MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. -- Mike McCarthy stepped off the podium and was about to walk inside the Dallas Cowboys' locker room when he stopped and wished the assembled media a merry Christmas.
The Cowboys had just lost 22-20 to the Miami Dolphins on a last-second field goal, and there was frustration over many things that went wrong, but the coach was not ready to concede anything about what his team's season can be.
"I think the resilience, the battle, the grit that you are looking for, I think we clearly have that," McCarthy said.