Jerry is large and in charge

[DandyDon52]

at risen, I myself thought maybe stephen was more in charge now, but guess not.
I knew jerry still retained final say on things though, he wont ever give that up.

 

[CWR]

To the delusional cheerleaders who like to pretend Jerry is a passive figurehead and his chubby son and the great Will McClay actually run this team, tune into the 13:55 mark of this video and observe. Ignore the fact Stephen can't even answer a phone correctly.

Stephen works the phone like a good secretary. He can't say yes or no to these offers. He's not the decision maker.

"Umm...let me call you back. I have to ask Dad."

He presents the trade offers to his Daddy. The real boss. The head coach seems open to one of the trade proposals but gets immediately shut down.

Then Stephen mentioned he'd be willing to go down 3 spots for a pick.

Not happening, as the REAL decision maker in Dallas, Till. Death. Do. They. Part., has made his decision.

"Let's keep Connor McGovern."

And so it is done. (Shout out to Will McClay, who is strangely absent in this.)

Now this isn't news to anyone reasonable, I know. I'm talking to our less fortunate right now. Those loving in their alternate reality because the real world offends their fandom.

So, to those bros.... Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.

Cool, I guess Jerry has been making some good decisions the last few years. Im glad he took Martin over Manziel.

But wait I thought Jerry only made crap decisions and our draft success has been based on a team effort from the front office? So which is it, has Jerry actually managed the cap responsibly and drafted well or do his responsibilities start and end with our failures?

 

[Risen Star]

They don't like that their fantasy world has been exposed.

Hey, Stephen makes for a pretty good secretary. When he can answer the phone correctly.

 

[Risen Star]

I never really understood why people would assume a billionaire, who craves attention, flies to high school games so he can land in his helicopter on a field where he probably owns the property title, and has appointed all his kids to run one of the most profitable sports franchises in the world in what is probably the most nepotistic organization at that kind of scale in Western civilization, and who made his fortune Wildcatting (you know he thinks he's an amazing gambler, and I bet he's a terrible card player), would ever give up the actual fun part of running the team.

I mean, i don't really care if people think it one way or the other. I just couldn't ever believe it.

McClay basically aggregates all the info, runs the scouts, etc. Makes it easily digestible so it can be mixed with JW Blue on Draft Day. He also has to make Jerry think he's making the smart decision, which is probably like living in a real life nightmare.

Because once they could no longer pretend he was a good GM they had to start believing someone else was really running the team.

You have better odds of seeing Stephen Jones just running than you do running the Cowboys as long as Jerry is alive.

 

[Melonfeud]

Yeah, this is a good point. Billionaires like to make decisions regarding the football teams they own. Thanks for making sure everybody understands that.

Seemed like a fairly normal weighing of options to me, with the team taking the guy they didn't expect to be there who had the high grade when it came down to it.

lmao

 

[ondaedg]

To the delusional cheerleaders who like to pretend Jerry is a passive figurehead and his chubby son and the great Will McClay actually run this team, tune into the 13:55 mark of this video and observe. Ignore the fact Stephen can't even answer a phone correctly.

Stephen works the phone like a good secretary. He can't say yes or no to these offers. He's not the decision maker.

"Umm...let me call you back. I have to ask Dad."

He presents the trade offers to his Daddy. The real boss. The head coach seems open to one of the trade proposals but gets immediately shut down.

Then Stephen mentioned he'd be willing to go down 3 spots for a pick.

Not happening, as the REAL decision maker in Dallas, Till. Death. Do. They. Part., has made his decision.

"Let's keep Connor McGovern."

And so it is done. (Shout out to Will McClay, who is strangely absent in this.)

Now this isn't news to anyone reasonable, I know. I'm talking to our less fortunate right now. Those loving in their alternate reality because the real world offends their fandom.

So, to those bros.... Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.

What I saw is Jerry make a personnel decision and not even look in the direction of his head coach before making it. The second thing I saw was the entire room agree with Jerry. What I don't know is does everyone agree with him for job preservation or do they actually like the pick. Could be either.

 

[SoupcanSam]

To the delusional cheerleaders who like to pretend Jerry is a passive figurehead and his chubby son and the great Will McClay actually run this team, tune into the 13:55 mark of this video and observe. Ignore the fact Stephen can't even answer a phone correctly.

Stephen works the phone like a good secretary. He can't say yes or no to these offers. He's not the decision maker.

"Umm...let me call you back. I have to ask Dad."

He presents the trade offers to his Daddy. The real boss. The head coach seems open to one of the trade proposals but gets immediately shut down.

Then Stephen mentioned he'd be willing to go down 3 spots for a pick.

Not happening, as the REAL decision maker in Dallas, Till. Death. Do. They. Part., has made his decision.

"Let's keep Connor McGovern."

And so it is done. (Shout out to Will McClay, who is strangely absent in this.)

Now this isn't news to anyone reasonable, I know. I'm talking to our less fortunate right now. Those loving in their alternate reality because the real world offends their fandom.

So, to those bros.... Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.

The real boss. The head coach seems open to one of the trade proposals but gets immediately shut down.

What else is new. And people wonder what's this guys purpose here!

 

[acr731]

Meet the only guy who can tell Jerry he's done and its time to move on......... Until then enjoy Garrett ball and sucking

 

[Diehardblues]

To the delusional cheerleaders who like to pretend Jerry is a passive figurehead and his chubby son and the great Will McClay actually run this team, tune into the 13:55 mark of this video and observe. Ignore the fact Stephen can't even answer a phone correctly.

Stephen works the phone like a good secretary. He can't say yes or no to these offers. He's not the decision maker.

"Umm...let me call you back. I have to ask Dad."

He presents the trade offers to his Daddy. The real boss. The head coach seems open to one of the trade proposals but gets immediately shut down.

Then Stephen mentioned he'd be willing to go down 3 spots for a pick.

Not happening, as the REAL decision maker in Dallas, Till. Death. Do. They. Part., has made his decision.

"Let's keep Connor McGovern."

And so it is done. (Shout out to Will McClay, who is strangely absent in this.)

Now this isn't news to anyone reasonable, I know. I'm talking to our less fortunate right now. Those loving in their alternate reality because the real world offends their fandom.

So, to those bros.... Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.

Powerful video. Doesn’t surprise me. Those who have argued Stephen has taken over are just wanting to believe such because it provides them more hope in that some of these better decisions reflect Jerry is stepping away.

Instead this reveals its much the same as its always been in that Jerry is still Boss Hog and as Parcells said” you have to convince Jerry to go against his instincts”.

And Jerry has received greater influence a few times in his era , hence the better results. And why it’s critical who surrounds Jerry like with Jason and Will. Stephen has always been there and appears to be more of the hatchet man carrying out the decision than an evaluating influence.

This is still Jerry’s team and as long as he has breathe is going to be sitting at front of the table, for better or worse. Well, we can put this issue to rest.

 

[Stash]

To the delusional cheerleaders who like to pretend Jerry is a passive figurehead and his chubby son and the great Will McClay actually run this team, tune into the 13:55 mark of this video and observe. Ignore the fact Stephen can't even answer a phone correctly.

Stephen works the phone like a good secretary. He can't say yes or no to these offers. He's not the decision maker.

"Umm...let me call you back. I have to ask Dad."

He presents the trade offers to his Daddy. The real boss. The head coach seems open to one of the trade proposals but gets immediately shut down.

Then Stephen mentioned he'd be willing to go down 3 spots for a pick.

Not happening, as the REAL decision maker in Dallas, Till. Death. Do. They. Part., has made his decision.

"Let's keep Connor McGovern."

And so it is done. (Shout out to Will McClay, who is strangely absent in this.)

Now this isn't news to anyone reasonable, I know. I'm talking to our less fortunate right now. Those loving in their alternate reality because the real world offends their fandom.

So, to those bros.... Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.

Yikes.

You worked really hard to try to find something to get mad about here.

 

[Stash]

Risk losing the player over a 7th rounder? Hardly worth it, Jerry made the right call.

I know, right? Three spots in the third round and risk losing out on a guy you graded as a second rounder? Yeah, no.

This was absolutely the right call, and it showed great collaboration among the group, just the way I'd like to see it. Anyone who got mad about that is just reaching for something - anything - to get mad about.

 

[Oh_Canada]

It was a good decision.....Jerry is the GM, not sure why the confusion.

 

[CyberB0b]

To the delusional cheerleaders who like to pretend Jerry is a passive figurehead and his chubby son and the great Will McClay actually run this team, tune into the 13:55 mark of this video and observe. Ignore the fact Stephen can't even answer a phone correctly.

Stephen works the phone like a good secretary. He can't say yes or no to these offers. He's not the decision maker.

"Umm...let me call you back. I have to ask Dad."

He presents the trade offers to his Daddy. The real boss. The head coach seems open to one of the trade proposals but gets immediately shut down.

Then Stephen mentioned he'd be willing to go down 3 spots for a pick.

Not happening, as the REAL decision maker in Dallas, Till. Death. Do. They. Part., has made his decision.

"Let's keep Connor McGovern."

And so it is done. (Shout out to Will McClay, who is strangely absent in this.)

Now this isn't news to anyone reasonable, I know. I'm talking to our less fortunate right now. Those loving in their alternate reality because the real world offends their fandom.

So, to those bros.... Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.

I didn't get that vibe. Looks like they work as a team, with Jerry having the loudest voice in the team.

 

[Cowboys22]

Jerry is the guy in your college group that contributed nothing to the project, but puts his name at the top of the paper.

So you consider owning the team and making the final decisions not contributing? He gave everyone in that room their job and has allocated the responsibility of bringing him all the info he needs to have discussions and make decisions. I'd say there is no one in that room that contributes more than Jerry. He has and is making it all possible for everyone in that room. What is he supposed to do, go scout the players and watch hours of film? Sorry, guys like Jerry pay people to do the menial tasks like that. Going back to your analogy, Jerry is actually the guy in your college group who also is a wealthy business owner who happens to own a successful business that your group decided to use as the subject of your project thus giving your group a huge advantage by having full access to the facility and the professionals running it. Then, that guy with all his experience in the field reviews, tweaks, and signs off on the final report before it is handed in or presented which leads to an easy A on the project. I'd say that guy contributed way more than anyone even if he let others do most of the grunt work.

 

[ClappingCarrot]

Jerry has told all of you clowns time and time again that he has the "final say" and I believe him.

This shouldn't be a shock to anyone.

 

[blueblood70]

Yeah, this is a good point. Billionaires like to make decisions regarding the football teams they own. Thanks for making sure everybody understands that.

Seemed like a fairly normal weighing of options to me, with the team taking the guy they didn't expect to be there who had the high grade when it came down to it.

 

[GenoT]

If you’ve closely followed this team since Jerry bought it @30yrs ago, then you should’ve gained some insight into Jerry’s ego.

Jones doesn’t mind sharing the spotlight, as long as he believes everyone accepts that he has the final say-so on all team matters. The realization that such acceptance was found lacking during the Jimmy Johnson years resulted in Jones running off a back-to-back SB Champ coach.

Over the ensuing 23yr SB drought, the soon-to-be 77yo Jerry has slowly mellowed into someone who is now willing to seriously consider, and often act positively upon, the recommendations of other voices in the room; son Stephen, personnel VP McClay, HC Garrett and his coordinators and, quite likely, anyone else in the scouting/coaching hierarchy who presents a reasonable and valid point.

However, make no mistake that absolutely NOTHING happens decision-wise without Jerry’s stamp of approval.

IMHO, this will be the de facto operating procedure until if/when Jerry formally and publicly cedes power of final say-so to Stephen Jones.

 

[dfense]

To the delusional cheerleaders who like to pretend Jerry is a passive figurehead and his chubby son and the great Will McClay actually run this team, tune into the 13:55 mark of this video and observe. Ignore the fact Stephen can't even answer a phone correctly.

Stephen works the phone like a good secretary. He can't say yes or no to these offers. He's not the decision maker.

"Umm...let me call you back. I have to ask Dad."

He presents the trade offers to his Daddy. The real boss. The head coach seems open to one of the trade proposals but gets immediately shut down.

Then Stephen mentioned he'd be willing to go down 3 spots for a pick.

Not happening, as the REAL decision maker in Dallas, Till. Death. Do. They. Part., has made his decision.

"Let's keep Connor McGovern."

And so it is done. (Shout out to Will McClay, who is strangely absent in this.)

Now this isn't news to anyone reasonable, I know. I'm talking to our less fortunate right now. Those loving in their alternate reality because the real world offends their fandom.

So, to those bros.... Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.

Actually, I see Garrett getting nervous about losing McGovern and he gives McCay the evil eye, like chime in here bud before Jerrah2 screws the pooch. Jerrah2 seems to be hesitant to make a decision himself.

 

[dfense]

I'm confused though, wasn't Marinelli running this draft?

 

[John813]

We don't have any video before they went on the clock, right? IE, talking about Connor in a group prior to those last second calls for trades. For all we know they could of been in agreement about selecting CM if they stayed at pick 90.
I doubt McClay has any huge power/voice about trading picks, but instead about the prospects that are still on their board.

I don't see this as a big deal. Jerry is still the GM. We know McClay and others give them input, and they take what he and other scouts seriously.

We do know that Stephen overruled the Manziel pick in 14, and the trade up in 2016 for Lynch. So, it's not like Jerry gets everything he wants 100% of the time.