Twitter: Stephen Jones’ biggest swing & miss: Not signing Dak 1st time

[ShortRound]

 

[NotForLong]

2nd swing and miss. . . . not placing transition tag on him
3rd swing and miss. . . caving and signing him last years

 

[805BoysInBlue]

This is what the next 35 or so years are gonna be under this Kim Jong Un era in Dallas..

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

Did we ever get a reason why he didn’t?

 

[buybuydandavis]

People keep pretending that Dak had no say in whether he would sign or not.

 

[Bobhaze]

We would be hard pressed to find another NFL executive having this kind of public “confessional” about his mistakes. And the reason SJ is so willing to do this kind of interview is 99.9% of other NFL execs lose their jobs over the kind of front office blunders this guy has overseen.

 

[America's Cowboy]

2nd swing and miss. . . . not placing transition tag on him
3rd swing and miss. . . caving and signing him last years

4th swing and miss... your comments ^^^^

 

[TwoCentPlain]

Four years from now, I think Stephen will be saying signing Dak to $40M/year was his biggest swing and miss.

I hope I am wrong.

 

[Mannix]

It’s not funny Chuckles….it cost the team millions in cap space…you should not be laughing about a fireable blunder.

 

[BourbonBalz]

Dak did not want to sign early. It was well publicized.

 

[leeblair]

Steven Jones' biggest swing and miss was not putting the tag on Dak that would have allowed other teams to sign him and have to give up two number one picks.
His second biggest swing and miss was Dak's current contract.
His third will probably come in a year or so, when he realizes how bad the first two were.

 

[817Gill]

We would be hard pressed to find another NFL executive having this kind of public “confessional” about his mistakes. And the reason SJ is so willing to do this kind of interview is 99.9% of other NFL execs lose their jobs over the kind of front office blunders this guy has overseen.

To be fair, multiple GM’s do interviews in the off-season. John Lynch and Dave Gettleman are a few GM’s that come to mind.

 

[ShortRound]

We would be hard pressed to find another NFL executive having this kind of public “confessional” about his mistakes. And the reason SJ is so willing to do this kind of interview is 99.9% of other NFL execs lose their jobs over the kind of front office blunders this guy has overseen.

Stephen is 57 years old. He’s just getting started. Gawd help us.

 

[Hawkeye0202]

Dak did not want to sign early. It was well publicized.

Not true......he wanted to sign. Remember Stephen offered him top 5 money. At the time I think Wilson was the highest-paid QB at $35M. If you recall, Dak even admitted he didn't expect Wilson money. We could have made him the 2nd high paid at $34M average. Stephen got caught up with ranking crap, not realizing or understand QB numbers were with every new signing. In other words, the longer he waited the more it was going to cost.

 

[Hawkeye0202]

To be fair, multiple GM’s do interviews in the off-season. John Lynch and Dave Gettleman are a few GM’s that come to mind.

This is actually true ........

 

[Hoofbite]

If Dak stays healthy, the signing will be fine. It likely won't be fantastic, but it's not going to be anywhere as bad as people are making it out to be.

In 2 years, it'll be cap-neutral for a straight cut. Doesn't really matter because you won't find equal production waiting at the bus stop to be picked up.

 

[JoeKing]

Cowboys fans are the worst in the NFL. SJ is trying to acknowledge to the fans he messed up there and he knows it. This is how we learn and improve ourselves to not make mistakes like that again. Also, I think the public acknowledgment of that mistake was a cathartic exercise for SJ to forgive himself and move on. These are good things but rather than see this, it is only received by the foolish fans with mockery and scorn. How I do hate the wisecracking immature Cowboys fans. If there is a football god, he sees you fans for who you are, and for that, you have been punished for going on 25 years. Don't blame the Jones boys, its you that has caused this void of accomplishment by the Cowboys... you don't deserve anything better.

 

[Typhus]

Did we ever get a reason why he didn’t?

They were hoping for their franchise QB amazon prime delivery, but it never showed up, or someone stole it off the front porch.

 

[JoeKing]

They were hoping for their franchise QB amazon prime delivery, but it never showed up, or someone stole it off the front porch.

I don't think so. You don't order your franchise QB amazon delivery via the 4th round of the draft. They may have drafted him to develop and mold into the eventual QB1 someday but fate put him on an accelerated course. Dak has graduated and is now prepared to lead this team.

 

[Typhus]

I don't think so. You don't order your franchise QB amazon delivery via the 4th round of the draft. They may have drafted him to develop and mold into the eventual QB1 someday but fate put him on an accelerated course. Dak has graduated and is now prepared to lead this team.

It was a feeble attempt at humor on my part, but Im on board as I always am this time of year, and we better hope and pray for Daks success at this point there is no turning back,,, we are Dak in and Dak win time.
I look at this team as having a good a shot as a lot of other teams, but fewer in the NFC vs AFC comp, so this 2021 Cowboys roster on paper and current health can be a contender,, yes I can stand out on that fandom plank.