Here is the problem with last year: You can make a solid argument that everyone from the ball boy to Jerry deserves a little blame for last year's debacle. Clearly, Jerry and FO did not do a great job of providing the team a good contingency plan for Romo's injury - i.e. adding a suitable backup to the roster. Granted, it's the hardest positions to fill in the NFL, so a little understanding on our part is in order. On the other hand, Jason Garrett has failed to do anything of import without Romo as his QB...so there's that. And finally, (not that the blame game truly stops here, mind you), Linehan deserves a bit of blame as well for failing to win game's in the absence of Romo. But like I said, everyone is worthy of being blamed, as far as I am concerned.
And therein is the rub. If only one person of the above mentioned candidates for blame had failed, and the other's had succeeded, would the results have been any different? Had Jerry provided a suitable backup by NFL standards, but Garrett/Linehan still failed to win, clearly the results would have been the same...and, mind you, so would the blame-game. Jerry would still be under fire despite his otherwise good decisions. Likewise, had Jerry failed to provide a suitable replacement, but Garrett/Linehan did the best they could with what they had, all things considered, chances our the results would have still been the same...and, once again, so would the blame game.
The crazy thing is, this very same exercise happen's amongst fan's for every team, albeit on a smaller scale than the Cowboys because our fanbase is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, (despite what twitter would have you believe) in the world. So after year's and year's of lamenting and complaining, at some point I came to the following conclusion: Second-guessing is self-love for the mind.and as such a huge waste of time.
