One of the best things to be able to witness is when two friends, who might otherwise not be as forthcoming with their truest feelings, get together and start shooting the breeze. Oftentimes they are able to elicit responses and commentary from each other because of their familiarity. That might have been the case this week as Deion Sanders and Troy Aikman, integral pieces to the Cowboys’ dynasty of the 1990s. met on Sanders’ talk show.

Aikman was a guest and the conversation turned to the Cowboys’ coaching search. Deion Sanders was quickly and publicly floated as someone the organization met with, once Mike McCarthy walked away from negotiations with Jerry Jones to return to the head coach position.

Sanders revealed why he didn’t want to coach in the NFL and Aikman laid into how disappointed he was that Sanders didn’t get a formal interview, going so far as to hint that owner Jerry Jones is at fault for the club’s situation.

“For Dallas, Deion would have been a really good fit because he would have commanded the room, and his personality is such that people would have known that he was in charge,” Aikman said (via ESPN transcription). “And I think that’s important for [the] organization to know that the head coach is the one who’s calling the shots and that he’s in charge.”

That’s clearly a shot at Jones without calling him out by name. The Cowboys have hired Brian Schottenheimer, and Jones has admitted the risk of the selection. McCarthy, it’s been reported, had issue with the length of the contract offered, but also Jones’ insistence that Jason Witten be added to the staff. Jones insisted that Kellen Moore be retained when McCarthy was hired, and did the same with Wade Phillips by pre-hiring Jason Garrett to be his OC.

Jones had to be talked out of doing the same to the next head coach of Dallas by saddling him with Schottenheimer. Instead, he just made Schottenheimer the head coach.

Aikman went on to say even perennial cheerleader Michael Irvin is now disillusioned with the franchise for not interviewing their former teammate Sanders.

For his part, Sanders reiterated that coaching in the NFL doesn’t interest him because he would expect too much of the players and doesn’t think those currently in the NFL would be willing to hear his message of what it takes to win.

“I couldn’t coach pro ball,” Sanders said on his show, which streamed Tuesday. “That’s why I say, I couldn’t coach — I know it was cute. But I couldn’t coach pro ball, because the way they practice, the way they go about it, I couldn’t take it. As a man, and as a football enthusiast, and I care about the game. The game is still providing for Troy and I, so there is no way I could allow that to happen on my watch. That would be tough.”