Dream Crushers: Most Destructive Owners/GMs in Sports

[Miller]

Again, while working I scour sites at lunch, etc and if I see an article about the Cowboys and it hasn't been posted I'll post it for public consumption. I'm not trying to rip Jerry. Just putting this out there because he is in this, along with others. I don't love Jerry as GM but I have a hard time grouping him with Isiah and Sterling. They even semi-acknowledge this.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/the-t...-destructive-owners-gms-sports-141609708.html

Jerry Jones, General Manager, Dallas Cowboys: This is a tricky one, because Jerry Jones the owner has been a major success. The Cowboys are one of the most valuable franchises in sports, and Cowboys Stadium is one of the most technologically advanced arenas on earth. Jones the owner also hired Jimmy Johnson, who laid the groundwork for the Cowboys’ three Super Bowl wins in the 1990s. But Jones the general manager refuses to cede control of the team to football-savvy outsiders, and as a result the Cowboys have suffered through draft after unspectacular draft. This year’s first-round pick, center Travis Frederick of Wisconsin, drew heavy criticism as being of second- or third-round-caliber at best. The team has won but a single playoff game since 1996, and the GM is a main reason why. Too bad the owner has no intention of firing him.

 

[burmafrd]

Again, while working I scour sites at lunch, etc and if I see an article about the Cowboys and it hasn't been posted I'll post it for public consumption. I'm not trying to rip Jerry. Just putting this out there because he is in this, along with others. I don't love Jerry as GM but I have a hard time grouping him with Isiah and Sterling. They even semi-acknowledge this.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/the-t...-destructive-owners-gms-sports-141609708.html

I would not bother to post compost

 

[Stash]

Again, while working I scour sites at lunch, etc and if I see an article about the Cowboys and it hasn't been posted I'll post it for public consumption. I'm not trying to rip Jerry. Just putting this out there because he is in this, along with others. I don't love Jerry as GM but I have a hard time grouping him with Isiah and Sterling. They even semi-acknowledge this.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/the-t...-destructive-owners-gms-sports-141609708.html

I'd say that sadly their assessment of Jones is accurate.

If only we could have one without the other...

 

[DenCWBY]

Again, while working I scour sites at lunch, etc and if I see an article about the Cowboys and it hasn't been posted I'll post it for public consumption. I'm not trying to rip Jerry. Just putting this out there because he is in this, along with others. I don't love Jerry as GM but I have a hard time grouping him with Isiah and Sterling. They even semi-acknowledge this.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/the-t...-destructive-owners-gms-sports-141609708.html

That darn media. If they would just stop it with the historical facts and data to understand that there's a long term plan in place which is to follow the strategies of the latest most successful team(s) to win it all, then they would understand that we have the 2nd best GM around. The #1 GM will always be that football guy who's one step ahead of the pack. Our "average" streak is only because of a conspiracy by the other owners, the commissioner, the referees, the media, the local bars/strip joints and those darn injury gods.

 

[T-RO]

I don't see the problem. A 70-year old alcohol-addled part-time GM who admits that even in his prime no one would else would have hired him to build and manage a team.

What's not to like?

 

[TwoDeep3]

As long as Owner Jones continues to keep employed GM Jones, then any credit Jerry gets for making himself and the franchise wealthy doesn't matter.

If the Superbowl was about bank accounts growing, Dallas would be on their twentieth campaign for the next trophy and win it all.

Valley Ranch would need another wing to hold all the hardware, if that were the case.

But it is not. This game is about winning and the owner of the team puts in place management to achieve that results.

Owner Jones sticks with GM Jones and the results are years of also-rans.

So Owner Jones no longer should be spoken of when heralding the top owners because GM Jones still has a job that hasn't produced squadushe.

 

[Fletch]

Gitter done Jerry!

 

[Big Country]

That darn media. If they would just stop it with the historical facts and data to understand that there's a long term plan in place which is to follow the strategies of the latest most successful team(s) to win it all, then they would understand that we have the 2nd best GM around. The #1 GM will always be that football guy who's one step ahead of the pack. Our "average" streak is only because of a conspiracy by the other owners, the commissioner, the referees, the media, the local bars/strip joints and those darn injury gods.

correction... they're called scrip clubs dude

 

[rags747]

Travis was a major reach but Pugh of the Giants no one says anything about. Im betting that Pugh will be a major bust, no strength at all + short arms.

 

[Risen Star]

I'd say that sadly their assessment of Jones is accurate.

If only we could have one without the other...

Since you can't, that makes both bad. He's a bad owner and a bad GM. You can't be a good owner when you are the reason why your team doesn't win.

There is no sugar coating it.

 

[Risen Star]

As long as Owner Jones continues to keep employed GM Jones, then any credit Jerry gets for making himself and the franchise wealthy doesn't matter.

If the Superbowl was about bank accounts growing, Dallas would be on their twentieth campaign for the next trophy and win it all.

Valley Ranch would need another wing to hold all the hardware, if that were the case.

But it is not. This game is about winning and the owner of the team puts in place management to achieve that results.

Owner Jones sticks with GM Jones and the results are years of also-rans.

So Owner Jones no longer should be spoken of when heralding the top owners because GM Jones still has a job that hasn't produced squadushe.

It's not like he took over the Cincinnati Bengals. I think that's been overblown. He hit on the right friend from college and that guy brought winning back to Dallas and money flowing back into the franchise.

The main reason he's got the most valuable NFL franchise is because he owns the Dallas Cowboys. He could never duplicate that with another team.

 

[hornitosmonster]

It's not like he took over the Cincinnati Bengals. I think that's been overblown. He hit on the right friend from college and that guy brought winning back to Dallas and money flowing back into the franchise.

The main reason he's got the most valuable NFL franchise is because he owns the Dallas Cowboys. He could never duplicate that with another team.

He (jerry) has as many super wins as head coach Bill Belichick. So there you go. Im sure you think you would have six or seven. :laugh2:

 

[Red Dragon]

I like how the article does give Jerry rightful credit and rightful blame.


Too many people simply take the extreme view that Jerry does almost NOTHING right as an owner.

 

[Plankton]

It's not like he took over the Cincinnati Bengals. I think that's been overblown. He hit on the right friend from college and that guy brought winning back to Dallas and money flowing back into the franchise.

The main reason he's got the most valuable NFL franchise is because he owns the Dallas Cowboys. He could never duplicate that with another team.

Can you imagine if he roomed with Ken Hatfield on the road instead of Jimmy Johnson?

 

[Blue Eyed Devil]

There is no GM in the history of the NFL that could have survived the 2006-2009 drafts and the Roy Williams trade. Seriously, there is no GM in the world that had such an amazingly terrible 4-year run of drafting and personnel decisions who kept their job.

 

[visionary]

It's not like he took over the Cincinnati Bengals. I think that's been overblown. He hit on the right friend from college and that guy brought winning back to Dallas and money flowing back into the franchise.

The main reason he's got the most valuable NFL franchise is because he owns the Dallas Cowboys. He could never duplicate that with another team.

The reality is that even back the , Jerry acted in the same idiotic way he does now and hired his college buddy to coach one of the most storied franchises in the NFL after firing a legendary coach (Landry)

This gets lost because, jerry lucked out and jimmy turned out to be a great coach but can you imagine what would have happened had jimmy failed ?

It would be tough to find a worse owner in the NFL
Even the bengals would have fired GM Jerry a decade ago

 

[justbob]

This is turning quickly towards a dump on Jerry thread... Tread carefully please...

 

[visionary]

This is turning quickly towards a dump on Jerry thread... Tread carefully please...

:laugh2:

So in a thread about destructive owners/GM s where Jerry is specifically named as such in the referenced article that started the thread, we should not talk about Jerry?

Makes perfect sense

 

[justbob]

:laugh2:

So in a thread about destructive owners/GM s where Jerry is specifically named as such in the referenced article that started the thread, we should not talk about Jerry?

Makes perfect sense

Didn't say to not talk about Jerry. Just a friendly warning not to make it a strictly dump on Jerry thread . Surely that wasn't questioning a friendly mod approach,was it?

 

[visionary]

Didn't say to not talk about Jerry. Just a friendly warning not to make it a strictly dump on Jerry thread . Surely that wasn't questioning a friendly mod approach,was it?

Perish the thought