When Dale Hansen stared across at Jerry Jones inside WFAA’s Victory Park studio, the silence felt like an eternity. Hansen had just delivered a pointed challenge, live on air: “Can you name a team in any sport that would hire you to be their general manager based on your record, unless of course you bring your checkbook with you? Name me a single team. Can you do it?”

Jones, never short on words, replied confidently: “Yes, I can.”

But 12 seconds of “blabbering around” later (which felt like 15 minutes to Hansen), there was no definite answer. In that moment, Hansen had cut to the heart of a reality Cowboys Nation has wrestled with for nearly three decades: Jerry’s insistence on being his own GM is both his trademark and his biggest flaw. And Hansen did it with a bol

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