The future of the Dallas Cowboys

big dog cowboy said:

Why would anyone expect things to change?

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The definition of insanity is repeating the same action over and over, but expecting different results. Dallas took the same approach to the offseason as they have taken the last several offseasons. It would be insanity to expect some kind of drastic change in the results. Putting aside the cheerleading fans and their unrealistic positive expectations, nobody in their right mind should expect this season to be be any different than last season or the season before.

When Jerry kicks the bucket the team is going to fold. There is no point in having a Dallas Cowboys team without Jerry. To honor his memory the team will end with him. Seems only fitting.

While the future of the team is unknown, what isn't is the nature of the fans. We will complain, we will get angry and we will not do anything.

The choice is simple, go or stay. They've pretty much laid out how this is going to go and when the old man goes toes up, little will change because it doesn't have to change.

Booger doesn't have to win because the fans do not demand it. There are no bag wearing fans like in DET and NO, no empty seats and he continues to bask in the most media coverage of a sports owner in history. Add to this the profitability and value of the team and the rewards of mediocrity are such that sacrifice for accomplishment isn't necessary.

This is not changing. So, you either accept what is or you decide to make the change.

DandyDon52 said:

u nailed it all lol.
Thats about how I see it too. Playoff appearance is a good season now.

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Yep thats about all we can hope for unless a couple teams do something really stupid and we get lucky . Just too many Joneses in that Clan to try and out live

PS I miss your old pics

buybuydandavis said:

Most valuable sports franchise in the world. Not the best GM for winning games, but clearly the best owner at making money from his team.

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Stephen has some big shoes to fill as a businessman/salesman when JJ passes...he may have the Jones last name...but he may not have the skill of his daddy

blueblood70 said:

then fired the defensive coordinator and most of the staff after 1yr people said that wouldn't happen, has let many of his pet players go ,,fans are ignorant and clueless when they want to stand pat on narrative's..

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Three playoff wins in 25 years with the same GM isn't a "narrative", it's reality. No GM outside of Cincinnati keeps his job with those results.

So he fired some coaches after 1 year. Who hired those idiots in the first place?

As long as Jerry or his his son is still in charge without resetting the entertainment culture Dallas will never see the success like we did 20+ years ago.

Get ready for the next 20 years or continued mediocrity

shabazz said:

I know dam well that Dakota and company will fold yet again so there is no mystery about that, I just wait to see what new excuses his apologists will come up for this seasons failure

They are tied to their 160 million dollar albatross.with no way out

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You do know that Dak, only plays QB. I know that you and others, are aware of that fact, but continue to act as if he is the reason for over 25 years of mediocrity. I like Dak, but wouldn't mind if Dallas had a more assertive QB. He does not need elite players around him. He needs committed players around him, as well as the rest of the QB's. The game is not lost or won, at the QB position. Some, that are fans of the Cowboys, don't deserve the pay they receive at their jobs, but they're getting paid.

Empty seats the first game of the 2021 season would be a start in showing Jerry we aren't accepting .500 team production anymore. But, we all know fans will keep on with the entertainment show for the next 25 years. Go Cowboys!

plasticman said:

There are the iconic coaches that you just don't fire. You don't fire the legends, they have earned the privilege of determining their own exit.....and then you build the statue or name the stadium after them. It's respect for what they contributed You don't fire the Shulas or the Lombardis or the Landry's. Besides, they have such a reverence for the game that they couldn't stand to fail rebuilding a team. Landry was only going to coach for 2 more seasons.

Somewhere in there was a diplomatic solution. If Jerry had just respected who and what Landry was to the game, he would have made an effort to preserve Landry's dignity. If he had at least made some kind of effort to respect the Coach then more fans and media would have looked upon him more favorably and popular opinion might have made him the good guy. Perhaps Jimmy Johnson could have even came aboard as a consultant for one season. That may have even been enough for Landry to walk. At least it would have been on his terms.

Instead he's sitting in a restaurant with Jimmy, telegraphing to the world that he's going to humiliate Landry. He even hired a consulting firm to determine how he was going to do it. It was such a failure that that company now looked upon that incident as a major shift in philosophy.

What Landry accomplished was remarkable. He took the Cowboys to conference championship games with four different quarterbacks. He was Bill Belicek before there was a Bill Belicek and the first to admit that is Bill Belicek.

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Legend or not, why wait? Landry, although innovative, was set in his ways. I wanted him gone. The play calling was antiquated, and the breeze of change was blowing into the NFL.

sportsman said:

As a fan of the Cowboys for 50+ years. I treasure the memories of Tom Landry, Tex Schramm & Jimmy Johnson. They are the reason Jerry has been able to load his bank account the last 25 years without providing fans a winning product. The name Dallas Cowboys is the Amazon of football. No brag...Just facts. The product wins without winning.

So don't expect anything to change in the way the Cowboys FO do business. Why change when you don't have too.

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The FO would love for highly paid Zeke to get back to playing near to what he was doing in his record years. But, the thing is, the Bottom Line will be good, whether that happens, or not. A well playing Zeke gives this team a chance to go deep in the playoffs. Without that, it's a crap shoot.

DBOY3141 said:

Stephen has some big shoes to fill as a businessman/salesman when JJ passes...he may have the Jones last name...but he may not have the skill of his daddy

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I expect most people will be happier with Stephen as owner as long as he ends Jerry's PT Barnum act. Instead, they'll blame the HC for the team's problems, like the fans of most all other teams do.

Blackrain said:

Yep thats about all we can hope for unless a couple teams do something really stupid and we get lucky . Just too many Joneses in that Clan to try and out live

PS I miss your old pics

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PS I miss your old pics......you mean of dandy don?

Starforever said:

Legend or not, why wait? Landry, although innovative, was set in his ways. I wanted him gone. The play calling was antiquated, and the breeze of change was blowing into the NFL.

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Landry was always the breeze of change. He invented the 4-3 defense, the flex defense, passing from the shotgun, offensive pre-snap motion, the quality control coaching position, and the list goes on. At the time he was fired, he was working on a new defense. He invented half of what you still see when you watch an NFL game.

You can't stay up there forever and Landry actually set the NFL record of 20 consecutive winning seasons. It would have been a short turnaround and it wasn't his first rebuilding project. Fans forget that the Cowboys were written off at the start of the 75 season after missing the playoffs for the first time in 9 seasons, They were supposed to be rebuilding and they ended up in the Super Bowl that year.

And lets talk about those three losing seasons...the 1st and was 7-9 in 1986 and the second was 7-8 in 1987 a strike shortened season. Yes, technically losing seasons but the only really bad season was 1988. However, I would put my money on Landry over any other coach before Jimmy Johnson when it came to building a team.

And anyway, it is the height of hypocrisy to say it was necessary for Jones to fire Landry because he was too old and the game passed him by. How old is Jerry Jones? At least the game may have passed Landry by. The game has never come within the same time zone as Jerry Jones.

It always saddens me when I have to defend Tom Landry in a Dallas Cowboy fan forum. Landry gave fans and the league so much. He built and maintained a dynasty through complete roster changes players....Meredith/Staubach/White....Hill/Thomas/Dorsett....Lilly/White....Renfro/Walls....Most coaches build that one team and when it is gone so are they. For 20 season, all wending at the bottom third of the NFL draft, the Cowboys reloaded.
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Jake said:

Three playoff wins in 25 years with the same GM isn't a "narrative", it's reality. No GM outside of Cincinnati keeps his job with those results.

So he fired some coaches after 1 year. Who hired those idiots in the first place?

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12 teams have never won the Super Bowl. Jerry has won 3.

jnday said:

The definition of insanity is repeating the same action over and over, but expecting different results. Dallas took the same approach to the offseason as they have taken the last several offseasons. It would be insanity to expect some kind of drastic change in the results. Putting aside the cheerleading fans and their unrealistic positive expectations, nobody in their right mind should expect this season to be be any different than last season or the season before.

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They just need some good luck this season. The NFL is a crap shoot with the salary cap and a 17 game schedule. The Cowboys have as good a chance as anybody. With 17 games the league has way too many injuries. The Chiefs were set up to win and the injuries just took it away.

jazzcat22 said:

Wow how many more of these threads do we need.

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We cannot have enough. Lol.

sportsman said:

As a fan of the Cowboys for 50+ years. I treasure the memories of Tom Landry, Tex Schramm & Jimmy Johnson. They are the reason Jerry has been able to load his bank account the last 25 years without providing fans a winning product. The name Dallas Cowboys is the Amazon of football. No brag...Just facts. The product wins without winning.

So don't expect anything to change in the way the Cowboys FO do business. Why change when you don't have too.

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Having been a Cowboys fan since the first day they came into the league, I too miss the winning years. I also understand that Landry and Schramm had a couple of HUGE benefits that Jones hasn't had for last 27 years. Those benefits are they didn't have a thing called a salary cap nor free agency. When a team found any talent they had them and the team dictated to the player what they got paid. The player had very little options when it came to negotiating a new contract other than if they didn't like the amount they only had sitting out a year so they could be free to negotiate with any team. That VERY rarely worked because then the owners thought players lost to much sitting out a year and those players who did either never got signed again or were offered less than what their last team offered so most players didn't view sitting out as a good option. Jones and Johnson built that Super Bowl team with the help of free agency that had started before Jones bought the team and for the first few years with no salary cap. Once the cap started they were in worse shape than the saints going into this year's cap. The Cowboys were forced to let players walk in free agency and had to restructure so many contracts to get under the new thing called a cap that put so much dead money on the cap. So every year because of that dead cap money severely reducing what cap space they had to sign even their core players and have a shot at signing their draft choices they had to restructure contracts and that vicious cycle started. This cycle went on for a couple of decades until Stephen took over contracts and over a couple years period he let talent walk and stopped the massive restructuring and finally got the Cowboys to where their dead money was low and gave them some room to again retain core players and sign a couple of free agents each year. I'm not a huge Jones fan and one thing that's difficult to dispute about Jones is that coaches and players that have moved on to other teams have said that they never been around an owner that was more passionate about winning as what Jones is. We as fans may not agree with some or many things Jones has done, but those closest to the situation say his desire to win is strong and there. I just wish that some of the things he's done showed better returns than they have.
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viman96 said:

Why is it no one ever remembers how bad Landry and the Cowboys were the last couple of years? The roster was filled with aging vets and Landry seemed to have lost touch with the modern NFL. Many fans wanted him fired.1982 was the last really good Landry lead team (lost in the NFCC).

1986: 7-9
1987: 7-8
1988: 3-13

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the ownership change in 84 didn’t help.

the OL declined also.

DandyDon52 said:

PS I miss your old pics......you mean of dandy don?

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Yep I figured you were Don from the old site