News: BR: NFL Agent Rips Cowboys' Jerry Jones: 'He's a Narcissist . He Plays GM Like a Fan'

[plasticman]

Shocking....a true expose.

 

[jnday]

And in other news, it has been confirmed that the Earth is not flat.

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

 

[jnday]

78 years, 10 months and 12 days.

The countdown is on. Fredo is on deck.

 

[jnday]

"Jerry is a very, very interesting person," another agent told Standig. "Respect the way he treats people. He puts winning and players first, do what it takes to win. Believes you win with players, so he takes care of them. That they haven't won a Super Bowl lately, oh well, lots of teams haven't. I have great respect for them."

One agent told Standig that Jones is a "dream for an agent" because he's "trying to win and I don't think you can say that about half the ownership in the league," but another pointed toward the lack of title-level success and raised an interesting question.

Jerry’s actions speak louder than his words. He is trying to win, but he wants to win doing things his way and he will accept losing if things are not done his way.

 

[Mannix]

I have no doubt Jerry Jones has been the main reason the Cowboys have failed to get back to the Super Bowl. Despite my deep frustrations with the guy, he appears to treat his players and personal with decency. That ain't bad for an obvious narcissist.

But as a GM you have to be a cold hearted SOB!! 31 out of 32 would have sent Jaclyn Smith down the road kicking rocks back in March.

 

[tunahelper]

Jerry as a GM has some positives and obviously negatives. We are at the point that trying to work it out has been exhausted.

Jerry must concede that a GM with authority is the better route just for optics and let his ego relinquish the reigns.

Sadly, this ends like when George Jones sang Olé George stop drinking today at his funeral.

 

[noshame]

Didn't he say he smells everything from jocks to socks..
Something like that

 

[Jarv]

2014 NFL Executive of the Year, mofos.

Did we win the superbowl that year?

 

[DallasDW00ds0n]

BREAKING NEWS: JERRY IS A BAD GM!

shocker

 

[Whyjerry]

Look at the number of playoff wins Dallas has the last 25 years. Look at the teams with the same or less. It says it all. Jerry is a terrible GM and would be out of the league by now.

 

[Hennessy_King]

Jerry self-revealed a lot about his weakness as a GM at his “State of the Cowboys” presser a few weeks ago. While choking back his crocodile tears, he confessed that he would rather have a “beautiful” positive view of things than have a skeptical view- here’s an exact quote:

“I've had a lot of people tell me, 'You're naive,' or say, 'He's naive.' Well, it's a beautiful world. ... It's a better world to be naive than to be skeptical and be negative all the time."​

The sad truth is effective GMs have to have a worst case scenario eye for his team because that’s what it takes to build a roster. Having a rosy view is great in most things in life but not for a GM. THAT explains the last 25 years in a nutshell.

How can you be in a bad mood when you take ur own helicopter to work in your billion dollar office facility?

 

[Bobhaze]

I agree with Hostile on this point. What other teams call a GM this team calls a Director of Player Personnel. In the Dallas system, the GM is a money man, not a player guy. As the other teams define the GM role, Stephen Jones has the title and Will McClay has 99% of the work of a 'player style' GM..

This is not new. This was the division of work when Tex Schramm was around as well.

D-

Jerry is not using the Tex Schramm model of football management.

 

[lurkercowboy]

Beating up on Jerry Jones is the national pastime. Everybody does it, is applauded for it, called "brave" for doing it. Nothing new here.

 

[KeepinTime]

Nothing fans can do about it, and the apple doesnt fall far from the tree.
The Jones legacy will out live most of us posting on this forum,, that's already guaranteed.

That’s what most of us are afraid of.

 

[KeepinTime]

Yes. A toy he's destroyed for his own amusement.

And how was he greeted in his return from Oxnard this year by our fellow fans?

"Jerry! Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!"

Maybe they thought they were on Springer.

 

[kskboys]

"Plays GM like a fan."

Since I said this first years ago, do I get royalties?

 

[CouchCoach]

Yet the longer Dallas goes without adding another Lombardi Trophy to its case, the more questions will be raised about whether Jones should hand the chief roster-building decisions to someone else.

The answer is simple, he hands over the title of GM either when he dies.

I can't say I care for him being so hands on as a GM but it's his team. At this point no point being frustrated over it.

This is textbook "it is what it is" for fans and acceptance and hoping for luck is the best way to approach it.

 

[CouchCoach]

The last point was dead on, there is zero chance Jerry the owner would have tolerated a GM leading to a 25 year drought. It's the one blind spot that Jerry has, he can't see that he (and his son) are a big reason it's been 25 years since winning a title.

Booger cannot get past his own ego to truly assess the real failure or success of the franchise.

No matter what comes up about his shortcomings as a talent evaluator and the person that establishes the culture, he can always make that go away with his Forbes ranking, a full stadium on gamedays and the TV ratings. That is his affirmation that he's doing a great job. And let's be honest, which would you want? He's already winning more than any other NFL owner. Oh, do you think he thinks the real game is played on the field?

 

[Typhus]

That’s what most of us are afraid of.

Its reality though, sometimes the real truth is painful.
I just always have hope that somehow the coaches and players can overcome the ineptitude of the FO.