All praise and glory goes to Jerry Jones for another memorable Cowboys season. Jones is desperate to prove that his way is the right way. Season 17 in showing that his way in any way but the right way, all glory and praise must go to Jerry for another train wreck season. Yes, it feels like I've written this blog several times already.
There are many bad things about Jones
I understand that the NFL will probably never step in and take away ownership of the Cowboys from the Jones family. The Cowboys and Jones simply make so much money and bring too much attention to the NFL. That's sad news for Cowboys fans who have to live with this once great franchise. I do wonder when more Cowboys fans will tire of this mediocrity and stop financially supporting Jones. (Fellow Cowboys fans please stop supporting Jones idiocy by purchasing Cowboys tickets and merchandise. Stop allowing the Jones family from the constant erosion of the Cowboys.)
The second bad thing about Jones management style is his love of injury prone players. Players that missed yesterday's game include Ratliff who was released after battling an injury since last season and refusing to get help from Cowboys trainers. (Yeah Jerry decided to keep him around for another year.) Anthony Spencer and Tyrone Crawford are both out for the season. DeMarcus Ware, DeMarco Murray and and the incredibly soft Miles Austin also missed the game. All 3 may be back next week, the tough Ware is missing the first games in his career. Both Austin and Murray have missed games over the last few seasons, but Jerry continues to stick with them. Also both will miss more games in the future.
However Jerry did have a plan for if (when) Murray got injured again. Dallas drafted Joseph Randle to fill in as needed. Randle exploded for 26 yards on 14 carries on Sunday. Hell of a plan Jerry. Jones is so good at making bad decisions now that it's become a habit.
Dez Bryant has missed a few games due to injury, but his main weakness is the fact that he's a head case. A list of his many bad decisions made off the field can be found elsewhere, so I'm not going to go into them here. But his childish behavior yesterday was more bad form, he had at least two sideline meltdowns. He's matured the last couple of years, but I still think he's got a ways to go. I expect him to have a couple more off the field incidents.
In fact with so much bad karma surrounding the Cowboys I'm waiting for them to implode any day now. Hopefully when that day happens someone will say that to Jones and some common sense will finally hit him.
In the Cowboys latest debacle they lost to the Lions 31-30 and fall to 4-4 on the season. With a 70 year old owner that knows very little about football, although he played football in college, what else did you expect? One of his many bad moves was hiring 73 year old Monte Kiffin, although his USC teams gave up tons of yards and points. Sure Kiffin would be able to bring his Tampa 2 defense that failed at USC and then dominate the NFL. That makes sense right? Such is the horrible decision making of Jerruh Jones, the man who single handedly is destroying his own franchise.
How good was Kiffin's defense on Sunday? Here's a few stats to show why this will be Kiffin's first and last season in Dallas. (Thanks to ESPN Dallas for all the following stats.) His Cowboys gave up a franchise record 623 yards, this with there being some really bad teams in Cowboys history. We can't forget the Cowboys giving up 329 receiving yards to Calvin Johnson. The man assigned to cover Johnson was $50 million dollar man Brandon Carr. He's been a decent player but Jones overpaid him. Dallas is the first team in NFL history to allow four 400 yard passers in one season and there are still 8 games to play. Both Drew Brees and Eli Manning are licking their lips looking to exploit the Cowboys ineffective pass defense.
Dallas is now 4-4 and on their way to their third consecutive 8-8 season. Fortunately for them they play in the worst division in the NFL, the NFC East. Finishing with a .500 record could possibly get the Cowboys into the playoffs. Likely they'd lose at Jerryworld and get destroyed by whoever they play in the first round of the playoffs. As always I hope the Cowboys don't make the playoffs, Jones might count winning the worst division in the NFL as "progress".
The funny thing is although the Giants lost their first 6 games of the season, they have won 2 in a row and are only 2 games out of first place. Yes, that's how bad the NFC East is. Here's the standings as of October 26th, 2013. Dallas 4-4, Philadelphia is 3-5, Washington is 2-5 and the Giants are 2-6. The Eagles are a very bad team, when a NFL team has to call on Matt Barkley that indicates how bad of a team they are. The Eagles are so bad they could only manage 3 points against the terrible Cowboys in Philadelphia.
The Cowboys continue to prove they can only beat bad teams, Detroit is a mediocre team and the Lions beat Dallas. But good news for the Cowboys next week they play the terrible Vikings in Dallas. Although the Cowboys defense is porous, Christian Ponder is probably not going to be able to exploit that defense. I watched the Vikings play last night on Sunday Night Football and boy are they bad.
Dallas will beat Vikings, in fact they'll probably destroy the Vikings. But the next week the Cowboys go on the road to play New Orleans and old defensive coordinator Rob Ryan. Ryan was the sacrificial lamb as Jones couldn't admit he's the problem. Will Brees throw for 500 yards in this game? That loss will drop the Cowboys back to 5-5, which be followed by the Cowboys having a bye. The Cowboys can't lose a bye, can they? The Cowboys will finish the season 7-9 and 8-8, but that's only because they are in the worst division in the NFL. If they were in any other division they would struggle to win 6 games.
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