2010 thru 2014 the cowboys were stacked. 7 hof level players. 5 on offense. We could not even get to a title game. Truth is that team should have won at least two super bowls. When you look at the SB era every team with at least four hof level players have won super bowls. So what happen to the salad years. They just wilted away.
No leadership at Head Coach, and no leadership at QB. The same problem since March 29, 1994.
The leader of a football team cannot be the Owner, GM, and Defacto Head Coach and all the same person. If you have this, You develop as Jimmy Johnson described it as a "Country Club" instead of a football team. The Owner, GM, and Defacto Head Coach who are the same person are buddies with the players and just puts on the field a coach of offense and a coach of defense, with Jerry as the team leader. No body is accountable, responsible, with authority and power. That is why Tom Landry won, Jimmy Johnson won, and the limited time with Bill Parcells won. Do you really think you would have seen Tony Romo and Jason Witten (so called team leaders) in Cabo, Mexico week before a playoff game with Landry, Johnson or Parcells at Head Coach?
"... The No. 1 motivator (in the NFL) is fear. Fear of maybe letting down your teammates or being embarrassed or chastised or fear of losing your job. Where is the fear in Dallas? There is no fear in Dallas. It's a country club where everybody is buddies." Jimmy Johnson, 2012.