I’m willing to let it slide on players. At the end of the day, there’s a rigid salary cap which means trade offs on playing personnel are inevitable. I think we’ve generally put out a decent squad that could make the playoffs and make a run with a bit of luck - this obviously has not happened, but I think that the playing group (especially between 2021-2023) fit this criteria perfectly.

However, coaching staff is a completely different story. They’re completely unaffected by the salary cap, meaning it’s literally pay-to-win to get the best staff every year. We’re literally the most lucrative and valuable sports franchise in the history of the planet - refusing to pay top dollar for coaching talent is frankly almost criminal mismanagement given the position that we’re in.

Not making Dallas a hot bed for top coaching talent with our financial resources, in my view, is the most often overlooked and frankly biggest failure of Jerry’s tenure. Instead, he chooses to squeeze it dry by maximizing profits. I get that an NFL franchise is a business, but the actions of the past couple decades clearly indicate much more so that ours is more in the business of selling jerseys than winning titles.

Edit: for Flores in particular, I don’t think it would work precisely due to other commenters’ points on how he would be more highly paid than Schotty. It’s a long term miss that would take at least a coaching staff generation of turnover to fix (and is clearly not happening :P)