Could a playoff win by the Cardinals send Jerry Jones over the edge?

Anyone who crawled out of their drunken Cowboy despair and watched playoff football this weekend saw former Colts coach Jim Mora and his moment of press conference infamy.

Playoffs? Playoffs!

Coors Light has been featuring this beloved snippet again and again and this always giggles me. I can only imagine how frustrated he must have been at that moment, at his team, at his QB, at whoever had asked him about playoffs. And I keep imagining a parallel universe that finds Owner Jones in such a fervor a week after that ugly Philly loss.

Only in my mind, he’s saying “Cardinals? Cardinals! We’re talking Cardinals winning a playoff game? That should be us. Why isn’t that us?”

And he’s getting mad.

What little I know about Owner Jones, and I pretend to have no special insight into him, is this weekend had to eat at him. He watched a Cardinal team with lesser talent win a playoff game. He watched the Eagles win the game they would have played in (had they not spit the bit) and advance. He watched The Fighting Norvs show more fight than his team and advance.

And this is why I give credence to Chris Mortensen’s report on ESPN about Owner Jones’ anger growing rapidly and how he’s contemplating hiring a real coach, recently jettisoned and very orange Broncos coach Mike Shanahan.

OK, I don’t know how serious he is about Shanahan or changing coaches, but his anger has to be growing. I am still of the belief Owner Jones was in shock after Philly, thus his silliness about keeping Coach Cupcake and bestowing the virtues of continuity. You can not change who you are and Jerry, at his core, is an emotional guy who makes decisions with his heart. This is what makes him genius and, yes, what causes problems at times.

What happened to that guy?

He made mistakes, but he wasn’t afraid to jump. He did not stay with the wrong guy because he may have jumped the gun a couple of coaches ago. He certainly did not let himself be OK with mediocrity.

So I am guessing, he crawled out of his Cowboy despair, slowly started coming off of his Philly hangover and was like “Wait, I did what? Who did I say was back?”

And I hope he watched playoff football this weekend like all of y’all and screamed “Cardinals! Cardinals?” And his anger may just lead him to backtrack off of his stupidity and fire Coach Cupcake and bring in a coach capable of salvaging this team.

It is never to late to do the right thing. And Owner Jones may screw that up, too. He may hire just another in his pursuit of 500 coaches but it does not excuse his inactivity.

So while I ponder if Jerry’s anger has a chance of reaching apoplectic levels, thus producing a coaching change, let’s chow down on a helping of Monday Morning Musings:

1. Why Shanahan is not the answer, or why I disagree with everybody ...

Would Shanahan be better than Wade? Without a doubt.

Of course, my dad has a saying about this phenomenon which, for pc reasons, let’s call his 'tallest short person theory'. Just because somebody is better than what you have does not make them the right coach.

I like Shanahan. I do, when he has John Elway and very little control of personnel. And he probably deserves another kick at the can. But when I looked around the NFL playoffs, what I saw were young coaches who nobody had heard of, much less considered “hot”, with teams nobody expected much from in the playoffs.

Norv Turner, John Harbaugh, Tony Sparano, Mike Smith, Ken Wisenhunt, the science teacher in Minnesota and Tony Dungy. The only 'retreads' in the mix are Norv and Dungy (and, no, he didn’t really deserve to be fired in Tampa). Everybody else was a risk, a guy who just needed a chance.

This is not to say no coach deserves a second job (Bill Belichick springs to mind) but rather the usual list of suspects -- Shanahan, Cowher -- is not the only solution for the Cowboys, nor necessarily the right one. I don’t know who the Jimmy Johnson/Tony Sparano is but Owner Jones would be wise to start hunting.

2. Say this for The Fighting Sparanos: They lost, but they never quit.