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The Dallas Cowboys lost another bad game – their third in a row – Thursday night in Chicago in what very well could have been Jason Garrett’s final appearance on the Dallas sideline.

Garrett’s employment status has often been the topic of discussion at this of the year during his 10 seasons as head coach of the Cowboys and it feels like this time will end with him being shown the door.

Owner Jerry Jones will be the one to eventually break that news to Garrett, which is rich because Jones is really the main person to blame for the mess that has been the Dallas Cowboys in recent years.

Sure, the team has won three NFC East titles during Garrett’s time but they’ve never seriously challenged for a Super Bowl in that time. The franchise has just three playoff wins (two by Garrett) since 1997 and haven’t appeared in a NFC Championship Game since the 1995 season when they won the Super Bowl.

That is embarrassing, especially considering all the money this team makes and how popular this franchise continues to be.

All that failure lands on the shoulder of one man – Jones. Dallas has been an inept franchise long before Garrett was handed the keys to the battered car. Does the coach deserve to be criticized? Yes, of course. He has made a lot of boneheaded decisions throughout the years.

But Jones has been the man calling the shots, making the deals, bringing in the players and maybe sticking with Garrett for far too long as his head coach.

Jones has made the job of coaching the Cowboys a circus during his years as the owner. His locker room press conferences after games can only add fuel to the massive fire that builds whenever the Cowboys are self-destructing.

Just this week he went out of his way on a radio show to say he thinks Garrett will be coaching in the NFL next season. But he didn’t say Garrett would necessarily be doing that with the Cowboys, which added even more noise to a situation that was plenty loud enough

Jones has hired head coaches by the names of Dave Campo and Chan Gailey, who had little success in Dallas. He got lucky by getting Bill Parcells to come out of retirement for a little bit, but not even Parcells could get them to a NFC title game. He’s given Garrett 10 freakin’ years to become a winner.

Now Jones has a 6-7 team with way too much talent to be 6-7. Luckily for them they are in the NFC East, which is a dumpster fire this year. Dallas is still in first place with the Eagles hot on their tails at 5-7 and facing Eli Manning and the Giants on Monday night. Chances are the Cowboys will win the NFC East again this year, but it doesn’t feel like it will lead to much.

This season is shaping up to be another lost season, led by an owner who doesn’t have what it takes to build a winner.

And that’s on him.

Not Jason Garrett.

Thursday’s biggest winner: Troy Aikman’s hoodie.

The Hall of Fame QB kept it casual while calling last night’s Cowboys-Bears game on FOX as he rocked a hoodie with a sweater and jacket. Did fans have fun coming up with jokes about the hoodie? Oh boy did they.

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