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The Miami Dolphins<\/a> are in the midst of a rebuild. Alongside new general manager Jon-Eric Sullivan, they can also lean on former Dallas Cowboys<\/a> quarterback Troy Aikman, who is serving as a team consultant.<\/p>\n Aikman will provide his expertise to help the Dolphins make informed decisions on key moves. While there\u2019s controversy surrounding the former QB\u2019s involvement with Miami being an NFL<\/a> color analyst for ESPN, the Cowboys are being called out for not doing what Miami did to hire Aikman. <\/p>\n On the April 6 edition of \u201cFirst Take,\u201d<\/a> Stephen A. Smith didn\u2019t hold back on Cowboys owner Jerry Jones for having Aikman take a consulting position with the Dolphins. <\/p>\n \u201cThis is one of your own,\u201d Smith said. \u201cIf you\u2019re Jerry Jones, it\u2019s not just his family; Jerry Jones considers members of the Dallas Cowboys an extended family. If this applies to anybody, it would be Troy Aikman, who is a brilliant football mind. <\/p>\n \u201cWe are incredibly lucky to have him. And if you\u2019re Jerry Jones, damn, it\u2019s one of your own. When you turn on the TV, where do you not see Troy Aikman? How could you let him go to the Miami Dolphins?<\/p>\n \u201c\u2026 You don\u2019t let somebody the stature of Troy Aikman get away to the Miami Dolphins, and he\u2019s on a damn podcast. The bottom line is you look at Troy Aikman \u2014 you don\u2019t let somebody like him go on a podcast and say, \u2018Dallas never asked me to. Dallas never called me to.\u2019 I know he still lives in the area. He isn\u2019t hard to find. Come on now, you don\u2019t make that mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n Former NFL Player Calls Out Cowboys Over Troy Aikman<\/p>\n In a March 31 video from DLLS Cowboys<\/a>, Aikman said the Cowboys have never contacted him about serving as a consultant.<\/p>\n \u201cI mean, as a consultant, Will McClay doesn\u2019t get to do it in Dallas, and he\u2019s been there a long time,\u201d Aikman said. \u201c\u2026 The Cowboys have never elected to do that, at least with me. Maybe they have with others.\u201d<\/p>\n As a result, like Smith, former Cowboys wideout Jesse Holley is not happy to hear Aikman say that Dallas has never used him as a resource.<\/p>\n \u201cTo hear out of [Aikman\u2019s] mouth that I am rooting for the Dolphins, pulling for the Dolphins, and then saying that they didn\u2019t even care to consult me, ask about my ideas, bring me into the fold, or give me a seat at the table so I could share some of the thought processes I have and the people I know is frustrating,\u201d\u00a0Holley said in a March 31 video from DLLS Cowboys<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cHelping in whatever process the Cowboys are pursuing in the front office is also important, yet we know that Jerry [Jones] is asking and consulting a bunch of other people he probably should not. To leave out Troy, to me, is the highest level of malpractice in front office general managing, whatever you want to call it. That is another small indicator of why this thing has gone so wrong in the last 30 years.\u201d<\/p>\n Troy Aikman Explains Dolphins Consulting Job<\/p>\n Moreover, Aikman explained why Miami reached out to him to serve as a consultant as the team enters Year 1 of its rebuild.<\/p>\n \u201cI think the Dolphins were wise in understanding my relationships around the league and knowing that I have information that they don\u2019t have or can\u2019t get,\u201d Aikman said. \u201cAnd I think they were smart in taking advantage of that, whether it was through me or through somebody else.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\t\tEduardo Razo<\/a> Eduardo Razo is a sports writer for Heavy.com, covering the NFL, MLB, and college football. He has previously covered the NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB for NBC Sports Washington and NBC Sports Bay Area & California, and has freelanced for PSG Talk, covering Paris Saint-Germain. He also worked as an editor at Athlon Sports, focusing on MLB and the NFL. 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