Hostile;4551733 said:
Symbiotic relationship = input into personnel?
How?
I do believe Jerry is involved. I don't believe it is nearly to the level some of you imagine. In fact I have called him a figurehead and pretty much the evidence from this last draft weighs that out. He is the marketer. He is not the talent evaluator. His job is to give Jason whatever he wants.
Show me where he is not doing that.
There was a blurb from an article posted on the Draft Zone a few days before the draft. It was written by Broadus or some other writer and it commented that Jerry normally goes with the last guy he talks to about the draft.
The response from the fans here was that he needs to talk with his scouts last.
That has two distinct pieces of information that applies here.
1. Jerry is the final arbiter of what we do. He has said it over and over, and yet there are people defending him and suggesting he is nothing but a figurehead.
You hear Jones in a presser after Murray ripped off near 1000-yards last year that no he didn't agree Murray should be the starter. That after several years of this then maybe they would name him as such.
Now that may have been smoke, but I saw the interview and have a close friend that was at that interview and he didn't think Jerry was joking.
But be that as it may, why is Jerry giving interviews about on field decisions? Why does he run his mouth, always including himself in the decision making when he does?
And after over two decades of this, why do you not acknowledge that he is very much involved in the decision making?
Occam's Razor says "Whenever possible, substitute constructions out of known entities for inferences to unknown entities."
Jerry as a figurehead is an unknown quantity. Jerry stating over and over he makes the final decision is a known quantity.
2. While he may be making a decision based on input, which is different from being a figurehead, he may be getting better advice now.
But...
And this is a big but.
He also decided to allow Robinson to go and to pay Spencer top five money.
That was a decision of the GM and no one else.
This leaves us in a precarious spot. Both Dez and Austin miss time occasionally.
Dez hasn't learned to not fight for an unimportant extra yard and get hurt doing so. He plays tough, and I love it. But sometimes the better part of valor is to get them the next play and not be sidelined because of injury.
Austin is curious to me. He worked so hard to get where he was and then came in out of shape last year.
In any event, if either of these two go down we have Ogletree and Coale and a bunch of JAGs to back this up.
They have suggested they would go out and get someone.
Jabar Gaffney is there. Doesn't that thrill you, Hos? Gaffney with a star.
So the thinking was this. Allow a guy that showed he could step in and not only learn the playbook, but get in sync with the QB. Then he reeled off what....five straight games with TD's.
And then allow him to walk away.
But they had a talk with Otree and he now, after three years, has his mind right and has had the best off-season for him EVER.
This is where the rubber meets the road for me. Because that offense last year was pretty potent. Top 10, I believe. The passing game was higher than that.
So we take away a part that was working very well because of money. Jerry and Stephen could work that magic and retain the guy. But this was a decision about money.
And now we are one season ending injury away from scrubs as starting WR's for this team.
Or Jabar Gaffney.
I can deal with the offensive line as it is.
I can deal with the defensive line, because perhaps the corners and DBs in general will make this work.
But we definitely overpaid for Spencer.
And we are rolling the dice on Austin and Bryant staying healthy.
And still we have Larry, Curly, and Moe as the slot receiver if nothing happens to the starters.
At least they could have tied up Spencer long term and made it cap friendly to go get Robinson.
If Jerry came on TV taking credit for everything including air and told me the team had to keep the POS Spencer to keep Robinson, I would have said great move Jer!
As it stands, we kept the wrong guy.
Even if that old baller Jerry the GM had tossed the franchise on Robinson, not sure if that was possible, I would have rejoiced.
What have we got now?
Magic beans.
That makes no sense at all. Not if you are trying to milk the remainder of Romo's career and get him in position to play in an NFC Championship game.
The clock is ticking on Romo. That is the eye of the storm in my opinion. As Romo goes so does the team.
So by all means let's allow a guy that gets open and then can score to walk for a bunch of guys that cannot get on the field when he was here.
Ya feel me here, Hos? They kept the guys that could not supplant Robinson and now are telling me, the consumer, they made the right choice because they had a chat with Otree and Radaway was just about to be put on the 53 last year.
Really?
Taking away a proven weapon and betting on the come is a fool's errant.
I'll let you guess where the jester's hat sits at this very moment.