Say what you will about Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones – and plenty of people have.
The Cowboys have five Vince Lombardi trophies, but not a single one since Barry Switzer walked out of the building, and Switzer wasn’t the architect of any of those titles: he was the head coach for the final one.
Another gentleman, former coach Jimmy Johnson, was in charge for the Cowboys’ third and fourth titles, won back-to-back in the 1992-93 seasons.
As a general manager, Jones has won absolutely no championships, not even an NFC title. In fact, the Cowboys haven’t appeared in the NFC Championship Game since January, 1996, the last title game that the won on the way to Super Bowl XXX – that’d be 30 – against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
An entire generation has been born and is almost 30 themselves since the Cowboys were the NFL’s Super Bowl champions.
Jones is his own general manager, though, and said Tuesday on a radio show in the Dallas Metroplex area that he would be willing to make trades before the trade deadline on Oct. 31 – but he wouldn’t initiate trade talks (Cowboys’ Jerry Jones willing to trade but won’t initiate talks).
“It will have to come our way. I don’t want to preclude it in any way, but it always does. … The initiation of an opportunity to make a trade that would help us principally has to start over on the other end. That’s not showing a lack of aggressiveness, it’s just how it starts,” Jones said Tuesday morning, on Shan & R.J. on 105.3-FM in Dallas.
In spite of the fact that the Cowboys are a games behind the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFC East, and that they lost 42-10 to San Francisco three weeks ago, Jones still believes his team is in the league’s top tier of teams.
“Well, we belong in the upper echelon,” he said Tuesday. “I’m not going to say that we belong on the field with San Fran, and we haven’t played Philly but I’m anticipating Philadelphia being what they look like. So, I don’t want to go that far but we’re in the upper echelon.”
The Cowboys (4-2) host the Los Angeles Rams (3-4) Sunday at noon, Central time.
