I have made abundantly clear my dislike for Jerry and his boy as FO leaders. But tofair, it’s still way too early to declare this offseason a failure. We still several big FA players to possibly nail down, the draft is over a month away.
Despite my disdain for GM Jerry, I’m not ready to declare this offseason a failure yet. We need to wait at least a couple of months IMO.
Bob, I respect your opinion. Very few here have a higher respect by me. But truthfully, how can you see the machinations of the past being played out this off season and not conclude this is just more of the same?
There is a time when, if you believe in your team and its playmakers, its time to push all the chips into the center of the table.
Football players do not age like fine wine. Wasting another year because it's prudent gets you what this team has delivered over the past twenty something years.
What we are seeing is the same caution that ends up keeping us around the middle of the pack. Never reaching the prize. Never being poor enough to reach a top draft pick.
Mediocrity breeds an never ending status of being mediocre. Mediocre owner. Mediocre head coach. Mediocre players. Mediocre results.
If Jerry is shocked by how difficult it is to reach the top rung and be the World Champs, then why not try something different and stop playing with scared money?
Jimmy said that once about scared money. And do you, or anyone on this site believe that if he were given free reign in the early 90's this team would not have reeled off at least another one Super Bowl win, if not several more?
Dallas had the Belichick of the 90's. And unlike Robert Kraft, Jerry thought it was a great idea to run that coach off instead of being a great manager and placating Jimmy's ego and allowing him to take all the credit.
Because a team with four, five, or six Super Bowl titles in a decade would reflect on the owner in a way Jerry will never achieve.
If it ain't broke, don't try to fix it. But if it is broke, then swing away.
As it stands this team never reaches the top. In a situation when a man has nothing to lose, he either goes all out or disappears in history.