Cowboys 'Indictment!' Jerry Jones Places Blame For 'The Whole Show'

The Cardinals Curse lives on.

And so does The Blame Game.

The Dallas Cowboys slumped to a horrific 33-30 overtime loss to the Arizona Cardinals at AT&T Stadium on Sunday. ... triggering a football world full of finger-pointing.

Coach Brian Schottenheimer's offense did put up 30 points. But let's be clear: In terms of efficient, explosive and clutch production, this much-ballyhooed unit was woeful.

Every single time, when the game could've been put in the bag ... Dak Prescott and company allowed the bag to rip, to turn itself upside-down, to dump out the potential contents that would've meant a win.

Examples?

Leading 27-24 late, Dallas got the ball at Arizona's 20-yard line after Ryan Flournoy returned the onside-kick attempt. But the offense did nothing, played it safe, and had Brandon Aubrey kick a 41-yard field goal after really conservative play-calling.

Later, in overtime, after the defense got a stop first up, handing the ball back to the offense, what did Schottenheimer and Prescott and the offense combine to do?

They managed -5 yards on four plays.

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The Football Gods seemed willing to give Dallas a chance to avoid a 3-5 record and a winless mark in its last five meetings with otherwise-hapless Arizona when the Cardinals missed the PAT in the closing seconds to allow OT.

But the Cowboys ignored the Gods.

This being football, when it comes to that aforementioned Blame Game, the first place everyone points to are the people in charge.

Around here, that's Schottenheimer. And Prescott. And owner Jerry Jones.

Said Jerry, when faced with the question of the coach's job security: "This obviously creates quite a challenge. It's an indictment of the whole show."

"The Whole Show'' means that Jones is acknowledging that somehow, ownership and the front office is also responsible for this supposed contender being 3-5.

But short of Jones firing Jones?

Offensively, Schottenheimer and his staff need to have a good look at themselves, because when they had multiple chances in the fourth quarter to put this game out of reach, all they could manage was field goals.

There aren't just play-calling questions. There are character questions.

Defensively, Schottenheimer and his staff need the same self-examination after being downed by a Cardinals team that benched its QB and still managed four straight touchdown drives in the second half.

Forget claims of "culture change.'' We keep coming back to "character.''

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Cowboys Nation is clamoring for Jerry to clean house and fire everyone - a normal reaction.

But Jerry stated in his postgame media scrum that he isn't entertaining coaching changes at this time, and that there is "confidence" in Schottenheimer.

Is that also "normal''? Around here, we suppose it is. ... as "The Whole Show'' continues to generally underperform regardless of the opponent or the week or the year ...

For more than 30 years now.