Ben Rogers
@BenRogers
Cowboys fans need to get ready for Bill Belichick. Here’s the long [censored] reason why:

Right now, Jerry’s football IQ — and his mere involvement — is being rebuked like never before. The playoff disaster to the Packers, Zeke as RB1, his version of “All In”, his love of money clearly being bigger than his love of winning, his stubbornness about the curtains, telling Overshown he can’t have Rowdy’s number, the Trey Lance debacle, Mazi, Schoonmaker…

His ridiculous media meltdown with his flagship radio station, his lack of in-season maneuvers — including witnessing the painful improvements in the Amari exchange rate — only to shock the world with a last-minute 4th for Mingo.

It’s been an ice-cold run at the NFL craps table for a man who likes to dazzle onlookers with exciting dice-rolls. People are pointing. Laughing. Cowboys Nation is suddenly a troll convention.

It’s all stacking up like a wobbly Jenga tower. One more bad move and it might feel like the Steve Pelluer era all over again.

When is the last time there was some undeniably positive Cowboys news that didn’t involve Jerry reaching for his wallet?

So at a time when his organization’s football integrity is enduring a stressful ongoing daily public audit & colorectal exam — Jerry is glancing out the tinted windows of his million-dollar party bus noticing a living/breathing Hall of Fame football god holding a thumb up on the side of the road.

Adding Belichick would silence the football IQ noise immediately. Instant organization credibility restoration. Much like the Parcells era.

You could argue that might only be short-lived. You could say the game has passed him by. Maybe that’s a decent argument. None of us know the answer to that. But that’s not the point.

You think an 82-yr old billionaire is going to trust a young upstart/unproven hot commodity type head coaching candidate during an absolute house-on-fire crisis like this?

To me, it’s way more likely that Jerry goes with what he knows… and in Jerry’s time in the NFL, who has more coaching credibility than 72-yr old Bill Belichick — who is available, and appears to want the gig?

And no matter what anyone says internally, I’m guessing this will be a Jerry Jones decision alone. I don’t think this one will be a group brainstorm session where “no ideas are bad ones”. Where has listening to everyone in the building gotten him over all these years?

He seems legitimately frustrated. Befuddled. It actually made me sad to see him get emotional after the Falcons loss. I think all of that is real. It’s why I love the guy.

It feels like the integrity of the entire brand is at stake here. The accumulative weight of the almost 30-year drought is finally adding up. And now to complicate things further, the timing is bad too. You can’t go the route of a full-on rebuild with a $60M QB going into the 1st year of his new world record contract.

He’s painted himself into a corner. “His way” has the house of cards ready to fall. This requires something drastic.

Bringing in Belichick would represent a concession by Jones. It would say to the world that he’s willing to ride shotgun if it means the Cowboys would win.

And the #1 reason I can see Belichick being the next HC of the Cowboys is thiS:

No matter what you think about Belichick and his age, if this marriage were to happen, it would be EXTREMELY JUICY. Headline Heaven. It would have the Stephen A’s of the world doing backflips of joy about their new magic content factory. Sink or swim, it’d be the talk of the NFL.

And maybe that’s what Jerry loves most. The juice. It’s what makes the Cowboys $10 BILLION DOLLAR brand the most valuable in sports.

A blockbuster move like this would restore credibility to the Cowboys for most of America (Ben Johnson voters notwithstanding) and put Jerry’s team right back where he likes them to be — center stage — smack dab in the middle of the big ole spotlight.

Bill Belichick is 72 years old. That alone should make the decision easy.

Bill Belichick is 72 years old. That alone should make the decision easy.

Belicheat hasn't won diddly without Brady. Most Patriot fans blame him for running Tom off and trading every decent player they had for draft picks that never amounted to anything.

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