5 reasons Deion Sanders may be a great choice for Cowboys head coach

Reading the tea leaves when one would rather be downing a cold one isn’t ideal, but it does look as if Jerry Jones just couldn’t fathom he failed to pull off a masterful gambit for the head coach position of his Dallas Cowboys. Jones had his staff walk through the 2024 season on egg shells, bringing back Mike McCarthy after an epic playoff failure, but allowing him and all his assistants to return on the final years of their deals.

Two weeks after the end of a disastrous 7-10 campaign, the search is just starting to organize itself. There are media rumors aplenty, including that Jones tried to make McCarthy sign a short deal, and/or pressured him to add coach-in-waiting Jason Witten to his staff. The rumors are centered around Jones assuming McCarthy would do anything to retain the coveted title of Cowboys head coach.

Thanks to everything seen out of Dallas over the last 30 years, those scenarios are relatively plausible. 

So when McCarthy walked away last Monday, it was floated Jones had zero backup plan in place, and everything that happened last week was a scramble drill with a non-mobile QB directing the action. And that lack of planning lead to a quickly and widely publicized conversation with Deion Sanders that same Monday.

Many fans and media members scoffed; some at the idea of Sanders being a legitimate consideration, others at the idea Sanders could succeed at the job. But upon closer consideration, Sanders makes a ton of sense as the next head coach of the Cowboys. He’s proven, extremely quickly, to be a great CEO as he’s turned around both Jackson State and the Colarado Buffaloes in short order. Here’s five reasons to think that skill would translate to the NFL.