Dallas Cowboys- Here We Go Again

 January 28, 2025- Tuesday 

Yesterday, Jerry Jones, owner and general manager of the Dallas Cowboys, hired Brian Schottenheimer as the next head coach of the team.  There are several things involved with this.  First, I hope Schottenheimer is very successful.  I hope he becomes a Hall of Fame caliber coach with multiple Super Bowl wins.  I hope he is that capable of a person and is a hidden gem of a coach Jerry Jones has stumbled into. 

The next point is not nearly as positive.  We have 29 years of history that tells us Jerry Jones will not allow Brian Schottenheimer to be the real coach he is capable of being.  Jerry Jones is the self-proclaimed expert of National Football League talent and how a team should be coached.  We have the last 29 years that tells us that is not the case.   

In the press conference announcing Schottenheimer as the coach, Jones also revealed the root of the problem with the Dallas Cowboys.  Jones admitted he always wanted to be a football coach.  He wanted to make more money than a coach did so he went another way into the oil business and business in general.  He wanted to be a coach, so he bought a football team.  His first coach, Jimmy Johnson, would not let Jones be the behind-the-scenes head coach.  Johnson left.  Jerry Jones has been the de facto head coach ever since and it has been 29 years since there has been a National Football Conference Championship game.   

I’m giving Jerry Jones one more year.  I know that does not mean one iota to Jerry Jones whether I follow the Cowboys or not.  He could care less.  As a fan, I’m tired of all the incompetence from player decisions to stupid news conferences. Another year of incompetence at the level of this past season and I will be following a different team in 2026.  After following the Cowboys for 60 years, I will let them go until Jerry Jones moves on from the operation of the Dallas Cowboys.  Jerry Jones is in this for the money first and everything else if it is convenient.  I want to follow a team that says when it is “all in” on winning, doesn’t hire a bunch of old players well past their prime or who are perennial back-up players.  I want a team that is going to try, that is going to work hard every year to win and that includes the owner providing better players and an organization that allows that to happen.  That means Jerry Jones needs to get out of the way.  My tolerance has one more season left in its tank.  That’s it.

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