DMN: Jerry Jones on midseason coaching changes: 'I'm just not comfortable doing that'

[WoodysGirl]

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Cowboys owner Jerry Jones appeared Tuesday on KRLD-FM. Here are some highlights from the interview:

His philosophy on a change at the head coach position at midseason:
There's no philosophy to it. It's not like you play 80 or so ball games or 100 or so ball games. You don't have but a few ball games. Relatively speaking, we have 10 games left and I'm just not comfortable doing that. I've never done it. I think our best chance to win the next ball game, the very best chance, is to certainly keep as much continuity as we can, especially when we have the experience that we got. It sounds hollow. I understand it does. It's a natural thing to want to freshen up and do something different, but I'm not comfortable with doing that when it comes to the football team.

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[DallasEast]

This should not surprise anyone who has watched Jerry Jones since he purchased the team, but it will.

 

[tyke1doe]

Translation 1: I aint paying Wade to sit on the couch eating cup cakes. If he's gonna eat cup cakes, he'll do it as a Dallas Cowboy and earn his money.

Translation 2: Wade's gone when the final Cowboys game of the regular season is played. Isn't that Christmas Day against the Cardinals?

 

[WoodysGirl]

This should not surprise anyone who has watched Jerry Jones since he purchased the team, but it will.

If we're lucky maybe we can lessen some of the "Will Jerry fire Wade" threads every week.

 

[DallasEast]

If we're lucky maybe we can lessen some of the "Will Jerry fire Wade" threads every week.

Maybe, but they will probably morph into "Jerry Will Not Fire Wade Because He Is <fill in the blank>".

 

[Royal Laegotti]

Jerry has never preached continuity before not with Jimmy, not with Bill, and not until now with this powder puff pushover. He wants to keep this guy as long as he can, Jerry can push him around easily and up until this year he's won enough to keep him around.

 

[Hoofbite]

If we're lucky maybe we can lessen some of the "Will Jerry fire Wade" threads every week.

Shouldn't.

Not as long as it is the right thing to do.

Which..........is basically until it happens.

 

[windjc]

Wade was not a bad choice to follow Parcells, but just as the fumble snap in Seattle derailed Parcell's momentum in turning the team around yet another corner, the loss to the Giants in Wade's first year did the same. Win that game and maybe things would have been a lot different.

We now need a tough disciplinarian again. I would be fine with Cowher.

But this idea that somehow Jerry makes decisions that put himself before the team is ridiculous. Its just angry and/or ignorant fans' jibber jabber.

 

[Idgit]

If we're lucky maybe we can lessen some of the "Will Jerry fire Wade" threads every week.

It's nice to see you have so much faith in your fellow posters.

At least the owner knows what he's doing. Jerry's really involved into a pretty good GM, to be honest. It's nice to see.

 

[Beast_from_East]

Translation 1: I aint paying Wade to sit on the couch eating cup cakes. If he's gonna eat cup cakes, he'll do it as a Dallas Cowboy and earn his money.

Translation 2: Wade's gone when the final Cowboys game of the regular season is played. Isn't that Christmas Day against the Cardinals?

Our last game of the season is against the Eagles in Philly.

Not that it matters, we are probably going to be 3-12 going in to that game.

 

[rcaldw]

Wade was not a bad choice to follow Parcells, but just as the fumble snap in Seattle derailed Parcell's momentum in turning the team around yet another corner, the loss to the Giants in Wade's first year did the same. Win that game and maybe things would have been a lot different.

We now need a tough disciplinarian again. I would be fine with Cowher.

But this idea that somehow Jerry makes decisions that put himself before the team is ridiculous. Its just angry and/or ignorant fans' jibber jabber.

You are just dead wrong about this, but I already realize that to try to convince the folks who see it like you do that you are wrong is wasted time. If you can't see Jerry's pattern of surrounding himself with less than type A personalities, AS LONG AS HE CAN GET AWAY WITH IT (from a fan base, ticket selling, public perception, outright not be a laughingstock, point of view) then you aren't watching.

Jimmy Johnson and Bill Parcells. That's it. The one got us started and built a winner, the other built the team back up from the ash heap. Wade Phillips BEST SEASON, was with a team built by Parcells. I don't know how anyone could argue otherwise.

Jerry is MORE involved (if that is possible) than ever before with football matters. If there has ever been a time for change, it is now.

 

[Tusan_Homichi]

I want Wade as gone as the next person, but no high caliber coach will come in here mid-season. So, we either wait, or we promote. There's no one here I want promoted to HC, so lets just ride it out and properly address the situation at the end of the season.

 

[notherbob]

I want Wade as gone as the next person, but no high caliber coach will come in here mid-season. So, we either wait, or we promote. There's no one here I want promoted to HC, so lets just ride it out and properly address the situation at the end of the season.

I doubt anyone worth his salt would be a puppet for Jerry because that is the first job requirement for anyone posing as head coach for the Cowboys.

It's Jerry's toy and he is going to play with it any way he wants to and nobody else's opinion matters to him. As long as people show up for his games in his stadium, buy his goodies and keep adoring him, I see no significant changes coming down the pike.

JMO

 

[Marktui]

No one out there that can turn this team around. It's better to start in the offseason to get the team acclimated to the new coaches and new system.

In season, just worry about trying to win this Sundays game is a handfull already.

Not even Jimmy Johnson could come in here and get this team to play better.

As Parcells use to say, "it is what is" and " you are what you are"

 

[Jarv]

This should not surprise anyone who has watched Jerry Jones since he purchased the team, but it will.

It doesn't surprise me, I'm just uncomfortable with his decision.

 

[RS12]

Continuity will be written on his tomb stone.