Jerry Jones isn't throwing in the towel on his Cowboys yet.
The team owner isn't happy over Dallas' 24-22 loss to the previously winless Jets, nor is he pleased that the Cowboys have lost three in a row.
However, he's optimistic the team can still win out the NFC East and turn its slide around.
"I'll say this. I think the way that we are by virtue of what you saw tonight, the Jets stepping up here and beating us like that," Jones told reporters when asked the upcoming Eagles game, via NFL.com. "I think it's all about where you end up in your division. I think the competition against each other and the competition within the division, I think that's where it all is.
"Now, ultimately, if you're one of the really top teams, which we're not, we are not ... I hope that someday this season we could be one of the top teams. We certainly were not tonight. I hope that we can do better than just win our division, although I'll take that right now in this circumstance. But I hope that we can get out there and get a little special positioning in the playoffs."
The Cowboys are 3-3 record and tied with the Eagles on top of their division. The Eagles also lost Sunday to the Vikings, which means a Cowboys win over the Jets would have put Dallas in the driver's seat of their division.
"This was a big game for us. Every one in your division is big, but this was a big game," Jones said. "We could've been 4-2 and it didn't have anything to do with... I don't care if they're 5-0 and 1-4. We suffered another loss because of it.
"It's a bloody nose to us."
Sadly for Jones, the "bloody nose" was suffered on his 77th birthday. Despite this, Jones said he isn't going to make any rash decisions and fire coach Jason Garrett or press the panic button yet.
"I'm going to be very trite. I was a lot happier with what he had done the first three games than what's happened the last three games," Jones said of Garrett. "But the big thing I want to say is it's not just him. This is across the board. That had a lot of input out there (Sunday) to get in that spot."