Inside The Star
An NFL team recently concluded a seven-win season and brought in Hall of Fame quarterback Troy Aikman to help turn their ship around.
No, it wasn’t the Dallas Cowboys, the team he led to three Super Bowl victories in the 1990s.
Rather, it was the Miami Dolphins. They asked Aikman to help them find their next general manager, who will then hire the team’s next head coach.
Meanwhile, back in Texas, the Cowboys’ general manager just ended his 30th consecutive year as head of the front office that has failed to even make a conference championship game.
Most GMs would have been canned long ago. Probably right after the third-straight 5-11 season in 2002.
Then again, none of the NFL’s other 31 GMs aren’t also the owner.
Aikman, if given free rein in Dallas, who bring much-needed discipline and leadership to the front office.
He has the gravitas of those three rings that he went out and earned. Unlike Jones, who has his three rings courtesy of Jimmy Johnson’s blood, sweat, and tears.
Also, unlike Jones, Aikman can correctly evaluate talent.
From potential draft picks to free agents, Aikman is a superior judge of NFL-caliber talent than anyone currently sitting in an office at The Star.
Aikman would not screw around with contract negotiations. He would get deals done in a timely manner, not waiting so long he lets the market reset numerous times.
How many millions has Jones burned through with his failed gamesmanship over the years?
Were Aikman to head into a draft needing an offensive lineman and a standout running back as the top needs, he would not burn his first two picks on a defensive tackle and an old tight end with a bad foot.
Aikman has the football smarts to turn the Cowboys back into regular championship contenders.
At his end of the year press conference, Jones spoke about the team’s 7-9-1 record.
“I’m disappointed that we aren’t in the playoffs, and we aren’t in good shape to be in the playoffs. That is a disappointment.”
He then added that his goal was to depart the NFL as the owner with the most Super Bowls.
Jones currently trails New England’s Robert Kraft by three.
The Patriots are in the playoffs this year. The Cowboys aren’t and have now gone 30 seasons since winning a championship.
With the exception of Jones, his family, and the sycophants that roam the hallways at The Star, everyone knows why this is so.
Jones is determined to prove that it was he, and not Johnson, that was responsible for those three championships three decades ago.
There is one thing he has proven without a doubt. It was in fact Johnson who built that dynasty.
Jones’ sole contribution was picking up the check.
Before the Cowboys hire their next DC, or does anything regarding their roster, they need Jones to come to his senses.
It’s time for...
