Does Jerry Jones Want To Share Headlines?
Could Deion Sanders in Dallas Actually Work?
The Dallas Cowboys have a coaching vacancy now that head coach Mike McCarthy is not returning. McCarthy is officially a free agent with owner and general manager Jerry Jones, who will be looking to fill his coaching vacancy. Everyone is connecting the dots to Colorado head coach Deion Sanders, but does it make sense?
While it makes sense from a coaching standpoint, Sanders understands the game and has that competitive edge that makes him a good coach. He is from the old-school way of thinking, being a former player. That is why it has worked so well in college at Jackson State and now at Colorado.
He knows how to lead these young men and shape them into professionals. But in college, it is all about Deion’s way of thinking. He will tell the players that at the beginning of the season, they will choose to stay or go. You can see it rubbing off on the players in terms of how to act and speak.
In college, it is all about Deion Sanders. However, if he took the Dallas Cowboys job, it is all about Jerry Jones. It is about Jones’s way. Jerry wants the headlines. He loves the clicks and wants to be in the spotlight. There is a reason it is called Jerry’s World.
However, that way of thinking and putting together a team does not work if you want to hire an elite head coach. That head coach can’t be looking over his shoulder when it comes to voices in the room. That coach has to be the voice in the room. It can’t be the owner/general manager.
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While Deion Sanders would command the respect of Jerry Jones, how long would that be in terms of them working together and sharing headlines? Sanders will not take a back seat to Jerry Jones. He will be the one who will want to speak first to the media, but Jones ever utters a word to the press.
If Dallas succeeds, who will get the credit, Jerry Jones or Deion Sanders? We saw that when Jimmy Johnson was there, things worked for a while. The Cowboys won two Super Bowls, and the players Johnson drafted won a third under Barry Switzer, not Johnson.
Why was that? Jerry Jones did not like the fact he did not get credit for putting together a Super Bowl-winning team. His ego could not handle it. That is why Johnson got fired, along with other reasons. But that was the main one.
Now, Deion Sanders has not ruled out anything. He told ESPN's Adam Schefter that he spoke with Jerry Jones about the position and called it intriguing. However, he believes in what he is building in Boulder.
Expectations are that these two sides will continue to discuss it, but it remains to be seen whether they will.
If Jerry Jones did bring in another Alpha Dog similar to Bill Parcells and others before him, he would need to learn to change and share the spotlight and headlines. But until that happens, a big-time coach will not come to Big D.