Stephen Jones made it clear Monday that the Cowboys are not planning some sweeping reset after their Week 6 loss to the Green Bay Packers.
Dallas came out of Sunday night’s defeat with plenty of questions, but not the kind of answers fans were hoping for. The defense struggled again, and the offense turned in its worst outing of the 2026 season. That has only intensified calls for major change, not just a shuffle of players on the roster.
Jones, though, struck a message of patience when he spoke to 105.3 The Fan.
“Obviously very disappointing. Frustrated," Jones said.
"But at the same time, we got a lot of football to play. We’ve got resolve.
We just got to go back to work. We like the players.
We like the coaches.”
He doubled down on his confidence in Brian Schottenheimer, too.
“There’s not any question in Jerry and my mind. He has the team," Jones added.
"There’s no question they want to go out there and execute and make things happen. Feel really good about our coaching staff.
We just got to have it continue to evolve and get to a point to where we can win these football games.”
For Cowboys fans, that’s the part that stings. The results haven’t matched the optimism, and the same problems keep showing up week after week. At this point in the season, roughly a third of the way through, there’s been no visible surge from either side of the ball.
The defense has offered no real signs of progress from last season, and defensive coordinator Christian Parker still seems to be searching for answers. Meanwhile, the offense, the unit the Cowboys were supposed to lean on, has posted its two worst performances of the year in back-to-back games.
That puts Schottenheimer under the microscope not just as the head coach, but as the play-caller. With a talented group underperforming this badly, the on-field product has become impossible to ignore.
And based on Jones’ comments, the Cowboys are not looking at any dramatic fix. The message from the top is simple: keep going, keep believing, keep working. For fans wanting real change, that doesn’t sound like much of a plan.
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