TonyS
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Jerry has grown the Cowboys to a point where they are "too big to fail" financially even over the past 20 years of futility (20 freaking years!). What really motivates him and his family to produce a superior product? When pride is the sole motivator, you get what we have now.
The Jones family wins the Superbowl of Revenue each year no matter if the team wins or loses. We just need to stay mediocre for his toy to keep making him and his family filthy rich.
Jerry is an oil man with a well that generates hundreds of millions of dollars a year through almost any market condition regardless of whether or not the well actually produces any product. It is something he should be proud to have built, but his team is now a victim of its prior success.
When one's compensation is not tied to performance, that person becomes a fat cat who has no accountability and whose team ultimately suffers. This is why Jerry and Stephen running the football operations are not scared for their jobs if they stink year after year. They are more wiling to tolerate lesser results and keep less productive scouts, coaches and players because their jobs aren't on the line should the people they hire ultimately fail.
Teams with owners that hire quality operations folks and put their job on the line based upon performance, typically put their teams in better position to compete. Kraft, Rooneys, Maras, etc... exemplify this. What we are seeing in Dallas has occurred since Jerry jettisoned people who he paid to control the ultimate football product and took over those reins himself and gave them to family.
I wonder if we will ever see the glory days of Dallas Cowboy football again as long as the current mindset is in place at the top of America's Team.
The Jones family wins the Superbowl of Revenue each year no matter if the team wins or loses. We just need to stay mediocre for his toy to keep making him and his family filthy rich.
Jerry is an oil man with a well that generates hundreds of millions of dollars a year through almost any market condition regardless of whether or not the well actually produces any product. It is something he should be proud to have built, but his team is now a victim of its prior success.
When one's compensation is not tied to performance, that person becomes a fat cat who has no accountability and whose team ultimately suffers. This is why Jerry and Stephen running the football operations are not scared for their jobs if they stink year after year. They are more wiling to tolerate lesser results and keep less productive scouts, coaches and players because their jobs aren't on the line should the people they hire ultimately fail.
Teams with owners that hire quality operations folks and put their job on the line based upon performance, typically put their teams in better position to compete. Kraft, Rooneys, Maras, etc... exemplify this. What we are seeing in Dallas has occurred since Jerry jettisoned people who he paid to control the ultimate football product and took over those reins himself and gave them to family.
I wonder if we will ever see the glory days of Dallas Cowboy football again as long as the current mindset is in place at the top of America's Team.
