At a time where REAL NFL teams are playing for the Lombardi trophy....the reality show known as the Dallas Cowboys grabs the headlines. I am beyond sick of the NFLs verson of The Real World. And it has been confirmed by several players now that the season is over....that the distractions and drama in Dallas wore them down.
Whether or not YOU think they should be able to play through this stuff...CLEARLY they cannot. I was shouted down when I said that.....maybe now that the players are saying....Jerry and everyone else will listen. Jerry scouted and drafted hard working no nonsense players. That is what Parcells WANTED. The personalities of the best players on this team have no interest in being Micheal, or Emmit or Deion. Newman, Ware, Ratliff, Witten, Barber....these guys don't need or want the media to have all access to the team. The guys who do like this stuff are not even Cowboys (Tank, Pac Man, TO)....and to often these guys were the mouthpiece for the team because the REAL ballers on the team have nothing to say.
This team needs to get back to football....we flushed an entire season down the drown because Jerry THOUGHT he needed any and all publicity going into the new stadium. He has owned this team forever and still cannot figure out that WINNING will always trump all the charades and shennanigans he likes during a season.
Until he CHANGES....NOTHING will change. Until he stops talking about a Super Bowl before winning a playoff game...nothing will change. Until he STOPS going to the media and saying player x needs to get the ball more....nothing will change. How do you think the QB and o-coordinator felt after hearing the guy that signes their paycheck that #81 needs to get the ball? Until he stops showing the coach up by coasting on the sidelines during the game....nothing will change. Until he stops giving his take on injuries before a game(remember him hinting Romo might play against the Rams?)....nothing will change. Until he stops getting TOO high over a nice regular season win....and TOO low over a bad regular season loss....nothing will change. Until he stops saying...player X will be a beast...before player X even establishes himself on the depth chart...nothing will change. Why do you think Tank was such a divissive force this year? The owner told everyone he was going to be unstopable....Tank believed it...thus he blamed coaches, scheme, playing time etc....for his inability to fulfill the owners prediction. But I guess the coaches got tired of him not filling his gap or getting blown off the ball. Until he stop allowing players to come to him and gripe about their role on the team....rendering the head coach powerless...nothing will change. Lastly, until he stops getting so enamored with people (Pac Man, Owens, Garrett, Tank, Stanback) that his ego will not allow him to admit he is wrong and cut his losses...nothing will change. Sparano was not a big enough name...and probably would have put Jerry in his place.....therefore Sparano went to Miami....and Jerry picked the smartest guy in the room. We had our coach RIGHT here on this staff...and Jerry did not realize it.
Jerry got so excited about the prospects of this team that he just could not contain himself this year. That has a trickle down effect on this entire organization...they got so excited about the prospects of beating Pittsburgh that they clammed up and wet the bed. DeMarcus Ware (who I love) is talking about breaking the sack record against McNabb...as if the McNabb is just going to lay down for him. Crayton is upset because of the quality of the opponent we had to play after losing to the Commanders. I mean this team has just lost it's mind! Regardless of how GOOD you think you are...the games still have to be played...and everyone is going to make playing Dallas their Super Bowl. It does not need the cherry on top that Jerry and some of these players provides on a weekly basis.
Get back to football...and the players will know things are different if Jerry changes.
I am not the biggest Jason Garrett fan...but the fact that he is considering going to Detroit is proof that he would rather get as far away as possible from this circus...than to coach a talented roster in the best staduim for the most recognizable team in all of sports.
