Wait. I would like responding completely but a question first. Who has absolved Prescott and McCarthy's job performance because Jones hired them?
My reading comprehension of this OP is that it either implies or directly states that it does not matter what coach or QB or any other entity is hired, drafted or acquired...
That as long as it remains under Jerry's watch, then the sole blame for dysfunction remains with Jerry.
My response and posts to this premise is centered around the McCarthy era of Cowboys football.
The OP's gist would be more understandable if we were still in the midst of Jason Garrett's tenure and I would share in giving the lion's share of the blame to a GM who hired an unqualified, inept coach and stuck with him for a decade.
I too would bring the blame pie to most assuredly resting on that GM.
It's different when he chose Mac for coach.
Mac's accomplishments stand on their own merit.
He was hired primarily to win playoff games and a Superbowl because he had done it before.
This OP attempts to wrap all the McCarthy era dysfunction into the same blame game scenario as to under Garrett's watch. And that is to blame the GM for the hiring if the coach. That was the right mindset then. Cuz Garrett didn't know what he was doing.
Supposedly, as per his past accomplishments, McCarthy does.
I hold McCarthy individually responsible in failing to prepare this team.
I hold Jerry responsible for hiring an unqualified coach in terms of the Garrett era blame pie.
