Ryan Clark pitches why Deion Sanders would be ideal head coach for the Dallas Cowboys

Despite all things that may suggest otherwise right now, Deion Sanders remains one of the most apparent candidates to be the next head coach of the Dallas Cowboys.

Ryan Clark gave that take earlier this morning while on ‘Get Up’. To him, nobody would be better able to handle what comes with being with the Cowboys, specifically working with Jerry Jones, than Coach Prime.

“I’m just saying this. I’m just throwing it out,” said Clark. “If you’re the Dallas Cowboys, right – and you know how the Dallas Cowboys operate. It was always another step to go beyond the coach. What better person to have the conversation of, ‘Hey, coach, Jerry’s doing this. What’s happening around the building is bothering me this way’. What better person to be able to say, ‘I can talk to Jerry Jones. I know what it’s like with that star on your helmet. Let’s go figure this out so we can go make plays.'”

However, nothing currently suggests that Deion Sanders is definitely going back to the pros after this season, especially to Dallas.

While certainly adding to his resumé with this season in Boulder, Sanders does have to first become a candidate elsewhere, whether that be at the next level or even somewhere else in college football.

“That ain’t really how college work, though. Deion doesn’t get to say, ‘Hey, give me a job in the NFL!’. Deion doesn’t get to say, ‘Hey, let me go to the SEC!'” said Clark. “Do I think he wants to go to the NFL? Yes. Do I think he should go to the NFL? Yes. But an NFL team has to want Deion Sanders in their building to run their organization. So you’ve to plan like you’re going to be at Colorado.”

Clark also wonders if Sanders’ skillset as a coach isn’t still a better fit with college players than professional ones. People want to associate with him either way but it may be that he can have far better connections with the young men considering what they need at that point in their lives.

“The other piece is, too, Bart Scott didn’t need a friend in a head coach, right. Bart Scott didn’t need another father, Bart Scott didn’t need a brother. Bart Scott understood that the Xs and Os are going to lead this team to execute in a way where we can win football games,” said Clark. “I didn’t need you to be my friend. It was cool. We can have a conversation, we can have a relationship but I didn’t need that to come sit in your office so you can teach me about life. These young dudes do.”

“These young dudes want to feel some sort of connection to their head coach. They want to feel like coach is there for me in a way that expands beyond the football field. Build me up, make me feel good, make me want to come into this building every day and feel welcome. Nobody is going to do it like that dude,” Clark continued. “The other thing is this – cachet. You need cachet with these young cats now. You need them to feel like, ‘Oh, wait, Deion Sanders said something. It’s because I know he’s been through this. He has sat in this seat’.”

This is a topic that’s going to continue to be a conversation until the day comes that Sanders does indeed leave the Buffaloes. For Clark, it’ll eventually happen too in the NFL with him seeing reason to think it could be with the Cowboys.

“So, when Deion Sanders makes the decision to leave? I believe it will be the NFL,” said Clark. “I believe he’s cut out a resumé that says he’s worthy of getting this opportunity.”