Stop saying Jerry hasnt done his job as GM

morat1959 · Jan 26, 2022

Demboyz88 said:
He's built good rosters over the years. He's givin us travis frederick, tyron smith, zach martin, dlaw, micah parsons, tdiggs, sean lee, dak, zeke, all people that we have drafted just to name a few. Yes some dumb mistakes like not picking tj watt but for the most part he has did his part in building us a contending team. Now we just need a head coach that can take us over the top

He’s convinced you he’s built good rosters. You are part of the problem.

morat1959 · Jan 26, 2022

LittleD said:
How about you stop licking his boots and smelling his jock. Jerry has mishandled this team for 26 years and counting. At some point the Owner should retire to his ranch and hire a real football man GM.

Thank you!

morat1959 · Jan 26, 2022

visionary said:
this is a football message board. If you don’t understand the basics be quiet so you can learn something

This is hilarious! Nailed it!

atlantacowboy · Jan 26, 2022

Demboyz88 said:
He's built good rosters over the years. He's givin us travis frederick, tyron smith, zach martin, dlaw, micah parsons, tdiggs, sean lee, dak, zeke, all people that we have drafted just to name a few. Yes some dumb mistakes like not picking tj watt but for the most part he has did his part in building us a contending team. Now we just need a head coach that can take us over the top

LOL

Sydla · Jan 26, 2022

Here's a thought exercise when evaluating the job Jerry has done as GM.

Name an owner in football, other than Jerry, that would have kept the same GM if that GM had delivered 8 playoff appearances in 20 years with only 3 playoff wins over that entire stretch.

Sydla · Jan 26, 2022

Oh and one more thing. Most GMs in the league build rosters but also hire the HC.

So when you say Jerry has done a good job as GM because he's built good rosters but just has hired bad coaches, then the reality is Jerry hasn't done a good job as the GM if the coaches he hired weren't good.

CowboysFaninHouston · Jan 26, 2022

Demboyz88 said:
He's built good rosters over the years. He's givin us travis frederick, tyron smith, zach martin, dlaw, micah parsons, tdiggs, sean lee, dak, zeke, all people that we have drafted just to name a few. Yes some dumb mistakes like not picking tj watt but for the most part he has did his part in building us a contending team. Now we just need a head coach that can take us over the top

I disagree. he has partially good roster build around offense to sell jersey's. his focus is on making money and marketing the cowboys...when he wanted to take manziel over Martin and had to be convinced by his son not to do so. he was thinking about how many jersey's he could sell. before 2020, for 15 years he failed to find any impact defensive player in draft or FA, the only one he found was Lawrence....and that ain't saying much.

he creates a culture and organization, part of his responsibility as owner/gm that's chaotic. He tells players to report to him. and he has coaches bypass head coach to report to him. he goes into business with players and muddies the lines of authority with players/coaches. there is a reason this team is soft and fails in big moments against good team, not just this year, not just with Dak, but he same with Romo, and those before him. one year he cancelled contact practices when Wade was coach, because there was an injury. we went into the season, not ready and got our arses whooped the first few games.

No, Jerry hasn't built a roster, perhaps on one side only and culture...the culture and organization are just as important.

I have had teams that were full of super stars and they were really good individually, but couldnt' come together as a team, we didn't have the right culture and the team failed on project after project. and I had teams of average and above average individuals that worked together, had the right mindset and they did amazing project, over delivering on almost every project they worked on.

so Jerry has failed.

morat1959 · Jan 26, 2022

Doomsday101 said:
to me that makes a stronger case not weaker case. It showed me Jerry is not running around making picks on his own, that he will sit and listen to what others in the room are saying. I have heard that Jerry wants yes men and yet that is not the case.

That you JJ?

RomoplusDezEquals7 · Jan 26, 2022

The Cowboys have drafted pretty good. Jerry’s main issue is falling in love and overpaying players he has drafted. He can’t say no. Then you get contracts like Smith, Lawrence and Prescott. This team will be worse next year. The Cowboys also play in the worst division which masks their talent deficiencies somewhat.

RS12 · Jan 26, 2022

Sydla said:
Here's a thought exercise when evaluating the job Jerry has done as GM.

Name an owner in football, other than Jerry, that would have kept the same GM if that GM had delivered 8 playoff appearances in 20 years with only 3 playoff wins over that entire stretch.

Mile Brown who just lucked into Joe Burrow. The bad news is this only encourages Jerry.

Doomsday101 · Jan 26, 2022

morat1959 said:
That you JJ?

No just a person willing to call out Jerry on things I disagreed with and credit on those things I have agreed with. I think over the last few years we have brought in very good talent, much of that due to McClay whom Jerry hired and has extended his contract with the Cowboys. There have been many moves Jerry has made I did not like and you find out you can't undue them all you can do is move on from them and they have. Personally I think the work the front office does this off season will be critical.

Sorry I will always credit good and be critical of bad, I'm not one to blame Jerry for everything under the sun. This season I think he put together a good team, they failed but not because of Jerry, front office did their part in putting talent on the field

pansophy · Jan 26, 2022

Jerry has never figured out how to win the salary cap era -- he still wants to be able to overpay for talent. We then fill in the holes with high risk/reward players, especially on defense, and that really hasn't worked out for us. I see two problems for Jerry -- he hangs on to players that he likes longer than he should (and overpays them), and he hires coaches that will placate to his ego. Neither of those is really a good plan.

RS12 · Jan 26, 2022

He hasnt built good rosters either because the flaws consistently show up against equal or better teams. People conveniently forget this team was 6 and 5 against non NFC east teams. Talent evaluation on who to pay is poor here. Finding draft talent they are probably a little better than lesgue average.

morat1959 · Jan 26, 2022

RS12 said:
Must be click bait or a Jones family member. Otherwise seek mental health help immediately.

Lol! Love reading some of the replies in this post.

MaineBoy · Jan 26, 2022

Demboyz88 said:
He's built good rosters over the years. He's givin us travis frederick, tyron smith, zach martin, dlaw, micah parsons, tdiggs, sean lee, dak, zeke, all people that we have drafted just to name a few. Yes some dumb mistakes like not picking tj watt but for the most part he has did his part in building us a contending team. Now we just need a head coach that can take us over the top

You have only 36 posts so I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you are 8 years old. When, and if, you grow up I hope someone will explain to you how GM Jerry mismanaged and humbled a once proud franchise for almost 3 decades and won nothing, nada, zero.

LucaBrasi · Jan 26, 2022

I’ll say this for the “good” rosters GM Jed and his incompetent son Jethro Bodine have put together: not only have they failed to make a conference title game in nearly 3 decades, they’ve failed to make the playoffs in back to back seasons since 2007.

We can blame the coaches (they haven’t figured that part out either), but good rosters sustain success. They can’t even qualify for a run for 2 straight years.

there are MAYBE 5-10 organizations across the 4 pro sports run worse. That’s about it.

Loso86 · Jan 26, 2022

Demboyz88 said:
He's built good rosters over the years. He's givin us travis frederick, tyron smith, zach martin, dlaw, micah parsons, tdiggs, sean lee, dak, zeke, all people that we have drafted just to name a few. Yes some dumb mistakes like not picking tj watt but for the most part he has did his part in building us a contending team. Now we just need a head coach that can take us over the top

Exactly. All is right with the world when winning, but as soon as these players and coaches don't do their respective jobs uts Jerry's fault. Gets all of the blame when things are bad but when things are good it's NEVER because of JJ lol

khiladi · Jan 26, 2022

Jerry makes about 1 disastrous move every few years which nullifies the majority of his good moves from a personnel perspective. Jason Garrett and Dak Prescott “training show” are the two that have set the franchise back for years.

foofighters · Jan 26, 2022

Demboyz88 said:
He's built good rosters over the years. He's givin us travis frederick, tyron smith, zach martin, dlaw, micah parsons, tdiggs, sean lee, dak, zeke, all people that we have drafted just to name a few. Yes some dumb mistakes like not picking tj watt but for the most part he has did his part in building us a contending team. Now we just need a head coach that can take us over the top

Jerry hasn't done his job as GM...

pasando · Jan 26, 2022

DakPresgoat said:
Shut up, Stephen

Stop saying Jerry hasnt done his job as GM

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

CowboysFaninDC

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Sleeps with the fishes

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Well-Known Member

Active Member