FRISCO – The Dallas Cowboys are facing accusations that they have created a “culture” problem within The Star. Team owner Jerry Jones, who oversees everything, is skillfully avoiding the question.
“Culture: what is it? “I’m requesting,” Jones remarked, addressing the DFW media on his yearly trip to Indianapolis for the NFL Scouting Combine aboard the “party bus.” “I look at our team and say we need to run the ball better and be able to stop the run better. We have an issue if that is “culture.”
That’s clever. That’s cute. But it’s not a real answer. And Jerry knows it.
In the Fish Podcast and the Fish Report, we address what we have theorized is the core issue. No, not “blocking and tackling” and the like; the Cowboys by and large do those things very well.
And no, it’s not about a “sense of entitlement,” exactly, either – which is how a question was posed to Jones, allowing him to also brush off that assertion.
Jones stated: “A lot of (our players) need to be happy with who they are and the plays they have made for the club. When they don’t perform well, those players also tend to be the ones that are hardest on themselves. This team doesn’t have any issues with that. Nobody is pointing at someone else over there while avoiding pointing at their own reflection.
That could be categorised as “culture,” I suppose, but this team doesn’t seem to have any of it. In my opinion, Mike McCarthy has done a fantastic job creating the ideal environment for the team to win repeatedly and go to the postseason.
We’re in the locker room every day, so we agree on the finger-pointing. It’s not an issue outside of the “Bro Bro Mama Drama.”
Jerry was not questioned on our core point, which is that we are not “entitlement” or “stopping the run.” Yes, we have this on our list for when we run into him again. To put it simply, this is what we’ve called “#53Brands” a lot.
