A much better question is can we finally win back to back playoff games with the following impediments to making deep playoff runs?
- Jerry is our owner
- Jerry is our GM
- Jerry is our head coach ("Ol' Schotty" is the scapegoat in waiting)
- Ol' Schotty, our head coach lacks the power to hire and fire players and coaching staff
- Jerry sets the culture
- If the players are cool with Jerry, then they don't answer to the head coach or anyone else but Jerry
- Our home games feature blinding sunlight, further evidence that our owner/gm/hc cares more about ascetics than winning ball games.
- Our FO is almost a non-factor in free agency (only Super Bowl winning teams are aggressive in FA.
- 31 other NFL GMs are working 18 hour days to improve the roster while Jerry is distracted with signing the next motocross race or bringing that hack George Strait back for a concert at the Death Star.
- Jerry holds weekly radio shows to discuss strategy normally performed by the head coach.
- Jerry hold a presser at the same time as the "head coach" after every game (unless we are embarrassed and then Jerry is nowhere to be found.
Since the above items remain constant in Dallas, it is really difficult (impossible for 30 seasons anyway) for a team so mismanaged to make it to the NFC Championship game with so many obstacles to winning. How many years have we heard we have a Super Bowl roster? And how many playoff games ended in a loss because our defense can't make a stop? Have we fixed our defense so we can make a deep playoff run? You know the Aaron Rogers 4th and 25 defense from a few years ago? Have we fixed the defense that could not stop a hobbled Aaron Rogers in green Bay when Dez caught the ball with 4:58 left in the 4th quarter? Have we fixed the defense that could not force a 3 and our after Romo fumble in Seattle? Because that is why we lost those playoff games because our defense is soft once we play in the playoffs.
Dak may have a great year or a terrible one, but Jerry's insistence on embracing a losing model (The Jones Model - hc has no power, Jerry does the press conferences and radio shows, our home games have blinding sun, Jerry hires the staff for the "head coach", etc.) remains the elephant in the room. Dak couldn't win here, Romo couldn't win here, Bledsoe couldn't win here, etc.
Until the Jones model of management changes, the outcome is predictable. And it doesn't matter if Dak, Romo, or Anthony Banks (Cowboys preseason only) is under center.