Columnist: Jerry Jones missed out on Sean Payton

Buck Harvey of the San Antonio News-Express wrote Monday that Cowboys owner Jerry Jones missed out on getting Super Bowl winning Sean Payton of the New Orleans Saints as his head coach.

Harvery writes: "A former employee, Sean Payton, outlined what Jones once had in Dallas. And what he doesn't have now. During the 2003 draft, Payton did everything but demand the Cowboys take an unknown quarterback from Eastern Illinois named Tony Romo.

"The Saints became the first Super Bowl team to try an onside kick before the fourth quarter. (Wade) Phillips showed the Cowboys the opposite last month. Then, in Minneapolis, the Cowboys faced an early fourth-and-1 at the Minnesota 30-yard line.

"Jones saw what happened then, too, and he saw the opposite Sunday. He saw what happens when a franchise makes the right hire. He saw a coach playing every angle and inspiring his players, and he saw him win a championship for a franchise that had rarely won anything before. Jones saw a former assistant, too."

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