Michael Irvin leaves Cowboys, Jerry Jones after disappointing 2024 campaign

Dallas The Cowboys have been one of the most disappointing teams in the NFL throughout the 2024 season, Dallas went 7-10 in the regular season and missed the playoffs for the first time since the 2020 season. Now the Cowboys have to hope new coach Brian Schottenheimer it can lead them to a brighter future. One former Cowboys player isn’t counting on it.

Former Cowboys VR Michael Irwin unloaded on Dallas and the owner of the team Jerry Jones after a disappointing 2024 season, Irvin used Sunday’s NFC Championship game as a starting point for his criticism.

“We’ve got two NFC East teams in the NFC Championship game going (Sunday). All eyes are on them,” Irvin said, via The Athletic’s Jon Machota . “And they’re in a position that we haven’t been in for 30 freaking years.”

Now that the Commanders have won the NFC Championship, The Cowboys hold the NFC’s longest title drought.

“We’re losing ground in the NFC,” Irvin concluded.

Unfortunately, it might be more accurate to say that Dallas has already lost a ton of ground in the NFC.

The Cowboys certainly have a lot of work to do this offseason if they want to turn things around in 2025.

Skip Bayless rips Jerry Jones off in a rant about the Cowboys’ coaching search

Irvin isn’t the only one currently under fire for the Cowboys.

Famous Cowboys fan Skip Bayless recently ripped off Jerry Jones on how he handled the team’s search for a new head coach.

“Oh, Jerry Jones is smooth,” Bayless said Friday. “He talked to Pete Carroll just so he could tell everybody when he hired Brian Schottenheimer, ‘Well, I talked to old Pete, but we didn’t come to any conclusion.’ Stop it, Jerry! I’ve heard enough. The obvious, most qualified trainer on the market is Pete Carroll. He built a dynasty program at USC and a dynasty in Seattle. I know he is 73 years old, but he is 73 years old, he is 43 or 33 years old.

Pete Carroll is now the head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders.

Carroll is certainly the most decorated head coach in this year’s recruiting cycle. However, that doesn’t mean he would connect with the culture in Dallas. Bayless claims that’s part of the problem for the Cowboys.

“(Pete Carroll) is too big for you, Jerry. He would come in and destroy the country club culture that you built in Dallas for your players,” Bayless continued. “Pete Carroll, he has an aura, a mystique, a PR energy; he takes over every stage he’s on. He’s just too charismatic for you, Jerry.”

Expectations will be high for Brian Schottenheimer in his first season as a full-time head coach.