Wade Phillips
 

After the Dallas Cowboys beat the Philadelphia Eagles 34-14 to win their first playoff game since 1996, team owner Jerry Jones met with head coach Wade Phillips to talk about a contract extension. Phillips told Jones to hang on.

“I might go to work for this new franchise called Tire World,” Phillips said. “Or I might go to some other NFL team. It don’t really matter to me none.”

Phillips is 33-15 and has two NFC East championships in three seasons with Dallas, but his “Aw shucks” persona is not blending well with the cosmopolitan image Jones, an Arkansas native, wants to project with the team and the new stadium.”

“After posting back-to-back shutouts for the first time in team history and winning their first playoff game, Phillips has options,” a source close to the situation said. “Jones is the one running out of options as coaching candidates like (Mike) Shanahan and Mike Holmgren are taken out of circulation. Plus, he has a certain reputation as a crazy owner.”

Meanwhile, Jones is drafting an appeal to have the NFL let him coach the team, since, as Jones has said, he’s done everything to put it together anyway.

- Todd Hutchinson