Jerry Jones and Mike McCarthy dug deep into what went wrong for the Cowboys during their first-round playoff loss, the Dallas head coach revealed. 

The Cowboys owner confirmed Wednesday that McCarthy would remain their head coach despite plenty of speculation that he could be replaced after another quick exit from the postseason.

But the decision for him to remain on with the team only seemed to come after the two had a roughly three-hour meeting Wednesday. 

“It was a long meeting, I think we went probably a little past three hours, we talked about a number of topics, the first topic was obviously the disappointment of the ending of the season,” McCarthy said Thursday. 

McCarthy and the Cowboys faced plenty of pressure to make a deep run in the playoffs after their third consecutive 12-win season but fell 48-32 to the Packers in the wild card round.  

Dallas has now failed to make it past the divisional round since 1995, the last time the Cowboys won the Super Bowl. 

Despite the playoff futility, McCarthy had told reporters Thursday that he wasn’t worried about his job status going into the Wednesday meeting with Jones.

“I’ll be honest with you: The only thing I worry about is my family,” McCarthy said. “I’m extremely confident in who I am. I can’t say that enough. So I’m confident in what we’ve done here and I have great confidence where we’re going. That’s really how the meeting ended. And not only where we’re going but we’ve got work to do.

“The job’s not finished yet. And we both know that.”

Jones said he still has faith in his head coach, making it a big point in his statement on Wednesday. 

“There is great benefit to continuing the team’s progress under Mike’s leadership as our head coach. Specifically, there are many layers of success that have occurred this season as a result of Mike’s approach to leading the team, both with individual players and with our team collectively,” Jones said.