What is the real problem with this team?

In two words: JERRY JONES.

Twice since he has bought the team Jerry has hired strong-willed, ill-tempered disciplinarian coaches who were total control freaks.  Each time that has happened the team's roster was almost completely purged within 24-36 months and the team began to win.

Four times he has hired the "I'm just glad be here crew" Switzer-Gailey-Campo-Phillips. The Swi-Gai-Cam-Phi's group have been puppets.  How can you tell? First, none of them have had the right to hire and fire assistants.  How can any coach be the head coach if he has assistants picked by others?  Heck, in Wade's case he had an offensive coordinator selected before he was made head coach.  How can you even pretend that you are the final authority and enforce discipline and control thourgh the locker room if the team knows that the Head Coach has no real power over the OC and that the OC has been guaranteed that he will be the next head coach? 

When you look at the team, the most disappointing units are the secondary and the offensive line.  Both units were stocked with pro-bowlers and "improved" the coaching situations by replacing Parcells' guys with people hand picked by Jerry and then went straight to hell.  This is a pro team.  Screw the "Dallas Guy's" on their second and third tour of duty in Big D.  Hire winners, hire guys who will make the team win and the players play.  We don't need more Hudson Houk's, we need more Russ Grimm's.  

The truth is that Jerry gets frustrated by the lack of credit he gets when a good coach runs the team, so he goes out and picks guys who are desperate and willing to let him put his fingers in the pie, host more press conferences, invite in hard knocks, etc and the then team falls apart.  How freaking dysfunctional can a team be? (Quick answer: look at Oakland, they are more screwed up, but barely)

I mean Jerry tore into the team after the Rams loss.  How stupid and screwed up is it that the OWNER has to yell at the players.  Can you imagine that under Jimmy or Bill?  Jerry has made Wade the equivalent of a 50 year old woman teaching a class of 9th grade boys.  I can almost see Wade scolding the class and saying he will call the principal (or the football coach) and have him paddle anyone who acts up.

The team needs a coach.  That coach needs to be an authority figure.   He needs to hire and fire assistants at his whim and he needs to have the right to scare players straight and ban Jerry from the sideline.  Wade isn't that guy.  My fear is that this team has to slide lots further before Jerry hits bottom and hires a football coach.