What’s Jerry Jones Really Think About His Cowboys Roster?

FRISCO – Dallas Cowboys proprietor Jerry Jones this week unveiled a intelligent strategy to communicate to each the holes on his roster and his religion in stated roster.

“I believe we will very simply be the place we had been final 12 months talent-wise,” Jones stated throughout Tuesday’s pre-NFL Draft media session right here inside The Star. “I’m not keen to concede in any respect that by the point we get to the playoffs this coming 12 months that we gained’t be each bit the crew that we had going into the playoffs final 12 months.”

Intelligent.

Jones, who additionally stated final 12 months’s roster in contrast favorable to most any in his 32-year Cowboys historical past – which is a mouthful, provided that the early 1990’s Cowboys could be the best assemblage of expertise ever – just isn’t hiding from truths right here.

Final 12 months’s playoff failure was a crushing disappointment for him.

And this 12 months’s roster is – at present – not what it was just some months in the past.

Dallas traded star large receiver Amari Cooper to the Cleveland Browns in a wage dump, endured the defection of Randy Gregory to Denver, reduce beginning offensive lineman La’el Collins (who all however acquired a welcome parade in Cincinnati) and did not blink when wideout Cedrick Wilson Jr. and guard Connor Williams each signed with the Miami Dolphins.

So how does Jerry Jones suppose this group is best? He would not; dig by way of his phrases fastidiously and he is speaking concerning the promise of what could be, concerning the growth of his younger gamers, concerning the management of his veterans and concerning the hope of hitting on one other Micah Parsons gold mine on this week’s draft.

“I am not factoring to find this 12 months’s Parsons,” he stated. “I really feel very strongly that we will have a crew that can provide us each bit the promise to evolve and get us again to the place we had been within the playoffs final 12 months with the well being degree, the supply degree, in addition to the expertise degree that we had final 12 months. I can go down by way of and take a look at specifics simply inside. Dak (Prescott) needs to be in higher form than when he was going into the playoffs … That alone might put us in higher form for the playoffs.”

What Jerry is doing – craftily – just isn’t evaluating the roster to the place it was three months in the past, however quite, to the place is was 12 months in the past. That is earlier than Parsons received right here and whereas Dak was nonetheless rehabbing from main ankle surgical procedure.

In the meantime, what he’s additionally doing, with as a lot subtlety as he can handle, is telling you the 2022 Dallas Cowboys are going to the NFL Playoffs. …

“By the point we get to the playoffs this coming 12 months,” Jones stated.

It is intelligent. It is artful. It’s, Cowboys Nation hopes, true.