Mike McCarthy is back for another season. The Dallas Cowboys are not making a change

Jerry Jones is standing pat.

He is not making a coaching change and Mike McCarthy will be back for fifth season as coach of the Dallas Cowboys.

There has been much speculation about McCarthy’s future since the Cowboys’ 48-32 season-ending playoff loss to Green Bay Packers.

It was a loss that Jones called unconscionable, surprising and the most painful of his tenure as Cowboys owner and it came in a season in which Jones felt the Cowboys had a golden opportunity to end a 28-year gap and reach the NFC title game if not the Super for the first time since their last title in 1995.

McCarthy has a 1-3 mark in the playoffs and the Packers game was especially disappointing because the Cowboys were outplayed and out coaches from the outset, falling behind 27-0 in the first half, being booed by the shocked home fans, who had all but departed AT&T Stadium by the four quarter.

But time has allowed Jones to remember the successes the Cowboys have had under McCarthy, who has led them to three straight 12-5 seasons, two NFC East titles and three straight trips to the playoffs.

McCarthy is the first coach in Cowboys history to win 12 games in three straight seasons.

Jones released this statement on his decision Wednesday night:

“I believe this team is very close and capable of achieving our ultimate goals and the best step forward for us will be with Mike McCarthy as our head coach. There is great benefit to continuing the team’s progress under Mike’s leadership as our head coach. Specifically, there are many layers of success that have occurred this season as a result of Mike’s approach to leading the team, both with individual players and with our team collectively. Mike has the highest regular season winning percentage of any head coach in Cowboys history and we will dedicate ourselves, in partnership with him, to translating that into reaching our post season goals. Certainly, Mike’s career has demonstrated post season success at a high level, and we have great confidence that can continue.

Further, our loss on Sunday is shared by everyone here, not just Coach McCarthy. Our players. Our coaches. Our front office. Myself. There is accountability for our results. I am accountable for our results. The lens we use to view and evaluate Coach McCarthy is holistic. While we’re all disappointed with the result on Sunday and with our playoff record, I am 100 percent supportive of him as our head coach and ability to reach our goals.

We will start our process of review and decision making regarding everything that impacts our team and roster and, while we’re not going to address specific players and extensions or free agents at this point, it deserves our deepest review and consideration, and it will get it.”