After losing a 44-24 to the Denver Broncos, Jerry Jones, General Manager of the Dallas Cowboys has announced his master plan to beef up their defense.
Apparently, Jerry’s had enough of watching opposing quarterbacks turn his defense into mere football practice and now wants to go all out and make it a formidable wall.
“If I saw a proposition for us to help this team, no matter what this score was today, then I would look at it on the merits of helping the team,” Jones said. “I would completely look at the merits for both next week or the weeks after [and the longer term]. No, today would not affect a decision on trading for a player.”
The Cowboys have gauged interest from teams in potential targets, according to multiple sources, but have not found a middle ground to get a trade agreed upon.
And Jones doesn’t see the Cowboys’ defense as one player away from being competitive.
The Broncos had 179 yards rushing, averaging 6.4 yards per carry. It was the fifth time the Cowboys allowed more than 6.2 YPC and the fifth time they gave up more than 144 rushing yards.
“I don’t know what’s realistic,” Jones said. “Could one better player — if we didn’t pay too big a price to have a better player on defense to possibly help? I’m not trying to be cute, but that’s why you’d go get him because you think that you could go help your defense. Are we one player away on defense? I think we’re not. I think we’re more than that away, but what we’re closer to than it looks, in my mind, is executing better on defense.”
Coach Brian Schottenheimer was not putting the loss on the defense.
“When you look at it, I’m not just going to start with the defense,” he said. “I don’t think any of us coached and played well enough.”
“At the end of the day, I think we have good enough players,” Schottenheimer said. “I think we did not play well tonight.”
Should Jerry Step Down as GM?
Right now, the only thing the Cowboys are defending is Jerry Jones’ ego.
