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This article sums up Jerry and Stephen perfectly. If you were mad before, you will be feel even worse after reading. Enjoy.
Everything about this free agency period for the Cowboys was, unfortunately, predictable.
If you wanted a pithy quote to sum up how the start of free agency has gone for the Dallas Cowboys, let us suggest these words from David Byrne and the Talking Heads: “Same as it ever was.”
Fans are reacting with disappointment, frustration, and even anger. That is their right. But if you have been following the team over the past decade or so, this should not be at all unexpected. This is what the team has become. The approach they take is rigid and entrenched. If you want to try and apply logic or the kind of thinking that seems to be used by many other teams, including those that have experienced so much more success than Dallas has during the long, long drought for them, it simply won’t work.
This is not about what makes a successful football team. It is a story of how the franchise has evolved.
For those of us with a lot of grey in our hair or beards, we know that this was not always the way the team operated. During those early, glorious years, the Cowboys were daring and bold. They spent freely on big name free agents like Deion Sanders and Charles Haley and were rewarded with three Lombardi trophies in four years. It reflected how buying the team was a risky move itself. Jerry Jones was a brash upstart who came in, shook up the entire NFL, and gained tremendous influence through his work in helping negotiate the new broadcast deals early in his tenure as owner of the team. It ushered in the age of always growing revenue that has made the league the biggest entertainment business in the world.
https://www.bloggingtheboys.com/202...-start-free-agency-normal-stephen-jerry-jones
Everything about this free agency period for the Cowboys was, unfortunately, predictable.
If you wanted a pithy quote to sum up how the start of free agency has gone for the Dallas Cowboys, let us suggest these words from David Byrne and the Talking Heads: “Same as it ever was.”
Fans are reacting with disappointment, frustration, and even anger. That is their right. But if you have been following the team over the past decade or so, this should not be at all unexpected. This is what the team has become. The approach they take is rigid and entrenched. If you want to try and apply logic or the kind of thinking that seems to be used by many other teams, including those that have experienced so much more success than Dallas has during the long, long drought for them, it simply won’t work.
This is not about what makes a successful football team. It is a story of how the franchise has evolved.
For those of us with a lot of grey in our hair or beards, we know that this was not always the way the team operated. During those early, glorious years, the Cowboys were daring and bold. They spent freely on big name free agents like Deion Sanders and Charles Haley and were rewarded with three Lombardi trophies in four years. It reflected how buying the team was a risky move itself. Jerry Jones was a brash upstart who came in, shook up the entire NFL, and gained tremendous influence through his work in helping negotiate the new broadcast deals early in his tenure as owner of the team. It ushered in the age of always growing revenue that has made the league the biggest entertainment business in the world.
https://www.bloggingtheboys.com/202...-start-free-agency-normal-stephen-jerry-jones
