By Brian Smith
FOXSportsSouthwest.com
With just one week left in the NFL's regular season, the 2010 Dallas Cowboys will soon be put out of their misery. Saturday's gut-wrenching 27-26 loss to the Arizona Cardinals cemented a double-digit loss season for a team that was expected by many to be the first to play a home game in the Super Bowl. Instead, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones will watch two visiting teams play in the billion dollar stadium he paid for to host the monumental event.
As the season winds down, the search for a new permanent head coach in Dallas heats up. In an interview with NFL Network, Jones said he wants to retain control over personnel, but that he's also "a big believer in a challenge and doing something that has never been done before."
Jones' words were in response to a question about bringing in a former Super Bowl-winning head coach like Bill Cowher or Tony Dungy. No professional coach has ever won the Super Bowl with two different teams.
Jones didn't rule out removing the 'interim' tag from current coach Jason Garrett, but said experience will play a role in his decision. Garrett is now 4-3 as the Cowboys' coach following a 1-7 start to the season under former coach Wade Phillips.
"There is no doubt he has the skills to be a head coach in the National Football League. The question is when?" Jones said of Garrett. "The facts are that he's had [six] games where he's been a head coach that includes junior high schools, high schools, all of them. We don't have time to have a bad time with the Dallas Cowboys. We need to hit the ground running next year; this has been too much of a disappointment this year. That's the thing I am going to be thinking about -- the experience factor."
Jones did not give a timetable for his decision and did not indicate if it would happen immediately after Dallas' final regular season game against Philadelphia next Sunday.
