This season the Dallas Cowboys won the NFC East Division and made the NFL playoffs for the first time since 2018. This time was supposed to be different as the team appeared to be hitting on all cylinders in the regular seaosn.
They had a home game against the San Francisco 49ers and people were already counting them out, but the Cowboys remained confident. However, Dallas’ 12-5 run came to an abrupt end at the hands of the San Francisco 49ers in the Wild Card Round.
Former Cowboys player and hall of famer Deion Sanders had a message for the team.
“The city is better when the Cowboys are better. Everything is better when the Cowboys are winning,” Sanders said in a conversation with Bri Amaranthus of CowboysSI.com. “But they seem like they are always getting to the end and choke.”
Deion said the biggest stars from his era always stepped up, but recent Cowboys teams don’t have that.
“They just aren’t built for the moment,” Sanders said. “Back when the Cowboys were the Cowboys, you never doubted if Troy Aikman was going to show up. Or the offensive line, Emmitt (Smith), Michael (Irvin), Moose (Daryl Johnston), (Charles) Haley, (Tony) Tolbert, (Leon) Lett, Deion (Sanders) or (Darren) Woodson.”
“You never doubted if those guys were going to show up in the big games,” he continued. “You don’t know what you are going to get, nowadays. You really don’t and that’s a problem.”
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The Cowboys elected to keep Mike McCarthy as head coach for the 2022 season, but the thin ice he was already on has surely broken, so if the team stumbles out of the gate, Jerry Jones won’t hesitate to part ways with him in an attempt to save the season.
