Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones’ inability to stay out of the limelight could cost him a chance to hire six-time Super Bowl-winning head coach Bill Belichick. The Cowboys have been rumored to want Belichick’s services after the legendary coach parted ways with the New England Patriots last week.
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Jones put Mike McCarthy on the hot seat before the postseason. McCarthy followed that up by engineering an amateurish gameplan against the Green Bay Packers on Sunday afternoon. Jones was noncommittal on McCarthy’s future in Dallas after the Cowboys’ losing to the Packers.
After McCarthy’s epic blunder in Dallas on Sunday, the Cowboys must consider adding Belichick or another head coach. But would Belichick even be interested in joining the Cowboys’ self-inflicted circus of media drama?
No one in the league is better about marking their team than Jones. But that spotlight can hurt the football operations side of things. Mike Sando with The Athletic wrote about the likelihood of Belichick signing up for the Cowboys gig.
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While Belichick has praised the Cowboys’ culture in the past, Sando thinks Jones’ troubling behavior of talking to the media and putting business first isn’t attractive to a head coach who is obsessed with trying to find any competitive advantage on the football field in a league where margins are everything:
“Jones, by contrast, is a businessman first. He’s a promoter. His players and coaches must create their own culture within the broader business culture to have any shot at keeping their focus where it belongs. I don’t think McCarthy or Dak Prescott or CeeDee Lamb or Micah Parsons or Tyron Smith are inherently choke artists. They certainly do bear responsibility for what happens on a play, in a game and during a season. But when these types of results persist in the biggest games, year after year, coach after coach, despite obviously strong talent, it’s more than that.
Rumors suggesting Belichick could be in play for the Cowboys make no sense on the surface. Would Belichick suddenly be fine with his team’s owner pontificating weekly regarding all aspects of the team, ramping up expectations and influencing personnel decisions? Why would a six-time Super Bowl winner such as Belichick suddenly relinquish control of the things that have been most important to him? It doesn’t make sense to me.”
Jones might have to make serious concessions on the business front for the Cowboys to hire a real head coach like Belichick. Jones claims he wants to return to the Super Bowl. But to do so, he’ll have to put his money where his mouth used to be on radio programs.
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