Derrick Henry Would Have Been A Great Fit For the Dallas Cowboys

Dallas Cowboys Owner and General Manager Jerry Jones was back on his regular radio spot and once again addressed the off-season and the Cowboys' lack of moves. More specifically, why did he not sign Derrick Henry to address the running back position?

“Derrick is having a career year. I don’t know if he’d be having a career year in our situation... We don’t run that type of offense at all... Derrick didn’t fit, principally due to managing the cap," Jones said Tuesday during his weekly appearance on 105.3 the Fan in Dallas on why he didn’t sign Derrick Henry in the off-season.

Derrick Henry had another monster game for the Baltimore Ravens against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Monday Night Footall with 169 yards rushing and a receiving touchdown. Henry is the leading rusher in the NFL with 873 yards and eight touchdowns averaging 6.5 yards per carry in 134 rushing attempts.

Not to mention, Henry leads the NFL in rushes, rushing yards, rushing touchdowns, yards per rush, first downs, longest rush, scrimmage yards and scrimmage touchdowns.

But Henry doesn’t fit what the Dallas Cowboys are doing offensively. That does not add up. It makes the GM and owner of the team come off like he does not know the game of football anymore and someone else needs to be in charge.

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As a matter of fact, Derrick Henry but up great numbers behind a mediocre offensive line in Tenneesee. He carried the Titans to AFC Championship in 2019. That is how much of an impact he has on the game.

The Cowboys can’t run the football. Ezekiel Elliott is passed his prime. There was a reason, they did not sign him last off-season. While the offensive line is an issue in Dallas, Jerry Jones had a chance to sign Henry along with a bunch of other teams and did not.

You could argue he fits Dallas’s system better than Balitmore’s given the way the Ravens like to use quarterback Lamar Jackson not only in the passing game, but in the running game as well. But he has given them another dimension.

Something Dallas is missing. Having a running back like Derrick Henry opens up the play action pass getting the wide receivers like Ceedee Lamb open. It is easy to figure out the Cowboys offense since they only throw the ball with Dak Prescott. They do not run it. Dallas can’t run it.

Again any area of need GM Jerry Jones needed to address, but did not. Instead he waited to sign Prescott and Lamb right before the season started messing the salary cap.

The money was there for Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys to sign Derrick Henry. Everybody said it was a mistake then and it is an even bigger mistake now.