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Jerry Jones could name coach Tuesday

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IRVING, Texas -- Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones told the team's flagship radio station that the team will make an announcement regarding its head coaching position maybe as soon as Tuesday.

"We had a real busy day yesterday in that regard and we'll have another busy one [Tuesday]," Jones told KRLD-FM. "[We spent] quite a bit of time on the matter last night regarding coach and coaching staff, [and] interviews that are required in the NFL. We'll be moving at a real fast pace.

"I think we'll have a lot of this done by the afternoon here [Tuesday]," Jones said. "We've been working hard overnight got a lot setup, we probably won't really be ready to talk about this until tomorrow some time. That will give you a good idea of the time frame."

Jones was scheduled to interview wide receivers coach Ray Sherman on Tuesday, but multiple sources said interim coach Jason Garrett is the favorite to get the job full time.

Jones was evasive when asked if Garrett had been contacted by other NFL teams. According to league rules, if another NFL team wanted to speak with Garrett, Jones couldn't stop it from happening. But with Garrett under contract, at least through 2011, an NFL team must first contact Jones before setting up any potential interviews for Garrett.

"I'm not going to get into that one way or the other," Jones said. "And again it's just because it has to do ... you might even say competition between clubs if you wanted to.

"Our rules in the NFL, if we want to talk to somebody ... Jason, of course, does have a contract for next year with the Dallas Cowboys for right now. Just to talk to anybody that is with another club, there is a form and a procedure that you have to go [through], and I visit directly with the owners of the team and usually visit with the general manager if they're different."

Jones said he doesn't feel the need to interview Garrett because he knows who he is.

Garrett said Monday he doesn't have any plans to speak with Jones this week other than to discuss the day-to-day operations of the team.

After the Cowboys' 14-13 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles to close the regular season, Jones said he wanted to make a decision by the end of this week.

Jones is supposed to head to New Orleans for Tuesday's Allstate Sugar Bowl, but that might not happen if he's trying to wrap up the hiring process.

Um, this pretty much guarantees that Garrett will be our head coach, doesn't it?

I bet all their "hard work" went into trying to snag assistants before other teams do...