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.