The time to have built the team around Dak is when we had MM as Head Coach and Dan Quinn as DC. Both Jerry and his son were too cheap to go out and get the horses - especially on defense - to put them in a spot to compete. We all had our criticisms of Big Mike and Quinn, but they at least had NFL credibility from other franchises. How many consecutive seasons, were we as fans, screaming to go out and sign Bobby Wagner to man the middle linebacker position. Imagine if we brought in someone like a Quinnen Williams or Deron Payne to shore up the DT position. Those guys along with Parson might have made a difference.
Instead, he waits until he has two unproven, never-was coaches in Schotty and Parker to decide that he is going to get aggressive and try to go all-in. Worse, we pissed away premium 2027 draft picks that we could have used in what is supposed to be a very strong draft pool next year.
Here's the summation and it isn't pretty. We have overpaid for below average JAGs like Bland, Ferguson, and Leupke; thrown away 4th round picks on Mingo and Milton - both of whom will never play a meaningful game for the Cowboys; placed our faith in two unproven coaches trying to make it up on fly; a $60 million QB who has an over-inflated opinion of himself - all led by a narcissistic owner and his nepo son, who believe and sell every year that this team is special. Meanwhile, us fans are living in perpetual purgatory.