You haven’t been following the Cowboys long if you thing anything “has to happen” under the direction of the nimrod father-son duo. They’ve made this franchise totally irrelevant and even less than an afterthought. They killed it.
In 2016 we were 13-3. We had a series of good drafts, had a great O-line plus Dak and Zeke playing very well. The Joneses didn't stop us from having a real shot at the Super Bowl that year.
Unfortunately, we had to contend with a HOF QB in our conference who happened to have a sterling record against our D coordinator Marinelli and who has good memories of our stadium because he won a Super Bowl in it. I really believe that if we had avoided Rodgers that year, we at least got to the SB. But who knows, and who knows if Garrett would have been good enough to win it.
Look I'm not going to defend the Joneses too much...but look at Cleveland for so many years. Look at Jacksonville now. We are not the only ones with meddlesome or blundering owners. The real reason we aren't bathing in the glory of the 90s is because of the salary cap and parity. To beat that, you need outstanding coaches and the Belichicks of the world are rare, rare birds. You also need to hit gold in multiple drafts. We did that too with our O-line and Dak. It's not impossible even with the Joneses.
Whether Jerry wouldn't meddle with a great coach is a fair question, but we've had other opportunities too. Wade Phillips, 13-3 in 2007 the year after Parcells left barely lost to the Giants in the playoffs, who won the whole thing. And even Parcells, who was here four years, once said that Jerry Jones was the subject of "misperception."
Besides, even if Jerry did finally throw in the towel and took his hands off, that does not guarantee success. Imagine if he hired someone like Chicago hired Ryan Pace, who then traded up to draft Trubisky? GMs across the league routinely whiff in drafts and make dumb decisions. In fact you could arguably make the case that Jerry's worst decision in recent years (outside of hiring McCarthy) has been taking his hands off the drafts and allowing Marinelli to pick players.
