Jerry, give Stephen a chance

[Drederick Tatum]

Just like we say give this player or that player a chance to get on the field so we can see what he can do for us in the future, I think we should do the same thing with Stephen Jones.

Jerry lets see what Stephen can do with this offseason with free agency, the draft, and running the team in a greater capacity into next season. If he screws up you can always take control back, but lets see what he can do as the future GM of the franchise.

We all know that you are for giving people chances... Roy Williams, Roy Williams, Bobby Carpenter, even Pac Man Jones and Tank Johnson.

You won't give Stephen a chance? Give him the GM responsibilities for next year, lets see what he's got. You can always wrestle the job away if you don't like the results.

As his first assignment give him the duty of deciding whether to keep the current Head Coach or not. Lets see what this kids' got.

 

[Clove]

Just like we say give this player or that player a chance to get on the field so we can see what he can do for us in the future, I think we should do the same thing with Stephen Jones.

Jerry lets see what Stephen can do with this offseason with free agency, the draft, and running the team in a greater capacity into next season. If he screws up you can always take control back, but lets see what he can do as the future GM of the franchise.

We all know that you are for giving people chances... Roy Williams, Roy Williams, Bobby Carpenter, even Pac Man Jones and Tank Johnson.

You won't give Stephen a chance? Give him the GM responsibilities for next year, lets see what he's got. You can always wrestle the job away if you don't like the results.

As his first assignment give him the duty of deciding whether to keep the current Head Coach or not. Lets see what this kids' got.

That's actually not a bad idea. Wish a reporter could deliver that question to him.

 

[Eddie]

Won't happen.

Jerry Jones is desperate to show he's a football man.

He's run this franchise into the ground to prove it.

He'll continue to destroy us to prove he's a football man.

He knows his time is running out. He'll make even more insane decisions soon.

 

[BHendri5]

Stephen Jones has all kinds of authority/power to make decisions, in fact you can say he is already the Gm, Jerry does not make a move without running it by him first, so I say in this post as I have said in another post the same as this, we do not need a GM, the one(s) we have are doing a very good job.

 

[vta]

I've been as big a Jerry critic as anyone, but how is this team 'in the ground'? I know the easy excuse is to say 'we expect more', but that's just that: an excuse. This team is in good shape and headed in the right direction, with a good young core with the right attitude.

You guys need to learn to simply accept a loss. It's not the end of a franchise and it's even less of reason to dismantle a playoff team that's built to make it through the division on top for years to come.

As much as I've hated Jones for a long time, I have to give him credit for getting this team to this point. It's the best they've looked in over 10 years and I can't imagine not recognizing this fact. You people must have ben unbearable in '89.

 

[TwoDeep3]

Just like we say give this player or that player a chance to get on the field so we can see what he can do for us in the future, I think we should do the same thing with Stephen Jones.

Jerry lets see what Stephen can do with this offseason with free agency, the draft, and running the team in a greater capacity into next season. If he screws up you can always take control back, but lets see what he can do as the future GM of the franchise.

We all know that you are for giving people chances... Roy Williams, Roy Williams, Bobby Carpenter, even Pac Man Jones and Tank Johnson.

You won't give Stephen a chance? Give him the GM responsibilities for next year, lets see what he's got. You can always wrestle the job away if you don't like the results.

As his first assignment give him the duty of deciding whether to keep the current Head Coach or not. Lets see what this kids' got.

Not so much on this board but on another board i made a post after the end of last season about a guy I work with.

If you were to meet him you'd swear he wouldn't even know what football is about. However, he interned with Monday Night Football as a statistician for almost a decade.

He paid his own way to games and would be the guy giving the man in the headset in the game hosts ears the information to make Al Michael's and such sound like they have a clue.

I have worked with this guy for years and always thought he was full of beans about the people he knows.

Then I went to his cube - which is in another building - and saw all ther Super Bowl press passes and pictures with players on the field of play after big games.

So anyway, he comes to me last year after the Cowboys were ousted - maybe a week or two after - and tells me Stephen is wanting Jerry to let T.O. go.

Fact is Jason - the coworker - told me he had just gotten off the phone with Stephen.

I said sure Jason and went on my way.

You know the rest of the story.

So the idea that Jerry doesn't allow Stephen to influence anything is a fan's perspective and not reality.

 

[Drederick Tatum]

Stephen Jones has all kinds of authority/power to make decisions, in fact you can say he is already the Gm, Jerry does not make a move without running it by him first, so I say in this post as I have said in another post the same as this, we do not need a GM, the one(s) we have are doing a very good job.

Can you share with us the evidence you have that you know this to be fact?

 

[big dog cowboy]

Drederick Tatum I understand your thinking. But IMO Stephen has more control and power than you give him credit for. His fingerprints are all over free agency, the draft, player contracts and running the team.

 

[Drederick Tatum]

Drederick Tatum I understand your thinking. But IMO Stephen has more control and power than you give him credit for. His fingerprints are all over free agency, the draft, player contracts and running the team.

Than we've mistakenly given all the credit to Jerry for the Joey Galloway and Roy Williams trades, giving Marion Barber and Ken Hamlin a combined $84 million contracts, passing on Stephen Jackson in favor of Julius Jones, etc, when we should have given credit to Stephen instead. In that case, perhaps it might be a good idea to stick more with Jerry.

 

[texastwister]

If the CBA isnt signed there is no FA for us we cant fix this team except with the draft (6 picks) that is all. No signing FA if you were in the final 8 we were. We are stuck with this team.
They need to find heart not players. Replace Newman release Roy and let Olgetree take over I dont know but FA is not going to happen as of now

 

[Maikeru-sama]

Pretty laughable that people try to put this debacle at the feet of Jerry Jones.

Sorry folks but Jerry Jones put a very competitive team on the field yesterday.

You will never convince me that the Vikings Defensive Line is that much better then the Cowboys Offensive Line.

The Offense never adjusted and just kept doing strange things.

And once the Vikings Defense was on top of us, it was all down hill.

 

[zrinkill]

You guys need to learn to simply accept a loss. It's not the end of a franchise and it's even less of reason to dismantle a playoff team that's built to make it through the division on top for years to come.

QFT

:starspin

 

[Doomsay]

Won't happen.

Jerry Jones is desperate to show he's a football man.

He's run this franchise into the ground to prove it.

He'll continue to destroy us to prove he's a football man.

He knows his time is running out. He'll make even more insane decisions soon.

Hard to argue with this. A friend of mine that hasn't watched Dallas play very often called to console me after the game and one thing that he thought was really odd was seeing the owner right there among the coaches on the sideline while the game was still in progress.

Why is a guy like Roy Williams forced upon the offense taking away valuable snaps from a player that could actually make a difference - when our QB doesn't want to trust him or can't even find him to make play? Jerry.

 

[superpunk]

What in particular are you miffed at Jerry for as a GM this season?

Yeah we're all mad about Roy Williams, but aside from that our player acquisition and releasing has been just about flawless.

I think Stephen probably has plenty of input anyway.

 

[SultanOfSix]

Hard to argue with this. A friend of mine that hasn't watched Dallas play very often called to console me after the game and one thing that he thought was really odd was seeing the owner right there among the coaches on the sideline while the game was still in progress.

Maybe your friend should stop listening to media generated drivel, because this issue of an owner being on the sideline became one when JJ started doing it in the 90s cheering his team on due to his love for his game and the team, and anti-Cowboys mediots started indoctrinating into the sports public it as some sort of issue, which was gladly picked up by the negative nancies of fans of other sports franchises to somehow mock the Cowboys with.

Seriously, does the owner of the football team on the sidelines have any causation to what's going on in the football game, except a positive one in JJ's case where he's trying to cheer his team on? I mean, wow.