The Go Long article today by Tyler Dunne had a scathing report on Jerry and how he has mangled the whole situation. There are so many snippets I could pull out. Here is one that stood out. There were more that spoke of how he has screwed up the contracts their three main players.
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But the more we learn about the state of the Cowboys, the more I can’t help but empathize for the coach stuck in the muck.
He has quietly proven he can adapt. He’s not the problem in the Dallas.
Yet here’s Dallas, again, dangerously close to eating up and spitting out another shot at a ring.
If Jerry Jones would’ve canned McCarthy after the Cowboys’ rancid 48-32 wild-card loss to the Packers, few would’ve batted an eye. That’d at least hint at a coherent direction. After all, he’s the owner preaching about “glory holes.” If the aging 81-year-old truly was obsessed with winning another Super Bowl, installing a new coach to work with this collection of talent is logical. But that’s the problem. Logic need not apply here. He’ll never empower a head coach to run his entire operation. Instead, we get more meandering press conferences from both Jerry and Stephen Jones with McCarthy barely saying a word in the middle.
As the three men sat at a table to preview training camp, it was obvious — again — that the Cowboys will fall short in 2024.
For a team with so much talent, that’s nuts. Hope shouldn’t feel lost. Dallas finished last season first in points scored and fifth in yards with their quarterback squarely in his prime.
But it’s no coincidence that the only two teams in the NFC that have failed to reach the conference championship since 1995 are Dallas and Washington. Bad ownership finds a way to poison the final product. Because if you’re going to keep McCarthy out of that Packers loss, as one former Cowboys exec explained, at least tack a year onto his deal. Instead, he’s a lame duck. He’s the date worried about one speck of food getting caught between his teeth.
All while the richest franchise in sports manages to botch contract negotiations with their three best players.....