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Dallas Cowboys coach Wade Phillips is in the final year of his contract. Owner Jerry Jones has an option for next year, but has chosen to let the season play out before addressing Phillips’ future.

How the Cowboys finish will determine whether Phillips will be back for a fourth season.

Phillips knows as much, but chooses not worry about it.

“That’s the way I’ve always coached,” Phillips said. “Way back [in Denver], when we were 10-6, 10-6, 11-5 and went to two AFC Championship Games and we got fired, I realized that, hey, you can do a great job and for whatever reason, you can be gone.

“So I stopped worrying about all that and worry about coaching, trying to do the best I can do to help the team win. That’s all I really think about.”

The Cowboys are 6-3 and sitting alone atop the NFC East. Phillips has an overall record of 28-14 in Dallas.

But he is 16-13 since opening the 2007 season with a 12-1 record, and the Cowboys still haven’t won a playoff game since 1996.

No matter what happens, Phillips said his spirit and confidence won’t be broken, because he knows he is a good coach and that he does a good job.

“I have confidence in myself as a coach,” Phillips said. “I think I can do a good job, and I think I can help the team do better. Whatever it is, my record shows that. Everywhere I’ve been we’ve won.”

Listen to Wade Phillips on the Morning Zoo. November 18th

Considering that the defense, and the team as a whole, have stepped up of recent, Phillips must get some (fairly hefty) share of the credit. Yet, few are singing the praises of the coach once known pejoratively as “Cupcake.”

So, is it possible that Phillips is underrated?

What is this guy smoking?