Coming off a loss that dropped them to 1-3, Dallas Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy spoke with Rob Philips of the team's website, taking full blame for the losing effort, and bemoaning the turnovers that have stymied them thus far.

“What I don’t like is I don’t like the pattern of the four games that we’ve played,” McCarthy said, via the Cowboys' website. “The points are outrageous. The time of possession is totally lopsided and we’re minus-7 in the turnover ratio. That’s not a winning formula. . . . We need to do a better job bringing our preparation to the performance, and that starts with me. When your team performs and makes similar mistakes, four weeks is a pattern. This pattern needs to stop. And that starts with leadership.”

Hired by owner and general manager Jerry Jones to replace former coach Jason Garrett, following several seasons in which the team failed to win an elusive Superbowl title, McCarthy arrived in Dallas primarily seeking to jumpstart an offense that was clearly talented though to often predicable. While the Dak Prescott led attack has been more than adequate–with the quarterback turning in a historic run of production–it has been the defense that has failed the Cowboys, allowing points at a rate that places them near the bottom of the league. While they certainly have not been helped by the turnover ratio referenced by McCarthy in his postgame comments, attention and criticism has largely turned to the coach himself, with the team not only far off from contending for a title, but in a desperate fight just to get back near .500.

While it's admirable McCarthy publicly took the blame for the Cowboys' struggles, it means nothing if things don't change.

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