I keep waiting for the Jerry-Tuna relationship to run off the tracks.
So far, Jerry has been pretty patient, because he knows what a mess he created when he thought 500 coaches could do the job Jimmy Johnson did (and then proved he had no clue where to find one of those 500).
But comments like this show the old Jerry is always lurking:
“I am tickled to death with this win,” Jones said. “[But] it would be exciting for the fans if we win games like this with young players who are going to be on the field for years to come. When I saw we weren’t going to get a chance to do it at a key position like quarterback is disappointing. To win that game under Drew Henson would have really added a big plus to things.”
You have to wonder if he was even watching the same game. It would have added a big plus to things, yes, except Henson looked confounded most of the time he was in, and wasn’t going to be leading the team anywhere.
I’ve been wanting to see Henson, but frankly he looked just like the guy Parcells has been telling us he is: a guy “who hasn’t played much football.”
He can’t make reads quickly, blitzes overwhelm him, and even when he makes the right read, he has a lot of trouble getting the ball where it belongs.
At some point, I think you probably still have to let him play some ball and learn what he’s doing, so you can figure out if you need to get a real quarterback in the draft or free agency (Dree Brees might be a nice fit in Dallas).
Parcells is a hall-of-fame coach. I can’t blame him for looking up and saying, I’m not going to be the coach who serves up this kind of offensive football with millions of NFL fans watching on Thanksgiving. Sorry, we’ll win this one with Testaverde if the old man can walk.
Besides, the running of Julius Jones was a plus.
(Update) Good lord, it was bad enough yesterday listening to Troy Aikman sound like a girl in criticizing the move to Testaverde, because “fans need a sense of hope about the future.” Over and over, he said that. And now Randy Galloway, who used to write whatever Troy whispered in his ear back in the day, is still carrying water for him, and sounding like a girl himself. Sorry, ladies, we don’t need a “sense of hope” about the future, we need to find a quarterback.
Here’s another ominous quote from Coach Jones though:
“I was disappointed not to get to see Drew come back and win the game,” Jones said. “I think he would have done that, and we would have gotten a 21-7 win.”
Why am I starting to get the feeling the glorious relationship is about to blow up over the quarterback position, where Coach Jones has previously produced such stellar NFL quarterbacks as Ryan Leaf, Chad Hutchinson, and Quincy Carter? We’ll see.