Dallas' Super Bowl Drought Ends With These 3 Changes

[Bullflop]

Did you ever hear , a defense wins championships

Maybe it takes a GM capable of building an offense and defense capable of winning a Super Bowl.
Wouldn't it be helpful to have a FO and team capable of doing that, too? Best of luck with that.

 

[CowboysFaninHouston]

If Dallas wants to get back to the Super Bowl, they need to get serious about these three things—no exceptions:

1. A True GM – Someone who builds a championship roster based on football IQ, not family loyalty or nostalgia. The days of legacy decision-making need to end.

2. A Transcending QB – Not just a game manager, but a true difference-maker. A quarterback who elevates the team in clutch moments and commands the field like a franchise face should.

3. An Offensive-Minded Head Coach – One who can actually develop an offense tailored to his QB's strengths, not force square pegs into round holes. Scheme matters—and it’s past time Dallas caught up.

Until these three things change, the Cowboys are just spinning their wheels in January.

I agree with the first. 1000000%

I partially agree with the second. not defending Dak, but I don't consider Hurts a transcending QB, yet he won

I agree with the 3rd much less. you have to build a defense to have a chance at superbowl. without the defense, you turn into Detroit, who made the playoffs, had #1 seed and got crushed despite scoring 31 points, because their defense couldn't stop the Commanders.

on the other hand, KC had a transcending QB....perhaps a GOAT, and got crushed in superbowl because Philly defense stopped them.

defense wins championships. Offense wins regular seasons. its been proven over and over through the years.

 

[CowboysFaninHouston]

Did you ever hear , a defense wins championships

 

[CowboysFaninHouston]

Aside from 2023 Dak had some decent defenses under Quinn and failed. Look no further than both playoff losses to SF. The defense in those games kept the game close, but the O fell on their face and couldn't get anything done.

But apparently we're still blaming the D for both of those losses....

what they lacked was a team that could stop the run. that has been a weakness for along while now. even Quinn focused on pass rush, but when you can't stop the run and we have been abused in post season on run defense, then the opposition controls the game. that's exactly what happened. not saying Dak or offense played well. level of competition is higher, there is some drop in offensive output automatically, but you can't give up 170 yards rushing in playoffs and expect to win.

so Dak is not Mahomes. we know that. thus he and the offense can't overcome those type of deficiencies.

 

[Hawkeye0202]

But apparently we're still blaming the D for both of those losses....

And you blaming Dak for everything else since the 90s ( you know, the last time we won a Super Bowl). All Dak's fault .........

I don't see how you guys think these types of posts can have much credibility when you pull them out of a haystack of Jerry's ( Cowboys ) issues/problems since the 90s, to prop your hate for Dak.

 

[RS12]

Jones family has to go. They make your list, or any list moot.

 

[CowboysFaninHouston]

dak needs the defense to hold the other team to zero. It still will be close when he starts choking and throwing TD's to the other team
go dakieeee

 

[Point-of-the-Star]

To take this one step further.

In all three 12-5 seasons the defense was at least top three, if not #1, in takeaways. Obviously that gave the offense a huge advantage.

Yet according to many of the experts here Dak has never had a good defense and 12-5 was all him "leading" the team.

If you don't get those turnovers in the playoffs whatever happened in the regular season to get you into the playoffs doesn't really matter. Once there in the playoffs it's a brand new season. In other words, you need a smothering run stuffing defense that makes opposing teams one dimensional and then has the ability to pressure the opposing QB .

That was not any of those 12-5 team's M.O.

 

[Vtwin]

If you don't get those turnovers in the playoffs whatever happened in the regular season to get you into the playoffs doesn't really matter. In other words, you need a smothering run stuffing defense that makes opposing teams one dimensional and then has the ability to pressure the opposing QB .

That was not any of those 12-5 teams M.O.

How many points did the defense allow in those playoff games?

They very much did their job. They just didn't provide the gravy the offense needed to do it's job.

I do agree that those defenses weren't championship quality. They did play a very significant role in the regular season record and did more than give the offense a chance in the div round playoff games.

 

[Bullflop]

The Dallas Cowboys had a 7-10 record in 2024 with our FO & McCarthy in charge.

All in all, it really appears quite likely that our needs are many to resolve our plight.

 

[john van brocklin]

If Dallas wants to get back to the Super Bowl, they need to get serious about these three things—no exceptions:

1. A True GM – Someone who builds a championship roster based on football IQ, not family loyalty or nostalgia. The days of legacy decision-making need to end.

2. A Transcending QB – Not just a game manager, but a true difference-maker. A quarterback who elevates the team in clutch moments and commands the field like a franchise face should.

3. An Offensive-Minded Head Coach – One who can actually develop an offense tailored to his QB's strengths, not force square pegs into round holes. Scheme matters—and it’s past time Dallas caught up.

Until these three things change, the Cowboys are just spinning their wheels in January.

Everything else starts with number one.
You are never going to the SB without a quality GM.

With our amateur GM we can't even make the NFCCG, 29 years and counting.

 

[Whirlwin]

Maybe it takes a GM capable of building an offense and defense capable of winning a Super Bowl.
Wouldn't it be helpful to have a FO and team capable of doing that, too? Best of luck with that.

The offense in my opinion has not been the issue. Stopping the run on defense seems to be the biggest issue in my opinion.

 

[Cowboysheelsreds053]

If Dallas wants to get back to the Super Bowl, they need to get serious about these three things—no exceptions:

1. A True GM – Someone who builds a championship roster based on football IQ, not family loyalty or nostalgia. The days of legacy decision-making need to end.

2. A Transcending QB – Not just a game manager, but a true difference-maker. A quarterback who elevates the team in clutch moments and commands the field like a franchise face should.

3. An Offensive-Minded Head Coach – One who can actually develop an offense tailored to his QB's strengths, not force square pegs into round holes. Scheme matters—and it’s past time Dallas caught up.

Until these three things change, the Cowboys are just spinning their wheels in January.

One is not happening because even when Jed is not here Jethro will be.

 

[Whirlwin]

One is not happening because even when Jed is not here Jethro will be.

He has three rings, we will get another.

 

[Whirlwin]

Everything else starts with number one.
You are never going to the SB without a quality GM.

With our amateur GM we can't even make the NFCCG, 29 years and counting.

People forget, he has three rings. If we can learn to stop the run,

 

[Risen Star]

Nope. It will take a new Owner. Otherwise the GM he finally relented on hiring won't have the full authority a GM needs to build the team. It would just be more of the circus and dealing with that lunatic's comfortability.

Much like you didn't give that GM the same authority after hiring him by telling him what he needed to do at Head Coach and QB.

Jerry needs to be eliminated from everything Cowboys before they will ever be a sustained winner again.

 

[Pass2Run]

I'm curious. What else would another GM have done that would have been so much better?

 

[RS12]

I'm curious. What else would another GM have done that would have been so much better?

When a star player gets looked at cross eyed by a coach, he goes crying to Jerry. Its the culture that has to change. No coach or GM can be successful under those circumstances.

 

[Chuck 54]

Aside from 2023 Dak had some decent defenses under Quinn and failed. Look no further than both playoff losses to SF. The defense in those games kept the game close, but the O fell on their face and couldn't get anything done.

But apparently we're still blaming the D for both of those losses....

OMG....Quinn's defenses sucked eggs! They only looked good on paper. Quinn couldn't stop any team from running, not the Bills, not the Packers, not even the Cardinals. In those games he never even stopped rushing the QB and leaving his secondary in a mess. He had no answers. He was what negative fans say of Dak....a stat chaser. He beat up on bad teams when his offense ran out to an early lead, but the defense never won games against good teams. His defense always put our 1 dimensional offense behind the 8-ball.

You may have noticed in the playoffs that the Commanders had no answers for the run game either.

 

[MisterWaffles]

If Dallas wants to get back to the Super Bowl, they need to get serious about these three things—no exceptions:

1. A True GM – Someone who builds a championship roster based on football IQ, not family loyalty or nostalgia. The days of legacy decision-making need to end.

2. A Transcending QB – Not just a game manager, but a true difference-maker. A quarterback who elevates the team in clutch moments and commands the field like a franchise face should.

3. An Offensive-Minded Head Coach – One who can actually develop an offense tailored to his QB's strengths, not force square pegs into round holes. Scheme matters—and it’s past time Dallas caught up.

Until these three things change, the Cowboys are just spinning their wheels in January.

I mean ... there's item #1 on your list and then there's everything and anything else that comes after. But that first thing is the absolute key to it all. So long as Jerry persists with the status quo and his utter delusions of being a competent football general manager, the team has nothing but lottery ticket level odds of getting back to and winning a Super Bowl.