However, I won't write about the problems with Jerry, Garrett, or even Monte Kiffin. Instead, I want to tell you about how a football team works.
A football team, like most teams, is made up of a group of people. With all groups, there is a hierarchy. It's not because I'm partial to any position, player, or anything to that effect. In my Diversionary Hierarchy, you have, what I call, the Foundation, and the Showmen.
The Foundation is made up of the hefty guys. The men that are in the trenches, take hits every single down, and get paid the least, by comparison. These guys are the offensive and defensive linemen. These are the men that have the worst job, in my opinion. They are considered to be the dumbest, the slowest, and the fattest. The truth of the matter is, these guys are not dumb, not slow, and most certainly not fat. Every down these guys are punching, hitting and doing their absolute best to protect their teammates, and yet they get the least amount of attention. That is, unless things go wrong or they mess up. For example, look at Tony Romo. He took some pretty big hits, and was all kinds of pressured, forcing him to make awkward throws from weird angles. Now he's got a herniated disc. These guys are some of the most important guys on your team, and yet they are paid significantly less than my next group: The Showmen.
The Showmen. These are your "skill" players. These are the guys that everyone talks about. So and so, needs to perform tonight. So and so needs to come up big. Blah, blah, blah. I was one of these guys when I played, I heard it every week. But, it really comes down to the work by the Foundation. If the Foundation is strong, the skill guys excel. These are the linebackers, the receivers, the backs, pretty much everyone else. These are the guys that go out and take the over the middle hits from the linebackers. These are the linebackers delivering said hits. These are the guys that are paid the crazy amounts of money to get their names put on jerseys and sold throughout the world.
Now with all that out of the way, here is where the Dallas Cowboys and this line of thinking cross. They don't. That's the problem. In no way, shape, or form do the Cowboys have a Foundation, on either line. The defensive line has been riddled with injury. The offensive line is just bad. Again I go back to Romo... No pun intended. Until the Cowboys start making the uninteresting draft choices, (Foundation players), the team will not be successful. It doesn't matter how many Dez Bryants you have on your team. It doesn't matter if you had Emmitt Smith from 1992 on your team. It simply doesn't matter.
If you don't have the proper foundation, the pyramid falls.
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