This off-season is a great time to completely re-assess how this team operates and puts together a roster. What discourages me the most is this fundamentally dumb way of doing things:
Keeping the same core of star players year after year, expecting different results.
What this organization needs more than “getting the band back together” is a new band!
Day after day, we see on our forum many of our fans saying we need to keep Cooper, DLaw, Zeke, Gregory, Schultz, etc, etc. And yesterday we heard Stephen Jones basically declare that this team just plans on running it back another year with the mostly the same cast, coaches, etc.
Keeping all those guys has produced 1 playoff win in 7 years.
Doing the same things over and over and over and over and over….and somehow expecting different results is literally insane.
The fundamental problems with this front office:
- Believing they are just “unlucky” rather than unskilled.
- Over-valuing their own talent.
- Thinking they can find excellent free agents at “dumpster dive” prices.
- Thinking the current “core” of players is critical to a SB run.
If all we want is an NFC East “title”, we are poised to “maybe” do that again.
Doing the same things over and over will keep you getting the same results.
The problem is the Jonesboys
did not keep the same players for 7 years. They cast off all their defensive players after the 2016 season. They let walk key starters and potential starters like Hutchinson, Ward, Awuzie and even Claiborne got a ring or trip to the Super Bowl with other teams, When they got a trade right, they let DE Robert Quinn exit. Cooper was a 2018 1st round trade because Jerry said the Cowboys never had a no.1 WR forgetting why the no.88 was important for the Dallas Cowboys. Cooper is about to go get a Super Bowl with another team. Cooper is a core player see this team perform without him before the trade, after the trade, and his big season catching balls from Dinucci, Dalton, and Gilbert without Dak Prescott (they were one win from the playoffs without Dak Prescott before losing to the Giants in 2020).
The issue is you do not have core players and you do not keep core players. But you have Jerry the Country Club owner players. Core players were Nate Newton, Mark Tuinei, Chad Hutchinson, Ken Norton, Mark Stepnoski, Kevin Gogan, James Washington, Larry Cole, Bob Breunig, Mike Downs, Cornell Green, Marcus Spears, Chris Canty, Jason Hatcher, etc.
What you are describing are STAR players like Emmitt Smith, Tony Dorsett, Roger Staubach, Micheal Irvin, Dak, and Zeke. They can not win without CORE players around their STAR players.
Jerry Dumbo GM Jones will not keep his core players. Because its all about the Country Club membership in the Arlington Jonesboys. It is not about the Dallas Cowboys.