How ‘Bout Them Cowgirls?

Reality check.  Adrian Peterson was held to 63 yards rushing … wait, that’s a bright spot for Dallas.  Moving on …

Reality check.  Dallas’ secondary did not play well at all, and the much vaunted pass rush … wasn’t.

Reality check.  The O-Line fell apart and Romo turned the ball over three times.

Reality check.  The Cowboys really need to find someone who can kick the ball through the uprights … maybe they’ll be putting a call out to Rafael Septien …

Reality check.  Dallas got spanked.  Bad.  It was so bad that Keith Brooking was reduced to a screaming moron after Favre threw his fourth TD of the day when the Vikings were already up by 24 points.

It just wasn’t a good day for Da ‘Boys.  You can be sure the knives will be out for Wade Phillips in tomorrow’s papers, and all over the airwaves.  Tony Romo may have won a playoff game at last – but against the Vikings he was reduced to a quivering mass.  Dallas’ FG kickers are starting to resemble those of Florida State in the 90’s – wide right, wide left, wide right … and so on.

Here’s the deal – Jerry Jones is going to demand that nothing less than a Super Bowl appearance next season will suffice.  After all, the big game is being played in the Jerry Bowl next year.  JJ would like nothing more than to commemorate the first Super Bowl in Jerrytown with a Cowboys win.  One problem JJ – the team just isn’t consistently good enough for anyone to deliver on that promise.  Seven days ago, pundits up and down the NFL scene were hailing Jason Garrett as a play-calling genius.  Seven days ago, Dallas were the hottest team in the NFL – the team everyone feared, as one expert put it.

That was seven days ago.  Reality has set in.  It’s going to be a long offseason for Dallas (again).  Wade Phillips is probably going to keep his job based on the win over the Eagles.  That would be a mistake.  Wade isn’t head coaching material.  He’s a phenomenal defensive coordinator, today’s debacle notwithstanding, but as a head coach?  Not so much.  If the NFL reporters can go more than two days without mentioning Bill Cowher and the Dallas Cowboys in the same sentence, it will be a miracle.  This of course is assuming that JJ hands Wade a pink slip, which is by no means a certainty.

Here’s the thing.  Bill Cowher is going to want total control over football operations.  That means he’s going to want JJ to stick to signing paychecks and staying in his luxury suite during games.  JJ may be able to contain himself for half a season at most before he remembers that he’s the owner and starts marauding up and down the sidelines like a demented Energizer bunny with a bad facelift.  JJ just wants to be one of the boys.  He’s aching to be included.  JJ – you’re the owner.  Take a tip from the Rooney family.  Or the Mara family.  Or Robert Kraft.  Stay off the sidelines, and let football people run the football side of the business.  Your idea of a brilliant trade was to trade a first- and third-round pick for Roy Williams.  Thanks a lot for that.  Williams is a bust, plain and simple.  Every NFL head case and castoff seems to wind up in Jerryville – Demetrius Underwood and Ryan Leaf spring to mind.

Like I said … it’s going to be a long offseason in Dallas.  But that doesn’t mean it will be dull …


January 17, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Dallas Cowboys

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