Jones strolled in and fired Landry with zero respect. After his tenure and record, he could have easily let him announce he was retiring and done something respectful for him.
Jones ruined a good thing. Then the clown kneeled.
Jones is an idiot, but he doesn’t get all the blame for Landry. From my reading, the previous ownership wanted to dump Landry in 1987. It was probably time - Landry’s defensive philosophy was way outdated. But Tom Landry was a class act and should not have been dumped that way.
With all due respect as a life long Cowboy fan, Landry was washed up. He trained half the coaches in the NFL and he refused to modify his coaching techniques. He was very predictable towards the end.
Jones wants a yes man to coach, because he still naively believes he knows football, when in fact he knows franchising, but doesn’t know shit about the game. That’s why Garrett lasted so long, only Garrett doesn’t know shit about the game either. Jones problem is unless he dies or takes the unusual steps of being hands off, Cowboys will never win another Super Bowl, because he won’t find another coach willing to listen to or kiss his butt. That’s why Jimmy Johnson left.