The Cowboys fan in me is getting increasingly sick and tired of watching Jerry Jones enable his team to lose without fear. Super nice guys Romo, Jason Garrett,
Jason Witten and
DeMarcus Ware now lead the league in post-loss patience -- in handling tougher and tougher media questions with shrugging imperturbability --
because they aren't afraid of being held accountable by the owner.
Players know the bucks stop with Jerry, effectively their coach/GM/owner, and as long as his seats are filled and his TV ratings are through the roof and Forbes still ranks his team the NFL's most valuable, and he remains the world's best-known sports owner and the most famous figure in fame-crazed Dallas and gets to address the media in the locker room after every game (no owner or GM does that) … players will be made to feel
absolutely no urgency to win.
Jerry just keeps using one of his favorite words to describe his quarterback and team -- "relevant." The Cowboys are at least as talked about now as they were when they were winning three Super Bowls in four years. Monday after Monday, today's Cowboys dominate the debate -- heck, "First Take" dedicated last Monday's first 30 minutes to their loss in Detroit (and Jerry would've been proud of our ratings).
