A “look over there, but not over here” take from Mike.
Would you rather win 12 games, get the 2 seed, and be the 1st team to ever lose to a 7 seed in the Wild Card game?
Or
Sneak into the playoffs at 9-8 and make a Super Bowl run?
Your 12 win seasons mean nothing. All we got from them is a Wild Card win against the 8-9 Bucs.
This is the accepted behavior of this organization. Jerry let this run rampant throughout the Jason Garrett era.
Our best team since the triplets was the 2006/2007 teams, both teams lost. To this day I was saying we should have fired Wade Phillips after losing to the NYG in 07.
Jerry does not let this team bottom out nor does he try to go all out and win.
As a Cowboys fan in my 40's I first had saw 89-95 era, it all happened so fast. Even before free agency, Jimmy did a full rebuild and went from 1-15 to SB Champ in 4 years.
1-15,7-9, 11-5, to 13-3 SB champs.
Why not be like the Niners, Rams, Eagles, go out and get competent coaches and go after players via trade or free agency and ACTUALLY go all in.
We spend cash in the bottom tier of the league, we hire has been coaches, make the most profit, most revenue, highest franchise value. What am I missing here?
The team is doing exactly what Jerry wants it to do...
Drive interest, he has a set budget he spends on the team every year, he is in auto pilot. He doesn't care.
He could have hired a Shanahan, McVay, Harbaugh, LaFleur, you name the candidate. Jerry does not care about winning the SB.
rant over.... for now