Jerry Jones praises rival NFC coach

Although the Detroit Lions are limping into Sunday’s game against the Dallas Cowboys, that doesn’t mean the Cowboys can take this team lightly.

Detroit has been known to put up big numbers even in losses and Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has a lot of praise for Lions’ head coach Dan Campbell and the job he has done so far, doing so during an appearance on the K&C Masterpiece show.

“I think he’s a natural-born coach,” Jones said of Campbell, who was on Bill Parcells‘s staff when he coached the Cowboys. “I thought he had the temperament, the physical skills to be an outstanding player, and I thought he was. So, he has that added positive dimension that he’s played in the NFL and he played the game the way it was supposed to be played, with everything he had regarding his commitment. He’s that kind of coach.

“I admired him when he stepped in down in Miami and took over a temporary head coaching job at a very young age. He’s an outstanding coach, he’s going to be formidable, in my view, for years to come in the NFL. He’s an outstanding coach today, and I’ve seen some very good things that he’s doing there in Detroit.”

The unfortunate thing for Dan Campbell and the Lions is they are going to have to face the Cowboys in Dallas with the return of Dak Prescott, which won’t be an easy task for them. But if the Lions can pull off the upset, who knows what that might signal to Jones about the future.

(K&C Masterpiece}