I am looking at talent with upside . Johnny is only 23 and he wants to be a Cowboy. He has the ability to make plays on the run and he has a good chance of maturing. He was on the Browns. That one factor is enough to make anybody want to drink. The Browns have ruined more QB careers than any other team. I can't blame Johnny for wanting out of that dump. Two years on the bench and the media will leave him alone and
And what?
The media is not the problem anyways. The problem is the player one, and the environment the other.
The city of Dallas and football players that get into trouble are always a bad mix.
When is the last time a problem child showed up in Dallas, was able to lay low and forge a career?
Never. Pacman Jones had issues. Michael Irvin had issues. Greg Hardy had issues.
The microscope is on constantly, the lights are too bright and the celebrity status inevitably brings them down.
The noise is simply too hard to tune out for most players.
Making it worse, the team does next to nothing to shield the players from the scrutiny ("Fix it Rich") and it almost actively encourages the attention because that means 24-7 relevance.
Our own organizational culture makes it incredibly difficult for any party boy to succeed. The leadership at the top is simply too weak.
There is a reason why we almost have to farm boy scouts to play for the team. Get a wild one, they will be wild because of what kind of environment they are going to be active in.
