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Stephen Jones implied that he does not view the Dallas Cowboys to be in any kind of drought.
The Dallas Cowboys held their introductory press conference for head coach Brian Schottenheimer on Monday and discussed a number of things. Of note, Schotty will call the plays on offense.
As you can imagine the presser was about a lot of things that were tangentially related to Schotty as this was the front office’s first opportunity for public questioning since the season ended and so much happened. Mike McCarthy’s departure, why it took so long, the hiring process of Schotty, why that also took a while and all sorts of things were touched on. You can view a whole recap on it all that we compiled in real time right here.
Jerry Jones himself was asked for his thoughts on the NFC Championship Game featuring the Philadelphia Eagles (who won it) and Washington Commanders and expressed how it is his “dream” to see the Cowboys there once again. Before that happened though, Stephen Jones took the floor and brought up the title game himself along with the Super Bowl.
In assessing matters that need to happen over the offseason... Stephen Jones implied that he does not believe the Cowboys to be in any sort of drought.
To be clear The Drought™ represents the lack of success that Dallas has had relative to the overall goal. Yes, Stephen. It is real.
With Washington specifically advancing to the title game it made reality that Dallas has the longest drought of any NFC team in reaching it and by quite the margin. Dallas last played in it in the 1995 season where the second-closest is Chicago who went in 2010. Amazingly, the Bears lost to Mike McCarthy’s Green Bay Packers before McCarthy and Co. lifted the Lombardi inside of AT&T Stadium (Cowboys Stadium at the time).
If you watch the video you can see that Stephen used air quotes as if to mock or diffuse the idea that any sort of drought existed. Stephen can certainly take exception to many things and can argue that the Cowboys have had levels of success in the time in question (Jerry has certainly done so), but referring it to as a drought is simply objective fact. Any absence is a drought. The San Francisco 49ers have one. So do the Detroit Lions. They weren’t just in it. This is a simple idea.
It was not the best moment from the presser, but hopefully things will stabilize now that the hiring and introduction of Schottenheimer is over.
