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00:00Drought is defined as a noun, a prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall leading to a shortage of water.
00:09That is the definition of drought.
00:11But in football terms, if we were to take out the words rainfall and substitute it perhaps for playoff victories,
00:19in shortage of water to shortage of Super Bowls, that would define the Dallas Cowboys.
00:26I believe that Stephen Jones needs a dictionary next to his side at every single moment.
00:33Because Donnie, America's team in Brandon, in a team that had great success throughout the 80s and 90s,
00:41led by Jerry Jones, but of course, Jimmy Johnson, Barry Switzer, Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, Michael Irvin,
00:49the list goes on and on at the star.
00:52There was only the pinnacle of the sport of which the Cowboys were defined by.
00:57Well, their last Super Bowl championship, as has been well documented, 1995.
01:03In the 29 NFL seasons since, nearly going on three decades, the Cowboys have never reached an NFC championship game.
01:13In fact, it now gets even worse because Jaden Daniels, leading the Commanders to the NFC title game this season,
01:20was Washington's first bid to the conference championship since 1991.
01:26The Cowboys are now the only team in the NFC, 16 organizations on that side of the league.
01:32The Cowboys are the only team in the NFC DRS since 2010 to not make the NFC championship game.
01:40And their drought, because it is a drought, goes back 15 years even prior to that.
01:47It's specifically on the ownership group, and that ownership group obviously is Jerry Jones.
01:52Understand this in the evolution of Jerry Jones.
01:54He had some great ideas starting when he first bought the Dallas Cowboys.
01:58Everybody was furious that they got rid of Tom Landry, but the time had run out for Landry for the Dallas Cowboys.
02:03They wanted a new look for that franchise.
02:05He reaches out to his old college football buddy who was dominating college football in Jimmy Johnson.
02:10And understand this, usually you'd be so happy to be an owner.
02:14I swung and hit the biggest home run you're ever going to see.
02:17I have the best coach in the NFL that understands what talent means to him and how these football players will play.
02:22I'm winning Super Bowl after Super Bowl.
02:24But you know what?
02:25Every time I read those press clippings, Ben, it says Jimmy Johnson is getting all the credit here.
02:31I want the credit. I own this team.
02:33So this is pre-salary cap era.
02:35Fires Jimmy Johnson, which is unbelievable.
02:37Brings in Barry Switzer.
02:39The team was so talented they won in spite of Barry Switzer.
02:42Salary cap comes in.
02:43They haven't won since then.
02:44The reason I bring that up is because Jimmy Johnson would sit in that room and be like,
02:48Jerry, you're my good friend here.
02:50I am making every decision here, and we are winning Super Bowls.
02:53Stay out of this equation.
02:55So then they go down a little bit of a lull, and they go, you know what, Jerry Jones?
02:58I'm going to learn from the past here.
02:59Let me bring in a coach that's going to stand in front strong, have his opinions, and lead us to a championship.
03:05That was Bill Parcells.
03:07It didn't work out.
03:08And if you remember the famous quote when he was let go, which tells you everything you need to know about the ownership group,
03:13if they want you to cook the dinner, at least they ought to let you shop for some of the groceries.
03:17So basically, Bill Parcells, multi-time Super Bowl champion, NFL Hall of Fame head coach,
03:23and Jerry Jones was saying, Bill, I don't care who you want at left tackle.
03:27I make those decisions.
03:29I make every decision in this franchise.
03:31And Parcells was like, I don't need this anymore.
03:32I'm leaving.
03:33I'm going to tell you everything over the past 20 years now since Bill Parcells was there is wrong with Dallas
03:38because the coach is brought in as a lapdog for the Jones boys.