For weeks, Dallas Cowboys fans urged the team to sign Derrick Henry.
He was almost a lock to leave the Tennessee Titans, and he was going to headline one of the best running back classes in recent free agency history.
The Cowboys, instead, deemed him too expensive and went back to Ezekiel Elliott one year after letting him go.
Fast forward to Week 3, and Henry ran all over them, amassing 151 rushing yards and two touchdowns en route to a very tough defeat at home.
With that in mind, Mike Greenberg of ESPN put Jerry Jones on blast, showing his comments when he said that you sometimes can’t buy a mansion and that they couldn’t afford to sign Henry (via Awful Announcing).
Mike Greenberg tees off on Jerry Jones for saying the Cowboys couldn’t afford Derrick Henry:
“Sometimes you can’t buy a mansion because you ran up a lot of credit card debt. You made bad financial decisions. And that’s what his team and his leadership have done. Maybe if you… pic.twitter.com/oKTaLPQC4E
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) September 23, 2024
On Monday’s edition of Get Up, Greenberg claimed that the Cowboys couldn’t buy a mansion because of their credit card debt and all the bad financial decisions they made.
He called them out for not getting a deal done with CeeDee Lamb until late in the offseason and not signing Dak Prescott until — literally — one hour before the start of the season.
He thinks the Cowboys could’ve absolutely afforded to sign Henry had they approached the offseason in a timely matter like all other teams did.
Now, they’re just reaping what they sowed.
This is the way the Cowboys have done business for decades now, and if the same person making all the decisions doesn’t change his approach, they will never go back to being a legitimate contender.
