rcaldw
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Here is my formula for fixing the Dallas Cowboys. I magically made billions in the oil business, and have made such an offer to Jerry that he couldn't refuse. So, I'm the new owner, and here I go.
#1 - I am going to hire the best people money can buy for every leadership position in the organization outside of my own. With the money and influence that the Dallas Cowboys possess there is zero excuse for B grade and C grade people in any role. I am going to do my due diligence and then I'm hiring the best GM candidate I can find, and the best coach I can get. I may even conduct a Cowboyszone poll before I do each.
#2 - My head coach will hire his own staff from top to bottom and it will be made clear that players are accountable to the head coach. The head coach and GM will answer to me, but the players no longer have a direct line to the owner, plain and simple. Other than for special occasions I am staying out of the locker room and off the sidelines. I own the team, the GM builds the team and the coach coaches the team. I get to enjoy the winning.
#3 - We are going to be committed to CHARACTER at every level. If a guy is a whiner, quitter, selfish, loser, he's not going to be in the organization, REGARDLESS of who he is. I might bring in Michael Irvin to make a list for me
#4 - The Dallas Cowboys are going to celebrate our history like never before. It will be made plain that we are the New York Yankees of the NFL. (Actually better than that) Drew Pearson will immediately go into the ring of honor along with others who deserve to be there. The Roger Staubachs and Troy Aikmans and Emmitt Smiths and Michael Irvins and Moose Johnstons and Darren Woodsons etc, etc, will be around my team (as the head coach allows), and the current players will realize what made the Cowboys great.
#5 - No one denies that making money is important to me. Football is a business. But no longer are we aiming at producing a playoff team. We are aiming at producing multiple championships. We will be satisfied with nothing less. We will remember 25 straight winning seasons, and all of the division and conference championships we have won, and our 5 Super Bowl titles. WE ARE NOT THE ARIZONA CARDINALS. We are not the New Orleans Saints. We are the Dallas Cowboys and if we can't get it right we won't stop until we do get it right. In other words, FOOTBALL FIRST. Not marketing, not reality TV shows, not all the trinkets we can sell, AND NOT ME THE OWNER. Football, winning, tradition, this is what matters.
Ok.... my dream has ended. I wish Jerry would wake up and make commitments like these. I don't remember who said it, it may have been Jimmy Johnson, but it was something like this. It isn't that Jerry doesn't know what to do to fix the problems, it is that he isn't willing to do it because he wants to be in the middle of it all.
#1 - I am going to hire the best people money can buy for every leadership position in the organization outside of my own. With the money and influence that the Dallas Cowboys possess there is zero excuse for B grade and C grade people in any role. I am going to do my due diligence and then I'm hiring the best GM candidate I can find, and the best coach I can get. I may even conduct a Cowboyszone poll before I do each.
#2 - My head coach will hire his own staff from top to bottom and it will be made clear that players are accountable to the head coach. The head coach and GM will answer to me, but the players no longer have a direct line to the owner, plain and simple. Other than for special occasions I am staying out of the locker room and off the sidelines. I own the team, the GM builds the team and the coach coaches the team. I get to enjoy the winning.
#3 - We are going to be committed to CHARACTER at every level. If a guy is a whiner, quitter, selfish, loser, he's not going to be in the organization, REGARDLESS of who he is. I might bring in Michael Irvin to make a list for me
#4 - The Dallas Cowboys are going to celebrate our history like never before. It will be made plain that we are the New York Yankees of the NFL. (Actually better than that) Drew Pearson will immediately go into the ring of honor along with others who deserve to be there. The Roger Staubachs and Troy Aikmans and Emmitt Smiths and Michael Irvins and Moose Johnstons and Darren Woodsons etc, etc, will be around my team (as the head coach allows), and the current players will realize what made the Cowboys great.
#5 - No one denies that making money is important to me. Football is a business. But no longer are we aiming at producing a playoff team. We are aiming at producing multiple championships. We will be satisfied with nothing less. We will remember 25 straight winning seasons, and all of the division and conference championships we have won, and our 5 Super Bowl titles. WE ARE NOT THE ARIZONA CARDINALS. We are not the New Orleans Saints. We are the Dallas Cowboys and if we can't get it right we won't stop until we do get it right. In other words, FOOTBALL FIRST. Not marketing, not reality TV shows, not all the trinkets we can sell, AND NOT ME THE OWNER. Football, winning, tradition, this is what matters.
Ok.... my dream has ended. I wish Jerry would wake up and make commitments like these. I don't remember who said it, it may have been Jimmy Johnson, but it was something like this. It isn't that Jerry doesn't know what to do to fix the problems, it is that he isn't willing to do it because he wants to be in the middle of it all.
