{"id":198634,"date":"2025-09-04T04:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T04:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/198634\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T04:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T04:30:14","slug":"troy-aikman-sounds-alarm-on-jerry-jones-sad-cowboys-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/198634\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy Aikman sounds alarm on Jerry Jones’ sad Cowboys reality"},"content":{"rendered":"

Troy Aikman isn\u2019t so sure winning is the priority in Dallas.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Hall of Fame Cowboys quarterback and current \u201cMonday Night Football\u201d analyst questioned how owner Jerry Jones is running the team during an appearance on \u201cThe Rich Eisen Show\u201d on Tuesday<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw Jerry talk about the fact that having the Cowboys as a discussion point is meaningful to him. And if people aren\u2019t talking about the Cowboys, then he\u2019ll do things to stir it up. So he kind of walked into that and has given the impression that that supersedes winning,\u201d Aikman said.<\/p>\n

Aikman posited that the franchise\u2019s lack of postseason success may have pushed Jones to chase headlines rather than focus on putting a winning product on the field.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Close-upTroy Aikman looks on before the game between the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Cincinnati Bengals on Dec. 4, 2023 at EverBank Stadium in Jacksonville, Fl. Icon Sportswire via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cIn some ways, I\u2019m sure Jerry and the Jones family and everyone is tired of the fact that they haven\u2019t been to a championship game, let alone a Super Bowl, in 30 years. So, then when you deflect that, then essentially the valuation of your franchise or the attention and the exposure, or the drama. Or, as Jerry said, the fact that the Cowboys are a soap opera 365 days a year, that then becomes the scoreboard instead of winning and losing on the field.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo I think that winning is not important to Jerry Jones? Not at all. I think Jerry wants to win more than anything else, and I think he\u2019s very exhausted of the fact that this team, although they\u2019ve won a lot of regular season games, they\u2019ve only won four playoff games. That\u2019s hard to stomach.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Aikman\u2019s comments come less than a week after the Cowboys shockingly traded superstar pass rusher Micah Parsons<\/a> to the Packers in exchange for two first-round picks and veteran defensive tackle Kenny Clark.<\/p>\n

In February, Aikman expressed his frustration<\/a> with Dallas\u2019 three-decade-long Super Bowl drought.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"JerryDallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones looks on before a game against the Baltimore Ravens at AT&T Stadium. Jerome Miron-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought we had more in us, and I thought we would be back. Obviously, we weren\u2019t,\u201d Aikman said at the 2025 Children\u2019s Cancer Fund gala. \u201cBut not only were we not back, but here we are almost three decades later and no one\u2019s been back.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I speak for the Cowboys faithful in saying that it\u2019s been a long time. And this is the Dallas Cowboys, it\u2019s an organization that has had a great history and this team has won a lot of games over the years with a lot of different players. But for whatever reasons they just haven\u2019t been able to get it done in the postseason. I don\u2019t think anybody is happy about that that\u2019s been part of the Cowboys legacy and all it\u2019s stood for for so many years.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Cowboys are coming off a disappointing 7-10 season after having won 12 games in each of the three prior seasons.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 2025 season will be the first under Brian Schottenheimer after the team parted ways with Mike McCarthy in January<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Troy Aikman isn\u2019t so sure winning is the priority in Dallas.\u00a0 The Hall of Fame Cowboys quarterback and…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":198635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[8998,50027,11138,1232,62,3581,110079,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-198634","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-dallas-cowboys","9":"tag-jerry-jones","10":"tag-micah-parsons","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-sports-media","14":"tag-troy-aikman","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115144151926168133","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}