The Dallas Cowboys won't have a home playoff game. They won't have momentum entering the postseason, nor a perfectly healthy roster. Indeed, they can't even have total confidence in which team is going to show up against Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the first round.
Dallas Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy looks on from the sideline during the second half of an NFL football game against the Houston Texans, Sunday, Dec. 11, 2022, in Arlington, Texas. The Dallas Cowboys won't have a home playoff game. They won't have momentum entering the postseason, nor a perfectly healthy roster. Indeed, they can't even have total confidence in which team is going to show upBut what they will have is expectations.
Well, get out the measuring sticks. Because this is where the rubber meets the road for McCarthy, whose job performance this season will be more a function of the next few weeks than anything he did in the last six months. As unfair as that might sound, it’s the simple reality of a franchise that flunked out of the wild-card round one year ago. When much is expected in the postseason and nothing is delivered, the margin for failure is significantly smaller moving forward.
“I need to win it, but I’ll be candid with you, there’s degrees [of success],” Jones said. “I want to be fair to everybody concerned. We need to be in the playoffs. We need to be viable in the playoffs for it to be a successful season.” Anything less than a win this week will be the critical answer that Jones is looking for. Because failure this time around can't be dressed up with talk about learning to win or empty congratulations about qualifying for the playoffs in back-to-back seasons. Particularly against a Tampa team thatand an offense that has been an all-you-can-eat buffet of mediocrity.
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