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First it was Emmitt Smith. Then it was Troy Aikman. Now it’s Michael Irvin. One by one, seemingly every Dallas Cowboys legend from the 1990s has turned on the organization and Jerry Jones, and it’s hard to argue with their logic.
Smith got the party started a year ago when he chastised the team from not moving on from head coach Mike McCarthy. He was eventually proven right when McCarthy, in a lame-duck year, went 7-10 and was not given a contract extension.
Then it was Aikman, who lambasted the Cowboys organization and Jones after McCarthy walked away, stating that the head coaching role for “America’s Team” is no longer one that is highly coveted.
Now it’s Irvin’s turn to weigh in. The Pro Football Hall of Famer and three-time Super Bowl champ laid into the organization after it hired Brian Schottenheimer to be its next head coach.
“Here’s my issue: We lost an opportunity here,” Irvin said. “I don’t know what will happen with Coach Schottenheimer and the Dallas Cowboys. But Jerry’s a shrewd, shrewd businessman. And this opportunity, I’m shocked he did not see.”
Irvin then talked about the NFC Championship Game between the Washington Commanders and Philadelphia Eagles, a pair of NFC East rivals to the Cowboys.
“We have two NFC East teams in the NFC Championship game being played [Sunday], all eyes on them,” he continued. “The Philadelphia Eagles and the Washington Commanders, our enemies on all fronts, and they’re in a position that we haven’t held in 30 f—ing years. The longest drought by any NFC East team, period.”
Then Irvin turned his attention to the coaching search, which he felt was an opportunity for the organization to really make a stand.
“They’ve lost a generation of fans,” Irvin said. “That’s 30 damn years. Forty years is a generation. Right here, right now was critical mass. It was time to bring somebody in here that could shake things up and grab this last leg of Cowboys Nation.
“…If we got 30 years right now, life expectancy is 100 years. That means by math, a third of Cowboys nation has never felt or lived the glory of a championship story. (They) don’t even know about it. How the hell can they pass something down if they don’t even know about it? It’s a generation that knows nothing about a championship from the so-called ‘America’s Team.'”
Irvin is right. Aikman was right and Smith was right. Everybody can see it. That is, everybody except Jerry and Stephen Jones. So unless the Jones family sells the team (which isn’t going to happen), Cowboys fans might want to buckle up for several more decades of the same or find a new team.
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