Things Change

[ABQCOWBOY]

There was a time when this organization valued coaching and all of the things that brought, over all else. I have watched this team transform into an organization that values flash over substance and the results have been hard to watch. We are the team that brought the NFL Tom Landry, perhaps the greatest innovator of all time. A truly great coach who literally rewrote how defenses played. And when defenses caught up to us, he figured out how to change the 43 into Flex and rewrote the motion Offense. How did we get to a place where we value, semingly everything else more then actual Coaching and organizational discipline?

We need to get back to what's important. The Pats took what Coach Landry and those Cowboys teams preached and they turned it into the foundation for the most successful team in the League. Ravens value those things as well. I don't know but it seems like we've strayed a fair distance from where we were when this organization was the best the NFL had to offer.

JMO

 

[McKDaddy]

I'm pretty sure that getting a confident, flamboyant new owner and winning 3 SB's within first 7 years was the death sentence for many timeless beliefs around here. Heck, if i was him I might have thought it was easy too by the end of 95.

 

[CATCH17]

Because winning is not our top priority.

Jerry’s ego > Business decisions > winning

That’s our priorities.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

I'm pretty sure that getting a confident, flamboyant new owner and winning 3 SB's within first 7 years was the death sentence for many timeless beliefs around here. Heck, if i was him I might have thought it was easy too by the end of 95.

I bet he don't think that now though.

 

[Redball Express]

Because winning is not our top priority.

Jerry’s ego > Business decisions > winning

That’s our priorities.

Entertainment.

That is what Jones likes to package and sell.

You see it with the dancing cheerleading in the upper levels..

The gynormous TV hovering over the field..

The tunnel where the players enter the field after leaving the lockeroom..

The fancy skyboxes that ring the upper decks..

It all about a fan entertainment experience designed around a glamorous over hyped once famous team.

The Jones constantly want to be compared to the great Dallas teams under Landry and Jimmy. They want the fans to always believe their teams are just about to emerge as great again.

But they do not believe in coaching. That is why we have had none since 1996.

One of the biggest values the Cowboys made in the first 25 years was having huge Landry and Johnson Coaching Trees that went to other Franchises and won.

Dan Reeves..Mike Ditka.. Dick Nolan..Jimmy Johnson..Dave Wannstead...Butch Davis..Norv Turner..

We have not only not had great HCs we have stopped having assistant coaches who left and succeeded elsewhere.

The pipeline is dried up like one of Jerrah's Wildcat strikes.

So as we really look at what we have produced..the Campos and the Gailey's and the Garrett's..the Marinelli's and the Richards and the Ryan's..the Phillips type..

and now McCarthy..

It is easy to see why.

The Jones do not want great coaches. That would require them to do and be more.

What they prefer are good front men. Good figureheads they can use to allow the Jones to concentrate on Real Estate holdings and Chicken franchises and skyboxes.

I think we all see it.

Winning football now is found in the college game and not in the NFL in Dallas anymore.

So sad.

So sad.

 

[dsturgeon]

There was a time when this organization valued coaching and all of the things that brought, over all else. I have watched this team transform into an organization that values flash over substance and the results have been hard to watch. We are the team that brought the NFL Tom Landry, perhaps the greatest innovator of all time. A truly great coach who literally rewrote how defenses played. And when defenses caught up to us, he figured out how to change the 43 into Flex and rewrote the motion Offense. How did we get to a place where we value, semingly everything else more then actual Coaching and organizational discipline?

We need to get back to what's important. The Pats took what Coach Landry and those Cowboys teams preached and they turned it into the foundation for the most successful team in the League. Ravens value those things as well. I don't know but it seems like we've strayed a fair distance from where we were when this organization was the best the NFL had to offer.

JMO

The pats drafted the greatest golden goose of all time and it made there organization look good. They could pretty much add players or just take away players and he fixed it. Watch how they struggle with no tom brady.

 

[garyo1954]

The pats drafted the greatest golden goose of all time and it made there organization look good. They could pretty much add players or just take away players and he fixed it. Watch how they struggle with no tom brady.

Tom Brady took hometown discounts to get good players around him. Something the Glitz and Glamour boys won't do.

 

[cern]

There was a time when this organization valued coaching and all of the things that brought, over all else. I have watched this team transform into an organization that values flash over substance and the results have been hard to watch. We are the team that brought the NFL Tom Landry, perhaps the greatest innovator of all time. A truly great coach who literally rewrote how defenses played. And when defenses caught up to us, he figured out how to change the 43 into Flex and rewrote the motion Offense. How did we get to a place where we value, semingly everything else more then actual Coaching and organizational discipline?

We need to get back to what's important. The Pats took what Coach Landry and those Cowboys teams preached and they turned it into the foundation for the most successful team in the League. Ravens value those things as well. I don't know but it seems like we've strayed a fair distance from where we were when this organization was the best the NFL had to offer.

JMO

Jerry has shown a woeful disregard for coaching since jimmy.

 

[WoodysGirl]

Tom Brady took hometown discounts to get good players around him. Something the Glitz and Glamour boys won't do.

Discount is verrrry relative when discussing Tom Brady and the Patriots. He may have taken less here and there, but he still made $235 million with them. He wasn't cutting vet minimum deals with them.

 

[RS12]

Simple. The owner sells the sizzle instead of the steak.

 

[Vanilla2]

AMERICAS TEAM!

 

[Bullflop]

The Jones version of the Cowboys is a vastly different animal in terms of recognizing and managing the needs of an NFL franchise. They're now a family run organization that stumbles its way to being competitive but doesn't know how to maximize its winning capacity. Evidently, entertainment has gradually become their specialty over winning. As hard as Will McClay tries to help, Stephen and Jerry will usually find ways to muck things up.

They're simply a family that consists more of fans who fall in love with their players much more than a rationally effective management ever would. Any similarity to the Patriots is purely fictitious, try as they may to duplicate their methods. Real GMs don't operate by way of their feelings but operate coldly and efficiently to maximize their talent and winning ways. Sadly, managing contracts and spending what it takes to be champs doesn't fit their ways.

 

[Bobhaze]

There was a time when this organization valued coaching and all of the things that brought, over all else. I have watched this team transform into an organization that values flash over substance and the results have been hard to watch. We are the team that brought the NFL Tom Landry, perhaps the greatest innovator of all time. A truly great coach who literally rewrote how defenses played. And when defenses caught up to us, he figured out how to change the 43 into Flex and rewrote the motion Offense. How did we get to a place where we value, semingly everything else more then actual Coaching and organizational discipline?

We need to get back to what's important. The Pats took what Coach Landry and those Cowboys teams preached and they turned it into the foundation for the most successful team in the League. Ravens value those things as well. I don't know but it seems like we've strayed a fair distance from where we were when this organization was the best the NFL had to offer.

JMO

Well said brother.

There are very few easy truths in pro sports. Very few principles that are as predictable as a sunrise. Perhaps the lowest hanging fruit of those truths is that having your team’s owner also be the head of all football operations is a fatal foundational flaw. Just like building a home on sand. It doesn’t matter how beautiful the furniture or flooring is, that house will crumble.

It’s an obvious truth. If you as an owner want to win a championship, you hire an expert to run your football operations...then you let them do their job. It’s not a coincidence that the owners of the last 24 SB champions- 100% of them hired a GM to run the team.

In the end, Jerry is the worst kind of fool. A rich fool. Because a rich fool thinks his money makes him smart in everything. We have 25 years of evidence that proves that’s wrong.

 

[ChuckA1]

Discount is verrrry relative when discussing Tom Brady and the Patriots. He may have taken less here and there, but he still made $235 million with them. He wasn't cutting vet minimum deals with them.

He never demanded to be the highest paid QB and threaten to hold out, even when he was clearly the best! And divide $235 million by 20. He was pretty cheap! This argument cuts both ways, Amigos.

 

[Captain43Crash]

The pats drafted the greatest golden goose of all time and it made there organization look good. They could pretty much add players or just take away players and he fixed it. Watch how they struggle with no tom brady.

Bill Belicheat is the biggest reason BY FAR why the Cheatriots have won 6 Superbowls. Tom is a great QB, but a great HC is more important. Tom was smart enough to leave the year 8-9 players decided to sit the season out + massive injuries throughout their lineup( similar to us).

 

[superonyx]

I don't know how anyone who follows this team closely enough to post thousands of messages here still can't see what drives Jerry Jones.
He isnt making the decisions he makes for more profit. It's not about sizzle or hollywood.

This is an old man who lives with this thought that Jimmy Johnson gets credit for our success in the 90's. It haunts him. He will never turn this over to someone else because winning isnt winning for Jerry unless Jerry gets the validation and credit for being the brilliant football mind. Outside of Parcells every coach he hires is a marshmallow yes man who is willing to play coach for Jerry's team.
Jerry didn't buy the Cowboys as an investment only. He bought himself a job as a GM. That wont change. It's kind of a sad story if you really think about it.

 

[DallasEast]

I don't know how anyone who follows this team closely enough to post thousands of messages here still can't see what drives Jerry Jones.
He isnt making the decisions he makes for more profit. It's not about sizzle or hollywood.

This is an old man who lives with this thought that Jimmy Johnson gets credit for our success in the 90's. It haunts him. He will never turn this over to someone else because winning isnt winning for Jerry unless Jerry gets the validation and credit for being the brilliant football mind. Outside of Parcells every coach he hires is a marshmallow yes man who is willing to play coach for Jerry's team.
Jerry didn't buy the Cowboys as an investment only. He bought himself a job as a GM. That wont change. It's kind of a sad story if you really think about it.

If some people took a step back and actually studied the man, more would finally understand greed is not Jerry Jones' primary motivation. His wealth has never been the issue. The real problem has been between his ears.

 

[Trajan]

If some people took a step back and actually studied the man, more would finally understand greed is not Jerry Jones' primary motivation. His wealth has never been the issue. The real problem has been between his ears.

I think it morphed into this. There was an interview with Jimmy early on, where he said Jerry was very worried about the $ side of it, he was, it appeared, driven by the $ to recoup his investment and become financially stable.

I agree that once his investment was made whole, and the $ started to flow, Jerry became more concerned with the "perception" that he wants to be seen as a "football guy", and was the brains behind the 90's SB wins.

Sadly for Jerry, and more so we fans, he was not the brains behind the 90's teams, and we have +25 years of performance to validate the idea Jimmy should get the credit for the Super Bowl teams. Until Jerry is gone, we are on the road to mediocrity.

 

[jterrell]

If some people took a step back and actually studied the man, more would finally understand greed is not Jerry Jones' primary motivation. His wealth has never been the issue. The real problem has been between his ears.

It's all ego and we've known this for 30 years.
He's motivated to do well and wants to but he also wants to do it "his way".
It's a vanity project.

The money thing is just dumb.
Jerry would make A LOT more money by hiring the best in the business and getting out of the way of football operations.
He knows that. We should all KNOW that.

It's like a mom and pop store that refuses to franchise into a big brand name.
Jerry wants his "family run" team and isn't concerned about making more money by standing down.

 

[HanD]

Tom Brady took hometown discounts to get good players around him. Something the Glitz and Glamour boys won't do.

not always. at one point he did sign a deal that broke records for guaranteed money and was the highest deal ever (for however brief it was). after he got his money and titles he definitely took discounts. i don't blame any player for getting as much money as they can while young. any injury like dak's can change your future and earning potential. it's easy when you've been making tens of millions for a decade and your wife makes more than you to take less.