Following three consecutive 12-win seasons from 2021-2023, the 2024 Dallas Cowboys fell to 3-7 after a 34-10 "Monday Night Football" defeat against the Houston Texans, their fifth loss in a row. Dallas is off to their worst 10-game start since 2020 when quarterback Dak Prescott broke his ankle, and with Prescott on injured reserve following hamstring surgery, the Cowboys are seeing similar results. However, the current five-game losing streak the 2024 squad is on is the team's longest since the 2015 season. That's the year before Dallas had the fourth overall pick in the 2016 NFL Draft and selected Prescott in the fourth round. 

Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones remained steadfast postgame that he won't fire McCarthy during the season, Garrett Podell of CBS Sports reports. 

"I've made a change early and on a coach with Chan Gailey [when he went 18-14 in 1998 and 1999 combined], and I've always regretted that. I've made a change during the season [firing Wade Phillips in 2010 after he went 1-7], and I've regretted that," Jones said postgame. "That's the music I'm listening to." 

When asked if McCarthy has lost the locker room, Jones called that nonsense despite their six-game home losing streak to begin a season standing as longest since 1989, the first year of Jones' ownership when Dallas went 1-15. That's when he took a call from late Raiders Hall of Fame head coach John Madden and late Raiders owner Al Davis. 

"Well, that's nonsense, lost the locker room," Jones said when asked if McCarthy has lost the locker room. "I remember John Madden and Al Davis called me after we won one game the very first year, and he said 'well, at least you didn't lose the team or the locker room.' I said 'well, what's that? How do you lose a team? You misplace them on the road or what?' I'm not trying to be cute here, but they said 'well, you didn't lose it.' I can tell you right now with the kind of careers a bunch of those guys have, the kind of prospects of their futures, the kind of competitors they are, I don't worry one ounce about losing anything as far as in the family of losing a team. Now, can they be a part of a team that doesn't execute and doesn't win that would be disappointing them and our fans and everybody else? Yes. Yes. That can happen, but that doesn't mean they don't go out, execute and be ready to go."

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