stasheroo;3837899 said:
I was a fan before Jerry Jones and I'll be a fan after he's gone. He's not going to chase me away from supporting my favorite team, no matter how inept he is.
amazing how you leave out the years before that. yea yea, all johnson...
Yeah, right up until the point where Jerry
thought he knew what he was doing and didn't need Johnson anymore as '500 guys could coach Jerry's team'.[/QUOTE]
Look, smart guy, Jerry didn't have a real choice in the departure of Jimmy Johnson. Jimmy wrote his OWN ticket out of town when during the week's leadup to the SECOND Super Bowl, he was attempting to negotiate with Buffalo to gain BOTH the GM's and the Head Coach position with THAT team. This, while suppodedly HIS team was preparing for the Super Bowl.
Fact is, JIMMY's character is forever tarnished for being a Benedict Arnold.
Not only was he a snake in the grass here, and after Jerry had broken with the then current trends in the NFL to even bring Jimmy up as a head coach without any NFL experience...but Jimmy was pushing nothing short of a power play to gain control of the newly redeveloping and once again strong franchise.
Then, before the press, following the second year's Super Bowl victory, Jimmy insulted and publicly belittled Jerry during the post game celebration.
A hired person, no matter his ego, or supposed value, is NOT above that organization. Excuses just don't enter the picture here...in any form.
Jerry set up Jimmy for success, and didn't owe HIM humility for any reason. Plain and simple...Jimmy got too big for his own britches. And if truth were known, he would have walked on water in Miami for all the remaining years of his coaching career there. No, fact is, given his own greed level of power wishes, he NO LONGER succeeded at the levels provided by that same Jerry Jones. Buffalo laughed at Jimmy's proposals to them. Why?
Don't mix party favors here also...because Jerry had to continue on with the organization and the status that was evolving in the NFL at that point.
The Cowboys, due to the effect that free agency now played, was tied into the potential production of established stars on his own team then. Injury and free agency decimated what remained of the Dynasty stars...but Jerry was stuck with having to walk through that as well. Unlike a Jimmy Johnson, or later, a Bill Parcells, who could up and walk away and leave their own messes behind. Jerry had to walk and circle wagons with who was accessable to him and his organization as changes came about.
Scouting wasn't nearly as sophisticated an art, as is today. Collegiate coaching wasn't as advance at an entry level as well. Positional instruction then, was more on a demand for intensity and merely beating up the person across from you.
The record from where Jimmy was KICKED OUT of the organization, with Jerry giving him a more humbled and respectful departure of best interest of those involved...to now, has been a progression. But to state all was due to stupidity or ineptness of Jerry, in either the capacity of owner or GM...is just as naive as stating the world turned about the axis of Jimmy Johnson and all respect was due to him.
Naw, Jimmy's character was at issue and the cruxt of change then.
The actions of Haynesworth in Washington points out a more recent example of how attitude, despite money and priviledge, is a cancer in an organization. Well, Jimmy left no alternative to a young owner in the NFL. Plain and simply.
All the subsequent crying over spilled milk is at best, immaturity by fans, as well as the media attempting to cash in the same through yellow journalism.
If there was a direct connection with later teams to previous teams in a franchise, then Pittsburgh should have just been given the Lombardi yesterday. That isn't the reality of the game. Each team has to achieve on it's own merits. It's not easy...but for fans to alter the actual causes for direction even in the past of the Dallas Cowboys, is untruthful, as well a slander on the character of a fine and football person - Jerry Jones.
I much prefer to judge a man upon his travel...not the labels of a tar and bucket brigade looking for vindication for not having another Champion up and set in their respective laps. What has that fan done in the mean time?
When one boils this one down...what has he sacrificed beyond a mental decision to claim that particular team as HIS OWN. When viewed in light of support and sportsmanship, that is a great and positive attribute. But as is now, it merely is an excuse to ridicule and insult a prime contributor to that very organization...then it falls way short of target. More exactly, erects a false target never meriting the disdain insultingly hurled.
Excuse me if I'm not impressed by one's right to be hypocritical in stance or insulting in demeaner. It all boils down to the point that a fan quits being that when he takes resentment for successes at the top level, in a similar manner that sent the Oilers out of Houston and left them without a team until the Texans returned for financial reasons.
The Cowboys could have gone the route of the Oilers, Cleveland, Colts, and Rams if Jerry had not saved that team and established a firm franchise IN DALLAS. He did that on the organizational as well as player levels involved. That involved the dual hat of both the owner and GM. But, that additionally had to transition through and from the hard times as well. Things are really, pretty tough to establish repeats in today's NFL now. If a fan greedily and vainly judges all to a period that gave birth to a dynasty, that is the short sightedness of that fan...not a black mark against Jerry.
With everything magnified and in Soap Opera version about a single team, that reflects both upon the media and some of the fans buying into that pot stirrings by that same media. Hey, in Soap Operas, that is a marriage made in heaven...as the base and insultive nature is watered fully.
In the real world of the NFL...well, that's another truth. Here, despite failures along the way, that same Jerry Jones can hold his head high. As those who report the actual events already give credence for his niche and contributions to both Dallas, and the NFL. The game presented at the Dallas Stadium had problems, but it was a grand affair and received by a huge audience....positively. That is the image that this fan retains, concerning that same Jerry Jones.
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