Could Deion Sanders Be Future Cowboys Head Coach? Jerry Jones Discusses
September 6, 2024
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Could Deion Sanders be a future head coach of the Dallas Cowboys?
ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith asked Jerry Jones that question when the two spoke in an interview published on Smith’s YouTube channel on Wednesday.
Smith laid out a hypothetical scenario in which Sanders was hired to coach the Cowboys.
“That would be crazy,” Smith said. “Is Jerry Jones crazy enough to do something like that some day?”
Jones responded with a smile: “No, but he does know how to spell well enough and not answer a hypothetical question.”
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After the jokes, Jones took the time to praise Sanders and called their relationship a “love affair” between the two of them.
“I have always admired him both on and off the field,” Jones said. “Some of the best stories that I have to tell about my time in sports have been Deion-type stories with Deion and Michael (Irvin) and those guys.”
BOULDER, COLORADO – AUGUST 29: Deion Sanders of the Colorado Buffaloes on the sideline during a game against North Dakota State Bison at Folsom Field on August 29, 2024 in Boulder, Colorado. Jones discusses Sanders… BOULDER, COLORADO – AUGUST 29: Deion Sanders of the Colorado Buffaloes on the sideline during a game against North Dakota State Bison at Folsom Field on August 29, 2024 in Boulder, Colorado. Jones discusses Sanders in a hypothetical situation.
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Jones and Sanders go way back, as Jones signed Sanders and made him the then-highest-paid defensive player in NFL history back in 1995. Sanders spent five seasons with the Cowboys, making four Pro Bowls and three All-Pro First Teams. He won a Super Bowl with the Cowboys in 1996.
After a playing career that included multiple positions and multiple sports — he also played Major League Baseball — Sanders became an analyst and then a head coach. After getting his first head coaching job at the collegiate level at Jackson State, he was named the head coach of the Colorado Buffaloes in Dec. 2022.
Sanders has a five-year, $29.5 million deal with Colorado. However, with his son, Shedeur, expected to be a top pick in the 2025 NFL Draft, there are rumors about the elder Sanders potentially going to the NFL.
Smith decided to bring those rumors up to Jones, who quickly shot them down. Also in the interview, Jones expressed his confidence in current Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy.
“Mike McCarthy is an outstanding coach,” Jones said. “We’ve had 12-win seasons for the last three years. I agree with you that we have not had the playoff success that you would have wanted to have with a Super Bowl-winning coach in Mike McCarthy. But I’ll tell you firsthand, he’s got outstanding ways with players. He’s an outstanding coach. As hard a working coach as I’ve ever been around. He’s an outstanding coach.”
McCarthy’s contract is set to expire after the 2024 season. However, Jones said he’s doing that by design.
“This is just the way that I wanted to do it so we could basically speak to fans, team, everybody involved. We’re putting things on the line.”
For now, it sounds like Sanders becoming a future head coach of the Dallas Cowboys is far-fetched. But if Sanders elects to move to the NFL in the coming years, and if the Cowboys are in need of a new leader, it’s hard to imagine Jones wouldn’t at least give him a call.
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