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DALLAS – With his team in the midst of a two-game losing streak and its linebacker corps decimated by injuries, Jerry Jones is fending off self-pity by remembering something Barry Switzer used to say when he was coaching the Cowboys in the mid-1990s.
“He used to tell the team,” Jones said, “that ‘I’m your wagon master. We are back in the covered-wagon days and we are going to California. We’ve got to cross the Mississippi to get there. A lot of you are going to die. We are going to have news faces a long the way. We are going to burn some of these wagons for firewood and float the Mississippi with the others. (But) this train is going to get to California. I’m going to try to be on it. I hope you are on it.
“And so that’s kind of the nature of the challenge of an NFL season. It’s right here in front of everybody to look it, and that’s how it should be. How we get there, what we do and how we adjust.”
With two games left, the Cowboys (7-7) face a multitude of challenges, including trying to rebound from back-to-back embarrassing losses, beginning with a 45-28 blowout in Chicago in which linchpin middle linebacker Sean Lee suffered a sprained neck ligament that Jones said threatens to sideline him for the rest of the season.
“I’m very concerned,” Jones said on his weekly radio show with KRLD-FM on Tuesday. “He’s our quarterback (on defense) and it’s glaring when he’s not out there, and it has been glaring the last two ballgames. He’s the guy that’s not only our leader out there in execution, but he’s also the guy that is your (Tony) Romo over there.”
The Cowboys have allowed 82 points and 923 yards during this losing streak. Dallas ranks last in the NFL in total defense and pass defense and is 28th in rush defense.
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“He used to tell the team,” Jones said, “that ‘I’m your wagon master. We are back in the covered-wagon days and we are going to California. We’ve got to cross the Mississippi to get there. A lot of you are going to die. We are going to have news faces a long the way. We are going to burn some of these wagons for firewood and float the Mississippi with the others. (But) this train is going to get to California. I’m going to try to be on it. I hope you are on it.
“And so that’s kind of the nature of the challenge of an NFL season. It’s right here in front of everybody to look it, and that’s how it should be. How we get there, what we do and how we adjust.”
With two games left, the Cowboys (7-7) face a multitude of challenges, including trying to rebound from back-to-back embarrassing losses, beginning with a 45-28 blowout in Chicago in which linchpin middle linebacker Sean Lee suffered a sprained neck ligament that Jones said threatens to sideline him for the rest of the season.
“I’m very concerned,” Jones said on his weekly radio show with KRLD-FM on Tuesday. “He’s our quarterback (on defense) and it’s glaring when he’s not out there, and it has been glaring the last two ballgames. He’s the guy that’s not only our leader out there in execution, but he’s also the guy that is your (Tony) Romo over there.”
The Cowboys have allowed 82 points and 923 yards during this losing streak. Dallas ranks last in the NFL in total defense and pass defense and is 28th in rush defense.
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