NFL – The Dallas Cowboys are not making the cut

This NFL season has been a complete and utter disaster for the Dallas Cowboys. The team has been struggling in each and every aspect of the game. No matter where or how you look at the Dallas Cowboys, this team is having one season to forget. The last debacle came at the legendary Lambeau Field, this Sunday night, while the Green Bay Packers manhandled the Dallas Cowboys in their 45-7 crushing of what was already a very ill and under-par team.

Jerry Jones, the 68-year-old owner of the Dallas Cowboys since 1989, had seen some ups and downs throughout his years as the team’s general manager. But this season promises to take the No. 1 spot when it comes to rankings the Cowboys’ failure. Sure, Jones is one of those guys -actually, he is one of the few owners who is in a day-to-day basis- involved with his team. Even more, he is known to eventually even go down to the sidelines and work from within.

Jones was there when the Dallas Cowboys won its Super Bowl in 1993. But things have not been so sweet since then. This season, for instance, The Cowboy have only defeated the Houston Texas at Houston, in week three. But Washington, Chicago, Tennessee, Minnesota, the New York Giants, Jacksonville and most recently, the Green Bay Packers, have all managed to defeat the Cowboys. Matter of fact, the last two games have been lost by double digit margins.

Now the Dallas Cowboys head coach, Wade Phillips, could be working his way around the last minutes at his job. Had Wade Phillips managed to lose by 7 points against the Packers, heck by 12 points even, this would be a whole different story. And yet when you put this whole thing into perspective, the team is just not working so well.  Here is the funny thing. At the beginning of the season, Wade Phillips had a team that could have made it to the off-season and once there, win a couple of games.

Last season, the Cowboys went on to a decent 11-5 record and even went on to win the first game of the playoffs. We are talking about a team that won its first playoff game in more then a decade. So, this time around, it was only logical if you would expect the team to at least be close in the chase for a spot in the playoffs. Keep in mind that the team that at the beginning of the season was going for a Super Bowl bet, is now probably going to end up with a top 3 pick in next year’s NFL draft.

There are too many issues with this team right now.  They are really struggling in defense. When it comes to rushing yards the team has averaged 75.6 managing to hit the  31st best record in the league. And they have allowed over 129 rushing yards and are ranked 24th in the nation. The bottom line is that the season is already two months old and whether the Dallas Cowboys decide to stick with Wade Phillips and see what happens from there on, or decide to make a very drastic change and replace its coaches, you have to realize that its not a matter of who’s in the coach spot. The organization is in trouble. Like Jones himself said when asked who could he lay his finger and blame for what happened this season: there are not enough fingers to point out what has gone wrong. He couldn’t be more accurate in his diagnosis.