Cowboys owner last Friday?
Made it clear. Now. It wasn't clear. What? Jerry Jones does
twice a week on 1053, The Fan in Dallas. He serves up
a big-ass word salad
that has hidden ingredients in it.
And you have to read all the words and listen to all
the words and his Meandering Here, There and Everywhere. And you
get little bits and pieces, that would paint a picture for
you. In the picture that was painted last week
is he's thinking about a potential upgrade for Mike
McCarthy and he's not going to release the bird in the hand
until he knows he can find a better coach.
That was the message last week.
Now, this week miles.
He's trying to put the toothpaste back in the
toothpaste holder
after he was the one who was stomping all over it. Last week
squirting, toothpaste everywhere. Here's Jones from
earlier today.
Don't want to clear up, is that the idea of mine being
twisting in the wind, just wasn't the case at all. We were
sitting there trying to keep Dan Quinn and trying to
maintain continuity over coaching staff.
Did you have to reassure Mike McCarthy after Sean Payton,
quit that he's going to be the head coach of the Dallas
Cowboys.
No, I did not. I did not because we're sitting here
Building Together our future. No.
No, he said. No Mike. He said no, he said no.
so no means no when it comes to that, I suppose but the bottom
line is
He's got to be thinking
and maybe he still is. Look. I'm a firm believer. Peter King
and I are going about this today.
If Jerry Jones everyone, Sean, Payton, he needs to make his
move. Now. He shot. Sean, Payton did not say I will not
coach
in 2022. He said, I don't plan to
Sean is smart enough
to say what he means and means what he says.
And there are people out there who are smart enough to pick up
on the message. I don't plan to coach in 2022. Well, if Jerry
Jones
shows up at my doorstep,
With a big-ass bag of cash
and then there's a certain amount that he's got to say yes to.
There's a certain amount. I don't know what the number is
but there's clearly a number somewhere between
1 million
and 50 million to which he'd say. Yes to
that. That it's that simple. And my point to Peter was Miles
that if Jones ever wants him now is the time to do it
because once Sean Payton gets a chance to
realize life's easier
when you don't have to worry.
About playing a game every week at it.
Life's easier. When you don't worry about bounce of the ball
at a bad call. We talked about this the other day life's
easier that way and I'm making pretty good money. I don't
think I want to go back. Now. That's why Jerry's got a jury's
gonna make his move. Now
if he really wants Sean, Payton.
Don't wait till next year.
Don't wait till next year for a variety of reasons. As I said
the other day when you're closing in on 80, never wait
till next year to do what you could do this year. I would go
get him now because you may never get him, you may never
get him if you don't get him now.
Yeah, I mean look if he's He's in the booth and he's got one
of these cushy jobs and he's doing a great job at it, which
he said that he expects to then. Yeah, that he might
decide. Like, you know, what,
all that coach and stuff. All that stress.
That's not really worth it. Hey, maybe he wants to go into
acting. Do we had a little Cameo appearance? I saw that.
And that little movie, that Kevin James did, you know, of
his life
when he was suspended for that year. So he could go and do
something like that, too. But I think if Sean Payton has that
interest
It's like, yeah,
there's a price that I could go and I would say, you know what,
for that, yeah, I'll forego the break that I was planning on
taking and I'll go coach. Then that's something that Jerry
Jones has to explore. If you really thinks that Sean Payton
is the guy that's going to lead the Cowboys to the promised
land. It's something that you have
to go do and you have to explore because you don't want
to miss out on that chance and have some sort of regret you at
least have to really, really explore that possibility.
I think if you're Jerry Jones,
Jerry Jones also said the defense coordinator Dan Quinn
signed a multi-year extension to remain the defensive
coordinator. Obviously that doesn't bind him to the Cowboys
year in and year out. He can still leave to be a head coach.
You cannot deny
a request for permission to interview, a coordinator
for a head coaching job. He can't say, no, his contract
can't say, I waive my right to be a head coach somewhere. So
the fact that it's a multi-year extension means, nothing. All
that matters is he's not leaving this year
now. Now,
A cynic
and I
don't know anyone who would fit that description or maybe
they're lying to me. But I eccentric would say
that
Dan Quinn didn't have any offers. That's why he's staying
Jerry, Jones seem to suggest that Dan Quinn turned down. A
head coaching offer. It could be the Jerry Jones. Got grifted
by, Dan
Quinn's age. And I heard
that that Quinn's agent was wearing out George, Payton,
trying to try to get him to offer him the job saying
there's all this other interest. Well there just
wasn't there. Just Well, I don't think there was and
that's fine.
That's fine. Yeah, not everybody's going to get
offered a head coaching job every year, but
kudos to Dan Quinn and his agent for parlaying that into
an extension to the extent that he didn't have an offer with
another team. I don't know why you would do if you got the
offer the Broncos job. That's what people think he got
offered. Why would you turn that down? Why would you turn
down? The only job? I would turn down this year, two of
them Jaguars and Texans, the other ones I'd to out Dolphins.
I think about it, but I don't think he was a candidate there,
but, you know, most of these jobs, the windows open again.
Up through it, while you can because,
you know, Sims points out and he's accurate. Even though
there's this narrative that the Cowboys was dramatically better
on defense. They weren't they were not. They were just better
than crap.
So, you know, all of a sudden Dan Quinn looks like, you know,
Vince Lombardi. No, he just followed Rich kou tight as it
relates to the quality of the defense
in Dallas. Well, yeah, but
here's the thing. I mean it's kind of the same thing that Gus
Bradley did with the Raiders, right? Like if you take a team
that's like at the very, very bottom and put
I'm in the middle of the pack. Then it makes a significant
difference. And so we'll see if that success continues or they
could go from middle of the pack into the top 10. Maybe
even top five next year.
But yeah, I feel like if you're Dan Quinn,
a, if you got offered one of those jobs, like, if it were
the Broncos job where they have a lot of good pieces on defense
than that's, maybe one that you probably would have taken,
right? But at the same time, a lot of these teams and a lot of
these should say a lot. These coaches
when they're not actually going to get offered a job. They'll
then say, oh, you know what? I'm just gonna say here, you
know, I'm withdrawing my name where it's like, no, you can't
reject me because I reject, you first, you know, like when
you're on a date in the, you
know, somebody wants to break up with you. I oh no,
it was a mutual thing. Your friends. Like you mean she
didn't break up with you and you're like, no, no, no. No, it
was, it was totally Mutual. I mean, like, we just both felt
like we had to go our separate ways.
It was like Michael Scott was drawing his name for
the regional. What was it? Whatever. Whatever Jan's job
was once. He knew he wouldn't getting it. He
stumbled his way into saying that
he wouldn't be a good boyfriend if he took
his girlfriend's
former job. So either way Dan Quinn is sticking around.