Relating to main choices for the Dallas Cowboys it’s all the time going to be Jerry Jones’ method or the freeway. The issue with that philosophy, nevertheless, is that the Jerry Jones method has confirmed to be a failure for greater than 30 years.
It is long gone time for him to surrender management of the crew and rent an actual normal supervisor to repair the mess he retains creating.
All of that’s again on the front-burner once more following Thursday’s conclusion of the Micah Parsons saga, with the All-Professional celebrity getting traded to the Green Bay Packers for defensive sort out Kenny Clark and two first-round picks.
In a vacuum, it isn’t a horrible return. Clark is a reputable starter on the line of defense — and an excellent participant — and two first-round picks are all the time going to have some worth.
However skilled sports activities doesn’t exist in a vacuum.
There’s all the time extra context at play, and the context right here is that an in-his-prime celebrity (Parsons), that is likely one of the greatest game-changers within the league, and a participant that was attempting to make it work in Dallas, is now taking part in for any individual else as a result of Jones couldn’t get out of his personal method.
From the very starting Jones bungled this contract negotiation, doing the one factor he does greatest — making himself and Cowboys drama the point of interest, and what’s greatest for the crew a secondary matter.
It is the Jerry Jones method. And it is a shedding method.
This example didn’t have to finish up the best way it did. There was a wonderfully affordable end result that will have seen Parsons stay in Dallas all through the prime of his profession and proceed to be a focus of its protection. All it might have taken was a standard sense method and an proprietor whose concern for the group outweighed their ego.
Each main negotiation with the Cowboys finally ends up getting drawn out into chaos. It is all a part of Jerry’s want to maintain him and his crew on the prime of the headlines. It normally ends in him having to pay a participant extra money than he in any other case would have. And even that might not be an issue for Jerry as a result of he will get to speak about how he negotiated and paid out this enormous contract.
This time, nevertheless, the plan lastly burned him.
If you wish to attain, or if you wish to carry Jones’ water for him, you would possibly be capable of put collectively a considerably coherent argument as to how this may work out. Perhaps these two first-round picks will pan out sooner or later. Perhaps Clark is a superb match in the midst of Dallas’ line of defense.
Perhaps.
Perhaps, possibly, possibly.
The extra possibly’s you throw in, the extra doubtless it’s they don’t seem to be going to all pan out.
Clark is sweet, however he isn’t Parsons. He isn’t as disruptive, he isn’t nearly as good and he’s going to be 30 years outdated this season whereas Parsons continues to be solely 26.
Two first-round picks seems good on paper, however the Packers are a fairly good crew — and will likely be even higher with Parsons — and people picks will doubtless be within the again half of the first-round. You hope to discover a good participant with not less than certainly one of them, if not each. The chances that both one is nearly as good as Parsons are lengthy.
Since successful their final Tremendous Bowl in the course of the 1995 season the Cowboys have persistently been one of many NFL’s most mediocre franchises. By no means actually terrible, however by no means good. They are going to make the playoffs semi-regularly, however by no means go anyplace. They’ve the longest NFC Championship sport drought within the convention. They by no means get near the Tremendous Bowl and haven’t been bonafide contenders in literal a long time.
A sane proprietor would have a look at these outcomes and would have fired a number of normal managers for that run. Jones has nobody to fireplace as a result of he’s the final supervisor. And he likes the best way he’s doing issues. The issue is it does not work. It hasn’t labored. And it will not work. Historical past has confirmed that.
