Deion Sanders as Cowboys head coach would be crazy. But it could work
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There are dozens of reasons why the former Dallas star returning to his old team could end in disaster. But he would be able to stand up to Jerry Jones. It didn’t take long for Jerry Jones to turn the Dallas Cowboys’ head coach search into a circus.
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Perhaps that’s just how he likes it. In the middle of the NFL playoffs, with the Cowboys long out of the postseason picture, up pops Jones to push his team back to the top of the news agenda. The Cowboys moved on from coach Mike McCarthy after the two sides failed to agree to a long-term contract extension they spent a month trying to hash out. That leaves Jones looking for his seventh head coach since the Cowboys last won a Super Bowl, 29 years ago.
Enter Deion Sanders. Hours after the Cowboys let McCarthy go, ESPN reported that Jones had reached out to Sanders, the Hall of Fame player turned college football’s most electrifying personality. A realistic option? A pipedream? A sideshow? Who knows. But the idea of Sanders leaving college football to take a crack at the NFL is tantalizing.
“To hear from Jerry Jones is truly delightful, and it’s intriguing,” Sanders told ESPN on Monday. “I love Jerry and believe in Jerry. After you hang up, and process it, and think about it, it’s intriguing. But I love Boulder and everything there is about our team, the coaches, our student body and the community.”.
Sanders has no reason to leave Colorado. He has the Buffs rolling, and finished his second season 9-4, with a Heisman Trophy winner and one of the top recruiting classes in the country on its way for next season. But read between the lines, and the statement starts to read something like this: I want the job, but I don’t want to be left at the altar if the Cowboys turn elsewhere.
