Thankfully, the last time I checked, Sports Illustrated wasn’t owned by Jerry Jones, so he can’t threaten to fire me for suggesting that he do something about the expensive rubble heap he’s created in Dallas. Although, if I suddenly disappear, consider this an important breadcrumb as to my whereabouts.
We found out Monday that Dak Prescott is out for a long(ish) period of time with a hamstring injury. And while the tandem of Mike McCarthy and Cooper Rush has done yeoman’s work in the past when trying to keep the Dallas Cowboys alive sans Prescott, this is almost certainly the death knell for a 3–5 team in a season that was doomed before it started. In fact, Prescott’s injury is probably the one aspect of this tailspin that is out of the owner’s control. The rest—allowing a lame-duck staff to take the field with no real help from free agency, which ultimately led to a culture of indifference and defeatism—falls squarely under his purview.
