Jerry Jones reacts to empty seats in AT&T Stadium, Cowboys fans with bags over heads

The Dallas Cowboys (3-7) dropped their fifth consecutive game Monday night, a 34-10 home defeat to the Houston Texans (7-4).

Fans inside AT&T Stadium clearly weren’t enthralled with what they were watching on the field, several seen wearing paper bags over their heads. Team owner Jerry Jones, addressing the angst from fans and the amount of Texans fans in the building, admitted the on-field product must improve.

“I’ve seen it with most teams. I think that certainly our fans are avid,” Jones said Tuesday on 105.3 The Fan, via Jon Machota of The Athletic. “I’m disappointed that we’re bringing the team that we are to the field. We got to improve on that. That’s not acceptable. [Over the last 25 years], we’ve been the sixth-winningest team in the NFL. In the last 15 years, we’re the fifth-winningest team in the NFL. We haven’t been to the championship playoff game. We haven’t been to a Super Bowl, but we’ve been [hanging] around that rim. And we’ve been up there with the best of them.

“… Rest assured we’ll be figuring out ways to look for what we’re doing wrong and improve on that. … The bottom line is that we’ve got to get better. We will get better. There are better days ahead.”

Cowboys in freefall after latest blowout loss to Texans

If you’re a Cowboys fan who has attended a home game this season, there hasn’t been much for you to cheer about. Dallas has lost all five games at Jerry World, outscored an astounding 187-69. The 118-point margin is the third-largest margin in a team’s first five home games of a season in the Super Bowl era, per Todd Archer of ESPN.

Things aren’t good in Dallas, and that’s an understatement. That spells trouble for Mike McCarthy, out of a contract after this season. While Jones has said he won’t fire McCarthy in-season, it’s a strong possibility that there’s a new coaching staff in 2025.

Jones pushed back on the notion that McCarthy has lost the team.

“That losing the team stuff, that’s so overblown,” Jones said after the game. “These guys are so, first of all, they’re natural competitors. Secondly, they’re so proud of the fact that they are professional and disappointed in maybe the way they executed the play, but that’s not anything that’s brother or first cousin to give up. … Everybody’s certainly disappointed, but that’s a big difference in not knowing that you got to put the foot in front of the other to go.”