Did you ever find a TV show that you can’t get enough of whether it be a drama, a reality series or a comedy? I have found one that airs every Sunday, sometimes Monday, for about 3-hours; it’s a reality based comedy known as the 2010 Dallas Cowboys.
In last week’s episode, the Cowboys played at home vs. Tennessee, our heroes from Dallas had a QB throw for more than 350 yards, a running back top the 100 yard mark, a WR caught 169 yards of passes, the NFL’s best defensive player DeMarcus Ware recorded 2 sacks and they outgained the evil foe from Tennessee by over 200 yards as they amassed 500+ yards of offense. This is pretty good right? Well the Cowboys lost that game, 34-27.
In this week’s episode the Cowboys took the show to Minnesota and outgained the Vikings 314-188 yards, recorded 3 sacks to 0 for Minnesota yet they lost 24-21. Matter of fact, the Cowboys records stands at 1-4 despite outgaining all 5 of their opponents this season. You may ask how does that happen?
It happens when you have an undisciplined team headed by an egomaniacal owner who hires a head coach that acts more like a nanny than a professional football coach. Admittedly I was wrong to even defend Jerry Jones with friends of mine. You heard it there I said it, I was wrong. Jerry Jones could be the best owner in the NFL but he will never achieve that title as long as he wants to be GM of the Cowboys while continuing to usurp authority from his head coach. Where have you ever seen the owner of a team being quoted immediately after a game in the locker-room other than when the owner’s team has just captured the league championship? Well, this event happens weekly in Dallas with Jerry Jones and his postgame remarks.
The problem with most egomaniacs is that it’s never about the team as much as it is about them. Sure, if the team does well that’s great but what’s more important to the egomaniac is them getting their “due” for what is happening and their own glorification. It is this very problem which ironically keeps Jerry Jones from achieving his ultimate goal of bringing another World Title to Dallas for his Cowboys.
The preceding then leads the owner to hire a head coach, Wade Phillips, who is a solid football man but not a leader of men. (Yes, I apologize to friends to whom I previously defended Wade Phillips with) Phillips makes losing too comfortable so much so that DE Marcus Spears recently commented that “it was more uncomfortable around here after a win with Parcells than it is after a loss with Wade”. Hint: that’s not a good thing!
In the Tennessee game former Pro Bowl Guard Leonard Davis was benched for poor play. To his credit after the game Davis admitted that he basically stunk and should have been benched but not wanting his player to “feel bad”, Phillips immediately came to the rescue to say that Davis would be right back in the starting line-up vs. Minnesota because “he’s a Pro Bowl player”. What does it say about a coach who can’t even let a player criticize himself?
The Cowboys are in the top 3 in the NFL in penalties right there with Detroit and Oakland which is never a good thing. This version of the Dallas Cowboys is a broken mess that spent too much time this off-season dreaming of playing the Super Bowl in their own stadium rather than looking for ways to improve as individuals and as a team, they have nobody to blame but themselves and their owner with the bigger than Texas-size ego.
Whether you like the Cowboys or not, you have to watch this circus and laugh because it’s funny. Jerry Jones fretting in his luxury box as the game comes down to the wire knowing that somewhere along the line his offensive coordinator will dial up a dumb play or his QB will throw a key interception. His coach, looking like Captain Kangaroo (my apologies for insulting the Captain) prancing around on the sidelines as if he just found out that they cancelled the postgame meal. None the less, it makes for fun every Sunday even for a fan like me as I try to enjoy the laugh otherwise I would cry.
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