DALLAS — Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones sees his 4-2 Dallas Cowboys coming out of their bye week in line to contend among the top teams in the NFC but reinforcements might not come to help to put them over the top.
Stating “we’re in the upper echelon” in the conference Tuesday during his weekly visit on the Shan & RJ show on Audacy's 105.3 The Fan, Jones believes that the Cowboys can hang with the top teams.
“I would have liked to have played better against the 49ers," the team’s owner, president and general manager said after witnessing the San Francisco 49ers fall to 5-2 with a loss to the Minnesota Vikings on Monday night. "But when you see [how teams] stepped up against them ... they can be had.”
Jones knows that there is still work to be done to make sure Dallas reaches their goals and he knows that there’s still a hierarchy in the conference that begins with rivals Philadelphia and San Francisco at the top.
“I’m not going to say we belong on the field with San Fran, and we haven’t played Philly. So, I don’t want to go that far. But we’re in the upper echelon.”
With the first match-up of the season against the NFC East-leading Eagles looming on Nov. 5, the Cowboys have an opportunity to improve their chances by improving their roster ahead of next week’s trade deadline. Philadelphia has already made a couple of moves to bolster their team. Would Jones do the same for Dallas?
“It’ll have to come our way. I don’t want to preclude it in any way, but it always does,” Jones said. “You have a lot of machinations that you’re working with every day, I do, but the initiation of an opportunity to make a trade at this time that would help us, principally has to start on the other end.”
All that is to say, Jones wouldn’t say no to the idea of a team coming up with a trade proposal that helps the Cowboys, but he isn’t taking the initiative to seek out potential trades that might weaken the future of the club.
Said Jones: “I like where we are with our personnel today, so I’m not thinking in any way that we need to upgrade our roster.” A choice of words that might befuddle fans, but Jones didn’t rule out making a move. “I would really extend to improve our team right now, so that gives you an idea because I think we’ve got a team that is a contender,” Jones said. “So I would do it right now — would I do something that would take away from this team so that it can help us in the future? Probably not.”
Whether the Cowboys do look to improve their station and whether or not they can prove that they belong among the upper echelon in the conference, that all begins on the other side of their bye week as they open Week 8 at home against the Los Angeles Rams at AT&T Stadium on Sunday, October 29.
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