Dallas Vs. Ex Cowboys: 3 Points Inside Dalton Schultz Rips On ‘Zoo Culture’: FISH PODCAST

FRISCO – It’s true that when former players join new clubs and think back on their former employers, their first impression is usually that things are better where they are now.

There is also another truth here, albeit one that takes a little longer to surface: what happens when that same player is finally fired by that same employer who is no longer their new one? He’ll complain that, in the end, the grass wasn’t really very green.

This subject comes up anew as Dalton Schultz offers his hot-take view on his time in Dallas, using the word “zoo” to describe mostly the weight-room setup here inside The Star … but allowing the “zoo” portrayal to take on a life of its own to describe what team owner Jerry Jones wants.

And the FISH PODCAST/the Fish Report is here to make sense of it all with five points …

First point: When Schultz states, “That’s the brand that they’ve built,” he is not incorrect. Jerry Jones enjoys things like that. That is the manner in which they conduct business.

He’s so accurate, in fact, that we’ve given the phenomenon our own terms and monikers. Yes, this place is all about “#53Brands.” I continue to support the widely held opinion that the Cowboys are essentially a marketing firm with a football division.

Again, Schultz isn’t disclosing as much in this instance as some may believe.

Point No. 2: Schultz used the parallel to say, “In Houston, the main focus is just football, you know what I mean? … You arrive somewhere like this, and you assume that the Dallas situation is typical.”

Schultz recently inked a new contract with the Texans for a second season. Last summer, Schultz signed a one-year, $6.1 million contract with Dallas; this time, he receives a three-year contract worth $36 million, of which $23.5 million are guaranteed.

He has every reason to be happy in Houston. But let me assure you, over the years, “the focus in Houston has not just been football.” Management ran DeAndre Hopkins out of town because they didn’t like his lifestyle. They let an amateur preacher with zero football background serve as interim GM. And is Schultz really unaware of the Texans’ culpability in the Deshaun Watson scandal that allegedly involved sexual misdeeds with dozens of female “massage therapists”?

This is the operation of “greener grass.” Numerous instances can be found in each NFL city. This one is this: Cole Beasley testified that the Bills’ facilities are better than the Cowboys’ a few years ago, when he moved from Dallas to Buffalo. (They are not; in actuality, the Bills are constructing a new stadium.)

He argued with Bills supporters on Twitter for a significant portion of the 2021 season, as they jeered him for his anti-vaccine stance.

And when he wasn’t brought back to Buffalo for the 2022 season, he wrote on Twitter that he was happy to be done with the Bills. … a sentiment that lasted just a few months, because when the Bills needed to add a receiver, he happily re-signed to their practice squad.

Point No. 3 – And Jake Ferguson, now Dallas’ top tight end after having worked under Schultz (with whom he was/is friendly), helps me make this point with a social media post in which he puts up a photo of a locker-room-area wall inside The Star that reads, “It is a privilege, not a right, to play coach and work for the Dallas Cowboys.”

Ferguson is clearly referring to his former friend Schultz in his letter. And his point is clear in general? Was Dalton truly sidetracked when tour groups passed by the facility while he was working out? He probably didn’t.

Was Schultz truly dissatisfied when he received the franchise tag and $10 million in salary in 2021? He wasn’t, I wager.

Indeed, I remember what Schultz said to us prior to the 2022 NFL season when he became a free agent.

“I think the Cowboys do, too,” he stated, “and I want to work out a long-term deal.” I’m hoping we can finish that.

Therefore, I don’t think Schultz’s perspective changes anything about the facts around “#53Brands.” However, it does detract from his better circumstances because, had Dallas made him a reasonable offer—which it declined, choosing instead to give Ferguson the position—he would have been more than content to resign and rejoin “The Dallas Zoo.”

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