Cowboy Problems Start At Very Top

The Dallas Cowboys are going through once again this year with their losing record in December. They have not won a playoff game since 1997. What has happened to America's team?

I think the answer is right in front of your eyes, the owner Jerry Jones.

Let's look back to when Jones bought the Cowboys. The very first year he cleaned house. He got rid of one of the greatest coaches in NFL history in Tom Landry. His coach Jimmy Johnson cleaned house on the players. It didn't take long to win two Super Bowls. Jimmy Johnson quit because he didn't like Jerry Jones meddling in player decisions. Barry Switzer won a Super Bowl basically off the same players that Johnson had.

All the early success that the Cowboys had Jerry Jones is thinking boy I am the greatest owner. I am such a good owner I can decide on the players we will keep.

What owner has a press conference after every game? What owner comes down to the field in the fourth quarter every game that they look like they are going to win? Jerry Jones loves to be in front of the camera.

Jones thinks that the show is more important than the substance. This past Sunday he passed out 90,000 3-D glasses in the third quarter so the fans could watch the game in 3-D on the big screen TV. Jerry Jones is the P T Barnum of the NFL. They had to take the glasses up before the end of the quarter because people were getting sick watching the screen in 3-D.

Jones is a showman not a football decision maker. He won three Super Bowls rather early in his tenure and in doing so Jones lost the idea that football people made sound decisions. Since the mid 90's Jones has had puppets in the football decision jobs. He makes the decisions. Jerry Jones is a showman not a football decision maker.

Jones hasn't won anything with out the Jimmy Johnson influence.

Jerry Jones is the next Al Davis in waiting. When he is close to 90 he will be there in front of the cameras wondering why he is 4-12. Jerry Jones don't know diddlly about football, but he thinks he does. He's got enough money that we will have to watch the slow death of a great team until he dies.