Dallas Cowboys Reportedly Have ‘Very Real’ Interest In Urban Meyer For Head Coaching Job

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The Cowboys lost again on Thursday night and while Jerry Jones isn’t ready to shake things up just yet it appears that he might be already looking at candidates to take over next year for Jason Garrett.

After the Cowboys lost to the Bears on ‘TNF’ Jones reiterated that the same coaches and players would be on the team next week.

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“We’ll line them up here next week,” “We’re going to go practice, and we’re going to try to win a football game. Everybody that’s in here that’s healthy will be playing, and everybody who is in here coaching will be coaching. We’ve just got to play better.”

According to NFL Network’s Jane Slater Stephen Jones spoke with Urban Meyer recently and that the team has ‘very real’ interest in hiring if they decide to part ways with Garrett.

While speaking to Colin Cowherd back in October Meyer said he would “absolutely’ take the Cowboys job if it were made available to him.

Pure speculation, because I know [Riley], but I don’t know him like that, but that’s the one [job],” Meyer said. “That’s the New York Yankees, that’s the Dallas Cowboys, that’s the one. Great city, you got Dak Prescott, you got Zeke Elliott, you got a loaded team, and I can’t speak for [Riley] obviously — I hate to even speculate — because I don’t know him, that’s really not fair, but to me, that’s the one job in professional football that you kind of say, ‘I gotta go do that.’”

After Meyer mentioned that it’s the “one job” that any coach would have to consider, Cowherd asked him if he would be open to taking it if the Cowboys called.

Absolutely. Absolutely,” Meyer said. “That one? Yes.”

While it does seem like Urban is on Jerry’s list he’s going to have to beat out a lot of highly qualified head coaches on the market to get the job.