{"id":460939,"date":"2026-10-09T07:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T07:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/460939\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T07:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T07:18:10","slug":"cowboys-jerry-jones-christian-parker-job-status-talk-is-premature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/460939\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys’ Jerry Jones: Christian Parker job status talk is ‘premature’"},"content":{"rendered":"

ARLINGTON \u2014 While some teams are changing their play-callers across the league, the Cowboys<\/a> won\u2019t be one of them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI do,\u201d Jones said. \u201cYes, I do. He certainly is sitting there, taking it on the shoulders, which goes with the territory. I feel that he\u2019s confident in the things he\u2019s trying to do. I\u2019ll say it one more time. The thing that probably bothers me the most is how they ran between the tackles, so to speak, and have that running game up in there where we have a lot of strength. That\u2019s something we really have to look at and will.\u201d<\/p>\n

Parker, 34, took over an overhauled defense for the Cowboys from the year before. The Cowboys changed the majority of their starters from a defense that finished as the worst scoring defense in the league. So far, the Cowboys’ defense hasn\u2019t been much improved<\/a>. They entered Thursday night near the bottom of the league in most categories. They allowed 24 points on Thursday, which was below their season average, but it came at the hands of a rookie undrafted quarterback who moved the ball well against them and helped the Buccaneers convert on more than half of their third-down attempts.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After the game, Jones wasn\u2019t the only one who backed Parker.<\/p>\n

\u201c100% faith,\u201d Cowboys defensive tackle Quinnen Williams said. \u201cAt the end of the day, we step in between those lines and we have to execute to the best of our abilities, every single down. And no matter what CP calls, we have to execute.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cowboys corner DaRon Bland added: \u201cCP, he\u2019s a guy that\u2019s going to come in tomorrow and we\u2019re going to check\u00a0out the X’s and O’s and see what we can get better at. That\u2019s always his thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Cowboys have some time to find it. They just wrapped up three games in less than two weeks. They now have 10 days before they play on the road against the Green Bay Packers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For now, the Cowboys hope the only change that happens is improvement.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to go there at all,\u201d Jones said when asked for his evaluation of Parker. \u201cI would say that on all sides of the ball here tonight, that we had penalties, I didn\u2019t know about two times we turned the ball over. We did all the things to that score end up like it was. And I thought we had the team that could get out of here with a win. So it\u2019s very disappointing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON \u2014 While some teams are changing their play-callers across the league, the Cowboys won\u2019t be one of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1638,102,104,103,93042,88775,88229],"class_list":["post-460939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-brief","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-dallas-cowboys","tag-tp-jerry-jones","tag-tp-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}