The Dallas Cowboys are worse than bad — how about “embarrassing?”

I’m not sure what is worse: The once-beloved America’s Team not having been to a Super Bowl in 24 years, Jerry Jones owning and running the organization that long, or Jones sticking with Jason Garrett for nine seasons of frustration?

In a state where everything is super-sized, imagine how über-angry they are in Texas after the Cowboys blew another chance to win the NFC East, which has been among the weakest divisions in the National Football League for years. Any group with the Redskins and Giants has to be.

Since 1996, when they were America’s Team after winning their third Super Bowl in four years, the Cowboys haven’t been back to the big game, and only two other NFC East teams have been there, the Eagles twice and the Giants twice.

Heck, the Panthers have been there twice, and both of those coaches have since been fired. Garrett has been in Dallas 13 years as offensive coordinator, assistant head coach, interim head coach and the last nine as head coach. Garrett seems like a nice guy, but he must have dirty pictures on Jones, who was once known as the toughest boss in pro sports.

At long last, if the Cowboys don’t sneak into the playoffs on the last weekend of the regular season, Jones may finally make a move and get somebody who knows how to win. Dallas had a chance to wrap up the NFC East with a lousy 8-7 record Sunday against a banged-up Eagles team, but missed opportunity after opportunity to make a big play.

Dak Prescott was once considered a franchise quarterback and has been playing hurt recently, but does he look like a Super Bowl QB to you? He constantly missed open receivers in Philadelphia and could not spread the field at least a little to open up the running game for Ezekiel Elliott. And it wasn’t even that chilly in Philly.

Jerry Jones has the one thing that ought to make the Cowboys great again. He built a billion-dollar stadium and his franchise is the most valuable in professional sports. Can’t he find a coach and general manager and give them the money they need to get what Jones and everyone in the Lone Star State wants?

Remember back in the ’90s, when Jones lifted the Lombardi Trophy and shouted, “This is our time”? Isn’t it crystal clear by now that his time has passed?

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