Dallas Cowboys Care More About the Show Than Playing Football

The days of Roger Staubach’s and Tom Landry’s roaming the sidelines for the Dallas Cowboys are long gone. Even then, the Cowboys were a show, but the leadership was different, and they cared more about football. With Jerry Jones becoming the owner and general manager, it is more about the show than the football.

As Full Press Media has documented, the Dallas Cowboys did not go to the Super Bowl in the 1995-96 season, which was also their last NFC Championship game. Jerry Jones has put good teams together and never got over the hump. However, ever since he split with Jimmy Johnson, the Cowboys, aka America’s team, has become a show.

Jerry Jones is a great showman, but it has trickled down into the locker room. Players feel they can say whatever they want without ramifications. Similar to Jones when he goes on his weekly radio spot on Dallas radio. What other GM in the NFL does weekly radio? The answer none of them do.

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The Dallas Cowboys are a show. And Jones allows this to happen because he wants to be the face of the team. As Dan Graziano of ESPN stated on Tuesday’s edition of Get Up, reporters wait to go into the locker room to talk to players and the coach. In Dallas, everyone waits to talk to the GM, Jerry Jones, before going into the locker room, and then they catch the tail end of the coaches’s press conference.

Hence the constant sound bites everyone in the media gets. There is too much dysfunction in Big D. Look, Micah Parsons is a great defensive player, but Jerry Jones allows him to have this podcast in season. Again, Parsons does not know any better because, to Jones, this keeps the attention on the Cowboys for good or for bad.

After the Cowboys’ 31-6 loss to the Eagles on Sunday, Parsons commented about Mike McCarthy while trying to defend teammate Zach Martin.

"That's above my pay grade, if Mike's coach again next year," Parsons said. "All coaching aside, Mike can leave and go where he wants to. Guys I kind of feel bad for is guys like Zack Martin and guys who might be on their last year, on their way out, because that's who I wanted to hold the trophy for. You want to win games and do great things with those type of legends who put in more time and work than Mike McCarthy ever did. So, those are the kind of guys that I have so much sympathy and hurt for."

If you saw these comments in a vacuum, you might interpret them as him throwing head coach Mike McCarthy under the bus. We all know McCarthy is a lame-duck head coach.

Jerry Jones did not give McCarthy an extension coming into the season, allowing this drama to happen. Former head coach Rex Ryan was not happy with Parsons' comments, and some former players were, too.

Parsons attacked Ryan and others on his podcast without clarifying his initial comments and tried to defend Zach Martin. But Parsons does not know any better, and the team's culture allows this to happen.

He will learn that anything he says about the team will be reported in the media. Just look at one of the previous episodes, where he listed the Top 10 Quarterbacks in the NFL but didn’t list his teammate Dak Prescott.

The Dallas Cowboys love drama because Jerry Jones is a showman. For this team to become a Super Bowl contender again, things must change from top to bottom.

It starts at the top with Jerry Jones changing the team's culture. But it will not because he loves the spotlight and wants the Cowboys to be a show.