It has been an embarrassing 2024 season for Cowboys owner Jerry Jones

The Dallas Cowboys have had some disappointing seasons in recent years, and they are closing in on 30 years since their last championship. It has not exactly been the glory days for the franchise. 

But they have rarely had a season quite like the 2024 season that has not only been bad and disappointing, but also completely embarrassing. 

There is nobody in the organization that it has been more embarrassing for than team owner Jerry Jones. Not only because his team is one of the worst in football, but because even the monument to his own vanity and self-proclaimed greatness — AT&T Stadium — has been crumbling.

Literally. 

That was the latest embarrassment for Jones, when pieces of sheet metal were falling from the roof when they attempted to open it for Monday night's home loss to the Houston Texans. That came just one week after the design of his stadium had faced criticism because it was built facing the sun, blinding his team's owner players when they were trying to catch passes in the end zone. 

Making matters worse, Jones became defensive and defiantly refused to make any adjustments to the situation — like adding curtains to block out the sun light — continuing to highlight how everything in Jerry World will always be his way and nobody else's. 

In a normal year those stories would just be bizarre, and maybe somewhat amusing sub-plots.

This season they are just another chapter in the season-long embarrassment that has been the Cowboys. 

It all started before the season when he declared that he was "all in" on this season, and then made almost no adjustments to the roster. All of the flaws that were exposed in last year's playoff loss to Green Bay remained, and he thumbed his nose at the potential to sign Derrick Henry — who trains in Dallas — in free agency to bolster the team's running game.

As Henry has been one of the best running backs in football, and the Cowboys offense has sputtered, Jones has had to further defend himself. It resulted in him threatening to fire radio hosts during his weekly radio show for asking legitimate questions about the state of the roster. 

Then you actually get to the play on the field.

It is terrible. 

The Cowboys are not only 3-7, they have not only lost all five home games so far and six consecutive home games going back to the last year's playoff game, they have been completely humiliated in those home games. 

It is one thing to bad. It is one thing to lose. It is something else entirely to get embarrassed and consistently embarrass yourself. 

When this season ends it is inevitable that head coach Mike McCarthy will be gone. The rest of the coaching staff will probably follow, and there were will be some changes to the roster. Maybe even significant changes. But head coaches have come and gone in Dallas over the years. Players have changed. Quarterbacks have changed. The end result has always been the same.

The one common denominator that has always existed here is the owner. It is Jones. He runs everything, he controls everything, he has his fingerprints all over every aspect of the organization. Until he realizes the folly of his ways and brings in football people to run the team, and allows them to run the team, it is hard to imagine how anything will ever change. 

It has been an ugly year for the Cowboys. The owner has caused almost all of it.