Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones met with the media on Tuesday at

the Senior Bowl he was asked if he had to talk himself into bringing coach

Mike McCarthy back here's what Jones had to say.

This is not a talk yourself into it, but it obviously gives you a lot of things to consider and think about and everybody has

options but this one I'm very comfortable with and felt good during the year of the job that Mike was doing, thought the team

was responding well.

He is in the final year of his contract, so he's under contract so we didn't have to really do anything at all and the idea of

renewing a contract doesn't necessarily happen at all right after the last game. It can happen at any time.

And so that's kind of a wrong signal to send that there's not more future than just this year.

I thought we made a pretty good move four years ago when we hired Mike McCarthy and he's had some great

end-season success. Now he's come up short three times, three times and advanced us send the playoff.

Okay?

But I like the fact that he's hanging around the rim.

And I like what the team has done to hang around the rim.

So I think of what the answer that I would have is that I'm

aware that we're hanging around the rim. We're not getting the ball in but we're

hanging around the rim.

Yeah, but Jerry, plenty of guys who hang around the rim get dunked on repeatedly,

and that's what's happening in the post season.

You hang around the rim and then here comes shack and you get your

fingers broken against the rim when he pushes the ball.

Well, yeah.

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