'Fool's Gold!' Cowboys Ex Terrell Owens Blames Jerry Jones - 'The Executioner!'
With the Dallas Cowboys' Super Bowl drought about to hit 30 years, saying the fanbase is fed up with the team's constant shortcomings would be an understatement.
It feels like every year, Dallas has the talent and potential to go on a Super Bowl run, but isn't able to put it together for one reason or another. The latest postseason collapse, which saw the Cowboys get blown out by the Green Bay Packers to become the first No. 2 seed to lose in the Wild Card Round, may be the most-frustrating playoff loss in a long line of them.
Cowboys fans desperately want to see a different result soon, but even former players are skeptical of it actually happening. Why? Well, as former star receiver Terrell Owens puts it, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones wins no matter what his team does.
"He's selling the fanbase fool's gold every year," Owens said on the Up and Adams Show. "He's not losing. Everybody thinks he's losing, from a fan perspective they're losing, but he's winning every year.
"Regardless if he wins the NFC Championship or gets deep in the playoffs, he's still winning. Because those fans, guess what they're doing, they're going to those games, filling that billion-dollar stadium every year, buying the merch. He's winning every year."
In other words, Owens essentially believes that the sheer amount of money the Cowboys make year over year has created complacency at the top. That's especially problematic when Jones is also the Cowboys' general manager, which led Owens to refer to him as the "judge, jury and executioner."
Building on that point, many upset Cowboys fans took Jones' decision to keep coach Mike McCarthy, who has led the team to great regular seasons but come up short in the playoffs, as a sign of that complacency. A small subset of fans were particularly upset when the team reportedly flirted with legendary coach Bill Belichick, but decided to stand pat instead.
For Owens, such a coaching change may have been a chance to break out of the torturous cycle the Cowboys find themselves in.
"Let me tell you something, I know this is way off the subject of the take, if they would've gotten Bill Belichick, they got something," Owens said.
