Step Down!

It is time for the Dallas Cowboys to undergo a facelift.

Jerry Jones, the owner/general manager/czar of the team, has shown that he is no longer in touch with reality.

Time and again, he makes questionable personnel moves that has and will cost his team dearly (see the lopsided trades for under-used Trey Lance and under-performing Jonathan Mingo), and hires the wrong people for the job (see Mike McCarthy and Mike Zimmer).

He has turned his beloved multi-billion dollar toy, the AT&T Stadium (once renowned for having the largest HD video display boards), into a laughingstock (from debris falling from the ceiling, to its east-west orientation that has allowed sunlight to cause mayhem mostly on his own team).

He is also stubborn enough to double down on criticisms directed at him and simply refuses to listen (see his refusal to put curtains around the stadium to block the sunlight and suggestion to tear down the stadium, to his counter-argument that it is actually a home-field advantage for the Cowboys).

He even threatened people with their jobs for asking fair questions about the poor state of his team (he threatened to fire two radio hosts on a live interview for asking why the Cowboys, to put it fairly, suck).

Not to mention how bad the Cowboys have been playing this season, especially at home.

Jerry, you and the Cowboys have had a great run, especially not long after you bought the team in 1989 when the Cowboys won three Superbowls.

But that was a century ago, and the Cowboys have not been relevant since.

Thanks for the memory, Jerry. But please, embrace the criticism, accept changes, and find someone to pick up the pieces and take over now.

For the sake of those who truly love the Cowboys.

Please.

Dallas Clueless

The Dallas Cowboys are officially in disarray.

And clueless.

Last year, the Cowboys sent a fourth-round pick to the San Francisco 49ers for backup quarterback Trey Lance. Despite being the third overall pick in the 2021 NFL Draft, Lance did not do much as a starter for the 49ers, and has not done anything since joining the Cowboys. And the absence of a fourth-round pick had robbed the Cowboys the chance to pick a quality running back in this year’s draft (as luck would have it, there was a crazy run on running backs in that particular round), and that is the main reason why they have an anaemic rushing attack this year.

Back in the off-season, while the Cowboys did sign their two most important players on offense, Dak Prescott and CeeDee Lamb, they wasted a lot of time to do so. The result? It cost them extra cap space and ruled them out signing other equally important free agents on the market, like running back Derrick Henry who said that he was spending the summer in Texas waiting and hoping for a call from the Cowboys that never came.

And Henry, as a Baltimore Raven, ran all over the Cowboys’ defence in their 28-25 win in September.

And now, as if lightning strikes twice, the Cowboys, who the owner/general manager/czar Jerry Jones said that are all in this season, has made a trade just before the trade deadline. Once again, they parted with a fourth-round pick and their prey? Wide receiver Jonathan Mingo, a former second-round pick who has failed to crack the starting line-up of arguably the worst team in the league, the Carolina Panthers.

Meanwhile, the Ravens traded for the Panthers’ best receiver, Diontae Johnson, for a fifth-round pick just days earlier.

To make matters worse, there have been calls for them to fire head coach Mike McCarthy, who has shown how out of touch he is with his archaic and unimaginative offense. Sadly, even if Jerry Jones wants to fire him and replaces him with either the offensive co-ordinator or the defensive co-ordinator (which is normally the way to go for NFL teams), he simply cannot do so as McCarthy is the de-facto OC himself (he calls the plays on offense), while Mike Zimmer, who has shown that he is just as out of touch as McCarthy with his leaky, mistake-prone and ineffective (or to put in simply, BAD) defense, is the DC. It simply does not make sense to promote Zimmer as the next head coach, since he has been doing a truly lousy job as a DC.

As a Cowboys fan, all Yours Truly can say is two words:

Just tank.

OMFG.

Twin Towers

Now that Ruud Van Nistlerooy has become the interim coach of Manchester United, following the sacking of fellow Dutchman Erik Ten Haag, Yours Truly has been reminded of a titbit about the great Dutch striker that he learned years ago.

Back in the nineties, Van Nistlerooy was one of the first-choice strikers for the Dutch national team. His partner in crime? It was usually Patrick Kluivert, whose failure to covert numerous golden opportunities was the main reason the Dutch were beaten by Brazil in the 1998 World Cup semi-final.

Yours Truly was a huge Dutch fan in those days thanks to the great memories of the best striker in his mind, Marco Van Basten.

Now back to Van Nistlerooy and Kluivert. You know what the odd thing about them is?

They were born on the same day, same month, same year.

Did you know that?