Colin: Jerry Jones' Cowboys have become Al Davis' Raiders at the end

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he may be all of those but he’s still correct
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He can be correct and not talk about Dallas. There is very little reason to discuss a franchise having no appreciative reverence. He should not devote any time for the Cowboys in any of his segments. Instead, he should wait until the team meets his definition of reverence. Then he would have a logical reason to speculate what happened that turned things around.

That will never happen though. Cowherd is one of, if not the, top paid sports talking heads. Fox Sports made certain of that. The network and he are voluntarily compelled to devote conversation about the franchise to retain a significant percentage of his audience and maintain his market share.

Even so, I would be surprised if Cowherd or any of his peers would ever take their slant to the next level. I am certain the rest of the league's fans would not miss listening to their almost daily heehawing about the Cowboys. It would allow more time devoted to talking about their franchises instead.
 
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Oz-of-Cowboy-Country said:
So in the salary cap era you have to do what the Patriots done. Find a franchise QB, give him a good offensive line, then build up on the defensive side of the ball.
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There is something that the Patriots do that is very difficult for the Cowboys to replicate.

On a a certain video podcast show with Holley and Stanback they talk about their respective experiences being in a Patriots camp, and how the "day to day" culture is managed.

When I think about all the things that are done by various teams throughout the league.

The ability for some teams to maintain a high level of competition and expectation week in and week out is a difference maker in being able to create the team mentality that allows you to best the league's finest opponents on a long term basis.

I don't see this within the Cowboys culture.

Schultz hinted to what could be the issue in his recent interview. The Cowboys are a moving and ongoing distraction. Their fan base, their staff, their facilities, the media, and most of all the ownership group and the culture built by said group.

Can they win the SuperBowl? Sure. Every team has a legitimate shot at the title. If the Cowboys do it will be in spite of themselves and the overall team and organization culture.
 
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AsthmaField said:
Those Raiders teams couldn’t draft worth a crap. They just drafted fast guys. Dallas drafts well.

that’s just the first difference that I thought of.

Cowherd was saying how good Dallas was just last year.

He’s just stirring up ratings.
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Pretty similar paths their last 30 years. Won a few Super Bowls 30 years earlier, went through bottom of the trash heap decade in part because they liked to hire ‘their boys.’ Then slowly figured it out again, mounting respectable contending teams. Both went for it all on coaching hires to turn the ship around - Parcells and Gruden - both let their rebuild coaches slip away probably a year or two earlier or might have won it all. Both had some heart breakers as they went back to the Playoffs. Tuck Rule, Gruden out coaching on the Buccs, Dez catch, Romo fumble, etc… A lot of hard luck and egg on face for both owners as they built some winning teams again before their deaths, but one could argue Al built it back higher and also proved he could do it with more than just John Madden, while Jerry hasn’t proven anything yet without Jimmy.
 
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Al Davis actually knew the game of football.

Al Davis is the only person in the history of professional football to be a Head Coach, General Manager, owner, and league commissioner. He was successful in every facet.

And no, he did not make himself the Head Coach and GM. Al Davis did not own the team until after he had been hired as a coach and GM. He became their head coach in 1963 and stepped down after becoming a part owner in 1966. In 1971 he assumed full ownership.

Prior to 1963, Al Davis was a scout for the Baltimore Colts and an assistant coach for USC.

Al Davis was the AFL commissioner in 1966, their last one as he helped orchestrate the AFL's merger into the NFL.

Al Davis had an ego, just like Jerry Jones. What he also had, that Jerry didn't have, was credentials and experience at every level of NFL management before becoming an owner.

Jerry Jones does not compare to Al Davis, a pioneer in the history of professional football.

Every single one of us knows far more about the Dallas Cowboys than Colin Cowerd. Cowerd has an "on the surface" knowledge when it comes to each team in the NFL. His observations and perspectives are often simplistic and a reflection of whatever stories about the team happen to be circulating.

For instance, the myth that the Cowboys are a sloppy team that consistently get to many penalties that costs them games.

First of all, last season was a fluke in terms of the number of penalties and let me present the relevant facts:

Although the Cowboys led in penalties last season, their "penalties margin", which is the difference in number of penalties with opponents, was only six more for the entire season. This means that, not only were the Cowboys penalized often, but their opponents were also penalized at practically the same rate. It means that the Cowboys had an average of one third of a penalty higher per game than their opponents

The Cowboys penalties margin to their opponents for the season is ranked 15th among the NFL. This means they are in the middle of the ranking when it comes to their number of penalties compared to their opponents.

In fact, if you want to know who is really getting picked on, last season it was the Raiders and Texans. They each had 25 more penalties last season then their opponents, an average of a penalty and a half more each game.

Furthermore, one season does not establish a trend. When you examine penalties over the past decade, in terms of quantity, the Cowboys are ranked 12th. The teams with the actual high numbers of penalties over the past decade is the Raiders and Seahawks. The team with the least penalties over the past decade is, of course, the Patriots.
 

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Al Davis was a better man/owner than JJ. Davis had a mind of his own and wasn't one of those weak minded losers part of the "good ol boy" network.

Davis didn't let the BS outside of football keep him from hiring certain players with baggage that could play. He wanted to win!!
 
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I don't like this comparison. Al was senile and delusional towards the end.

But. Unlike Jerry, he also had coaching and scouting on his resume.
 
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Didn't Al Davis actually take a couple of self built teams to AFC title games later on in his life....

...or is that being an actual qualified NFL scout or just buying your way into it?
 
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