New York Post

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Bills devour ’Boys, turn up heat on Garrett hot seat

- By TED HOLMLUND and JUSTIN TERRANOVA

Jason Garrett’s Cowboys, just days after a tough defeat at New England that raised the ire of owner Jerry Jones, laid an egg at home on Thanksgivi­ng in a 26-15 loss to Josh Allen (inset, celebratin­g a touchdown with lineman Jon Feliciano) and the Bills — a defeat Jones is unlikely to digest well.

If the speculatio­n is true that Jason Garrett would be interested in the Giants’ coaching job if Pat Shurmur gets fired, he didn’t help his case on Thursday.

The Cowboys’ ugly 26-15 Thanksgivi­ng Day loss to the Bills comes after a tumultuous four days for Garrett after owner Jerry Jones threw his job status in question three times following a 13-9 defeat to the Patriots on Sunday. Earlier in the week, NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport said through his reporting that the “Giants have emerged as a real and legitimate potential landing spot for Garrett.”

Whatever the case may be, it’s highly unlikely the Cowboys will jettison Garrett this season.

Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones and executive vice president Stephen Jones will allow Garrett to finish the season — no matter what, reported before the loss by ESPN.

After the game, Jones remained supportive of embattled coach, who is in the final year of his contract in his ninth full season for a franchise that hasn’t been past the divisional round since the last of its five championsh­ips to finish the 1995 season.

“This is not the time for me,” said Jones, who made an in-season change when Garrett got the job in 2010. “I’m looking ahead at winning four or five straight. Every decision that I make over the next month will be with an eye in mind to get us in the Super Bowl now.”

On Wednesday, Jones seemed to intimate that Garrett is on the clock.

“We want the very same thing and that’s for our players to play at their very best, and we want his staff to coach at their very best,” Jones said Wednesday on “Good Morning Football.”

“The bottom line is, we get graded. I’m in business, I don’t have to win the Super Bowl in business every year, I can come in sixth and have a hell of a year. But in this business, you’ve gotta come in first. … So fundamenta­lly, you’ve asked for something that’s a very narrow window to begin with. I want Jason to get it done.”

The hot seat just got hotter for the beleaguere­d coach after Thursday’s flop.

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