Desire and effort aren't the problem

[Cowboys5217]

To give you an idea of just how deluded the OP is about Jerry wanting to win - Jerry won't even close the curtains to help his team.

 

[Sarge]

At this point…..it’s an endless and pointless argument. Everyone reaches their “point” at different times but we all come to the same conclusion when all is said and done.

 

[Blackrain]

I’ve been saying this for years. No one wants to win more than Jerry. No one puts in a greater commitment to winning than Jerry. He’s just not very good at his job.

The same can now be said of his players. The team simply lacks the talent and ability to be a contender.

This isn’t a character or commitment issue. They simply aren’t good. A few players are, but not enough of them to matter.

There is no problem with the commitment and effort by Jerry and his players to make the maximum amount of money they can in the shortest period of time.

They are fully committed to making money winning is down the list in priorities if it happens and is a byproduct of making money so be it.

No one that wants to win runs a team in the manner that Jerry does Jerry runs the team to be the most valuable franchise in all of sports not to win the super bowl don't confuse what his effort and commitment is really about and it rubs off on all his players and trickles down.
They are business decision makers and businessmen first football players second

 

[MyFairLady]

My kids want money but don't want to go to work. I want to lose weight but i dont want to exercise. My dog doesn't want a sore throat but doesn't want to stop barking. Jerry wants to win but wants to bring back fat zeke.

See how this works?

Jerry has lost the right to say he works hard and wants to win. He wants to drink, sleep on his yacht and molest young girls. That is what he wants.

 

[McCarthyMustGo]

I’ve been saying this for years. No one wants to win more than Jerry. No one puts in a greater commitment to winning than Jerry. He’s just not very good at his job.

The same can now be said of his players. The team simply lacks the talent and ability to be a contender.

This isn’t a character or commitment issue. They simply aren’t good. A few players are, but not enough of them to matter.

I think the most important thing to Jerry is winning because of Jerry. Don't feel like Jerry would be happy winning if he didn't receive the credit.

 

[nobody]

I’ve been saying this for years. No one wants to win more than Jerry. No one puts in a greater commitment to winning than Jerry. He’s just not very good at his job.

The same can now be said of his players. The team simply lacks the talent and ability to be a contender.

This isn’t a character or commitment issue. They simply aren’t good. A few players are, but not enough of them to matter.

If he wants to win so badly, why does he undermine the coaches? Why does he insist on yes men that make him comfortable? Why does he work only part time at the GM position and goes on vacation every year in the first week of free agency? Make no mistake, winning is not his priority. He's not good at his job, that's true, but he prioritizes several things over winning. His ego comes first. Doing it HIS way comes first. So no, the statement of "No one wants to win more than Jerry" is untrue. Sorry. He has a few priorities that supersede winning a SB

 

[Redsfan_83]

I find it hard to believe Jerry does not care about winning. Making money or not, it is his team. How can he not be a fan of his own team?

I think the last 29 years were just plain ordinary incompetence. I think this year it is more than that.

There is no doubt that Jerry and his clan want nothing more than to win...the problem is that it is at the bottom of the "What is a most important list", and as long as he is making money nothing else matters. Nothing more, nothing less and don't be fooled otherwise

 

[conner01]

I’ve been saying this for years. No one wants to win more than Jerry. No one puts in a greater commitment to winning than Jerry. He’s just not very good at his job.

The same can now be said of his players. The team simply lacks the talent and ability to be a contender.

This isn’t a character or commitment issue. They simply aren’t good. A few players are, but not enough of them to matter.

Talent certainly is the biggest issue though I’d say discipline is an issue too. We consistently get pre snap penalties and that’s discipline. An over powered player holding I get but there is no excuse for pre snap penaltirs

 

[conner01]

If he wants to win so badly, why does he undermine the coaches? Why does he insist on yes men that make him comfortable? Why does he work only part time at the GM position and goes on vacation every year in the first week of free agency? Make no mistake, winning is not his priority. He's not good at his job, that's true, but he prioritizes several things over winning. His ego comes first. Doing it HIS way comes first. So no, the statement of "No one wants to win more than Jerry" is untrue. Sorry. He has a few priorities that supersede winning a SB

He thinks he’s helping. He really does. He thinks he’s the smartest man in the room. He thinks he really knows football, scheme, talent and every other part of the game. At his age being a little delusional is common

 

[nobody]

He thinks he’s helping. He really does. He thinks he’s the smartest man in the room. He thinks he really knows football, scheme, talent and every other part of the game. At his age being a little delusional is common

30 years of results don't lie. He admitted in the past if he had a GM under him with his record, he'd have fired him. So yeah, he KNOWS. He just wants to play RL fantasy football and if he wins, cool. If he loses, there's always an excuse.

 

[Risen Star]

No one puts in greater commitment to win than Jerry? He's a GM that doesn't watch film. What the bleep are you talking about?

 

[75boyz]

The art of acting SURPRISED when your team hasn't had a winning season, since you were SOOOo active in Free agency

But he may not have been acting...
Which could be the case. And that's even scarier when you think about it.

 

[scottsp]

For me, it’s tough to defend Jerry’s ‘desire’ to win or craft a winning environment. Not when he lame ducks his coaching staff, particularly after the Green Bay loss, just because he’s not interested in paying out coaches he’s fired. The man rather choke out an entire season with coaches he doesn’t want rather than cut bait and pay a new staff.

It’s also tough to rationalize their decision to bring back Zeke with the other quality running backs on the market. That smacks of emotional attachment, maybe comfort with the familiar - or worse - again, being cheap.

That family is all about empire stakes. Kudos to him for leveraging his position and the brand to a place of immense fame and fortune. It’s too bad that football operations are taking a backseat to just about everything else.

In the end, they must actually care about football. Care about it enough to make tough decisions and see them through. They have to care enough to be honest with themselves.

When have we seen that?

 

[Coogiguy03]

But he may not have been acting...
Which could be the case. And that's even scarier when you think about it.

Right lol lol

 

[DallasEast]

IMO He wants to win. It'll validate he is a football "genius". He also wants money.
I agree he doesn't know how to win, as his ego to be a football genius is a cancer to the team.
They have been doing this for so long and with yes men outside of Parcells, probably to the point they actually believe their lies about being close to a championship.
He wants branding and a ring.

^ 100% accurate assessment. It is understandable how Jerry Jones rubs people the wrong way but it should not stop anyone from seeing the man for who he is.

He does not think like 'most' people. Logically, his methodology for achieving goals are simply not the same as everyone else's.

It is the little things that reveal how his type of mind works. For years, he has known the sun will blind players in his stadium at a certain point during afternoon games. To him, that fact is irrelevant. The sun does not pass, run, block, cover, tackle or catch. It is just the sun to him. It did not necessarily affect him as a football player or his teammates (playing in a north/south oriented stadium). WHAT IS THE BIG DEAL? Today's players, his players especially, can deal with the sun just like he did.

At the same time, he cannot wrap his mind around any suggestion for curtains. The man is dead serious. Let me repeat for members who refuse to see him for who he is. The man is dead serious the suggestion is just as silly as tearing down the stadium and rebuilding it, so it sits north/south to reduce or eliminate the glare of sunlight.

The man wants to win. He does not want to win like pretty much anyone with an ounce of common football sense. That is his problem. It works to his detriment. However, it is not his fault observers cannot comprehend his delusion is completely real and important to him. That is their problem.

 

[KJJ]

Management, coaching and lack of talent has been the main issue. Desire and effort could start becoming a problem with the season lost. There’s some players that might not want to sacrifice their bodies as much with nothing to play for. However, putting out bad tape could make finding another team difficult if they get released. They are getting paid to perform and jobs will be on the line the rest of the season.

 

[DandyDon52]

I disagree. if you want to win, then you do whatever it takes including giving up control and let somebody else do it.
the fact that he doesn't and insists he is still the one that's the best at it, tells you he is not committed. he is committed to making money.
I read and excerpt in an article where after a close home loss that we should have one, his comment back to somebody who asked him a question about it was, did you notice the stadium and experience people had!!!!

great teams, hate losing. great players hate losing more than love winning. great GMs, personnel people and football people hate losing. I just don't think Jerry hates losing more than he likes winning. he accepts losing as something he may have to do something about.

this team lacks talent or the right combination of talent, but as a GM that's his job and he sucks at it, yet he is not giving anybody else control to get it done.

we aren't good as a team because of Jerry and his decisions. I can go over this past off season decisions as examples of why this team is not very good. we had our chances, he screwed it up.

I think jerry loves playing GM, and being the big boss, and doing interviews, head spokesperson for the cowboys more than
winning or making $.
That is why he wont quit, step aside, or sell the team. He loves what he is doing, win or lose, make $ or not.

 

[BBGTYCOON]

No:

- He doesn’t want to win, he wants money
- He doesn’t know how to win
- He doesn’t even know where he actually is in time and space
- He cares about branding not championships

 

[kskboys]

I’ve been saying this for years. a greater commitment to winning than Jerry. No one wants to win more than Jerry. No one puts in He’s just not very good at his job.

The same can now be said of his players. The team simply lacks the talent and ability to be a contender.

This isn’t a character or commitment issue. They simply aren’t good. A few players are, but not enough of them to matter.

Absolute complete BS. Jerry is awful at his job and knows it. He refuses to put in the time, as in watching player tapes to evaluate.

Jumbo, I don't know where you got this idea from, but it is 100% incorrect. Jerry is committed to Jerry, period. Winning is a very distant second to his own little ego.

I know, I know, it's hard to fathom, but you have to ignore a ton of a pile of evidence to not notice.

 

[kskboys]

I disagree. if you want to win, then you do whatever it takes including giving up control and let somebody else do it.
the fact that he doesn't and insists he is still the one that's the best at it, tells you he is not committed. he is committed to making money.
I read and excerpt in an article where after a close home loss that we should have one, his comment back to somebody who asked him a question about it was, did you notice the stadium and experience people had!!!!

great teams, hate losing. great players hate losing more than love winning. great GMs, personnel people and football people hate losing. I just don't think Jerry hates losing more than he likes winning. he accepts losing as something he may have to do something about.

this team lacks talent or the right combination of talent, but as a GM that's his job and he sucks at it, yet he is not giving anybody else control to get it done.

we aren't good as a team because of Jerry and his decisions. I can go over this past off season decisions as examples of why this team is not very good. we had our chances, he screwed it up.

No, he is committed to sating his own ego.