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For over a decade now, Cowboys fans have been watching the same movie of the month in December. And no matter how many times the actors change, the movie always ends the same.
In the coming weeks, days, and hours, we’ll see a myriad of blame directed at Wade Phillips for his undisciplined team, Jason Garret for his bland and predictable offense, Tony Romo for his consistently poor play in December, Terrell Owens for his selfishness, and Jason for squealing to the media. Unquestionably, all the blame thrown at this cast of character will be warranted and justified.
However, I fear that, in the onslaught of criticism and indignant calls for resignations and cuts, we’ll miss the larger issue here: These coaches and players are just actors, acting out the script handed them by their Director. Perhaps they could do a little more with their roles, but as we’ve seen over the past decade, changing the actors—even the lead role—has not changed the ending of the movie.
Hamlet still dies.
If the dreadful ending of this tired and overdone movie is ever going to change, we need a new Director capable of writing a different ending. You may be asking, who is this director? I’ll give you a hint: He’s been the one constant on this team over the 12 years since this movie first aired.
We can fire Wade and Jason. We can cut Romo and TO. We can bench Witten. But if recent history has shown us anything, these changes will do absolutely nothing. The Cowboys' problems are systemic--the inevitable ending of a script that is replayed over and over again--and they start at the top.
Mr. Director, I have one request of you. If you truly love this franchise, please sell it.
Sell it so it can become that which it truly is--a football team, not a medium for satiating your own personal need for drama.
In the coming weeks, days, and hours, we’ll see a myriad of blame directed at Wade Phillips for his undisciplined team, Jason Garret for his bland and predictable offense, Tony Romo for his consistently poor play in December, Terrell Owens for his selfishness, and Jason for squealing to the media. Unquestionably, all the blame thrown at this cast of character will be warranted and justified.
However, I fear that, in the onslaught of criticism and indignant calls for resignations and cuts, we’ll miss the larger issue here: These coaches and players are just actors, acting out the script handed them by their Director. Perhaps they could do a little more with their roles, but as we’ve seen over the past decade, changing the actors—even the lead role—has not changed the ending of the movie.
Hamlet still dies.
If the dreadful ending of this tired and overdone movie is ever going to change, we need a new Director capable of writing a different ending. You may be asking, who is this director? I’ll give you a hint: He’s been the one constant on this team over the 12 years since this movie first aired.
We can fire Wade and Jason. We can cut Romo and TO. We can bench Witten. But if recent history has shown us anything, these changes will do absolutely nothing. The Cowboys' problems are systemic--the inevitable ending of a script that is replayed over and over again--and they start at the top.
Mr. Director, I have one request of you. If you truly love this franchise, please sell it.
Sell it so it can become that which it truly is--a football team, not a medium for satiating your own personal need for drama.
