Jerry makes sure this team remains revenue relevant and therefore the Cowboys remain in the sports media.
You can't find any sports show that covers the NFL, where Dallas doesn't have an entire segment devoted to them.
Do you ever see the Detroit Lions covered like that? No. Yet, the Cowboys are playoff relevant like Detroit.
Until the Jones focus on championships and less on the bottom line, count on 30+ years of "good enough."
I think some of your premises are correct, but you got the conclusion wrong. I'd say we have just as much chance as anyone else who would get there with our odds.
You can have the best roster, best coaches, best playbook. But if the team plays well against you on a certain day, or has an especially good, or even above average game as far as just doing their job goes, then anything can happen on any day. So it comes down to odds and chances more than people want to admit, always.
Even the GOAT, Thomas Brady himself, wound up getting entirely lucky in the post-season on his way to the Super Bowl with pure random chance and similar luck wouldn't have helped the average team. But the timing of his luck was significant to advancing.
Three times.
I'm not saying Brady sucks. It wouldn't be true. But I am saying that there is an inevitable amount of randomness that happens in games that can change the outcome, and at the current rate, I think our odds are probably decent we make it within the next 30 plus years.
Just by chance, we'd have a 1/16 chance of going to the Super Bowl, yet a 1/32 chance of winning it. Statistically speaking, if all things were equal, we have about a 50 percent chance to win the Super Bowl over the next 16 years. So, I get the point you're trying to make.
But historically, when we've been able to assemble the right team, we were able to go from 1-15 in 1989 to 7-9 in 1990 then to 11-5, only to lose to the 9ers in the NFC Championship in 1991. .
Then, in 1992, we went 13-3, finally finding our way to the Super Bowl and winning it.
We regrouped for the offseason then came back again and won it again in 1993.
Then, as many of us know and remember well, in 1994, we made it to the NFCC and lost to the 9ers.
But wouldn't you know it? Jerral Wayne was back again for the win and yet another Super Bowl trophy in 1995. This time, without Jimmah.
To say Jerry, a multi-billionaire, can't take his money with him, was losing money when he first bought the team.
Jerry thrives on risks.
He just doesn't want to be a fool about it. I actually give him credit for the job he's doing at 80-years-old, because, currently, he is doing a good job, regardless of his past record.
I'd say, albeit slowly, Jerry has learned on the job.
What people want him to do, and we're all different, is chase the latest shiny object that they perceive as being the missing piece or the shiny object that will take us over the proverbial hump to the Lombardi. That's risky, and will always be risky. But you can't chase those every risk someone thinks you should take because those can backfire, for a number of reasons.
It's not that you have to take a big risk, or every right risk, or you won't have a chance.
The real key, the one no one talks about, is avoiding taking the wrong kinds of risks. These can not only set a competitive team back, sending them to competition Purgatory, or even Hell, but some moves can keep you from being competitive for several years straight.
And Jerry has mitigated those types of risks by not allowing his desire to win to translate to impulsive decisions.
It'll always be boom or bust for some of you, most of you even. But some truly would make foolish moves, so you have to consider that.
As much as people bellyache and nag about Jerry, there's only one owner that I know of who has more, and that would be Robert Kraft. And out of all the people who dislike him, it's for any number of reasons, which means you can't please all the people all the time even if you were a fan-controlled football owner.
Sometimes, you take the loss like a man, unsaddle the troops for the offseason, regroup and then come back the next year relocked and reloaded to win.
That's what makes winning . . . winning. 31 out of 32 teams lose by the definition most fans consider "losing."
But sometimes that losing season is a stepping stone to the trophy you're after.
Jerry is in the best position he could be in right now, staying competitive.. Getting to greedy could be costly, thus sacrificing your chances over a little existential angst or the latest shiny object can just as easily be fools gold, as it could be lack of focus costing him a championship.
