Why anyone would call the Giants beating the Dallas Cowboys a shocker is beyond me. Dallas is a good team and they played well throughout the year. But they also had their share of struggles and media hype which seemed to be at warp 5 speed. The problems with the Cowboys starts at its front office with Jerry "my way" Jones who honestly believes that anyone can coach the cowboys with the talent he acquires. He has even said he could coach the team to super bowl victory. Jerry just does not get it. He is in his 11th year experiment since his last super bowl victory with a rotating coaching staff and front office staff.

With his hiring of Wade Phillips as head coach was another tell tale sign of the control that Jerry Jones has and wants over the Cowboys. Phillips is a very good defensive coordinator and has shown success as a head coach but has not been able to translate that success into winning championships. He does not know how to ratchet his team up come the playoffs. Some coaches have and some do not and he is the perfect fit for Jerry Jones.

The Cowboys are now 0-2 in the playoffs in the past two seasons and last year was the one the caused the Tuna to bolt from the Cowboys. Nary a word was said when he left the stadium for the last time. It was almost as if he never existed in Cowboy lore. But the fanfare of bringing on Phillips as head coach and Jason Garrett as the offensive coordinator and heir apparent to the Cowboys mythic dynasty has been endlessly written about and spoken of since the end of last season. With suddenly the evaporation of front office staff from the Cowboy organization not only with its player personnel guy and most of his staff leaving the Cowboys as they entered into their bye week does not raise the question that most would think. But it does answer those questions of Jerry Jones and his management ability in the NFL. Jones had a great thing going with Jimmy Johnson and the management team at the time but when success reared its ugly head Jerry Jones jumped up proclaimed his genius and pushed out the door those that created that success. He then hired his good friend Barry Switzer who in part coached Jimmy Johnson team to another super bowl victory and then Jerry Jones began to put his stamp on the team and has since been fodder for many around the league and nation. Jones has come dangerously close to being the heir apparent to Al Davis. Al Davis the crazy curmudgeon that will not let failure slip his grasp.

So with this comes another inevitable slide that the Cowboys are certainly going to endure. Jones just cannot help himself but to start to dismantle success and that is evident with the vanishing act his front office took over the past two weeks.

Jones would have better luck just telling the children of America he killed Santa instead of the slow killing of the self made name of America's team.