Former Super Bowl champion compares Dallas Cowboys to Jacksonville Jaguars
Mark Schlereth, who won two Super Bowls with the Denver Broncos, had some harsh words for the Dallas Cowboys organization, comparing them to the Jacksonville Jaguars while discussing the Micah Parsons hold-in.
“I mean, this is so standard for [owner] Jerry Jones,” Schlereth said on the “Dan Patrick Show.” “The standard operating procedure when it comes to Micah Parsons, because you wait till the last second to get your quarterback done, Dak Prescott. You wait till the last second to get your wide receiver done, CeeDee Lamb, so the bottom line is this is the way they operate as a business. But this is also the reason that things have gone awry.
“... If you do it to these guys, it creates a locker room full, in my opinion, of independent contractors. ... The fact that you wait and you wait and you wait, it keeps you out of free agency. It keeps you out of doing the things that you need to do as a football franchise to have a legitimate chance, in my opinion, to win a championship. And so it’s just the Dallas Cowboy way. ... They are the Jacksonville Jaguars with better marketing. That’s what the Dallas Cowboys are.”
How have the two franchises compared since the Cowboys’ Super Bowl drought started after the 1995 season?
In that time frame, the Jaguars have had six 10-win seasons and eight playoff appearances and made three conference championship games, but have yet to appear in a Super Bowl. They have had the No. 1 overall pick in the draft twice.
The Cowboys in that same span have almost doubled the Jags’ 10-win seasons with 11 and have had 13 playoff seasons, but have failed to make a conference championship game, much less a Super Bowl. They have also never been bad enough enough to earn the No. 1 overall draft pick.
Schlereth went further in his critique, saying the team would’ve won a Super Bowl in the past 30 years if Jones had relinquished control of the general manager position.
“Yeah, because I think they’ve done a great job drafting,” Schlereth said. “I think they are a really good, you know, really good football team, but there’s more to it than that. Like when your owner is the guy that’s circumventing the authority of the coach or the people that are in place, eventually that comes back to bite you. And ultimately for them, it’s bitten them in the playoffs, and those things it’s hard to quantify and it’s hard to put numbers on it.”
The Cowboys are preparing for their first game of the regular season against the defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles in Brian Schottenheimer’s first game as head coach, and could do so without Parsons, their superstar pass rusher.
