Dallas' Super Bowl Drought Ends With These 3 Changes

[75boyz]

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.

Yep.
The triangle to NFL success remains with the GM, HC and QB all being very good at their jobs.
The Cowboys GM has had 30 years doing his.
The Cowboys QB has had a decade.
The Cowboys 2HC has been an average to below average assistant for 2 decades plus before receiving this years opportunity to be a HC.

So...
Based on their job performance history how do you honestly feel about that trio leading the team to a championship?

It's not a hard answer, LOL.
There's just a group here that would rather concentrate on the "positive stuff."

But then reality is another option.

Cowboys!

 

[ICP]

You might get #3 but 1 and 2 are still at least a few years off

 

[GMO415]

You might get #3 but 1 and 2 are still at least a few years off

We've lost a lot of Cowboys family, some were in here, over the last three decades. I'm not sure if I'll be alive to see DAL ever play in a SB again.

 

[gimmesix]

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.

You could have stopped after this one. Multiple teams have won without a transcendent quarterback and without having an offensive-minded head coach.

We've had the same bad fortune no matter who the QB and head coach, and the one consistency has been the GM.

 

[Ranching]

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....

Still blaming Dak, too....it's easy to focus on one thing, and Dak sticks out, no doubt...But, anyone with a football brain knows that there is plenty of blame to go around.

 

[KJJ]

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.

You left out the number one reason the Cowboys continue to fail in the playoffs. It’s been their defense! They’ve had some great offensive teams that have led the league in stats and scoring but their defense can’t stop anyone in the playoffs. Our DL consistently gets manhandled by good teams in postseason and our pass rush disappears.

 

[blueblood70]

Did you ever hear , a defense wins championships

Well you know it I mean Trent Dilfer was a transcendent quarterback so is Brad Johnson Nick Foles I mean these dudes were absolutely can't miss generational Hall of Famers I mean Jim McMahon you remember him oh my God that dude best quarterback I've ever seen played the game got that ring he carried that team my mind is going crazy I wish him we had some of these transcendent quarterbacks that weren't game managers oh that's right jalen hurts is a transcendent quarterback then why did they need Saquan Barkley in a great defense to win that game my head is just throbbing right now thinking man if we just had all that..

Last time I checked it was run the ball stopped the run everything else will fall into place if you're not making a bunch of mistakes that list we should definitely get a real GM like the Cleveland Browns the Jaguars the Jets the Cincinnati Bengals oh that's right they have a transcendent quarterback and they've had offensive minded coaches and somehow they still have not won a Super Bowl and right now they're trying to shaft their defensive end because they already paid their offensive players...

I didn't realize all it took was to go out and look for The Raven's blueprint we should have got a transcendent Trent Dilfer and Joe Flacco literally the best quarterbacks to ever play the game 1 Super Bowls..

I mean the OP is straight up on this I mean we should do what the rest of the league is doing we should have went out and got Baker Mayfield maybe Kirk Cousins or we should have traded Geno Smith away and then signed Sam Darnold because they're both transcendent I mean that's what the rest of the league is doing that is what real gm's are doing..

Trying to figure out these real gm thing because they never make mistakes and then we'll hear the response that well when they do make mistakes they have to pay for it they'll fire them well how many GM's would you like to go through until they get it right I would say like centuries for some of these teams the Cleveland Browns with multiple gm's and multiple quarterback tries with 50 or 61st round picks haven't even won a division since 1989 but I would like that GM's name and number or the six of them they've had in that time frame that still can't get it right.

I'm waiting for this blueprint that that's all you have to do is keep getting rid of your quarterback and GM until it just hits I mean that's the key because regular gm's they don't make mistakes but if they do you just keep firing them and the next one keeps making the same mistakes..

sarcasm soapbox rant contd.....

LOL

OP forgot to tell us that there's only one transcendent quarterback maybe two every 10 to 20 years or so, and I'm not sure how we're supposed to get one of those I mean our GM is supposed to be so bad we should be picking in the top 5 every year that's what bad GM's do they hire bad coaches they hire the wrong quarterbacks they overpay for stars and yet we're not picking in the top five like a lot of these teams are but that would be the key to finding one of these transcendent quarterbacks which I believe might be cam right wait a minute no it it has to be wait a minute who is the 2nd pick in the quarterback in this draft who's going next year is there a transcendent quarterback?

Also betting that the OP is trying to convince us that Troy and Roger were transcendent quarterbacks what we both know they were never carrying this team without a transcendent running back an offensive line in the defense I mean the doomsday defense might have more to do with that but sure Tom Landry Jimmy Johnson sure had something to do with it that's a fact but could they do it again in this day and age, doubt it..

Let the op tell me how this is too long he won't read it because he knows he's wrong when he wrote it and finished trying to tell us we're not good enough at quarterback the last 20 years to win a Super Bowl that we should have kept looking for that transcendent guy was I'm trying to figure out who that is is that Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid it might be but again how many of those come along and how can you actually plan for it?

Most of the league is settling for players like Prescott and finding ways to win jalen hurts is not better than Prescott he isn't neither is Jared Goff and neither is Matthew Stafford they just had built better teams and yeah maybe the GM can build us a better team but the rest of that list is garbage it starts with the run game it starts with the trenches and defense does win championships but you do need a good offense but that whole thing is skewed outside of the maybe replacing the gm which I don't know if that's a guarantee the rest of its garbage.

off the soapbox.

 

[charron]

I think it's less about the head coach when it comes to the X's and O's. You need really good coordinators and players. If Dallas had a really good DT and LB they would be much tougher to beat.

 

[blueblood70]

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 hate to break it to you but outside of line one which sets no guarantee i've seen how many GM's come through the Jets and the Browns and the Jags and a whole bunch of other teams that have not won Super Bowls and yet they keep changing their head coach their quarterback and their jam and it's still not working but that's what you want right you just want them to keep making changes I get it the more they change it maybe one day it'll work you don't like this status quo that I get so number one that's fine..

Rest of its garbage trying to tell me that some of the recent Super Bowls were won by transcendent quarterbacks with transcendent offensive minded head coaches no they weren't none of them were jalen hurts is just the same type of quarterback that Prescott is so is Matthew Stafford there is no way you're trying to stay here with a straight face and tell me Trent Dilfer or Nick Foles or Brad Johnson or Jim mcmahon or even really Flacco I mean he was really good going on his run but Eli Manning you trying to say me that guy's a multiple Super Bowl winner that he was transcendent which by the way I think most of these head coaches were either neutral or they were defensive a lot of the Super Bowls by the Ravens the Bears and I don't think Nick Serioni is an offensive guru i'm pretty sure that's why he got Kellen Moore..

You're sitting here with a straight face trying to tell us that we're not good enough to win with Prescott because he's not transcendent but you're going to try to tell me that the Dallas Cowboys troy Aikman and Roger are transcendent no no they're not they may have been great leaders but what was transcended about that team was the running backs and the offensive line in the defense apparently you missed that part or is that part two of your this will help the Cowboys I would take those defenses from the Ravens and the Bears hell I'll take last year's Eagles defense I will take some of those spagnola defenses that are over there helping Andy Reid that then we've had here I will take say Barkley and that OL From the Eagles over a new gm or any of those things on your list I mean you completely glossed over stuff.

That's OK I get it you really do believe that somehow it takes all those things to win a Super Bowl and really it takes a complete team to win the Super Bowl but it more leans on running the football stopping the run and playing defense really good defense stingy stop on your soul defense that is what the defenses were for a lot of these teams I watched Matthew Stafford lead the league throwing interceptions and then throwing two interceptions in the Super Bowl and their defense said we got to that's what their defense said don't worry about it we won't be GMO we won't expect a quarterback to be perfect we we got this..

Aaron Donald in that defense had their back that's how they won those games matthew Stafford's not better than Prescott he couldn't do it in Detroit he did it when he came to a complete team and it will always take a complete team that's the truth so yeah I understand your frustration I understand you'd want a new gm maybe a new gym every five or six years until you get it right sure but everything else you wrote is garbage it's missing a whole bunch of key things because I can go back to all the Super Bowls in the last 15 years and tell you it was more than that.

 

[blueblood70]

I think it's less about the head coach when it comes to the X's and O's. You need really good coordinators and players. If Dallas had a really good DT and LB they would be much tougher to beat.

I don't think Nick Siriani is an offensive guru or or An and O's guy neither is Dan Campbell ,did he hire those guys isn't about delegating correct I mean this is insane let's blame the quarterback and say we need better offense when most of our struggles have been on defense the trenches the run game last I checked the key to all true Super Bowl teams has been run the football effectively stop the run play great defense low scoring limit your mistakes everything else had come together..

.

 

[fivetwos]

Yep.
The triangle to NFL success remains with the GM, HC and QB all being very good at their jobs.
The Cowboys GM has had 30 years doing his.
The Cowboys QB has had a decade.
The Cowboys 2HC has been an average to below average assistant for 2 decades plus before receiving this years opportunity to be a HC.

So...
Based on their job performance history how do you honestly feel about that trio leading the team to a championship?

It's not a hard answer, LOL.
There's just a group here that would rather concentrate on the "positive stuff."

But then reality is another option.

Cowboys!

Agree, and you and I are very much on the same page, but I do understand wanting to believe the best case has a shot to hit. I was there for a long while. It’s human nature to tend to hope for what you want to happen.

In my case, the Green Bay no show thing, after every possible break handed to them by Philly (and two previous one seed no show acts)…followed by on camera tears, a written statement saying they are “close,” then an “all-in” comment immediately followed by the worst off-season I can recall (as in barely trying) was like a left-right-left combo I couldn’t get up from.

Think about that sequence….Cry, think you’re close, say all in, then do nothing. What exactly do the players think? The only reason to be in Dallas is for the bag.

When playoff games arrive, the other team seems to be on a mission to win a title while the Cowboys seem inconvenienced to be there, as if they’d rather already be at the previously scheduled post game victory party.

Jimmy would have put Sam Williams in a doghouse that he never would have gotten out of, and that’s the big difference as to why Jerry’s friends and family method will never work….

Two one seeds and a two. 0-3. At home. Three different coaches. One constant and his big mouth and bigger ego.

 

[crazyeddie]

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'd add in culture change,as well.

The "country club" mentality has to go. That's what made Jimmy Johnson so great. No player was safe from being cut.

 

[leeblair]

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.

Really, the Cowboys we grew up loving are gone.
The ONLY thing that will change the fortunes of this franchise would be to have a new owner.
Driven by the traditions of the past and aided by Jimmy Johnson, the Cowboys commitment to excellence continued through 1993.
The team Johnson built still won a Super Bowl in 1995, but they were a shadow of the team they once was.
Jerry Jones has been proven to be a joke as a leader of a sports franchise, but he has used his business knowledge to capitalize on what this team once stood for and made billions of dollars.
But he destroyed the most loved franchise in sports while doing so.
The Dallas Cowboys we once knew and loved are gone forever. This franchise may be rebuilt by another owner some day, but it will not be the same.
And longtime fans like myself who know what made this franchise great will likely be long gone by then.
All that's left now is the circus that goes by the name of a once great franchise.

 

[ScotsCowboy]

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....

True, but both sides of the ball were as rotten as each other vs GB.

 

[Typhus]

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.

Keep dreaming my friend.
Thats a lot of wishes that will not come true anytime soon.

 

[5Stars]

Well you know it I mean Trent Dilfer was a transcendent quarterback so is Brad Johnson Nick Foles I mean these dudes were absolutely can't miss generational Hall of Famers I mean Jim McMahon you remember him oh my God that dude best quarterback I've ever seen played the game got that ring he carried that team my mind is going crazy I wish him we had some of these transcendent quarterbacks that weren't game managers oh that's right jalen hurts is a transcendent quarterback then why did they need Saquan Barkley in a great defense to win that game my head is just throbbing right now thinking man if we just had all that..

Last time I checked it was run the ball stopped the run everything else will fall into place if you're not making a bunch of mistakes that list we should definitely get a real GM like the Cleveland Browns the Jaguars the Jets the Cincinnati Bengals oh that's right they have a transcendent quarterback and they've had offensive minded coaches and somehow they still have not won a Super Bowl and right now they're trying to shaft their defensive end because they already paid their offensive players...

I didn't realize all it took was to go out and look for The Raven's blueprint we should have got a transcendent Trent Dilfer and Joe Flacco literally the best quarterbacks to ever play the game 1 Super Bowls..

I mean the OP is straight up on this I mean we should do what the rest of the league is doing we should have went out and got Baker Mayfield maybe Kirk Cousins or we should have traded Geno Smith away and then signed Sam Darnold because they're both transcendent I mean that's what the rest of the league is doing that is what real gm's are doing..

Trying to figure out these real gm thing because they never make mistakes and then we'll hear the response that well when they do make mistakes they have to pay for it they'll fire them well how many GM's would you like to go through until they get it right I would say like centuries for some of these teams the Cleveland Browns with multiple gm's and multiple quarterback tries with 50 or 61st round picks haven't even won a division since 1989 but I would like that GM's name and number or the six of them they've had in that time frame that still can't get it right.

I'm waiting for this blueprint that that's all you have to do is keep getting rid of your quarterback and GM until it just hits I mean that's the key because regular gm's they don't make mistakes but if they do you just keep firing them and the next one keeps making the same mistakes..

sarcasm soapbox rant contd.....

LOL

OP forgot to tell us that there's only one transcendent quarterback maybe two every 10 to 20 years or so, and I'm not sure how we're supposed to get one of those I mean our GM is supposed to be so bad we should be picking in the top 5 every year that's what bad GM's do they hire bad coaches they hire the wrong quarterbacks they overpay for stars and yet we're not picking in the top five like a lot of these teams are but that would be the key to finding one of these transcendent quarterbacks which I believe might be cam right wait a minute no it it has to be wait a minute who is the 2nd pick in the quarterback in this draft who's going next year is there a transcendent quarterback?

Also betting that the OP is trying to convince us that Troy and Roger were transcendent quarterbacks what we both know they were never carrying this team without a transcendent running back an offensive line in the defense I mean the doomsday defense might have more to do with that but sure Tom Landry Jimmy Johnson sure had something to do with it that's a fact but could they do it again in this day and age, doubt it..

Let the op tell me how this is too long he won't read it because he knows he's wrong when he wrote it and finished trying to tell us we're not good enough at quarterback the last 20 years to win a Super Bowl that we should have kept looking for that transcendent guy was I'm trying to figure out who that is is that Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid it might be but again how many of those come along and how can you actually plan for it?

Most of the league is settling for players like Prescott and finding ways to win jalen hurts is not better than Prescott he isn't neither is Jared Goff and neither is Matthew Stafford they just had built better teams and yeah maybe the GM can build us a better team but the rest of that list is garbage it starts with the run game it starts with the trenches and defense does win championships but you do need a good offense but that whole thing is skewed outside of the maybe replacing the gm which I don't know if that's a guarantee the rest of its garbage.

off the soapbox.

OMG...are you friggen serious?

Honest question, how many of you read this word salad? smdh

 

[75boyz]

Agree, and you and I are very much on the same page, but I do understand wanting to believe the best case has a shot to hit. I was there for a long while. It’s human nature to tend to hope for what you want to happen.

In my case, the Green Bay no show thing, after every possible break handed to them by Philly (and two previous one seed no show acts)…followed by on camera tears, a written statement saying they are “close,” then an “all-in” comment immediately followed by the worst off-season I can recall (as in barely trying) was like a left-right-left combo I couldn’t get up from.

Think about that sequence….Cry, think you’re close, say all in, then do nothing. What exactly do the players think? The only reason to be in Dallas is for the bag.

When playoff games arrive, the other team seems to be on a mission to win a title while the Cowboys seem inconvenienced to be there, as if they’d rather already be at the previously scheduled post game victory party.

Jimmy would have put Sam Williams in a doghouse that he never would have gotten out of, and that’s the big difference as to why Jerry’s friends and family method will never work….

Two one seeds and a two. 0-3. At home. Three different coaches. One constant and his big mouth and bigger ego.

Our opinions and feelings on management are similar.
Me personally,
I still hold out the slightest youre saying theres a chance glimmer of hope that some day they acquire that one percenter elite QB along with the same type of head coach to be able to win "in spite of" The Joneses.

If only for a year or 2.
And probably a championship game at best before the Jones Boys are able to ruin it.
That's how bad my standards have lowered.
Hope based on pure luck.

 

[Whirlwin]

Well you know it I mean Trent Dilfer was a transcendent quarterback so is Brad Johnson Nick Foles I mean these dudes were absolutely can't miss generational Hall of Famers I mean Jim McMahon you remember him oh my God that dude best quarterback I've ever seen played the game got that ring he carried that team my mind is going crazy I wish him we had some of these transcendent quarterbacks that weren't game managers oh that's right jalen hurts is a transcendent quarterback then why did they need Saquan Barkley in a great defense to win that game my head is just throbbing right now thinking man if we just had all that..

Last time I checked it was run the ball stopped the run everything else will fall into place if you're not making a bunch of mistakes that list we should definitely get a real GM like the Cleveland Browns the Jaguars the Jets the Cincinnati Bengals oh that's right they have a transcendent quarterback and they've had offensive minded coaches and somehow they still have not won a Super Bowl and right now they're trying to shaft their defensive end because they already paid their offensive players...

I didn't realize all it took was to go out and look for The Raven's blueprint we should have got a transcendent Trent Dilfer and Joe Flacco literally the best quarterbacks to ever play the game 1 Super Bowls..

I mean the OP is straight up on this I mean we should do what the rest of the league is doing we should have went out and got Baker Mayfield maybe Kirk Cousins or we should have traded Geno Smith away and then signed Sam Darnold because they're both transcendent I mean that's what the rest of the league is doing that is what real gm's are doing..

Trying to figure out these real gm thing because they never make mistakes and then we'll hear the response that well when they do make mistakes they have to pay for it they'll fire them well how many GM's would you like to go through until they get it right I would say like centuries for some of these teams the Cleveland Browns with multiple gm's and multiple quarterback tries with 50 or 61st round picks haven't even won a division since 1989 but I would like that GM's name and number or the six of them they've had in that time frame that still can't get it right.

I'm waiting for this blueprint that that's all you have to do is keep getting rid of your quarterback and GM until it just hits I mean that's the key because regular gm's they don't make mistakes but if they do you just keep firing them and the next one keeps making the same mistakes..

sarcasm soapbox rant contd.....

LOL

OP forgot to tell us that there's only one transcendent quarterback maybe two every 10 to 20 years or so, and I'm not sure how we're supposed to get one of those I mean our GM is supposed to be so bad we should be picking in the top 5 every year that's what bad GM's do they hire bad coaches they hire the wrong quarterbacks they overpay for stars and yet we're not picking in the top five like a lot of these teams are but that would be the key to finding one of these transcendent quarterbacks which I believe might be cam right wait a minute no it it has to be wait a minute who is the 2nd pick in the quarterback in this draft who's going next year is there a transcendent quarterback?

Also betting that the OP is trying to convince us that Troy and Roger were transcendent quarterbacks what we both know they were never carrying this team without a transcendent running back an offensive line in the defense I mean the doomsday defense might have more to do with that but sure Tom Landry Jimmy Johnson sure had something to do with it that's a fact but could they do it again in this day and age, doubt it..

Let the op tell me how this is too long he won't read it because he knows he's wrong when he wrote it and finished trying to tell us we're not good enough at quarterback the last 20 years to win a Super Bowl that we should have kept looking for that transcendent guy was I'm trying to figure out who that is is that Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid it might be but again how many of those come along and how can you actually plan for it?

Most of the league is settling for players like Prescott and finding ways to win jalen hurts is not better than Prescott he isn't neither is Jared Goff and neither is Matthew Stafford they just had built better teams and yeah maybe the GM can build us a better team but the rest of that list is garbage it starts with the run game it starts with the trenches and defense does win championships but you do need a good offense but that whole thing is skewed outside of the maybe replacing the gm which I don't know if that's a guarantee the rest of its garbage.

off the soapbox.

Took me a while, but I read it, like it and agree

 

[nalam]

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....

Not me or people with some knowledge in this forum, the offensive scheme , QB caliber and consistency offensive play costed those games

 

[75boyz]

I'm convinced the defense could hold every team to 7 points or less in 18 straight games and the Dakstans would still blame the defense if they go one and done in the playoffs by losing 7-6.

Yep, no doubt.