NFL Hall of Famer calls Cowboys 'bunch of damn losers'
If there’s one thing that Charles Haley knows about, it’s winning.
Two Super Bowl titles in San Francisco and another three in Dallas propelled him into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
So when he speaks out — which is fairly often — people listen.
The question is, can he affect any change with the Cowboys?
Haley appeared on KESN-FM in Dallas and as usual had no problem calling it like he sees it, especially about his old team taking a major step back last season after going 13-3 in 2016.
“I don’t think they understand what it takes to win a game,” he said. “If you want to look back, if that was Coach [Jimmy] Johnson, we would’ve worked harder than we did last year just to repeat that part of it. I don’t see that maturity where guys are doing their own thing out there. When the coach says run 10, you run 15, or you grab your teammates and go run. They took 13-3 for granted and they thought, ‘OK, we’ll win the Super Bowl the next year.'”
Of course, Dallas didn’t make it to the big game — not even close.
Ezekiel Elliott’s six-game suspension was the lowlight of many legal problems on the team, and Dak Prescott regressed from a sensational rookie season. The Cowboys ended up going 9-7, missing the playoffs.
Haley said there’s more than enough blame to spread around.
“I blame everybody,” he said. “It’s one team and everybody’s together. And that’s the key. I go over there and I tell guys, ‘Man, Jerry built this house for a bunch of damn losers.’ And they get mad. They have to do something about it. I can’t do anything about it. I can’t play. All I can do is give you some knowledge.”
As a player, Haley was a handful on and off the field, never shying away from a controversy. Playing with Emmitt Smith, Troy Aikman and Michael Irvin, he was part of America’s team.
Sure, there were some crazy moments, but when it came time to play, the Boys were ready.
That’s no longer the case, Haley said.
“And then the egos are so big and they’re so busy getting on Twitter and Facebook and everything else — maybe they should get in that playbook,” he said. “Maybe they should learn how to rush, catch and block.
“I tell those guys nobody’s scared of them. Ain’t nobody in the league scared of y’all. What y’all been doing is listening to people saying you’ve got the best offensive line in the business. I said who’s scared of y’all? Huh? Those little things like that, those intangibles, the attitude you take to the field [matters]. … I go over there and I watch guys work. I watch them go through drills. They go through three or four drills and they’re gassed.”
His message is clear: If the Cowboys are going to talk the talk, they need to walk the walk.
It should make for an interesting offseason in Big D.
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