Change will come with Stephen in charge

Stephen gonna go back to these to save money on equipment
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As long as we can turn the field to face the western setting sun...SUPER BOWL BABY!
 
Stephen hasn't actually done anything to warrant having an ego, so there's that.

He'll care a lot more about all the "noise" when he is spending his own money, and not his father's.
 
Just maybe the kid doesn’t want to burn the rest of his existence on the need to prove he can do what Jimmy Johnson did.

Jerry should be living the most exotic and dream life right now on a yacht with his wife in some of the most beautiful places in the world. A staff of servants. Helicopter to wherever. Nope. Pass. Gotta prove things that no one is gonna buy or care about anyway.

No one is gonna stop him from demanding that “football man” be chiseled onto his cathedral of a grave. Is that what it’s all about?? That’s sad. Really is.

This last deal he did, did they really need that? Did he really need to be involved? Come on Jerry enjoy your life. Your ego ruling you is pathetic.
If you listen to him you would realize that he loves what he does, he says that he has never worked a day in his life! A billionaire saying that he has never worked a day in his life truly loves what he does. Thx
 
If you listen to him you would realize that he loves what he does, he says that he has never worked a day in his life! A billionaire saying that he has never worked a day in his life truly loves what he does. Thx
That’s fine. I just don’t see the point of making all that money if you’re not gonna use it. I’m sure he has a great lifestyle though.

Guys like that keep score by how much you’re worth. Ridiculously ego driven but that’s probably what got them there in the first place.
 
Very long article about the transition from Jerry to Stephen. No claims a real GM will be hired. Just that Stephen has no ego issues and will cut out a lot of the nonsense around the organization.

Recommended read.



The approach has irked some former players. Woodson, whose commercial real estate firm rents office space at The Star, the Cowboys’ 91-acre practice facility that doubles as an exorbitant entertainment and business venture, puts it this way: “The team keeps making emotional decisions. They keep guys because Jerry likes them personally. I don’t think that leash will be as long with Stephen.”

Aikman sees it, too. “From my interactions with him, Stephen doesn’t have the ego his father has. That’ll serve him well.”

The franchise under Stephen Jones, Aikman believes, will look and feel more like a typical NFL team, one where the owner doesn’t insist on playing the role of main character. “Stephen will be less inclined to want to get all the credit,” he says. “And I think he’ll create an environment conducive to winning.”

Had Stephen been in charge, Woodson believes, quarterback Dak Prescott and wideout CeeDee Lamb would’ve been extended months earlier than they were, saving the Cowboys tens of millions — but depriving them of months of headlines. Last year’s Micah Parsons trade? Woodson says the talented edge rusher would’ve been shipped out of town a lot sooner if Stephen were calling the shots.

“I guarantee you Stephen wanted that to be a dead issue, and dad let it ride,” Woodson says of the Parsons back-and-forth, which dragged on for months and ended with the Cowboys sending him to Green Bay last August for two first-round picks and tackle Kenny Clark. “I think the off-the-field stuff the organization had to deal with — showing up late, not being a team guy, paying a guy that kind of money when he’s not really a leader? Yeah, that s— ain’t flying.

“Jerry loves personalities, because Jerry is a personality,” Woodson continues. “I don’t think that’s Stephen’s deal.”

Stephen’s deal? Restraint. Rigidity. A weakness, he calls it, if he’s not careful.

“With agents these days, you give them an inch and they’ll take a mile,” Stephen says. He doesn’t like giving an inch, never has. “If a deal’s within striking distance, Jerry will lose this point and this point and this point and if it gets done, he’ll live with it. It’ll eat at me a little more.”

Yup. I've tried to tell people, but they don't listen. Stephanie will be a stand back owner.
 
So looks like their share of comstock resources was worth $4.9B on January 1st of this year and is now worth $3.0B. Down $1.9B in 9 months (still up from their original various purchases prices). Maybe that's why we didn't sign Pickens...I kid, I kid...
 
I have a very strong belief that Stephen is a football idiot and an eventual train wreck running the Cowboys. However two players who I consider among the smartest to ever play here in Aikman and Woodson disagree with me. That does make me reassess things.

I'll probably still agree with myself in review but there will be some reflection first.
Unless he steps back and lets competent people take charge. Which is what he's said he'll do, and what the signs point toward.
 
I think Stephen would love to just be the owner, handle the contracts, and have his voice heard but ultimately make McClay the GM and let him do his thing. It wouldn't surprise me if to learn — that should it somehow ever get out — that he McClay have talked about this and that's why McClay has stuck around when he possibly could've gotten GM jobs elsewhere.
 
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I suggest Stephen doesn't have an ego is absurd. Does he defer to his father? Yes he does. But he is his father's son. Maybe not to the point of ridiculousness that Jerry goes to about this being the GM. About it has to be Jerry getting the credit. But to be sure Stephen has an ego.

Just hiring a GM isn't enough. I'm not certain he will want to step into that role Jerry has of being the GM. But the type of GM he hires will tell the real tale about Stephen's ego. Does he give that man carte blanche to run the organization in terms of player personnel acquisitions? Or does he keep a tight rein on him as far as contracts and what a player costs? And even that question has layers of the grip he uses to run the Dallas Cowboys.

But to say he has no ego is naïve.
 
Al Davis son doing a bang up job and Irsays daughter is on the sidelines game day scribbling notes on a pad circa 1957 ….

A fortune cookie once said “ he who follow father fall off cliff “ ….

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I believe Stephen will make his mark on this team. You watch. The minute he takes over, a can of Pepsi will go from $1.50 to $2.50 at the Star vending machines. Little Stephen power flex.
 

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