The Dallas Cowboys are sifting through the rubble after their shocking trade of Micah Parsons to the Green Bay Packers in exchange for a package centered around draft compensation. With the team's season set to begin in just over 48 hours, much of the fanbase is still seething at team owner Jerry Jones for trading the team's best player just months after they watched their Dallas Mavericks do the same with Luka Doncic.
One person who shares that anger is former Cowboys Super Bowl-winning quarterback Troy Aikman, now a commentator for ESPN, who recently took to the Rich Eisen Show to relay his thoughts.
“I saw Jerry talk about the fact that, having the Cowboys as a discussion point is meaningful to him. And if people aren’t talking about the Cowboys then he’ll do things to stir it up. So he kind of walked into that and has given the impression that that supersedes winning,” said Aikman.
“In some ways, I’m sure Jerry and the Jones family, and everyone is tired of the fact that they haven’t been to a championship game, let alone a Super Bowl in 30 years,” he added. “So then when you deflect that, that's essentially the valuation of your franchise. Or the attention and the exposure, or the drama. Or as Jerry said the fact that the Cowboys are a soap opera 365 days a year, that then becomes the scoreboard.”
A rough look for Jerry Jones
Jerry Jones has insinuated over the years with his words that creating controversy and headlines is more important to him than winning games, and the moves he has made with this Cowboys roster certainly echo the same message.
The Cowboys now look to be mired in NFL purgatory for the foreseeable future, not bad enough to tank with Dak Prescott and CeeDee Lamb still running the offense, but not good enough to compete for anything meaningful, especially not with the Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Commanders residing in their division.
The Cowboys will look to get their heads together and try to play a coherent football game on Thursday evening when they kick off their season against the Eagles on the road.
