Interesting nugget from Viking's Safety Harris Smith on Zim's coaching style

[Coogiguy03]

There is always time to fix a football problem. That is not the issue.

The issue is having the most qualified decision-makers address the problem in order to fix it with an optimum combination of coaching and players. It is an ever-perpetuating problem that has lingered in Dallas since March 1994.

If money wasn't first and winning was first we'd be in a better space

 

[Coogiguy03]

He is a sideline dc....like that..

feels so good, I agree

 

[RonWashington]

He nailed it........certainly won't see any players dogging it (lol).

BTW........Viking will likely release him over cap issues and age ( 34 )
https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/minnesota-vikings/harrison-smith-9839/

I don’t know . Not a real big believer in going backwards in time . But with MM a lame duck I haven’t heard one name mentioned of young up and coming DC or position coaches being rumored . Only the older out of work familiar names Jerry is comfortable with .

 

[RonWashington]

When he fired JG I was stunned he went so quickly for MM

 

[JW82]

Lol people acting brand new to Zimmer, we had him before and rightfully got ran out of town

Not the case. He was good enough for Parcells and that is good enough for me. Of course Wade wanted to run his own defense and Zim moved on.

 

[Denim Chicken]

Lol people acting brand new to Zimmer, we had him before and rightfully got ran out of town

and yet he had a top ten defense 9 seasons after he left us.

 

[DallasEast]

If money wasn't first and winning was first we'd be in a better space

The money is not the problem. It never has been. In fact, there is even more money that has slipped through The Cryptkeeper's boney fingers.

Jerry Jones is and has always been the problem. Remove him. Replace him as GM with someone actually qualified. Let him be just an owner.

The potential is for better results is sitting right there within his reach. Instead, he keeps playing Mr. Gold Jacket, Football Genius. Badly.

 

[RonWashington]

The money is not the problem. It never has been. In fact, there is even more money that has slipped through The Cryptkeeper's boney fingers.

Jerry Jones is and has always been the problem. Remove him. Replace him as GM with someone actually qualified. Let him be just an owner.

The potential is for better results is sitting right there within his reach. Instead, he keeps playing Mr. Gold Jacket, Football Genius. Badly.

Problem is Stephen is in the next chair and he’s not hiring a football GM

 

[cowboys5xsbs]

Good someone needs to set Parsons straight. No more podcasts and dogging it. Just get the job done.

 

[Coogiguy03]

The money is not the problem. It never has been. In fact, there is even more money that has slipped through The Cryptkeeper's boney fingers.

Jerry Jones is and has always been the problem. Remove him. Replace him as GM with someone actually qualified. Let him be just an owner.

The potential is for better results is sitting right there within his reach. Instead, he keeps playing Mr. Gold Jacket, Football Genius. Badly.

Jerry jones=Money, Money=Jerry Jones, he's the issue!!

 

[DallasEast]

Problem is Stephen is in the next chair and he’s not hiring a football GM

DNA Kid #1 is part of the current problem. He may be the future problem but the franchise's future with him sitting in his daddy's office is not certain yet.

That is not meant to minimize or negate anyone's sense of dread for what Stephen Jones may do. He could end up being worse than his father. However, time will be the ultimate judge of what is to come--just like for everything else in life.

 

[DallasEast]

Jerry jones=Money, Money=Jerry Jones, he's the issue!!

Ask yourself these three questions:

1. Was Jerry Jones the problem from February 1989 to March 1994? Because he was making money then too.
2. Has Jones been the problem from April 1994 to the present? He has simply made more money.
3. What essential football decision-making change did Jones make for himself when considering questions one and two?

Jones
Is
The
Same
Person.

Other professional sports team owners make money, just like Jones. What makes Jones conventionally different from the vast majority of his peers in any sport is not money. It is his defiance in allowing a different championship football seeking goal be overseen from a different perspective.

It is irrelevant how little or how much authority observers believe Jones has in football decisions. No organization is its most effective with a weakest link at any point along its chain. The most successful organization excise its weakest link--no matter who sits at the bottom or stands at the top.

Jerry Jones, self-football genius, is that weakest link. Always has been. Always will be. He can return to making money--even MORE money--and not continuing being the problem. He has done it before, correct? Right.

 

[CTcowboy203]

I have zero doubts about this but the “acquired taste” part is not something that can be just glossed over, there’s a real chance a locker room or guys tune him out or don’t like playing for him. Not saying it’s right, not saying it’ll definitely happen but there is a chance that style doesn’t resonate right now.

 

[Coogiguy03]

Ask yourself these three questions:

1. Was Jerry Jones the problem from February 1989 to March 1994? Because he was making money then too.
2. Has Jones been the problem from April 1994 to the present? He has simply made more money.
3. What essential football decision-making change did Jones make for himself when considering questions one and two?

Jones
Is
The
Same
Person.

Other professional sports team owners make money, just like Jones. What makes Jones conventionally different from the vast majority of his peers in any sport is not money. It is his defiance in allowing a different championship football seeking goal be overseen from a different perspective.

It is irrelevant how little or how much authority observers believe Jones has in football decisions. No organization is its most effective with a weakest link at any point along its chain. The most successful organization excise its weakest link--no matter who sits at the bottom or stands at the top.

Jerry Jones, self-football genius, is that weakest link. Always has been. Always will be. He can return to making money--even MORE money--and not continuing being the problem. He has done it before, correct? Right.

You can't even compare the money from back then to the money now, Jerry can say he had a ink pen stain on his shoes, and it will be a week long story in the news, he makes money, he's all about money, he makes the league money

 

[DallasEast]

You can't even compare the money from back then to the money now, Jerry can say he had a ink pen stain on his shoes, and it will be a week long story in the news, he makes money, he's all about money, he makes the league money

I tried logic. I failed.

 

[Coogiguy03]

I tried logic. I failed.

You obviously aren't working hard enough, we're debating money and jerry jones I don't see why there's even a need to waste time on it

 

[Coogiguy03]

the money is not the problem??? lol I don't get it EVERYONE with a brain/fan of this team KNOWS jerry loves money and lots of it

 

[DallasEast]

You obviously aren't working hard enough, we're debating money and jerry jones I don't see why there's even a need to waste time on it

I am not sure why people believe Jones' main motivation for remaining football stagnant is greed. Here is a money tidbit. Jones' 2022 Comstock net worth was $3.5 billion. That is billion with a B. Has nothing to do with football.

The man is filthy super rich outside of football. Has more money than <insert site rule #6>. He can make more money exponentially if his team advanced further in the playoffs. It has not happened with him overseeing football operations. Jones knows this but never restructures the top of his football operations organizational chart with better qualified people. Never. Why?

The answer is there for anyone. 35 years of evidence. The problem is between the man's ears, not his wallet.

 

[Risen Star]

The pimple faced teenager is trying to learn you about Mike Zimmer.

Uh, we know Zimmer. We don't need Harrison Smith's take on him. He's a fake tough guy who coaches scared on game day.

The only good thing about bringing him back would be the comedy of watching a fan base who hated him suddenly love him.

 

[Mookie]

MM: Good cop
MK: Bad cop.

It may actually work, sometimes these players need the discipline, but it's hard not to lose the locker room in 2024 with all the social media, tik-tok lifestyle going around. How do you coach 23 year old multimillionaires as a coach who is barely making a fraction of his students.