Ambiguity works in business but NOT as an NFL GM

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Bobhaze said:
If there was one word in the annual non-sensical scrabble word salad from our owner/president/GM/faceofthefranchise yesterday it was “Ambiguity”. Maybe we will maybe we won’t. Who knows what’s going to happen. Etc, etc. We’ve been hearing Jerry brave about his comfort with that word for decades. The same decades we’ve been waiting for something more than a wild card win.

Main point here: Ambiguity works well for business leaders. It does NOT work well for GMs of football teams.
Why ambiguity is bad for a GM:
  • Effective GMs- the ones winning playoff games consistently - do their homework and know EXACTLY what they want to do going into an off-season. You know who you want to sign, for how much, and when the deadline is to get it done. Have a plan and execute it.
  • In the layout of the NFL contractual landscape, waiting is losing. Especially if you want to save money. We already know what Cedee Lamb will cost. Nothing less than $35 mil per. Period. No ambiguity there.
  • If you’re NOT SURE you like your head coach, then you don’t like him enough. Fire him rather than wasting a season with someone you are lukewarm about. Same for your starting QB, and every other key position on the team.
KEY IDEAS: Do your research, know what you want and then do it. If you aren't sure you like your HC or your starting QB, or any other “expensive” or key ingredient to your team, you’ve already made your decision.

Ambiguity is cancerous to a football team that wants to win a championship. We head into the 2024 season with a GM that isn’t sure he likes the HC, the QB, maybe the team’s best offensive weapon and WR or his uber-talented 25 year old defensive star.

Thats fine if you want to get rid of all of them. It’s just that that decision should have already been made. There is nothing to be ambiguous about. Unless you are comfortable throwing away whole seasons.
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The end of the world is coming. The stars in heaven have finally aligned to see the rarest of events, Bob... we agree. o_O
 
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jazzcat22 said:
I am one of the few that still does not see what is wrong by allowing MM coach his final year of his contract.

What are owners supposed to do, extend the HC every time he has one year left on his contract.
what if he gave him a 2 year extension or longer. Then they fail Then fans will be on him for keeping him. Why would an owner throw away money if he were to extend him, then fire him.

Let him play out the contract as he did with Garrett. Then actually he would not be fired. His contract ended. And Jerry decides to go in another direction.
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I’m with you on this, final year of contract, coach player office personnel, the reason they are on the last year of contract is ownership didn’t like the results up to date, so do something to change the narrative, it’s how all contract employees are treated produce new contract more failures hit the road and in football it’s SB appearances and championships that counts not one and done.
 
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Bobhaze said:
I think we fans have become like the proverbial frog in the boiling pot. We are so used to this constant nonsense coming from the GM/owner we just see it as normal.

Imagine a GM in this league having to deal with multiple public trials about a fun baby he fathered 30 years ago. Trials that did not allow him to get to TC on time. It would be big news and perhaps cost someone their job. Especially if that GM got blown out at home to a 7 seed last January.
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“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” - Joseph Goebbels

The Cowboys lie: “Jerry really wants to win”.
 

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ArtClink said:
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” - Joseph Goebbels

The Cowboys lie: “Jerry really wants to win”.
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I just cannot fathom how people are still claiming Jerry wants to win worse than anyone. I mean, he's once again going out of his way to prove that it isn't true, what will it take to convince people?
 
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kskboys said:
I just cannot fathom how people are still claiming Jerry wants to win worse than anyone. I mean, he's once again going out of his way to prove that it isn't true, what will it take to convince people?
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If facts (i.e., the past 29 seasons) cant convince someone, then that person simply cant be reached.
 
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Bobhaze said:
If there was one word in the annual non-sensical scrabble word salad from our owner/president/GM/faceofthefranchise yesterday it was “Ambiguity”. Maybe we will maybe we won’t. Who knows what’s going to happen. Etc, etc. We’ve been hearing Jerry brave about his comfort with that word for decades. The same decades we’ve been waiting for something more than a wild card win.

Main point here: Ambiguity works well for business leaders. It does NOT work well for GMs of football teams.
Why ambiguity is bad for a GM:
  • Effective GMs- the ones winning playoff games consistently - do their homework and know EXACTLY what they want to do going into an off-season. You know who you want to sign, for how much, and when the deadline is to get it done. Have a plan and execute it.
  • In the layout of the NFL contractual landscape, waiting is losing. Especially if you want to save money. We already know what Cedee Lamb will cost. Nothing less than $35 mil per. Period. No ambiguity there.
  • If you’re NOT SURE you like your head coach, then you don’t like him enough. Fire him rather than wasting a season with someone you are lukewarm about. Same for your starting QB, and every other key position on the team.
KEY IDEAS: Do your research, know what you want and then do it. If you aren't sure you like your HC or your starting QB, or any other “expensive” or key ingredient to your team, you’ve already made your decision.

Ambiguity is cancerous to a football team that wants to win a championship. We head into the 2024 season with a GM that isn’t sure he likes the HC, the QB, maybe the team’s best offensive weapon and WR or his uber-talented 25 year old defensive star.

Thats fine if you want to get rid of all of them. It’s just that that decision should have already been made. There is nothing to be ambiguous about. Unless you are comfortable throwing away whole seasons.
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You nailed it but in before you are stoned to death like during the Biblical times Bob.
 
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