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So, the first thing in the NFL world
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seems to routinely be the Dallas
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Cowboys. And the Cowboys always know how
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to make headlines, namely Jerry Jones.
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truly fierce beasts of the headline
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world, Jerry and Micah,
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and Godzilla versus Mothra. Somebody's
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going to win the headline battle. We
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know Jara loves the attention. We know
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Micah loves the attention. And now Micah
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has asked for a trade. This is a very
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interesting power play here. You have
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Micah who wants money and Jerry saying,
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"Don't hold your breath." You have Micah
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then saying, "Well, then trade me." And
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Jerry saying, "Don't worry about it,
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fans." So, how can each keep getting one
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over on the other? Micah Parsons did
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attend training camp this weekend, but
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he didn't really practice. He didn't
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have a helmet on, pads, was just kind of
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moving from drill to drill, throwing
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footballs and catching footballs out of
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This is the single most perfect
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of the modern Dallas Cowboys.
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You know, we don't have to go back far,
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but maybe for some it is. Tom Landry's
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Cowboys of the 1970s who went to five
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Super Bowls, won two of them, and were
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routinely one of the best franchises in
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football for 20 years.
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At that time, they could make headlines.
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Hollywood Henderson certainly made
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but by and large what it was was
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somebody at the top, in this case Tom
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Landry, who was all business all the
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time, taking the personalities of the
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guys that played for him to Tall Jones,
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Randy White, I just mentioned, you have
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Hollywood Henderson, Drew Pearson, Tony
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Dorset, Roger Stalach. Go down the list
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of superstars that could all draw
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attention themselves and had big
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personalities. Some of them certainly
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did, but a guy at the top that was all
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about business all of the time.
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They won. And they won a lot. Let's fast
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forward to the Cowboys of the '9s. Those
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guys made a lot of headlines. Those guys
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had a lot of players who loved making
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headlines. Michael Irvin, Deion Sanders,
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most of the defense, most of the
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offense. Everybody seemed to like to
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make news. There was the Emtt Smith hold
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out. There was always something.
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the guy at the top in Jimmy Johnson
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was all business. Now, he also had a
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personality, but when it was business
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time, it was business time and it was
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winning time and it was kicking ass
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Today's Dallas Cowboys have
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personalities, that's for sure. CD Lamb,
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Micah Parsons, go down the list.
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But what you have at the top
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is shaky head coaches who have to kneel
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basically kiss the ring of the owner,
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Jerry Jones, and an owner that is not
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all about business. It's an owner that
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wants to feed his own ego and in many
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ways feels like attention equates to
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success, which of course we all know it
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What you have here is the perfect
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encapsulation of why the Dallas Cowboys
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haven't been to the NFC Championship
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game, let alone a Super Bowl in 30
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years. It's this. It's that Jerry thinks
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pumping a bunch of coal into the
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attention furnace is somehow what you're
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supposed to do or somehow is better that
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way. And that winning comes despite all
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of that. that that's disconnected from
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winning. And what obviously he doesn't
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realize is that every time that you make
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news off of the football field and you
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have in Jerry's case a leader that
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really isn't buttoned up when it comes
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to the football side of things, instead
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is kind of caught in his own self
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You don't have the structure to win. It
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is nearly impossible. The only time, one
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of the only times that it could win like
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that was the 95 Cowboys when Barry
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Switzer was at the top and was not a
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strong head coach and tons of
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distractions down low and distractions
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up top and Jimmy's gone and all of that
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The roster was so good and there were
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still the expectations of the Jimmy
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years where you could get one last gasp
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But it quickly eroded and deteriorated.
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96 97 98 they were a shell of their
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championship selves. This team can't
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win. You're watching why it can't win.
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So if anybody in Dallas
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wants to believe that things can be
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different because the roster is good
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enough, they're sortly mistaken. If
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Cowboys fans across the country think
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that it doesn't matter, that this is all
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just what Jerry always does, they're
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sortly mistaken. And if the Dallas
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Cowboys players themselves think there's
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so much talent around here that we can
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win anyway, they're sorely mistaken.
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What you are watching is the very reason
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It is impossible when you don't have a
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winning culture to continually survive
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this stuff. And there's more stuff still
