Owner Jerry Jones doesn’t plan a major overhaul in the off-season

The Dallas Cowboys are 4-11, and on pace for one of their worst seasons in franchise history. They've won four or fewer games only five times in franchise history coming into this season.

Such a disappointing season typically means there is a fall guy, someone who is used as a scapegoat for the team's failure. But owner Jerry Jones doesn't expect to make a major overhaul this off-season.

"Change just for change's sake? You're not going to have that because I too believe that we're closer than this record indicates," Jones said on 105.3 The Fan on Tuesday.

Jones, though, did say there would be natural roster turnover and could be a few changes to the coaching staff. But the owner certainly didn't sound like he was going to make any significant changes this off-season on the coaching front.

The Cowboys signed Jason Garrett to a five-year, $30 million extension after last season, and also handed multi-year extensions to offensive coordinator Scott Linehan and defensive coordinator Rod Marinelli.

"There's at least 20 percent of this roster that changes every year, maybe higher," Jones said. "So there's going to be those kinds of changes. There's changes on coaching staffs that happen."

Jones said all of the blame should not be placed on quarterback Tony Romo missing much of the season, fracturing his left collarbone twice.

The Cowboys went 1-10 without Romo as the starting quarterback, struggling to find ways to win with Brandon Weeden, Matt Cassel and now Kellen Moore.

"I don't blame it all on the quarterback. I think we should have won," Jones said. "We should have coached them up enough. We haven't done enough things in some of these games that we lost on our way to this record that we could have won.

"You see other teams doing it, and you see another team [the Houston Texans] doing it with our quarterback [Weeden] that left here that couldn't do it."

It’s been a disappointing season for Jones and the Cowboys. They entered the season with dreams of ending a 20-year championship drought, but are now headed towards a top-five pick in next year's draft for the first time since 2003.

"Having a team that ultimately gets in position to win a championship is like holding two handfuls of Jell-O," Jones said. "And just about the time you think you got it stable, it starts oozing out your little finger slot or it comes out the thumb.

"But it's just constant. Everybody deals with the very same thing."

This story was originally published December 29, 2015 at 12:29 PM with the headline "Owner Jerry Jones doesn’t plan a major overhaul in the off-season."