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This was going to be a locally owned and operated family run business from the start so there should be no shock registered at this latest one to join the clan and there will be more. Many more.

Booger owns it and can put whoever he wants into any position and this is nothing but an extension of "I am already in a funk about this team, here's another to go off on".

That said, I have 25 years of experience in working with these type businesses and the successes were easy to spot, they held the family members accountable as employees, not family when it came to the business. I've had several instances of the father or mother firing a relative even their own children because when it came to the business, it was about the business.

I do not see that with Booger. He doesn't hold himself accountable or his first born son and what makes that even worse for fans, they all know it. They will eventually have a Jones in every titled position in that front office.

On the other side of that coin is that because they are family, that doesn't mean they can't be good at what they do. Automatically assuming they're all a bunch of incompetents really isn't fair. They do have the advantage of growing up around it and we all learn from watching others, both how to do it and how not to do it.

This is just item #27 on our list of things to be pissed off about the Dallas Cowboys.

 

But EYE was and YOU responded to me. So you should've focused on what I was actually posting and not your opinions and thoughts.

 

Both the good and the bad. At one time, before he became Crazy Al, he was a s good a football man as there was in the game but he was a football man before he bought the team.

Interesting that Al's son learned and he turned it over to a GM and HC. Rooney, Mara, Bidwell all learned to trust professionals to conduct their business. Mike Brown never learned that, he thought he knew because he father was the famous Paul Brown, indeed a football man. That is who Booger's son is going to be, the next Mike Brown. And I predict about as successful on the field.

 

But the example still stands, an owner can successfully run his club with regards to the on the field action. However, that is the isolated case in modern times, Paul Brown and George Halas were very successful.

 

Well said Coach.
It’s the lack of accountability that makes this organization stink. The Steelers are certainly a “family run” business with several Rooneys in key positions. BUT- what makes them different is:

1. The Owner, Art Rooney II is also the President and his son Art III is VP. But what makes them different is they hire people to run the football operations. They hire a GM and HC, and delegate tons of authority to those guys.
2. Very few Rooney family members are employed by the team. It’s a tightly managed family business where your last name alone doesn’t qualify you for an executive position.

Maybe someday, the Jones clan will realize that delegating football operations to experts that can be held accountable is a winning formula both on and off the field. It doesn’t mean you don’t still own the team and share in its direction and success. If only...

 

That's fair.
They havent earned that confidence. Well, they had it, then lost it.

 

Couldn't agree more and what's even more important than that when it comes to this team, GMing is a full time job and a not a part time one where the owner gets to cherry pick the fun things he wants to do.

Booger is so comfortable that he admitted he doesn't watch film of players. Do you think any GM in the NFL would freely admit that to their owner? There are many skills and tasks required but none more important that the evaluation of talent. If he's ever watched any film, it's of receivers making catches or DB's getting picks.

A mathematician can manage the cap; takes a keen judge of talent to build a team.