The 2024 Dallas Cowboys are not a good football team, we all understand that by now. From the injuries and poor performances leading to a 3-7 start, to Jerry Jones threatening to fire radio hosts, there is just a lot of bad to go around this season.
I know it is nearly impossible to find anything of value during a losing season, especially after watching this team win 12 games each of the last three seasons.
They fell short in the playoffs each time, but it was still fun in the regular seasons watching them compete for division titles and the playoffs.
This season has been very different.
I have done my fair share of complaining on Twitter about how badly this team has been built this season and Jerry Jones setting the Cowboys up to fail since before the season even started.
I wanted to see if anyone had started thinking like I have lately, as far as what positives can be taken away from such an abysmal season this football team — and its fans — is having.
Historic: After last night's game, the #Cowboys have trailed by at least 20 points in SIX straight home games.
A record-breaking season for Dallas. pic.twitter.com/MrrEGrQj12
— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) November 19, 2024
The Cowboys are Climbing the Draft Board
I’m sure this is at the top of the list for everyone who follows this team. For the first time since the first Dak Prescott injury in 2020, the Dallas Cowboys are going to have a very solid draft pick.
The Cowboys finished the 2020 season with a 6-10 record, and it would have been a heck of a lot worse if they did not win three out of their last four games.
They had a 3-9 record after week 13, very similar to the way this season is going for them.
I don’t see this football team winning three more games. The only possible wins they have left are against the Giants on Thanksgiving and the Panthers in week 15. The rest are going to be losses.
Ex-Cowboys DE & current ESPN analyst Marcus Spears on Jerry & Stephen Jones:
"I think they have to be honest with themselves & realize that they’re not operating like teams are operating that are winning championships & consistently competing for Super Bowls…" #DallasCowboys pic.twitter.com/rj8cqy8Nep
— Kevin Gray Jr. (@KevinGraySports) November 19, 2024
There is still a lot of football left to be played, which means we don’t yet know exactly where this team is going to land in the final order, but there is some hope in the prospect of a top-5 pick in the 2025 NFL Draft.
They have enough players under contract that they can make 2025 work, and adding a top guy will help.
A New Head Coach Could be on the Horizon
If this team had any other General Manager than Jerry Jones, I would probably be a little happier about this than I am.
Jerry controls this football team, and he has to have a head coach who knows his place in the Dallas Cowboys organization. Heck, Mike McCarthy can’t even give a report of some of the players that are injured because Jones makes the call about them playing, or not.
It will be good to see a fresh face leading the team, but who wants to take this job with Jones & Co. breathing down their neck?
Dear Dallas Cowboys fans, this is a safe space.
What do you want Jerry Jones to do to make your Cowboys Championship contenders again?
— Robert Griffin III (@RGIII) November 19, 2024
I will say, the lack of positives this season, perhaps for the first time, is getting to Jerry Jones.
You can see it week after week, and maybe this will allow him to move out of the way a bit to let these guys do what they have to do.
I would love a guy like Ben Johnson, the offensive coordinator for the Lions, but I can’t see him taking this job as his first head coaching job. And no, Deion Sanders is not going to be the next head coach of the Dallas Cowboys.
That is all the media wants to talk about: how Jerry should hire Sanders and draft his son.
Like, do you all understand that Dak Prescott just signed a HUGE contract? They aren’t drafting a quarterback with their first round pick. Not next year and not the year after either.
Key Players
Yes, this season is going badly, but let’s not act like they don’t still have guys like CeeDee Lamb, Micah Parsons, Trevon Diggs, DeMarvion Overshown and others who are going to be here in 2025.
This is not your typical top-5 draft pick team that has an awful roster.
They will not be adding a guy they think will change the entire team. They are going to add a guy to be another playmaker for this team, because that is what they need.
Dak Prescott, whether you like him or not, gives this team the best chance to win. You all wanted Cooper Rush, and at some point, you’ll get Trey Lance, and you see how well that is going for us.
The Dallas Cowboys are now All IN for the Draft.
— Robert Griffin III (@RGIII) November 11, 2024
Hopefully, Jerry Jones will make something work this offseason, signing a player or two, because I think he knows full well how bad they are this year.
Add a top player in the draft, a new head coach that is not Deion, and add a veteran to help them in free agency.
As bad as this season is, these are some of the things we can take away from the misery that is the 2024 Dallas Cowboys football season.
I feel like one of the biggest things missing from this club injuries aside, is Dan Quinn’s enthusiasm and coaching style. I believe it not only effected defense but offense as well. Not to take anything from Mccarthy but his offensive coaches are bad. And special teams, sorry bones but how many times are you gonna try that fake punt that does not work with personnel you keep using????. Oline is not holding blocks or opening holes and steele cannot hold anything. Martin needs a rest and someone please teach guyton how to play left tackle or move him to the right or maybe try him and tyler smith swapping places for a while. I cant tell how beebe is doing yet. You know sometimes players are just not ready for instant position switches. But the like coaching is poor poor poor. That is fact.
I meant “line” coaching
The coaching is terrible, the whole staff should have been fired after the GB game. Dan Enthusiasm did nothing against GB. But Dak had another Dak playoff game which killed the defense. Jerry being the worst GM keeps signing players to terrible contracts and making terrible decisions.
I have defended Jones, because of my blind Cowboy loyalty for years, but now I see the light, and what people like you guys have been saying. Jerry is overbearing the way he runs the team. His signing Zeke a while back was ignorant and started the mess we are in now. Stupid is what stupid does.
seems to me every time turpin gets a play he does big things. Then you put him back in the closet. Why not leave him in???
How bout Jerry Jones take the head coach job since he doesn’t let the actual coach do his job?
Why doesn’t someone ask JJ if he would have fired the GM by now? The future HC should be the OC (Bobby Slowik) for the Texans, if he would even take the job.
Reading this is painful… not as a Cowboys fan, but as a Teacher I cannot believe that this many writing errors gets through the editing process in our country. The Cowboys need a GM and Head Coach that can scheme for opponents and create discipline off the field. Our country needs to hold WRITERS to a higher standard.