FRISCO, TX When you’re 0-3 at home and winless in your last four games, if you also consider the playoff loss to the Green Bay Packers in January, you can’t twist the facts into a cushion that will ensure a soft landing possible after being pushed out of the base. aware of the reality of the situation, and that reality says the Dallas Cowboys are currently devastated at AT&T Stadium.

Can they fix it? Of course, considering they were the best in the entire NFL on their home field prior to the aforementioned loss in January, and returning to that level of play will be key in their self-reflection heading into the bye week.

When asked about the current state of affairs, owner and general manager Jerry Jones was candid.

“Okay, that was a long day, thanks to Detroit, and thanks to a lot of things you can criticize about what we did there today,” Jones said. “That can’t be us. That can’t be true. That’s not us. We have to judge that.”

But even Jones admits the solution isn’t magical and will suddenly appear in the next two weeks before they take the field at Levi’s Stadium. The biggest positive in that equation is that the game is on the road, where the Cowboys are undefeated, but as everyone knows, it’s also against a 49ers team that has been the bane of Dallas’ existence as of late.

And after that, the schedule doesn’t exactly change.

“We definitely have a bye week, but there’s nothing magical about a bye week,” Jones said. “You can do some things differently (as far as the things that bit us today). This was very concerning and it was very humiliating and it was very – I felt bad for all of our great fans, especially the ones in the stadium and certainly the ones that are all about the Cowboys.

“So we have a lot of work to do.”

A .500 record coming off three home losses is something no one could have rightfully predicted, but it is where the Cowboys find themselves in mid-October. Their next home game is against the Philadelphia Eagles on November 10, a divisional matchup that could help determine different scenarios as the season approaches December.

“We all know you should feel better at home,” Jones said, confused. “I think that is an advantage. You don’t travel. You sleep in your own bed. At home that should be an advantage and that is one of the first things you look at.

“How come we don’t play better when we have the advantage against the other team? You wake up in the morning and you’re in familiar territory. Those are all things to think about. But overall I think my message is , I know you don’t need to hear me say this, but I am well aware that we are in the proverbial sh-tter right now.

However, that doesn’t mean Jones wants to push head coach Mike McCarthy out the door, as he made clear after the loss to the Lions.

“I don’t look at that as hypothetical,” Jones said. “I’m not going to be hypothetical in considering a coaching change, and I’m not at all.”

With that predictable speculation seemingly put to bed, the Cowboys are forced to spend the next few days staring in the mirror and deciding who they are and how they want to be defined when the 2024 season is all said and done.

Because there is a gap between these two things right now.