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Another year, another disappointing season for three of the NFL’s biggest losers when it comes to NFL franchises. The Bears, Jets and Cowboys are all having wretched seasons. All came into the 2024 season with high expectations only to have those hopes crushed under the weight of organizational ineptitude. What’s interesting is these three organizations have shown there are various ways to be ineffectual.
Some people feel that different religions are many roads leading to the same place. The same is true of NFL failure. There are many roads leading to the same place. Here’s a quick look at three of those roads.
In Chicago, the inmates are running the asylum
There is a complete void in leadership in Chicago. The McCaskey family doesn’t know their business and apparently are too inept or afraid to hire anyone capable of leading the organization out of the wilderness.
The fact that Matt Eberflus is still the head coach is an absolute joke. Eberflus is the perfect representation of Bears’ ownership. The firing of OC, Shane Waldron, is the type of scapegoating we’ve come to expect from the Bears. Sure, Waldron needed to go, but the gorilla in the room is the fact that an obviously unqualified head coach continues to roam the sidelines.
There’s been far much talk about what the Bears players leadership committee wants. That’s what happens with a weak head coach. The tail wags the dog. And it doesn’t work.
In New York, one inmate runs the asylum
And of course, that’s Aaron Rodgers. When the Jets picked up Rodgers, they signed on for the full Aaron Rodgers experience. That includes good play at QB, plus controversy. Well, in the Jets’ case they didn’t get the good QB play. They did, however, get the dysfunction.
The Jets current record is 3-7, they have already jettisoned head coach Robert Saleh and acquired Rodgers’ favorite WR, Devante Adams. And it hasn’t helped. Davante Adams already seems unhappy, as does other start WR, Garrett Wilson.
Ironically, one guy having a really good season at QB is former Jet’s and current Vikings QB, Sam Darnold. Coaching in the NFL really does matter.
In Dallas, the warden is in charge
That would be Cowboys’ owner, Jerry Jones. Jerry, pictured above pointing blame elsewhere, is obviously the man in charge of the Cowboys. Therein lies the problem. The organization hasn’t been the same since Jimmy Johnson left. While the Cowboys won a Super Bowl after Johnson left, the team was built on the foundation Johnson left behind.
The Cowboys really have been decimated by injuries this season, but they are still a poorly constructed team. Dak Prescott will miss the rest of the season due to hamstring surgery, but before the injury he was underperforming his contract.
The same can be said for CeeDee Lamb. While Lamb has targeted about as often in 2024 as he was in 2023, his production has plummeted. And the Cowboys are lacking in alternative weapons. That’s a function of faulty roster construction.
Once again, three different roads, all leading to failure.
