Keeping Hope Alive

Ehsan Azad

 

Keeping Hope Alive

 

                The Cowboys start every season with the proverbial Super Bowl promise to ramp up the fans into frenzy. The front office makes some splashy moves in the offseason and claim to have the best talent in the league. And come December those promises are broken and we hear what they can do in the offseason to make sure that next year they will fix it. Aren’t you getting sick of this pattern?

                Fans have given up on the endless cycle of high hopes and broken promises. And now in the middle of the nightmare of a season they look to burn the franchise down. From Tony Romo to Jason Garrett and even Owner/GM Jerry Jones is getting the blame for the team’s misfortune in recent years. Surprisingly, much of the blame is on Jones, who many fans think his dual role as owner and general manager are detrimental to the team. Accusations of him not being a football guy, and interfering with the coaching are leading to an unhealthy organization of power in the franchise. These fans even have gone to the extremes of petitioning President Obama to force Jerry Jones out of controlling the Cowboys. Aside from that being totally illegal and all, I think fans need to calm down and come to reason on Jerry Jones. Sure, he hasn’t done a hell of a job building the team up. He focused so much on the skill players over the years, the offensive and defensive lines have suffered and now they are in the worse shape in since the early Aikman days.  But, he isn’t a terrible GM. He has over 20 years of working in the front office, so he does know what he is doing. Also, he surrounds himself with a lot of top football minds that do help him make decisions on who to draft or pick up. Plus, it is a worthless argument to have. He is the owner, and as long as he is the owner, he will decide how to run things.

                So instead of just blaming people for the Cowboys’ nightmare of a season, I will help the fans keep some hope that is out there. First, they aren’t out of the playoff race yet. Sure, it is doubtful, but when all the wild card teams lost last week, the Cowboys found themselves only a game back of the other teams and with the easiest schedule. So there is a chance there. But, hope for a good pick in the draft and know that Jerry will fix this offensive line this year with the first few picks, and will also dip into free agency.  That is the only way I see the cowboys returning to its glory days. An adequate O-Line and some playmakers on the d-line will help the already talented team a contender once again. Jerry has a chance to save the day, which surely he will. He wants him some “glory hole” after all.