00:50They've consistently been that way over the years.
00:55It makes for interesting days there in Philadelphia, and especially, unfortunately, when we didn't
01:03play up to expectations.
01:05You can't turn the ball over like that against a really good football team.
01:09They were highly motivated to clinch their division.
01:13I thought we started off strong.
01:14We moved the ball well.
01:16We're really holding Saquon there in that first half, but then just too many self-inflicted
01:24wounds in terms of turning the ball over and doing the things that you can't do if you're
01:32going to win a big football game on the road against a team like Philly had this year.
01:39Just based on reputation, I thought they'd be a little bit nicer, but no, you're absolutely
01:44right.
01:45Look, it's been a tough season, and you're going up against one of the best teams in
01:48the NFC.
01:50One of the questions I had specifically is in comparison with them.
01:54I was talking earlier about how Philadelphia is constructed and how you all have to manage
02:01the cap and do so many different things.
02:03In Philadelphia, with their eight players that are not on rookie deals comprising 31%
02:09of their cap, which is their quarterback, running back, wide receivers, corners, tackles,
02:14and you guys are having to manage right now, four guys on your team are 32% of the cap.
02:19Moving forward, is that something you are going to address this offseason in order to
02:25go and get other players to create more depth that you weren't able to do this past offseason?
02:31Yeah, I think one of the things too is, unfortunately, we have had, and I'll say it again, the world's
02:39smallest violin, but we have over 50% of our cap on IR, and those things, when they hit
02:46it the wrong time, it makes for a challenge for a team.
02:51Obviously, San Francisco is another team that's had their share of injuries this year in terms
02:56of a big percentage of their cap sitting on IR.
03:01Those are things that come with the territory.
03:04I know everybody has their different battles with the cap that hit at different times,
03:11and Philly will have theirs coming up where they'll have to make tough decisions, but
03:16we're constantly looking at ways to look at our salary cap to give us the best opportunity
03:22with players like Dak, CD, and Micah.
03:26You throw digs in there to let those guys hopefully, one, stay on the field, but two,
03:34give us the best opportunity to make a great run.