I don't know about you, but I think the reason the Cowboys haven't been more successful (they've actually been top-10 team in the league in terms of wins this last decade prior to last year's disaster) are pretty apparent. There are 32 teams in the league. The best of them do almost everything well. Our team has been moderately competitive in recent years, but until 2014 weren't really in that upper echelon of teams who were good enough to maybe win it all.
But the reasons we fall short have been pretty obvious to me. We don't pressure the passer enough and we don't defend the pass well enough. The reasons for that, in my opinion is that we had the wrong DCs in place under Garrett, twice, we've been limited in terms of what we were willing to do under the cap going back to 2010, and we haven't devoted enough resources to the defense overall. And when we have, we've taken long shots on guys like Gregory and Carr, and Claiborne, and now, Jaylon Smith that haven't really panned out. Those whiffed moves are squarely on the organization and rightfully so, but a reasonable context would be that those are the types of moves that have kept the team from being one of the very best in the league and not reasons for considering the Cowboys a stinking dumpster fire.
But the stupidity of the 'ok with mediocrity' arguments or the lobbying for blowing everything up and starting from scratch out of impatience makes no sense to me. We're putting together a very intricate puzzle here. Getting mad and knocking it off the table and starting over because it's hard seems silly. If we're really sure we don't have the right guys putting it together, and that the liability in that department is the Head Coach and not Jerry or Stephen Jones, then, fine. But it might just be that it's really hard for anybody to put a puzzle together when Jerry insists on taking parts of it apart while you're looking for the next piece. And that's kind of what happens when he swings for the fences every chance he gets and insists on an open-door policy where players can have access to him behind the coach's back.
