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2008-2009 Offseason: The Playoffs Have
Arrived But Not The Way We Wanted
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- December 31, 2008 At
8:51 PM EST
- By
Eric M. Scharf
Jerry Jones has insisted that, essentially, the coaching staff
(minus special teams coach, Read) will remain intact, and the
offensive / defensive starters are not going anywhere. Before any
more fans go ballistic at this statement (paraphrased from an
obviously shocked Jones in the aftermath of the loss to the Eagles),
the Cowboys are his team, and he can run them right into the ground
if he wishes.
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- The irony is that we should all be thank God Almighty
that Jerry’s ego will never allow that to happen. We all know how
much Jerry wants the Cowboys to win and win often. He is no greater
a fan than the rest of us, but he is the only fan empowered to act
on his desires to see the Cowboys return to the top of the NFL hill
once more, forever more.
If, months from now, Jerry’s defiant statement holds true, who is
going to transform himself (through shear brute force or Hulk-like
gamma radiation) into the bad guy? Who is going to be the one person
who strikes fear into players and coaches alike?
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- Who will act as the
heartless bully who is capable-of-and-willing-to scare this team and
this organization half-to-death towards following a solid team
concept, studying playbooks hard, and writing clever playbooks with
a purpose, from A-Z? Who will that be? If that person already exists
(player, coach, executive), then, I call upon Jerry to name him.
No, that person cannot possibly be you, Jerry, because you were
willingly put up with so little return on your investment this year,
and, again, you apparently insist on coming back for thirds.
Respectfully: give us an educated guess. If the me-first players
really, truly cared about their money more than being united during
the games they should be winning, then, Jerry, you could simply fine
them (within the legal limit of the CBA), again and again, until the
players begged you to put food back on their families’ table . . .
or until they simply decided they should earn their keep.
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- So, again,
who is going to be the big bad wolf, the big bad Jimmy Johnson, the
big bad Tuna . . . without hiring a new head coach and without
hiring a new GM-like hatchet man? Who is going to grab your
organization by the throat like Darth Vader, Jerry?
Until someone from the organization can answer that question, with
any validity, then, all fans (both forgiving and incensed)
can-and-should expect Jerry to pull the trigger on another big
change (whether involving a coach or a player). We, the fans, have
absolutely ZERO proof to the contrary, no matter who "is in place."
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- Give me, us, everyone an answer, or a best guess. I double dog dare
you.
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