Jerry: I'm reluctant to bet it all for just one year

[Beast_from_East]

For any of you hoping for an active offseason.
15:25 mark of the video. Jerry is asked after watching the Rams and Eagles approach to the Super Bowl what is the Cowboys plan. He says he knows how to do what those teams have done but if you miss it's a long way back. He's reluctant to go all in for a year. He thinks long term.



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As an added bonus you can go back to the 13:25 mark and hear how they didn't mismanage the WR position by trading Cooper for nothing. It was relying too much on Jalen Tolbert that was the mistake. How do you address it this year? "We need Tolbert to come on as a young player".

And lastly back to 17:35 you can hear Jerry's sales pitch to you for 2023 when asked how he gets fans excited for next year.

"Dwell on the fact that we have some of the best personnel in the NFL. Dwell on the fact that you have Dak. Focus on that."

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And one more gem right after. The yearly man in the mirror talk.

"There's been a lot of change here over the last 25 years the same way there would have been had you changed GMs and Owners. I have to change in my mirror. I want to emphasize that."

I would have more respect for him if he did swing for the fences every once in awhile.

Besides, nobody is saying that you have to go full dream team, but signing a stud free agent like Von Miller last year could have been the difference in winning an extra game or two and that would have given us the number one seed.

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

There's not a check I wouldn't write for another ring. Lol people still listen to that old dude blame yourselves

Odd that some still write checks. Is tha met with stares at the store?

 

[Pass2Run]

hey that is the first rule of team building if it didnt work for the first 26 or 27 time in a row u keep doing the same thing

"It's a . . . what you put in that computer, and what comes out."

Yep, sounds like Jerry has no clue about how something like AI would work.

 

[cowboys5xsbs]

Lets say the Eagles lose and do have a hard time re-signing a lot of their players. What makes you think the Eagles won't rebuild and be back?

Paying hurts 40-50 mil will hamstring them. They have the luxury of cheap qb play right now.

 

[ICP]

There's no beating dementia

 

[Pass2Run]

For any of you hoping for an active offseason.
15:25 mark of the video. Jerry is asked after watching the Rams and Eagles approach to the Super Bowl what is the Cowboys plan. He says he knows how to do what those teams have done but if you miss it's a long way back. He's reluctant to go all in for a year. He thinks long term.



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As an added bonus you can go back to the 13:25 mark and hear how they didn't mismanage the WR position by trading Cooper for nothing. It was relying too much on Jalen Tolbert that was the mistake. How do you address it this year? "We need Tolbert to come on as a young player".

And lastly back to 17:35 you can hear Jerry's sales pitch to you for 2023 when asked how he gets fans excited for next year.

"Dwell on the fact that we have some of the best personnel in the NFL. Dwell on the fact that you have Dak. Focus on that."

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And one more gem right after. The yearly man in the mirror talk.

"There's been a lot of change here over the last 25 years the same way there would have been had you changed GMs and Owners. I have to change in my mirror. I want to emphasize that."

Love him or hate him (I'll guess which one), Jerry is a billionaire. And I'll usually always stop and hear a billionaire out. It's usually the subtle things they say that can be valuable in other places.

Jerral is from the South, Arkansas, and represents a lot of what parts of Texas were originally all about. Sure, it was part of the older South, and known for cattle and things like that. But it's also the place that turned into the next California, so to speak. I'm still good with Jerry, one of the few who'll say that in the midst of all the hate he gets. He's a piece of history, and, flaws and all, I think he represents Texas well.

I also do not want to gamble it all for just one year. You mortgage the future that way.

That said, I like these long-form interviews.

 

[Pass2Run]

I mean it should surprise no one but we are doomed.

This team is never getting over the hump with Jerry and Stephen. They just aren't.

By the way, there isn't a bigger bag of BS being shoveled than that last comment. He really is a smug ***.

You're gonna have a shot for a few years in a row, that's his strategy, rather than being like the Rams.

What is so smug about that?

He's an old man, who was rich enough to buy a team he loved, and he's like a kid running it, at 80 years old. I get it's about winning. But we won a lot this season, and we've got the core to do it again next year and have a shot. Every once in a while, you'll take advantage of that shot. We'll see what happens. People who are doing that well at 80, are doing well. I'm happy for him.

 

[Cowboys5217]

The Rams and Eagles got very lucky in 2017 and last year. Somehow the Eagles were able to win it in 2017 with Nick Freaking Foles and beat a very very good Pats team to do that.

Last year the Rams were a Jaquarsky Tarte dropped int from falling short of the Super bowl and being in the doldrums they are in now.

The Eagles also lucked out this year, albeit with a more talented team this year than 2017, that they ended up playing no one in the playoffs and topped it by beating a team that couldn't forward pass.

If they fall short in the big game, they will have a hard time putting it all back together next year as they will have to let go of a lot of very good players.

Do you like defending the indefensible as a hobby or is it some sort of compulsion?

 

[Cowboys5217]

You're gonna have a shot for a few years in a row, that's his strategy, rather than being like the Rams.

What is so smug about that?

He's an old man, who was rich enough to buy a team he loved, and he's like a kid running it, at 80 years old. I get it's about winning. But we won a lot this season, and we've got the core to do it again next year and have a shot. Every once in a while, you'll take advantage of that shot. We'll see what happens. People who are doing that well at 80, are doing well. I'm happy for him.

You don't want more out of this franchise?

You don't want to strive to be the best?

 

[T-RO]

I would have more respect for him if he did swing for the fences every once in awhile.

Besides, nobody is saying that you have to go full dream team, but signing a stud free agent like Von Miller last year could have been the difference in winning an extra game or two and that would have given us the number one seed.

Von Miller would not have been the best use of a splurge signing. We had four edge guys w/pass rush skills...all less fragile than Miller. Amari Cooper would have made sense though.

Do agree w/you that there is a time to swing for the fences. Just don't think this is that time.

 

[mattjames2010]

No one will want to hear this but the Cowboys have changed direction significantly over the past 10 years and particularly in the last 7 years or so.

The Cowboys’ method of doing business is mostly sound. The exception to that statement is that the Cowboys have overpaid for in-house talent (or lack thereof). Sean Lee, Witten, Dez, Tank, Schultz, Zeke are some of those examples.

Great players in their own right but far overpaid those guys at the ends of their careers. If the Cowboys had paid outside free agents those cap dollars (on significant free agents) we could have performed a bit better.

Jerry seems to be learning to spend some money on the defense. Hopefully that includes a stud DT.

It's not sound at all. Their philosophy of relying on the draft and going cheap in FA simply isn't how you win Super Bowls in this league. You, at most, will hit on one player in the draft and you'll be lucky to get all those guys on a second contract.

It's a terrible philosophy that keeps you out of playoffs or has you losing early. The recent teams to win Super Bowls were aggressive in FA. Every single one.

 

[Mannix]

Don't "empty your bucket" because staying the course will be the smarter path....how long have we been waiting? 28 years.....what a crazy fool

 

[Beast_from_East]

Von Miller would not have been the best use of a splurge signing. We had four edge guys w/pass rush skills...all less fragile than Miller. Amari Cooper would have made sense though.

Do agree w/you that there is a time to swing for the fences. Just don't think this is that time.

Good point............I just hope this year maybe Jerry is a little bit more aggressive giving how Philly is going to the bowl, that hurts more than anything for Cowboy fans and Jerry knows that.

Besides, we were just 7 points away from the NFCCG so its not like we need a full rebuild here, just a few tweaks here and there and maybe 1 big free agent signing and we could be right there with Philly and SF next year.

 

[buybuydandavis]

Dwell on the fact that you have Dak. Focus on that."

I wish Jerry would dwell on Dak's last 3 games.

 

[Pass2Run]

No one will want to hear this but the Cowboys have changed direction significantly over the past 10 years and particularly in the last 7 years or so.

The Cowboys’ method of doing business is mostly sound. The exception to that statement is that the Cowboys have overpaid for in-house talent (or lack thereof). Sean Lee, Witten, Dez, Tank, Schultz, Zeke are some of those examples.

Great players in their own right but far overpaid those guys at the ends of their careers. If the Cowboys had paid outside free agents those cap dollars (on significant free agents) we could have performed a bit better.

Jerry seems to be learning to spend some money on the defense. Hopefully that includes a stud DT.

You forgot the worst example of all, Emmitt Smith. He was sort of the catalyst to this trend, but he just had to get the record.

 

[Pass2Run]

You don't want more out of this franchise?

You don't want to strive to be the best?

You're assuming that a change will make things better.

You already have a system where Jerry is the pseudo-GM, and McClay is in charge of many things that a GM would normally be in charge of. Jerry signs off on some of the decisions, but it's guys like McClay doing a lot of the grunt work that Jerry then takes credit for.

He's more of an owner, whereas McClay is the GM more or less. Jerry just hasn't given full control to McClay, although since he arrived, things have been much better. So I'm willing to give it a shot and just roll with it. A lot of that has to do with the fact that I know I can't change it.

 

[T-RO]

You forgot the worst example of all, Emmitt Smith. He was sort of the catalyst to this trend, but he just had to get the record.

So true.

Emmitt's last two seasons w/Dallas
3.9 Yards per carry
3.8 Yards per carry

Yet he was taking up a roster spot, eating up cap and getting lots of carries.

Jerry's buffoonery.

 

[gimmesix]

hey that is the first rule of team building if it didnt work for the first 26 or 27 time in a row u keep doing the same thing

Jerry didn't do the same thing for all of those years. He used to go all in back when we didn't draft well because he buddy Larry Lacewell was in charge of the draft. Then, when Bill Parcells showed him the way on drafting (and McClay took it up a notch), he and Stephen decided quality FAs weren't worth the money. He handicaps us one way or another.

 

[T-RO]

He's more of an owner, whereas McClay is the GM more or less. Jerry just hasn't given full control to McClay, although since he arrived, things have been much better. So I'm willing to give it a shot and just roll with it. A lot of that has to do with the fact that I know I can't change it.

I view it more as this:
Day2Day GM duties are split between Stephen and McClay. Jerry gets to veto or over-ride.

 

[diamonddelts]

So continue to play the long game jerry? Got it. Better buckle up for another 28 years.

Jerry doesn't have enough time left on earth to play the long game.