Okay, well, now that football season is over for all intents and purposes I think it is time we start looking toward what is really important - you know, the cruise in January. Give me a break people. It's all I got. But before we go there I just have a few things to say about the Cowboys then I won't mention them again until next year.
The Cowboys owner and GM is barely marginal as an owner and sucks as a GM. Worst of all, the owner won't fire the GM because, oh yeah, it's him! The head coach is worse at coordinating an offense than the GM is at managing a team. But here is an interesting fact, he is not the offensive coordinator. He just assigned himself the duty of calling offensive plays or maybe the stellar GM made that decision, who knows. There is a guy, Bill Callahan on the coaching roster who is supposedly.... get ready for this 'cause it's greatness..... he's the Offensive Coordinator/Offensive Line Coach.
Yes that's right, the guy who is supposed to be coaching the worst part of this team (the offensive line), is also the guy who is supposed to be coordinating the offense and on most other teams, he would be calling the offensive plays. Either he has the worst and most uncoachable offensive line in the NFL or he sucks at his job. Or perhaps both. It's all starting to make sense. For the last 19 years the owner has hired mostly inadequate people as head coach and then not allowed them to do half of their job while he has done half of it (poorly) for them. It works out great for him. Most of them with the exception of Bill Parcells were just happy to have a head coaching job in the NFL so they couldn't say to Jerry, "we do it my way or I walk" since Jerry's response would be, "with what I'm allowing you to do, my granddaughter's brownie troupe could do your job, so okay". So, the pattern has been, hire an inadequate person to do a job that we all know they are unqualified for, then do the job for them since it is the job you wanted in the first place. When you fail, fire the person with the title then go out and find another pansy who will just take the ridiculous sum of money for another couple of years while you do his job poorly. Jerry has done it with head coaches for years.
So on this go around the head coach is a former player who was never good enough as a player to get a starting job but a lot of the fans wanted to coach this team and who, yes, we all know because we've heard it 1,000,000 times, went to Princeton. This guy was going to be the savior. Well guess what. The same puppet master is still pulling the strings. The only difference this time around is that one of the puppets is actually holding another set of strings in his hand. Folks, if the puppet is holding strings, the puppet master is still making the moves. So here is what you've got, you have an owner who is also the GM, the coach has no authority, which means that the owner is making most of the coaching calls, the offense is being run by the coach who, perhaps I mentioned this previously, HAS NO AUTHORITY, so the offense is also being run by the owner. If Jerry could figure out a way to put himself or a member of his family in every position on this team, he would do it.
I can see it now, Charlotte Jones at center snapping the ball to Jerry, while Stephen and Jerry Jr. block and then Jerry throws the ball to himself and who can't get down field to catch it, so he starts crying and blames the head coach who he fires as a result. Well, I say it every year about this time, I am over it. Another year has been wasted. And many more will continue to be wasted. Unless a rogue West Nile carrying mosquito makes it's way into the owners box at the Deathstar and does away with the entire Jones family, we have seen the last football championship in Dallas. Jerry Jr. or Stephen will take the team over when Jerry is gone and since they share a brain, they will be no better. We can't even make Jerry buckle under by not going to games. If we try that the entire country of Mexico just buys the tickets and goes, so Jerry still gets his money.
So, here's the plan. Quit caring. It's just easier this way. I know, I say this and then next week, I'll be right back there, watching and caring. But if we start some kind of support group that meets at game time and we are allowed to only talk about things like sodding a lawn or when to plant trees, we'll be happier! I promise, this could work. We could all bring pictures of our pets or children in Rangers gear and pass them around the room. Who can resist a Chihuahua wearing a Rangers cap???? Not me! Be strong my friends, we'll get through this! In the meantime, root for the mosquitoes!!!!!
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