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Love to read those Galloway articles. He so loves Jerry & makes it very clear he didn't like the resigning of Newman cause he turns 30 before season starts, doesn't like Adams resigning for so much money, didn't like the resigning of TO for so much money because of his age, didn't like MBIII signing for so much money for an unproven RB, didn't like Thomas signing cause of age/injury history, etc. To support his view he cites all GMs around the NFL who supposedly were shaking their collective heads at Jerry's action. Gotta wonder how many of those GMs would have grabbed any of these 4-5 players in a NY minute. Heck 1/2 of those GMs had teams finish under .500 & we probably beat many of them rather soundly in part by those many Romo to TO TDs.
1. Does anybody believe for a minute that TO wouldn't have been signed as soon as he was a FA after 08 season?
2. Does anybody doubt T.Newman would have gotten big bucks as soon as he hit the FA market?
3. Same question for MBII.
4. Same question for Adams. I've always believed, and Miami newspaper supports this view just before the draft, that Parcells was hot for Adams to shore up his LT position for next few years. Miami fans were deeply upset cause Parcells (despite all of what he did do) didn't make a splash like the signing of Adams away from the Cowboys would have made.
5. As for Zach Thomas. Heck both Belicheat and NO offered Thomas contracts which he refused (also refused even meet with Broncos) to sign a 4 year contract which actually works out to a 1 year unless we want keep him around a second year.
6. Assume if we resign Hamlin, Galloway won't like that for some reason--probably cause Jerry did it and probably because it's for too much money. He probably won't like the resigning of Canty when it happens for whatever reason he can justify.
So if we followed Galloway advice, Adams wouldn't be here to start at LT so whose our starter? Zack Thomas wouldn't be here so guess Ayodele still here unless beat out by Carpenter/Burnett, Newman would be gone after 08 season, MBIII would be gone after 08 season, etc. So we'd lose 3-4 pro bowl starters (3 of them starting offensive players) within 2 years but Galloway is just fine with that. The man is an imbecile & just can't believe he really wants the Cowboys to win another SB just because of his continuing dislike of Jerry.
Bet Galloway slits his thread when we win our 6th SB this year.
Dallas Cowboys
Posted on Sun, Jun. 08, 2008
Randy Galloway: For Jerry Jones, it's the perfect working relationship
By RANDY GALLOWAY
Star-Telegram staff writer
function PopupPic(sPicURL, sHeight, sWidth) { window.open( "http://media.star-telegram.com/popup.html?"+sPicURL, "", "resizable=1,HEIGHT=" +sHeight+ ",WIDTH=" +sWidth); }If you are Cowboys fandom, here's what you love about the Cowboys' owner:
Since the end of last season, he has spent right at $70 million in guaranteed green to contractually tie down seven players and one offensive coordinator/next head coach. And safety Ken Hamlin still awaits a big payday that will come.
Consider that the Rangers' entire baseball payroll comes in at about 60 mil.
If you are the Cowboys' owner, however, here's what you'd hate about the Cowboys' general manager:
That fool keeps asking for more, more, more money, but on the field, where's the bang for my buck?
As a general manager, Jerry Jones would have been fired long ago by any of the other 31 NFL teams. Eleven years and counting without even a playoff win, despite an unlimited budget, is not employment security.
But as an owner, Jerry Jones praises the work of his GM. Obviously, there's a close, personal relationship.
Jerry teamed up with himself, owner and general manager, last week to announce a new contractual agreement that had most of the league shaking a collective head. I say "most," because Al Davis probably thought it was a good deal, which is not a compliment for Jones.
Paying heavily for age, Jerry rewarded receiver Eldorado Owens with a three-year extension that guaranteed $13 million. Eldo is 34, going on 35 in December.
(Notice here that only the guaranteed bucks are mentioned. All other dollar figures in the NFL are basically worthless).
By any NFL standard, the Owens deal is stupid money. But it's also desperation money, meaning the Cowboys had no other option but to gamble on age due to receiver being the one position where the roster is woefully short in big-time ability.
Jones admits this, and had major off-season plans to correct it, but thus far, has failed to do so. In the NFL of today, you win with quarterbacks who can move a team by air, or in the case of the Giants, you combine that with a shut-down defensive front seven.
The Cowboys don't have the shut-down front seven, but they do have the QB, and they do have one receiver with a big-play résumé. That receiver got paid. Desperation, yes. But under the circumstances, OK, it makes sense to give an old Owens a deal he couldn't have gotten anywhere else, except maybe Oakland, and that's not a compliment.
But the same theory applied this off-season to giving 30-year-old cornerback Terence Newman a new contract with $12 million guaranteed. And 33-year-old left tackle Flozell Adams got $15 million guaranteed.
Plus, while age wasn't a factor, an unproven starter in Marion Barber got 16 mil guaranteed to hang around and bash and gash at running back.
All of those contracts resulted in negative head shakes around the league, as did the limited-investment signing of linebacker Zach Thomas, because of his age and concussion issues, and, of course, the arrival of Pacman Jones created an "only Jerry" chorus in the NFL.
But even as a GM failure, Jones is a wise money man as an owner.
He knows how to make it. He will spend it.
We keep reading locally that Jerry is loading up this off-season for a Super Bowl run. In the case of the Cowboys, they have to first win a playoff game. The loading-up logic, however, is valid, and it goes beyond just adding another Lombardi Trophy.
This season, more than any season since he's owned the Cowboys, Jones needs this team to reach the ultimate destination, which would be Tampa in February.
This is the jumping-off year into the opening of the Boss Hawg Bowl in '09. Jerry will have 80,000 seats to sell eight times a regular season, and he's put an asking price on those seats that in most cases is unheard of in all of sports.
Seat sales thus far for the new Arlington venue have been, depending on who you talk to, steady although not exactly spectacular. The playoff loss to the Giants in January certainly didn't help push sales momentum. This is the season that can create that momentum.
The new yard will be an eventual cash cow for Jones, no doubt about that. But he's also the kind of owner who will reinvest that profit in his team. This has been an off-season of investing, and while maybe not wisely by normal NFL standards, you can see where he's going with all this.
Jerry the GM has convinced Jerry the owner this is finally the season when all those bucks will end in an on-the-field bang, resulting in a fandom rush to buy Boss Hawg Bowl seats.
The only worry for Jerry the owner is that his GM is lucky to even still have a football job.
1. Does anybody believe for a minute that TO wouldn't have been signed as soon as he was a FA after 08 season?
2. Does anybody doubt T.Newman would have gotten big bucks as soon as he hit the FA market?
3. Same question for MBII.
4. Same question for Adams. I've always believed, and Miami newspaper supports this view just before the draft, that Parcells was hot for Adams to shore up his LT position for next few years. Miami fans were deeply upset cause Parcells (despite all of what he did do) didn't make a splash like the signing of Adams away from the Cowboys would have made.
5. As for Zach Thomas. Heck both Belicheat and NO offered Thomas contracts which he refused (also refused even meet with Broncos) to sign a 4 year contract which actually works out to a 1 year unless we want keep him around a second year.
6. Assume if we resign Hamlin, Galloway won't like that for some reason--probably cause Jerry did it and probably because it's for too much money. He probably won't like the resigning of Canty when it happens for whatever reason he can justify.
So if we followed Galloway advice, Adams wouldn't be here to start at LT so whose our starter? Zack Thomas wouldn't be here so guess Ayodele still here unless beat out by Carpenter/Burnett, Newman would be gone after 08 season, MBIII would be gone after 08 season, etc. So we'd lose 3-4 pro bowl starters (3 of them starting offensive players) within 2 years but Galloway is just fine with that. The man is an imbecile & just can't believe he really wants the Cowboys to win another SB just because of his continuing dislike of Jerry.
Bet Galloway slits his thread when we win our 6th SB this year.
Dallas Cowboys
Posted on Sun, Jun. 08, 2008
Randy Galloway: For Jerry Jones, it's the perfect working relationship
By RANDY GALLOWAY
Star-Telegram staff writer
function PopupPic(sPicURL, sHeight, sWidth) { window.open( "http://media.star-telegram.com/popup.html?"+sPicURL, "", "resizable=1,HEIGHT=" +sHeight+ ",WIDTH=" +sWidth); }If you are Cowboys fandom, here's what you love about the Cowboys' owner:
Since the end of last season, he has spent right at $70 million in guaranteed green to contractually tie down seven players and one offensive coordinator/next head coach. And safety Ken Hamlin still awaits a big payday that will come.
Consider that the Rangers' entire baseball payroll comes in at about 60 mil.
If you are the Cowboys' owner, however, here's what you'd hate about the Cowboys' general manager:
That fool keeps asking for more, more, more money, but on the field, where's the bang for my buck?
As a general manager, Jerry Jones would have been fired long ago by any of the other 31 NFL teams. Eleven years and counting without even a playoff win, despite an unlimited budget, is not employment security.
But as an owner, Jerry Jones praises the work of his GM. Obviously, there's a close, personal relationship.
Jerry teamed up with himself, owner and general manager, last week to announce a new contractual agreement that had most of the league shaking a collective head. I say "most," because Al Davis probably thought it was a good deal, which is not a compliment for Jones.
Paying heavily for age, Jerry rewarded receiver Eldorado Owens with a three-year extension that guaranteed $13 million. Eldo is 34, going on 35 in December.
(Notice here that only the guaranteed bucks are mentioned. All other dollar figures in the NFL are basically worthless).
By any NFL standard, the Owens deal is stupid money. But it's also desperation money, meaning the Cowboys had no other option but to gamble on age due to receiver being the one position where the roster is woefully short in big-time ability.
Jones admits this, and had major off-season plans to correct it, but thus far, has failed to do so. In the NFL of today, you win with quarterbacks who can move a team by air, or in the case of the Giants, you combine that with a shut-down defensive front seven.
The Cowboys don't have the shut-down front seven, but they do have the QB, and they do have one receiver with a big-play résumé. That receiver got paid. Desperation, yes. But under the circumstances, OK, it makes sense to give an old Owens a deal he couldn't have gotten anywhere else, except maybe Oakland, and that's not a compliment.
But the same theory applied this off-season to giving 30-year-old cornerback Terence Newman a new contract with $12 million guaranteed. And 33-year-old left tackle Flozell Adams got $15 million guaranteed.
Plus, while age wasn't a factor, an unproven starter in Marion Barber got 16 mil guaranteed to hang around and bash and gash at running back.
All of those contracts resulted in negative head shakes around the league, as did the limited-investment signing of linebacker Zach Thomas, because of his age and concussion issues, and, of course, the arrival of Pacman Jones created an "only Jerry" chorus in the NFL.
But even as a GM failure, Jones is a wise money man as an owner.
He knows how to make it. He will spend it.
We keep reading locally that Jerry is loading up this off-season for a Super Bowl run. In the case of the Cowboys, they have to first win a playoff game. The loading-up logic, however, is valid, and it goes beyond just adding another Lombardi Trophy.
This season, more than any season since he's owned the Cowboys, Jones needs this team to reach the ultimate destination, which would be Tampa in February.
This is the jumping-off year into the opening of the Boss Hawg Bowl in '09. Jerry will have 80,000 seats to sell eight times a regular season, and he's put an asking price on those seats that in most cases is unheard of in all of sports.
Seat sales thus far for the new Arlington venue have been, depending on who you talk to, steady although not exactly spectacular. The playoff loss to the Giants in January certainly didn't help push sales momentum. This is the season that can create that momentum.
The new yard will be an eventual cash cow for Jones, no doubt about that. But he's also the kind of owner who will reinvest that profit in his team. This has been an off-season of investing, and while maybe not wisely by normal NFL standards, you can see where he's going with all this.
Jerry the GM has convinced Jerry the owner this is finally the season when all those bucks will end in an on-the-field bang, resulting in a fandom rush to buy Boss Hawg Bowl seats.
The only worry for Jerry the owner is that his GM is lucky to even still have a football job.
