Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones may be looking to play 1990s dynasty hits years down the road parting ways with head coach Mike McCarthy on Monday.
Jones reached out to former Cowboys Super Bowl Champion cornerback and current Colorado Buffalos head football coach Deion Sanders on Dallas’ head coaching vacancy, by CBS Sports Senior NFL Insider Jonathan Jones. A formal interview has not yet been scheduled with Sanders, but Jones and Sanders will remain in contact about the opening, according to Jones.
“Hearing Jerry Jones is truly delightful and intriguing,” Sanders told ESPN Monday evening. “I love Jerry and I believe in Jerry. After hanging up and thinking and thinking, it’s intriguing. But I love Boulder and everything about our team, the coaches, our student body and the community.”
Sanders was part of Dallas’ last Super Bowl championship team in 1995 and earned Pro Bowl and All-Pro honors in four of his five years with the Cowboys. Mike Zimmer, Dallas’ defensive coordinator for the 2024 season, was Sanders’ defensive backs coach during those five seasons (1995-1999), and he remains a close friend of Sanders’s to this day. In November, Zimmer didn’t think Sanders was looking to leave Colorado.
“Deion and I are obviously really good friends, and we probably talk every week, but I’m not going to speculate about jobs or anything like that because I don’t think it’s fair,” Zimmer said. said at the time. “I know he’s told me several times that he’s really happy at Colorado. He loves it there. Obviously, they’ve done a great job. I try to watch his games every week to give him some information and go from there.”
Pro Football Hall of Fame Corner claimed to have “a crutch” with the Buffaloes the day after Zimmer’s comments, but now he would have at least listened to Jones about winning. It’s certainly a long way for Sanders to take the Cowboys job because he said the only way he would consider making the leap to the NFL would mean dragging your sons. Quarterback Shedeur Sanders is ranked No. 1 No. 2 prospect at quarterback in 2025 NFL Draft by CBS Sports. His son Shilo Sanders, a safety, will look to increase his draft stock at the end of the month at the East-West Shrine Bowl.
Sanders’ stipulation about mentoring his children could create a problem. The Cowboys have the 2025 NFL Draft 12th overall pick, which is well out of reach to select Shedeur Sanders. Dallas Quarterback Dak Prescott begins the first season of a four-year, $240 million extension in 2025, and if the team traded him this offseason it would incur a $103.2 million dead cap hit, according to OverTheCap.com. Jones despises salary cap hits, something he’s lamented multiple times when discussing running back That of Ezekiel Elliott The $6 million dead cap hit was in 2024 for his release in 2023. It can’t hurt for Jones to talk with Sanders, but the chances of “Prime Time” coming to the Cowboys are slim, given the Sanders state.