Too much entitlement, not enough effort

Once again, Jerry Jones gets me.  Wow.

Jerry Jones, the President, CEO, and General Manager, of your Dallas Cowboys believes that the NFL playoffs would be better off...if only they would expand.  Look Cowboys fans, I get it.  It has to be tough watching your team miss the playoffs each of the past four years and in each of the last three, losing the final game of the season to a division opponent to keep them out of the playoffs, but who is to blame?

Your coaching staff talks about doing things the right way, but if you are doing it the right way and that leads to success and you aren't successful...maybe the answer is you aren't doing it the right way.  I know that is hard to believe for fans of "America's team," but let's look at reality, you have finished 8 and 8 each of the past three years?  How is that successful?  At best it is mediocre.

By the way, a quick side note for Cowboys fans about your organization, you are not successful getting to the playoffs.  There are thirty-two NFL teams and each year only one of them can be successful.  I know, I know...if the Raiders were to beat up on the AFC West one year and get into the playoffs many would consider that successful.  I don't.  You either win the last game of the season or you don't.  If you aren't sure, go ask Bill Belichick what he thinks about the year they went 16-0 during the regular season and then 2-1 in the playoffs.  Sorry to say, but it's the one that counts in that case, because that was Super Bowl XLII.  The one game they lost that year...the Super Bowl.

Instead of fixing the problems with his team which include a General Manager who is not trained for the job and a general lack of talent (see General Manager, Problems with) the Cowboys want to fix the system where you simply add teams.  My question is after this year, why would I add the Cowboys, then the Arizona Cardinals - in the toughest division in football arguably - were ten and six.  Jerry, you were eight and eight man!

Honestly, the issue is ultimately moot.  For me, I believe you could probably make the playoffs the top fifteen teams from each conference and the Cowboys would still find a way to choke in December and miss the playoffs anyway.  They are America's team, because they like many in America, have decided they are entitled to things instead of working for them.  And that is the real story for the Cowboys and Jerry Jones.  Too much entitlement, not enough effort.