Chaos Ahead for Dallas Cowboys Training Camp?

All questions remain and the answers are missing. What are the Cowboys even doing?

The answer is 192 days.

What is the question?

Well, the question is simple:

How long did the Cowboys have to work through their biggest issues this offseason?

192 days.

They have used 180 of them as of today and appear to be right where they started.

Twelve days from now, the 2024 Dallas Cowboys will report to training camp. On that day, the organization will issue the state-of-the-team address and I will counter with my annual tradition of the “Off to Oxnard” piece which includes many “strange but true” statistics that largely revolve around the topics of this franchise and wandering in the wilderness.

But I must tell you, even though I often say that nothing surprises me about this organization anymore, I might actually be surprised this time. I am surprised that they have opted out of decisions this spring. It appears that they had four major decisions to make, and they have decided not to make any of them. They have wasted 26 of their 27 weeks this offseason and have not addressed any of the looming questions for their football organization.

I must also tell you that not making decisions is still a decision. Not a good one that has any history of working in professional sports, but a decision nonetheless. This no-decision policy seems to invite instability and perhaps even chaos into the locker room in a way that no clear-thinking organization would consider a good idea.

Let’s review the major decisions they had to make on the evening of January 14. That was the night they were smashed in their home stadium by an underdog side of young players from Green Bay in a demoralizing fashion. Down 27-0 at one point, the Cowboys reinforced the narrative that they have no clue in the postseason. Those who had much at stake gave no indication that they were up to the task. It was a complete and total failure for an organization that simply could not afford another misstep.