Jerry Jones’s Coach Hires Fuel Dallas Postseason Woes — SkimNews
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- Dallas Cowboys have not reached the NFC title game since the 1995 season; over the following 30-plus years, they rank 11th in regular-season record and fourth-worst in postseason record.
- Jerry Jones remains the Cowboys’ general manager, speaks to local media after games before the head coach or players and appears on the radio multiple times a week.
- Jerry Jones told 105.3 The Fan there is "zero correlation" between coach pay or staff size and NFL winning; coaching salaries are mostly private, while good coaches generally cost more and tend to win more games, all else equal.
- Dallas Cowboys did not request interviews with Ben Johnson, Mike Vrabel, Liam Coen or Brian Flores during a coaching opening two years ago.
- Dallas Cowboys favored candidates such as Jason Garrett, Mike McCarthy and Brian Schottenheimer, described as go-along-to-get-along choices; of six publicly revealed candidates, only two were also interviewed by other teams that offseason.
- Jerry Jones does not want to share credit with a coach if Dallas wins something substantial, reinforcing his broader insistence on running the team his way.
- Jimmy Johnson left Dallas amid a feud with Jones over credit, during which Jones said any of 500 coaches could have won a Super Bowl with the Cowboys’ early-1990s roster.
Why it matters: Jerry Jones’s refusal to interview Ben Johnson, Brian Flores, Liam Coen and Mike Vrabel leaves Dallas without four of the candidates the source portrays as top-tier. Of six publicly revealed Cowboys candidates, only two drew other-team interviews, so preserving control and avoiding top-coach salaries comes at the expense of a thinner search.
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