Jerry Jones has baffled reporters again as he continues to reiterate his vow of ensuring the Dallas Cowboys are “all in”.
The Cowboys failed to make a deep run in the playoffs last season despite managing a more than respectable regular season. Mike McCarthy‘s men struggled to beat the biggest and best, but they racked up 12 wins and won the NFC East despite the Philadelphia Eagles heading into the season as clear favorites.
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Despite the 12 wins, McCarthy found himself under serious pressure heading into the summer, and while he kept his job, the pressure is expected to compound this season.
Though, McCarthy is not being helped by the lack of quality in certain areas on the field, and despite owner Jerry Jones‘ “all in’ rhetoric, the Cowboys front office are now walking the walk.
While Jones continues to repeat the phrase, the Cowboys have not made any big free agency signings, and most believe they have only fallen further behind some of the better teams in the NFL this off-season.
Still, Jones continues to baffle, saying in his last press conference: “I’m all in. I’m all in. Sometimes being all in means you narrow… you remove the months out here that are in the future.
“And you narrow it down to where all we’re talking about is right now and the next playoff season, and that’s it for everybody. We’re all in. It’s all right there. Let’s, let’s, let’s… okay?”
The Mahomes reference
The “all in” mantra has gone beyond aggravation for Cowboys fans and is now passing into boring territory for fans who are desperate to see Jones put his money where his mouth is, even if there have to be cap casualties to strengthen the roster as a whole.
But in his latest address, Jones went one step further in leaving fans feeling bamboozled by the franchise’s approach, referencing Patrick Mahomes when discussing why the Cowboys have been so inactive this off-season.
“We are so involved in trying to see where we are with our situation,” he added. “That is a major part of seeing where… seeing the leaves fall. Seeing the time go by. Seeing this day and this week, how they go by. I have, in my life, played option quarterback so many times and wait until the last leaf on the tree.
“If you want to picture a pure option quarterback going out to the sideline, I have run that ball and kept it, not handed it off to the back, not pitched it back, not thrown it. And I have run that thing all the way out to the sideline before I made the decision. Because I couldn’t make… I couldn’t get whatever it took to, it wasn’t right for me, to make the decision.
“And so what our fans, what you’re seeing, what we deal with is we’re buying time. We’re option quarterbacking and we’re going on out to the sideline and we haven’t handed it off, haven’t pitched it, we’re trying to make our mind up what to do. Does that sound like Mahomes to you?”
