Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is also the team’s GM, which might explain why this franchise has won only three playoff games since 1996.
Jones, like all other GMs and teams around the league, will be handling this year’s draft from his house while doing everything virtually due to the coronavirus.
There was a tweet going around that said Jones had asked his scouting team to not bother him during the draft. If you’ve been on Twitter or the internet you know some things sound too good to be true and aren’t in fact true.
That’s what happened here, as many people and outlets fell for what would have been a juicy storyline:
That “just having fun” tweet didn’t gain as much attention as the first one, unfortunately.
But still, the thought of Jones working from home on this draft is so rich. Of all the GMs to have issues with technology you gotta think Jones is up there on the list, looking around his mansion for a new AOL CD to plug into his computer for more internet hours.
Things could also be great when it comes to Dallas’ pick at No. 17. Jerry will have the final say alone and while he’ll be on video conferences with the rest of the team’s front office and coaching staff, the pick will be his to deliver to the league. Remember back in 2014 when his son talked him out of Johnny Manziel? What if Jerry gets a gut feeling in his living room and decides to roll the dice on someone? It’s easier to make a gut decision when nobody is in the room to physically impose their will over your selection.
That would be fun.
We as sports fans need this NFL draft to be entertaining because we don’t have sports in our lives.
Come on, Jerry, let’s get weird tonight.
Let’s have some fun.
