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

[MountaineerCowboy]

The 80 year old is about the process.

 

[tm1119]

The Eagles are at the cap with a QB on a rookie contract making 4M yet they are 25M short to sign free agents Fletcher Cox and Brandin Brooks.

Brandon Brooks doesn’t even play football anymore

 

[mcmvp]

The Eagles are at the cap with a QB on a rookie contract making 4M yet they are 25M short to sign free agents Fletcher Cox and Brandin Brooks.

Brandon Brooks retired last year, and it’s unlikely they bring back Fletcher - his best days are behind him. I was surprised that they brought him back this year.

 

[805BoysInBlue]

Going all in would be mega-mega-mega stooooopid given current situ. I know lots of you are thinking with your hearts, but it makes zero sense.

Dak isn't an elite qb. Zeke is dead. Tyron Smith near the end end.

Truthfully a 1-year reset would be far better if you want a championship in the next few years. Clear the books, go 3-14 and draft a QB. The disappointment is that Jerry does just enough to keep things competitive and interesting, but only half measures. 1-year-rebuild is in order.

Thats why you go for it and dump the dead weight after. Keep guys like Micha as a cornerstone and do what you gotta do with everyone else.

 

[805BoysInBlue]

This man will die trying to do it his way...his stubbornness will take him to his grave without a super bowl.

 

[805BoysInBlue]

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.

Jerry is from Inglewood CA.

 

[Brooksey]

Brandon Brooks retired last year, and it’s unlikely they bring back Fletcher - his best days are behind him. I was surprised that they brought him back this year.

You're right he did. My bad i guess that's dead money-injury retirement I saw on their Salary Cap.

I stand in shame.

 

[Redline360]

He couldn't give two ***** about it really. His number one and only goal is to keep the cowboys relevant in the news and media for revenue purposes.

 

[Brooksey]

Brandon Brooks doesn’t even play football anymore

Yes I see that but it's on their Dead money cap. My bad

 

[DallasEast]

Jerry is from Inglewood CA.

...who moved with his family to Little Rock, Arkansas when he was three years old.

 

[Sydla]

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.

But the Eagles DID WIN in 2017. Doesn't matter if yuu think it was lucky or whatever. They did win. And they had a roster that was older and needed to turn over. Complicating the process was the fact they handed a massive contract to Wentz thinking he was their futre and he turned into a dud. So according to Jerry, the Eagles should have been down and out for years.

Except they weren't. His citing of the Eagles either shows he's ignorant, stupid or just a liar.

 

[Ken]

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

I just laid out the case for why the Rams and Eagles build their team's like children.

I believe the case is laid out there....it's not how I would build a football team. It would be closer to how the Cowboys and 49ers build their teams.

It just hasn't worked out for them yet.

 

[Coogiguy03]

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."

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Change his tie that's about it

 

[Sydla]

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.

He's an egomaniac whose arrogance and stubbornness have led the Cowboys on what is really a pathetic 27 year run when you look at what matters - postseason success.

For him to cite the Eagles as an example of going all in to try to be successful in the postseason and how it burns a team for a long period is laughable. He's gaslighting you guys and you just lap it up.

 

[Sydla]

I just laid out the case for why the Rams and Eagles build their team's like children.

I believe the case is laid out there....it's not how I would build a football team. It would be closer to how the Cowboys and 49ers build their teams.

It just hasn't worked out for them yet.

On one hand you say you would build the team closer to how Jerry does but then in the Dak threads you whine about the lack of talent on offense.

So which is it? Does Jerry have a sound model to roster building or does the team lack the talent necessary to allow Dak to take them to the SB?

PS - Your case is weak. The Eagles have been to two SBs in 5 years where in between they literally had to shed bad contracts, etc. Over Jerry's run as sole GM, the Eagles have been to 3 SBs, been in 7 NFCCGs and have something like 16 playoff wins. We have 4 postseason wins. That's it. But tell us again how one organization builds like children and we are doing it right. LOL.

 

[tm1119]

The most infuriating part about this is the lack of acknowledgement of a reasonable middle ground. That is a VAST gap between what the Cowboys having been doing in free agency Vs “going all in”. I don’t think most reasonable fans expect the Cowboys to spend the most $ in free agency and sign all the top guys, but when you see a roster that could have been drastically improved by 2 solid signings is when it gets very frustrating

 

[Sydla]

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.

We've operated in this manner for years. What are you giving a shot? We've given it a shot. We don't have much to show for it.

What's happening here is that the sting of the loss to the 49ers has worn off and now those predisposed to make excuses for Jerry and the Cowboys fall back to their warm place where they convince themselves everything is good in Dallas. It's difficult for some fans to admit that the reality is their franchise isn't very well run and that the results of the past two decades are more just bad luck than the fact the guy calling the shots for the past two decades is still the guy calling the shots now and is stubborn, arrogant and appears to not have learned all that much.

 

[visionary]

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

You’re such a hater
Did you not hear his mirror comment?
He’s going to change mirrors, can any owner/GM do more ?

 

[Sydla]

The most infuriating part about this is the lack of acknowledgement of a reasonable middle ground. That is a VAST gap between what the Cowboys having been doing in free agency Vs “going all in”. I don’t think most reasonable fans expect the Cowboys to spend the most $ in free agency and sign all the top guys, but when you see a roster that could have been drastically improved by 2 solid signings is when it gets very frustrating

Every year this discussion comes up. The Jerry/Cowboys apologists start every FA market with, "Oh, it would be dumb to just spend like wild men in FA............"

And yet no one really asks for that. How about just one big name? How about just go out and get Payne or Tomlinson and try to fix the DT spot?

 

[MountaineerCowboy]

I just laid out the case for why the Rams and Eagles build their team's like children.

I believe the case is laid out there....it's not how I would build a football team. It would be closer to how the Cowboys and 49ers build their teams.

It just hasn't worked out for them yet.

Shocking that Ken would build his team in a way that leads to failure every year.