‘Dallas Cowboys head coach Deion Sanders’ is just so dumb, you have to consider it

As the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys, by now Mike McCarthy should be the proud owner of multiple rear view mirrors.

You just never know when a certain Jerry is behind ya’.

As the Pro Football Hall of Famer noted this week during his weekly radio show on 105.3 The Fan, Cowboys GM/President/Owner Jerry Jones reminded the world he runs the team, as noted by the fact he didn’t consult with anyone before making the trade for quarterback Trey Lance.

It will take a 1-15-1 season for Jerry to fire McCarthy, but here lies the beauty of Jerry: You just really never know, especially when a person he once went to the wall for, literally, may be available to be his head coach.

If the Cowboys pull off a third straight playoff-pooper against the 49ers, would Jerry just go ahead and do it?

Because “Dallas Cowboys Head Coach Deion Sanders” would not move the needle, but permanently disable it.

In the last four days former Dallas Cowboys cornerback Deion Sanders has become “Vince Belichick Popovich.”

Since Deion’s Colorado Buffaloes upset TCU on Saturday in Fort Worth, sports media outlets all over America, and those in Sao Paulo to Tehran, have been obsessed with all things Deion.

“Do you believe?” Deion, now famously, tersely asked ESPN reporter Ed Werder in the post-game press conference, where the head coach relied on all of the rhetorical devices that both he, and a certain former President, often use when they are behind the mic’.

It’s always arresting entertainment.

It’s but one game, but speculation is rampant that Deion will eventually head to the NFL.

Believe this: Deion will ultimately go where the money is, but that may not be to the Dallas Cowboys, or any other NFL franchise. It’s more likely to be another Power 5 school.

When 60 Minutes aired its piece on Deion Sanders, when he was at Jackson State last fall, reporter Jon Wertheim asked him if he wanted to coach in the NFL.

“Not one bit,” Deion said. “It’s hard for me to coach a person that makes a lot of money that does not truly love the game that blessed me.”

Spoken like a man who knows an NFL locker room.

Deion currently makes $5.5 million as the head coach at Colorado, and he’s generating other cash flow from endorsement deals, namely the insurance company Aflac.

That’s plenty of money, and still not close to the NFL’s highest paid coaches.

Currently, New England’s Bill Belichick is the NFL’s highest paid head coach, at $20 million.

If an NFL team were to offer Deion $20 million, or even $12 million, he’s gone. That would put him in a position to make more as an NFL head coach than he did as an NFL player.

He also knows he has a better chance to control his team, and players, at Colorado, or in college; the head coach in a college locker room sits atop the power structure.

Not the quarterback. Not the defensive end. Not the wide receiver.

With the advent of NIL, and the transfer portal, the day is coming fast when the college head coach will be neutered, and he will be frustrated that his players’ first priority is cash. Just like the pros.

The players may love Deion, but they’re going to love money more.

Because that’s what the college player is now; he’s a pro, wearing a college uniform. Most problems that exist in an NFL locker room are coming to a college locker room.

When it comes to Believing in Deion Sanders, look at the body of work. Hall of Fame player, and the NFL’s first real hired gun.

After the 1994 season ended, he was the NFL’s premier free agent, and Jerry agreed to a handshake deal to sign him. The problem was the team’s vice president, Stephen Jones, told his father “We can’t do it!”

The conversation grew tense, to the point where Stephen grabbed his father by the shirt collar.

“There’s no work left to do; what are you going to do? Hit me?” Jerry asked his son.

The Cowboys signed Deion to a seven-year, $35 million contract that included a $12.9 million bonus. At the time, he was the NFL’s highest paid defensive player.

When Deion was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, in 2011, his presenter was his agent, the late Eugene Parker. Deion’s priority has always been cash.

(As an adult, I get it).

The ambition for more doesn’t stop when you already have plenty; there’s always “Never enough.”

Deion will always follow the money, but that pile will be in Colorado, or probably an SEC school.

The whole idea of Dallas Cowboys Head Coach Deion Sanders is a bit absurd, but ... these days, can you rule out anything?

It is the Cowboys.

It is Deion.

It is Jerry.

And, what would Stephen do ... hit him?