Jerry World has only been open a few months, but has already landed some big name acts to perform there. George Strait, Reba McEntire, The Jonas Brothers, U2 will even be making a stop at Jerry World next month. Add the Los Lonely Boys to that list, as they not only performed the National Anthem last night, but also provided the halftime show.  It would have been really nice to have been able to see them perform, but instead viewers were treated to T.J. and Boomer, and the 3 minute blitz. *Sigh*

Peta members untie, Micheal Vick has paid his debt to society (in a small way) and is once again a free man. Vick managed to walk out of prison undetected by any media early this morning. Now ESPN will have something to cover other then the Brett Favre drama.  Now he can begin his journey to being reinstated into the NFL, though I’m sure Roger Goodell isn’t just going to welcome him back with open arms. Remember Vick did walk right into Goodell’s office and lie to him about having any involvement with the Bad Newz Kennel dogfighting ring. Not only was he the president, but he was also a client.

If Vick is reinstated by Goodell, the question remains *What NFL team will give him a chance*.  The first team that came to my mind this morning was the Cowboys, because lets face it they have become the halfway house of the NFL. Jerry Jones loves him some hard headed thugs, at bargain basement prices. With the signing of Jon Kitna in the offseason, and the drafting of Stephen McGee (former Texas A&M spare QB) *shakes head* I doubt the Cowboys will be willing to carry 4 quarterbacks on the depth chart.

I will go on record now by saying if Micheal Vick is brought on by the Cowboys for anything including WATERBOY, I will turn in my Cowboys fan card! We the Cowboy fans can’t handle anymore stray thugs in the halfway house!

I didn’t think Jerry had it in him. I didn’t think  Jerry Jones could  make a wise decision as GM. Lets forget the boat load of cash he paid Terrell Owens for an average performance  on the field last season, cutting T.O. was a wise decision. Perhaps there is hope for the Cowboys next season after all.  Hey T. O. get your popcorn ready for the unemployment line. Though I doubt you will be unemployed for long, since the Raider are still around!

On this day in sports Jerry *Diablo* Jones purchased the Dallas Cowboys from Bum Bright for $150 Million dollars. The club is now valued at alittle over $1 Billion dollars.

This has been a production of *This Day In Sports* Please join us tomorrow to see where history will take us.

Could Mike Shanahan replace Wade Phillips as head coach of another team? Seems the rumor mills are starting to turn about a possible Shanahan hiring by Jerry Jones.  With Jason Garrett drawing head coaching interest from teams like the Broncos and Detriot, Jones could be forced to make some coaching changes this off season. Hiring Shanahan or Cowher (which would never happen) could give him his off season splash Jones loves to make.  With no first round draft picks for the up coming draft in April, and a tight salary cap, Jones is low on *big news* options this off season.

I do find myself curious about how Shanahan would do as the Cowboys head coach. Could he restore some sort of order to the locker room? How would he handle T.O. should Jerry Jones decide to bring back his diva wide receiver. Could Shanahan help mold Tony Romo into an elite quarterback? I guess the watch begins to see which way Jerry Jones decides to go this off season, and if Jones will stay committed to Wade Phillips if there is a better option on the table.

An open letter to the Dallas Cowboys,

Is this the best you have to offer your fans? Was having the Hard Knocks cameras in training camp worth it? As a fan I have several questions for your organization.  First and foremost where does your *sense of entitlement* come from? You as an organization have done nothing for more then a decade. How do your put all your hopes and dreams on the shoulders of a quarterback who has proven he is merely a top ten quarterback in this league on paper only.

How your organization came into this season with Superbowl hopes is beyond me. Jerry Jones has managed to put together a roster of divas, cry babies, and players with little to no heart. Your organization is more interested in having your team in the tabloids rather then doing your talking on the football field.  Your team deserves the massive beatdown your taking in Philadelphia right now. I will thank you in advance for not making excuses to why you finished your season 9-7. Please do not tell us that we would have fulfilled our hopes and dreams had we been able to keep players like Felix Jones, and Marion Barber healthy.  Please don’t blame Romo’s pinky on your horrible play while he was injured.  Please address your back up quarterback issues in the offseason, instead of putting all your faith in the fact that Romo will be healthy week in and week out.

Please make adjustments to your wide receiver core, first and foremost please cut Terrell Owens. I know this will be hard for you Jerry Jones, because you love to have the Cowboys names in everyone’s mouth regardless if its good or bad.  How an offensive coordinator goes from a genius to someone who can’t manage to put together a decent game plan week in and week out is beyond me. If  Jason Garrett is our head coach in waiting, this truly scares me. Garrents only responsibility right now is managing the offense. I can think of 31 other teams in the NFL that would love to have his problem of having that many *alleged superstars*. If Garrett can’t handle the offensive side of the ball, how is to be expected to be the head coach, responsible for a 53 man roster.

Poor game planning and execution are just a few problems on the list of several things wrong with your organization. I would like to take this time to thank the following players playing with heart, despite the drama that has surround this organization pretty much all season.

Jason Witten

Demarcus Ware

Martellus Bennett

Tashard Choice

The entire defense. (Despite the fact that your guys played horrible at times this season, you never turned on eachother, and started throwing eachother under the bus to the media.

I would like to take the time to also thank Jerry Jones for applying the Al Davis philosophy to the Dallas Cowboys. You have successfully signed players to long term big money deals, and have gotten very little in return. Examples of this would be Terrence Newman, and Marion Barber.  Your philosophy of low risk, big reward troubled players have also brought in Pacman Jones and Tank Johnson. Neither have cost you very much, and neither have done very much.  I truly hope your new stadium works out for you. If this is the best product you have to put out on the field each and ever week, good luck selling it out.

In closing I would like to leave you, Jerry Jones with this. Please take the single biggest sign of arrogance by a franchise in the history of sports *The Americas Team* slogan and SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASS! You just like 90% of the fans in Dallas seem to think because you have Dallas next to your name, that your entitled to something. Dallas fans got spoiled in the 90′s with 3 Superbowls, and a Stanley Cup.  As your franchise as proven each and every year since 96, winning a playoff game is not a guaranteed thing! Please do not tell us how great your team is in the offseason, we need to see something! Your word means diddly shit to us anymore.

Signed,

Jason T. Wilson

*PS* If anyone has a problem with the above open letter to the Dallas Cowboys, please go back and review this season. It will help fuel your anger with this organization. If you feel I have been to harsh in my observation of this organization and your waiting for an apology, let me know how waiting works out for you, cause it ain’t happenin. Just like the Cowboys going to the playoffs this season.

I’m just beside myself with the news coming out of Valley Ranch today. At this moment I have several thoughts on this subject, but can’t seem to get them all collected. I feel a rant coming on at some point over the weekend. I will however say this, Hey Jerry can you please find your sack and stick T.O. on the first thing smoking out of Dallas in the offseason?

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The shake joints are once again off limits for Dallas residents to enjoy . Pacman Jones is being given yet another chance to prove himself a waste of space in the NFL. Pacman must have some really good dirt on Roger Goodell, that’s the only thing that can explain this latest chance. Goodell has been handing out season suspensions like candy, but yet continues to allow Pacman to continue to be reinstated? I just don’t get it.

I wonder if Jerry  Jones will have some  music playing for Pacman when he returns to Valley Ranch, you know some catchy tune like Journey’s *Open Arms*. Or maybe some 3 Doors Down *Here Without You*, cause as we all know, Jerry loves him some Pacman. With these cold nights now upon us, I’m sure Jerry is happy to have Pacman back to spoon with.  Sorry for what I’m sure is a disturbing mental image, but I have grown tired of the *halfway house* mentality in which Jerry Jones runs this team.

When Pacman was bought in Jerry decided to hire a group of body guards to police Pacman and keep him out of trouble. We all see how that worked out. When Pacman rejoins the team, there will be no body guards. Lets face it Pacman is going to fail miserably, now the only question left is when.  We have all seen how he handles himself with, and without body guards.  You know when Michael Irvin was with the Cowboys, and going through all his off the field issues it was almost understandable why Jones stood behind him. Irvin was a playmaker, he was earning every penny that Jones invested in him. Now I am not defending the actions of Micheal Irvin, just using him as an example to make a point. Pacman has really done nothing with the Cowboys. There have been no explosive kickoff, or punt returns. If nothing else that has been a major disappointment, and almost always ends up with a  *block in the back* penalty. On defense Pacman’s coverage abilities leave something to be desired.

Jerry Jones has made a career out of taking in the strays of the NFL, but this stray needs to stay on the streets of free agency. Pacman has proven time and time again he just doesn’t get it. He does not understand  the meaning of the word *accountability*. He also doesn’t understand what it means to be part of a team.

Pacman, I leave you with this!

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I don’t think Wade Phillips can help sounding like an idiot each and every time he answers questions from the media. Now don’t get me wrong, I like Wade he is a good old boy, good football roots, and at present time he is the chosen sideline puppet of Jerry Jones. This entire week Phillips has been asked questions about the win over the Bengals, *How can you say your guys are focused*?, *Are you happy about his 9 point win over an 0-4 Bengal team when you guys jumped out to a 17 point lead*?  This Bengals team was a playoff team two years ago, there is no clear cut reason to why they have fallen to 0-5. That Bengals team also took the Giants to overtime a few weeks ago, so this Bengals team isn’t really all that bad. Then Phillips was asked why T.O. was crying on the sideline during the Bengals game? *Was he?, I didn’t know anything about that.

Just like in the above video, Phillips doesn’t seem to know much about what goes on with his team. You would think if you were about to go into a press conference, especially after the Pacman Jones altercation you would have all your facts ready to go,  and not say “Well I don’t know about that”, and “The facts are going to present themselves”?? The fact of the matter is, I don’t think Jerry Jones had finished preparing Phillips speech to the media, so Jones instructed Phillips to act stupid!

The investigation into what happened with Pacman is over. The Cowboys have no interest in finding out what really happened that night. The Cowboys only focus at this point is traveling to Arizona to play (in my opinion) a very losable game. Especially with the Cowboys defense being suspect pretty much this whole season. When Lajitas called me yesterday to rant about the Devil, aka Jerry Jones, he said *The Cowboys investigation into Pacman is over, all they did was look down the depth chart and realize how beat up that secondary is”. You know that pretty much says it all. With Newman, Watkins, and Williams out this week, and the 1st round draft pick Jenkins already covering Roy Williams spot, the Cowboys couldn’t afford to do the right thing in this situation.

If you claim to have a zero tolerance policy for a troubled player, zero tolerance should still hold the same meaning regardless if your beat up in the depth chart. Jerry Jones has said time and time again, *I have clear guidelines for Pacman, he knows what he needs to be doing*. Well Jerry, seems as of Thursday when you decided you would not punish Pacman for his actions, Pacman bitch slapped you across the face like a stripper at the shake joint, challenged your authority, called your bluff, and will be a starting cornerback in the NFL come Sunday!

So I finally got to sit down and watch last weeks episode of Hard Knocks, and I gotta say, the first 5 minutes made me kinda sick to my stomach. Now before I go into details I am a die hard Cowboys fan. I have a major problem with the following statements.. I am paraphrasing because I already deleted the episode…

The episode starts with a stripped down Cowboys helmet, and the announcer starts out by saying “This is no oridinary football helmet, as they show someone assembling the helmet (face mask, chin strap, ect) the last image put on it is the Star on the side of the helmet, where it is followed by *This is a Dallas Cowboys helmet, *America’s Team, the most sacred team in all of sports* Ok stop right there.. that’s my problem..

America’s Team?? Did the Cowboys set up the American Idol hot line and ask for America to vote? I get the fact that the Cowboys are a one of the bigger franchises in all of sports, but come on America’s Team?? Can someone explain this one to me please? Now as far as the most sacred team in all of sports?? Just looking at it from a Championship stand point the Cowboys fail in comparison. If we were going to take a poll, I doubt very seriously the Cowboys would be placed above the Boston Celtics, or the Los Angeles Lakers. Lets not forget the Chicago Bulls. So lets not get ahead of ourselves by saying the cowboys are the most sacred sports franchise in all of sports.

Later in the episode Jerry *The Devil* Jones was addressing the team on the first day of camp and he continues going on about the Cowboys, and their greatness.. ect ect ect. It was mentioned with the moves Jerry Jones has made in the offseason that its a Superbowl or bust season. I hate to pull the emergency brake on this train heading to Tampa Bay (site of next years Superbowl) but the Cowboys have not won a playoff game in 12 years. Lets try to keep things in perspective, every year there are 32 teams in the NFL that feel they have a real shot at making the Superbowl. Its what every team has in their sights. I hope the Cowboys are not buying into all the hype that is surround them about being the NFC team in this years Superbowl. Lets face it, this team has 13 pro-bowlers coming back, actually 12 if you don’t count Roy Williams, since it took the death of Sean Taylor to add him to the pro-bowl roster last year. Does this team have a better chance then most teams in the NFC to make the Superbowl, Absolutely! Lets face it, on paper they have the best team in the NFC, but as the Redskins from a few years ago learned the game is played on the field, not on paper. We all remember the year and or years the Redskins have gone out and just spent stupid money on big name free agents only to finish just short of the playoffs.

As I said I love my Cowboys even if the devil does own them, but lets stop the America’s Team crap! Fans step away from Expedia, and hold off on reserving plane tickets, hotel rooms, and rental cars, and let the season play out. Hey around here last season we were all booking trips to Arizona after the Packers game, only to have our hearts broken by the Giants. Do I want to see my Cowboys make a trip to Tampa Bay this year.. Most Definitely!! It would be nice to be out in the streets of Dallas the night the Cowboys win a Superbowl. I have been able to celebrate a Championship in the streets back in Houston, during the Clutch City days! However, I am not going to buy into all the hype! Get out there and earn it, don’t expect because you we have Romo, Witten, T.O. and a handful of other pro-bowlers that the road to Tampa Bay will not have a few potholes along the way!