A Cowboys legend would’ve made a coaching change.

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones decided to run it back with Mike McCarthy despite getting blown out at home, 48-32, by the Packers in the wild-card round of the playoffs this season.

Legendary former running back Emmitt Smith, 54, joined CBS Sports Radio’s “Maggie and Perloff” on Thursday and expressed disappointment with the loss to Green Bay.

“Our team just simply seems to be lost,” Smith said.

“I mean, I just cannot put my finger on why it looks so, so bad.”

Smith was asked why, then, McCarthy, 60, is returning as head coach of the Cowboys next season.

“Because I’m not the GM,” Smith said.

“And to be honest with you, I thought that that move would have been made because of how bad it looked. I think our team and organization right now give the appearance of being a great organization and a great team.

“And they sell everybody on it every year, and selling people on it and getting the ratings around it is something that’s important. But I think there are things that are much more important than all of the hype. I’ve never known the Cowboys organization to be a hype organization.”

The Cowboys have just four playoff wins since the turn of the century, and have not reached a conference title game since Smith’s Cowboys team won the 1995-96 Super Bowl — their third championship in four years.

“But I think overall … We make the playoffs, we look like we are capable of going all the way, but we don’t, for some odd reason,” Smith said.

“I think that’s a mental block. I think it’s part of preparations of players not meeting the challenge and the expectations of becoming great and establishing your dominance as an individual player or as a group of men. I don’t see that consistently from our team and our organization.”

The Cowboys have won 12 games three straight seasons, but only have one playoff win and have not made it past the divisional round.