A longtime Cowboys fan and columnist is making the argument plenty of North Texas fans have shouted at their televisions for years: Jerry Jones should fire the general manager. Since that’s Jones himself, the fix is a little awkward. The column points out that Jones bought the franchise in 1989 for $140 million and has grown it into a business worth more than $10 billion, so nobody questions the bottom line. The question is the trophy case. The writer credits Jimmy Johnson with building the 1990s Super Bowl teams and blames Jones’s ego for the split, then lays three decades of the same mistakes at the feet of Jerry and Stephen Jones.

The suggested remedy is straightforward. Hire a football mind to run personnel, stop the postgame press sessions and locker room visits, and let coaches do their jobs. If none of that works, the column says, consider selling. Around Waxahachie, Cowboys talk is woven into Fridays at the stadium, county fair weekends, and every Sunday get-together in between. The loyalty is real, and so is the frustration.

So what do you think? Is an owner ever the right person for the GM chair, or is this team overdue for a new voice at the top?