Former Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman joins "The Musers" on 1310 The Ticket at 7:55 a.m. each Tuesday during the NFL season and, for better or worse, today's appearance occurred barely 10 hours after the Cowboys' dismal 28-14 home loss to Tennessee.

Worse, probably, to the ears of Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and many others inside The Star on this Election Day. Better, no doubt, to the ears, hearts and psyches of a legion of long-tortured Cowboys fans.

Within seconds after making a shocking small-talk admission that he's never seen a Star Wars movie, Pro Football Hall of Famer and lead Fox analyst Aikman stepped to the pulpit and went scorched Earth on what he regards to be a "dysfunctional" Cowboys organization. As during his quarterbacking days, the greatness of Aikman the broadcaster is his ability to criticize without changing demeanor or raising his voice.

"I've always believed prime-time television, at home, if you're anything that you believe that you are, you win those games," he said of the Titans debacle. "And they didn't look very good.

"As I was watching that game and then it was apparent that they were going to lose, I thought to myself, 'Wow, I really can't remember or think of a loss that is this bad, at this point of the year.' There's no question it was a terrible loss."

Brother Aikman was just getting warmed up.

Yes, he emphasized, there is plenty of blame to spread around. Quarterback, receivers, offensive line. The "head-scratcher," in Aikman's words, to fire offensive line coach Frank Pollack after last season and hire Paul Alexander, who was fired last week. Aikman also alluded to the offseason firing of quarterbacks coach Wade Wilson in favor of inexperienced Kellen Moore.

"There was a belief that what they had at the wide-receiver position was plenty and that they could use guys in a lot of different ways," Aikman said. "That didn't pan out the way that they hoped. They spent a first-round pick in order to bring in Amari Cooper because they acknowledge that they made a mistake.

"When you make those changes, it's not seamless. It basically is an admission that, you know, 'We're screwed up.' "

At 3-5 and one week after trading their 2019 first-round draft pick for Cooper, the apparently still-screwed-up Cowboys are teetering on the brink of a lost season.

One of the Musers, Craig Miller, asked Aikman whether firing head coach Jason Garrett will be in order if the Cowboys fail to make the playoffs. Echoing what former Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson and other TV analysts have said, Aikman said he is certain that Jones' preference is to keep Garrett.

"I don't think, where he's at right now, that he wants to go through another regime change. I think he's very comfortable with Jason. I do believe he respects Jason and he's hoping like crazy that good things will happen here down the stretch so that a change doesn't have to take place."

However...

"But I think the one thing Jerry has done over the years, whether it's accurate or not, I think Jerry has done things after seasons to at least give a fan base hope going into the following year. And that will happen again this year, whether that ultimately means the head coach, a change there, or something else."

Aikman's barking dog briefly interrupted him, but not his train of thought. He rattled off the list of Cowboys coaches who filed through the organization since the unamicable Jones and Johnson divorce following the Super Bowl-winning seasons of 1992 and 1993.

"Go through the list and this team, over a long period of time, has been what it's been," Aikman said. "It hasn't always mattered who the head coach has been. So to me, if you're asking me, I'd say there has to be a complete overhaul of the entire organization. You can't just can't simply replace head coaches and say, 'Now it's going to be better.' No, it's been shown that it's not better. And you have to address how everything is being done.

"And there's been times where I've heard Jerry say, 'OK, look, we're going to do it differently. I'm going to do it differently.' But it's the same. Nothing changes. And that to me is the bigger issue, beyond, 'Yes, coaching's important, personnel, all those things are important.' But how are you going about evaluating? How are you going about running the organization?"

Aikman offered the disclaimer that he is not inside the organization, nor has he been since his 2000 retirement as a player.

"But I talk to people. I talk to people who have been inside the building and have a pretty good understanding of how things are run, and in a lot of ways there's a lot of dysfunction. And that has to change if this team is going to be able to compete on a consistent basis like the teams you look to around the league that seemingly are in the hunt each and every year."

With that, the Musers and Brother Aikman moved on to other NFL subjects, no doubt leaving Jones' ears burning and Cowboys fans feeling the sense that someone, finally, spoke up and said what they have been thinking for years. A couple of decades, actually.

Amen, Brother.