When you are the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys, you are a dead man walking half the time.

However, Jason Garrett is finding a way to stick around and impress owner Jerry Jones, who had high praise for the coach after the Cowboys' win over the Seattle Seahawks in the NFC Wild Card Round of the playoffs on Saturday night:

“I think that this win against a very credible Seattle team will make people think more highly of Jason,” Jones said, per Charean Williams of Pro Football Talk. “And you look around at all the teams that are on the search for Red October, trying to find them a head coach right now, and we’ve got one that has a lot of experience on our dime over the last several years. And I’d like to use it.”

Garrett's contract expires at the end of 2019, but with the way Jones is talking about him, there seems like a good chance he will be around past that point:

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“It is a feeling that I’m proud for him,” Jones said. “I know how hard he works. He’s right there with the hardest working coach that we’ve had, and that’s supposed to pay off. But he certainly has some things that he’s worked on, like all of us do, and he’s gotten much better at it. But I know that he’s worked real hard to put a team like this, young team on the field, a lot of his fingerprints are on this team, and so I’m proud that he’s having this success as a head coach.”

This marked just the third playoff win for the Cowboys since 1997, with Garrett laying claim to two of those victories.

Dallas' Divisional Round opponent is currently undecided and depends on the result of the Wild Card matchup between the Chicago Bears and Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday. If the Bears win, the Cowboys will take on the New Orleans Saints. If the Eagles win, Dallas will battle the Los Angeles Rams.