Rate Jerry as Owner/GM on a scale of 1 to 10

john van brocklin

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Owner - 7

GM - 3

In terms of the business side of things, he's a 10 as an owner. He's made all the right business moves, increased the value and profitability of the franchise, etc. But because he's also the owner who decides to keep himself as GM, well then, he gets 3 points deducted from his score. But you can't argue the business side of this.

Sure, he helped build those SB teams. But the keyword there is "helped". Since he and Jimmy parted ways, Jerry and his son have assumed control of basically everything. And the results are what the results are. 4 playoff wins in 25 years. That puts them in a small handful of teams like the WFT and Browns in terms of postseason ineptitude. That kind of run, led by the same GM, is a real failure.
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Good points. I just have a difficult time applauding him as an owner when he insists on making himself and his children the face of the franchise and key decision makers.....add on the refusal to change despite a large sample size of that not working.

On the flip side Jerry is the perfect businessman and the best salesman I've even seen. I have little doubt that the NFL is in the prosperous spot it's currently in largely because of him. Many wealthy people are indebted to him.

An absolute brilliant businessman. I truly admire him for that, but I wish he would allow more qualified football people to run our team. Yes, OURS. They are an institution, and many of us were here before Jerry Jones.

You don't buy the Museum of Natural History and turn it into a roller rink just because you have the money to do that.

Anyone with any reason at all understands that Jerry had zero to do with building the 90s teams, and things went downhill severely when he took full control.

So overall, as an owner, how does one grade the guy? I'm with you on the 2.

He has done the NFL some greatness, but I can't come close to saying the same for the Dallas Cowboys.
That's the rub,
If the Cowboys were strickly a business venture, Jerry would get a 10 hands down.
If you judge the Cowboys as a Winning Championship football team that would get a 10+ for the first 5 years and a zero for the last 27 years.
 

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I give him no credit whatsoever for the dynasty. He merely hired his college roommate and was too busy fixing the financial end of things to meddle while Jimmy built.

I give him full blame for destroying that dynasty to appease his own ego. The most disgraceful act any owner in sports has ever done.

And nearly three decades later he still doesn't care how much damage he's doing.

If negative numbers were allowed I'd go there.
 

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His sons have been there since day one , but were teenagers just hanging out like Spauding does now.
They had no real roles of responsibility until much later.
Nepotism has been a documented failure through several studies on the subject.
And really has Stephen's job performance given any of us a cause for confidence?

No, it has not.
 

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1 , just no way around it, It’s a outlet for his ego, the product or results doesn’t matter as long as the fawning sycophants are around him every thing is great. Results are what business owners demand from employees but when it’s friends and family and the money pours in regardless of the product Jerry is happy.
 

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he is zero and has always been a zero jimmy built the superbowl teams in the early ninties as a business man he is around 7 but a football man he sucks and always has
 

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Owner: 10+

Football entertainment capital worth 6+ billion, "America's team". Cares about his players, donations to charity and etc

GM:
First 5 years or so...10
Since then...2-3

If it wasnt for Jimmy's success, Jerry is argurably one of the worst gms ever. Once that ego took over good bye America's team
 

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"I would do ANYTHING to win....."

Except this, this this, this this, this, this and this.....

Don't insult us please.
 

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Jerry did a great job his first 5 years, hired Jimmy , mostly stayed out of the way, signed players.
Did a great job.
Last 27 years has been in over his head with bad trades and bad drafts , hired the wrong HC's and then kept them too long (Garrett).
So looking at his whole body of work I would give him a 6 overall.
Mainly because of those 3 SB's wins.
PS: Hiring wrong front office personal like his son is also a major error.
You hire people because of their ability to get the job done, not just because they are your offspring.
This isn't the local grocery store.
Running a NFL Franchise is a complex operation.

Thoughts ?
Tex and Gil Brandt already had negotiations to have Jimmy Johnson replace Tom Landry. Jerry Jones just move the time table up one year.

The man (Jerry Dumbo GM Jones) gets a negative 10 or -10. He fired Tom Landry, Jimmy Johnson, Bob Ackles, ran off Bill Parcells, ran off John Wooten, passed on Randy Moss, traded 3 no. 1 picks for one non Pro Bowl WR and a WR from a 0-16 team that the team was going to cut for the Hall of Fame WR Megatron to transform, let multiple players go to Super Bowl teams (see Ware, Hitchens, etc.) for free, and traded a 4 time Pro Bowl WR that led the team in regular season and playoff catches and TDs during his tenure in Arlington for a 5th round pick.

Was this a trick question?
 

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Some luck and bold moves that worked out early - Jerry gets a 10 from me.

His coach selections starting with Campo and his desperate moves with personnel that almost never worked out in the decade after Jimmy and Switzer - I give him a 3.

From Wade through Garrett, we never got over the hump, but we were still getting a couple of #1 seeds and winning a few division titles - 6.

Currently, I’d give him a 7/8. He still talks too much, but he doesn’t meddle with the team or think he can win with just any coaches.
 

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Owner: A few facts
  • The franchise has 3 SBs with two Head Coaches with him as owner. He hired both coaches.
  • After the SB years, the franchise has been average to slightly above average record-wise. So combine average with all-world and you get your on-the-field answer.
  • Then you have all the other owner stuff (marketing, facilities, etc) that he is a master at.
  • The franchise was going bankrupt when he bought it and is now the most valuable franchise in the world.
  • He also allowed himself to be GM for many years (not so much anymore) Big negative...but floor still a 5
  • He made the HOF as an OWNER (I'm sure his GM skills played little into that)

I think he is one of the best owners

GM:
  • Jimmy rightly gets most of the GM cred for the Super Bowls--especially the first 2, but also much of the 3rd.
  • Jerry did make some huge moves to help us get the 3rd SB though. Think Larry Allen, Deion Sanders, etc. HUGE They don't win the 3rd SB without them.
  • After the SB years, the franchise has been average to slightly above average record-wise. So the floor is a 5....or average

Owner....9...would be a 10 except he allowed himself to be the GM. But there are a 100 other things owners do as well.
GM........5.....we have been average
 
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Team is generally competitive and consistently fields rosters that can beat the NFCE and make the playoffs every other years. The team also continuously just gets trounced in the playoffs and has no resiliency. So right in the middle of the pack. He's better than like...Gettleman, but there are other GMs who shoot their shot and make things happen.
 

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I think too many bottom numbers are a result of thinking a team can always be a dynasty. Jerry is a joke at times, but if he was a 1 or a negative number, we’d be the Lions or the Browns. Dallas has always been competitive in the division, even when the division was good or had SB champs. We are the Cowboys, so 8-8 or 12-3 with a first round playoff loss sucks, but there are teams that would love just one 8-8 season or one top seeding. The reality is that he’s been the owner for 33 years and we’ve appeared in the playoffs 19 years, never been at the bottom. He’s been absolutely terrible and embarrassing at times, but the Cowboys are not just lucky and don’t make the playoffs just because they are the Cowboys.

Far from the best, Jerry has not been the worst owner or gm. Historians would easily point out that he hasn’t even been the worst owner the Cowboys have had.
 

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Jerry did a great job his first 5 years, hired Jimmy , mostly stayed out of the way, signed players.
Did a great job.
Last 27 years has been in over his head with bad trades and bad drafts , hired the wrong HC's and then kept them too long (Garrett).
So looking at his whole body of work I would give him a 6 overall.
Mainly because of those 3 SB's wins.
PS: Hiring wrong front office personal like his son is also a major error.
You hire people because of their ability to get the job done, not just because they are your offspring.
This isn't the local grocery store.
Running a NFL Franchise is a complex operation.

Thoughts ?
As an owner - 9
As a GM - 4
 
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