FRISCO – Who’s idea is it that Deion Sanders might make the big move to the NFL?

Apparently, it’s Jerry Jones’.

“Sources,” writes Jordan Schultz, “says Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has spoken with Colorado’s Deion Sanders about the team’s head coaching vacancy, and discussions are expected to continue regarding the possibility of him becoming the next head coach in Dallas.”

Schultz adds, “Coach Prime is considered a top candidate, though the Cowboys plan to interview other candidates as part of the process, per team sources.”

Can Jerry get the iconic Cowboys player to change his mind and say ‘yes’ to a shocking move to the NFL?”

The allure- at least in terms of grabbing headlines – is obvious.

Along the way, Deion has always denied on multiple occasions that he was looking to leave college coaching – starting with a visit two years ago here with us at CowboysCountry.com during which “Coach Prime” insisted he’s “too old-fashioned” to bother dealing with the modern pro athlete.

Still, the rumors just won’t go away.

But is seems this time the rumors are fact … with the Colorado coach playing along.

To some fans, Deion working with owner Jerry Jones and his old “America’s Team” pals is appealing.

Sanders recently said the only way he’d move to the NFL is if he could coach both of his sons, first-round prospect quarterback Shedeur Sanders and later-round defensive back Shilo Sanders. The Cowboys don’t seem to be a match there to actually make something like that happen.

But Michael Irvin, who is close to both Jones and Sanders, has long predicted this could be a winning pair.

Others think that Sanders is merely using the NFL for leverage in order to get a bigger payday from his present employers at the University of Colorado.

Jones and Sanders are Hall of Famers. Them together is a headline-grabber.

It’s a glitzy idea. And apparently it’s Deion’s idea … and Jerry’s, too.

Deion Sanders Can ‘100 Percent’ Be Next Cowboys Coach Predicts Michael Irvin

FRISCO – There is a change in the 2024 status of Dallas Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy.

He’s out.

And now the Jones family – which had plotted for 2024 to be a lame-duck year for the coach, his staff and an unusually high number of players on the roster – is starting anew.

The purpose, right or wrong? To avoid overinvesting in 2024 season and instead “keep our powder dry” for 2025. That’s the “Blow It Up” plan, with a possible $100 million in March 2025 cap room available for a quick remodel.

As McCarthy exits The Star …

Michael Irvin believes he can tie it all together in a crisp blue-and-silver bow in a way that makes his best pal Deion Sanders the next head coach of the Cowboys.

“I believe 100 percent (Deion would take the job), and I could tell you good sources have told me that,” Irvin recently told Colin Cowherd on Fox Sports 1’s “The Herd.” “Great sources have told me that. That’s all I can say like that without violating anything else.”

That flies in the face of what Sanders — like Irvin a former Cowboys star and a Hall of Famer — told us a couple of years ago in an exclusive interview. He has stated he has no interest in jumping from college to the NFL. But Irvin has an additional “if” here.

But now we know that Jerry Jones has contacted Sanders in hopes he might change his mind and would accept – if offered – the Dallas job.

Irvin added the condition that the Cowboys draft his son Shedeur, the Colorado quarterback.

That is not realistic here,

But suddenly, Sanders is currently a betting favorite to become the Cowboys’ next head coach, per some sportsbooks … and we have some indication that Jerry Jones thinks this is a good idea.

And a good story, too, for sure.