A real problem with Dallas' front office

[gimmesix]

I don't get into all the complaining about Jerry Jones as Dallas' GM. It is what it is, so we might as well deal with it.

But what happened with Owens and Roy Williams is something Jones needs to get a handle on.

Despite his somewhat protestations, the pending releases of those two players came out way before Jones was ready to announce them. That means someone was speaking out of turn to someone, letting that information leak.

At first, Jones did a good job of making it look like possible misinformation, but we now know that someone in his confidence has loose lips and that is something no team needs.

The gag order was Jones' apparent attempt to stop the leaks and I hope through it he has established that those kinds of things have to stop. We cannot afford to have someone blabbing about team business. For instance with Roy, if there had been any interest in a team trading for him, someone letting it be known that he's going to be cut anyway doesn't help the team's efforts.

Lock it up, Jerry. One voice is the way to go if the other voices cannot keep secrets.

 

[theogt]

I haven't been on the board much in the past couple of days. How do we know he didn't want the info released?

 

[gimmesix]

I haven't been on the board much in the past couple of days. How do we know he didn't want the info released?

I guess that's a possibility, but I'm not sure it makes a lot of sense based on his comments prior to Owens' release and the gag order.

Plus if we were trying to trade Roy, why would we want information getting out that we're going to release him anyway?

 

[jobberone]

I have no doubts there are leaks as in more than one. It's nearly impossible to stop them from disgruntled employees to player's agents yada. We don't know that though. It's just so common. And teams do leak information as does a lot of other people.

 

[TRUTH87]

didnt Jones speak to TO/his agent before the news broke out? thats enough for me.

 

[TNCowboy]

I don't get into all the complaining about Jerry Jones as Dallas' GM. It is what it is, so we might as well deal with it.

But what happened with Owens and Roy Williams is something Jones needs to get a handle on.

Despite his somewhat protestations, the pending releases of those two players came out way before Jones was ready to announce them. That means someone was speaking out of turn to someone, letting that information leak.

At first, Jones did a good job of making it look like possible misinformation, but we now know that someone in his confidence has loose lips and that is something no team needs.

The gag order was Jones' apparent attempt to stop the leaks and I hope through it he has established that those kinds of things have to stop. We cannot afford to have someone blabbing about team business. For instance with Roy, if there had been any interest in a team trading for him, someone letting it be known that he's going to be cut anyway doesn't help the team's efforts.

Lock it up, Jerry. One voice is the way to go if the other voices cannot keep secrets.

Stephen and Jerry went to Florida and informed Rosenhaus and Owens. Then TO sent a text to several players.

There was no way it wouldn't come out that night.

 

[ZeroClub]

And don't forget this:

If you are busy contacting other teams, asking them if they might be interested in trading for Roy Williams, that tells the league that you are willing to let Roy go. And if your price is low, that you are willing to let him go for a song. And of course if you are willing to let him go for a song, there's a decent chance that you'll cut him it you get no takers.

Heck, would it shock anybody here if Jerry had mentioned Roy's name to Detroit as the deal for Kitna was being hammered out?

At some point, when you are doing what's best for your own team, sometimes you are going to telegraph some signals that others can and will interpret. That's just part of it.

 

[big dog cowboy]

If you are busy contacting other teams, asking them if they might be interested in trading for Roy Williams, that tells the league that you are willing to let Roy go. And if your price is low, that you are willing to let him go for a song. And of course if you are willing to let him go for a song, there's a decent chance that you'll cut him it you get no takers.

That is cloer to the truth than some kind of leak as the OP suggests.

 

[dbair1967]

didnt Jones speak to TO/his agent before the news broke out? thats enough for me.

yeah, him and S Jones both went to see him

 

[dbair1967]

I don't get into all the complaining about Jerry Jones as Dallas' GM. It is what it is, so we might as well deal with it.

But what happened with Owens and Roy Williams is something Jones needs to get a handle on.

Despite his somewhat protestations, the pending releases of those two players came out way before Jones was ready to announce them. That means someone was speaking out of turn to someone, letting that information leak.

At first, Jones did a good job of making it look like possible misinformation, but we now know that someone in his confidence has loose lips and that is something no team needs.

The gag order was Jones' apparent attempt to stop the leaks and I hope through it he has established that those kinds of things have to stop. We cannot afford to have someone blabbing about team business. For instance with Roy, if there had been any interest in a team trading for him, someone letting it be known that he's going to be cut anyway doesn't help the team's efforts.

Lock it up, Jerry. One voice is the way to go if the other voices cannot keep secrets.

Releasing either of these guys was no big secret...with Owens its been speculated on since the day the season ended. With RW 38 its been speculated on for over a season, and really was a foregone conclusion once he was ineffective and then hurt all of last yr. These werent "leaks"