For a Non-Football Guy, Jerry Has Done Okay

[Joe Rod]

Originally Posted by WPBCowboysFan

While I generally agree with your sentiment I look at the fact that Jimmy and Parcells both went to the Dolphins after they left Dallas and both had less than stellar success working for an owner that gave them all they wanted and asked for.

So both built good rosters in Dallas working with Jerruh the clown, and both basically flopped in Miami where they had the say and ran the football show.

Its not that I think Jerruh should be his own GM or anything close to it. The results are evident. But, how could these 2 guys who did a great job in Dallas in spite of Jerruh both flop in Miami with the exact opposite of Jerruh for an owner?

IMO, certain combinations work while others dont. The fact is, when Jimmy and Bill had free reign in Miami neither produced a winner. But did much better in Dallas with Jerruh. Now how can that be?

Jimmy had free reign in Dallas.

[Alexander]

Originally Posted by WPBCowboysFan

Or maybe what the other guys have said is true and Jerruh is a figure head GM mostly when it comes to football stuff.

Give yourself a frontal lobotomy and assume this is true.

So if that is the case he has failed to hold his "information gatherers" accountable.

Ciskowski, you know the "real GM" , is still here and has been here for that entire decade and a half with just one playoff win.

I do not see him being forced out any time soon.

People continue to say this team has talent. Its the coaching thats an issue.

Does Jerruh deserve blame?

And lots of blame?

Sure!

But, is he as bad as all the "objective" criticizers say?

He is failing as a GM and an owner right now.

As a GM, he is failing to get the right "information gatherers" and properly listen to them (again, you have to become brainless and assume he never has an opinion of his own he exercises from time to time).

As an owner, he is tolerating substandard results from the players and coaches alike while pretending the team is not stuck in a ditch of mediocrity.

About the only place he is excelling is in the ledger books.

At the end of the day, that might be all he really cares about.