Jerry Jones: offensive talent needs to step up

[kskboys]

This is an example of what I have been highlighting for awhile. Narcissists deflect.

Your starting left tackle is out. You made yourself the general manager. It is your responsibility to foresee your left tackle being out and having a satisfactory contingency to counter that possibility. That is the talking point.

Instead, you try making the discussion of the situation about the rest of the offense stepping up to counter losing Smith. Well, the rest of the offense should step up regardless if Smith is on the field or not. That is supposed to happen anytime any one player is on the sideline or playing subpar. That's football. That's team sports.

However, that is not what the GENERAL MANAGER should be addressing in a discussion. What a general manager should be stating is how he will work on fixing the problem. That is the GM's job. You step up.

Well said!!

Jerry is so much worse as a GM than most even understand. I laugh when people complain about the focus on Jerry as a topic, as he is the elephant in the room when contemplating what has kept us from playoff success.

 

[kskboys]

My mother did not have Alzheimer's but she did suffer with vascular dementia. Regardless of diagnosis, it is an exceptionally cruel circumstance I would not wish upon anyone's family.
Not only would it help his own franchise, it would also help his own personality trait. Jerry Jones has likely been his own worst enemy his entire life. His strong business acumen and luck has benefited him amassing enormous wealth. Unfortunately, his incessant inner compulsion to control too much permits his dominant trait to be a liability at being a GM.

Even when his actual role may be restricted to oversight of general managerial responsibilities, his inability in foreseeing detrimental recommendations made by his lower decision-making chain works against the effectiveness of his final approvals. Removing himself (and his eldest child) from direct decision-making and inserting qualified professionals would generate alternative player acquisitions, retentions, and coaching staff independence. He may not agree with initial results but it is highly likely he would enjoy long-term steady success looking from the outside in.

Evidence the team that Tuna built. Which Jerry then systematically destroyed by changing the focus to flash players.

 

[CouchCoach]

What a flashback for me as a first-time manager. I thought I could get people to perform beyond themselves, their own capabilities. I thought I could coerce, inspire and motivate them to do what I wanted done. All I did was frustrate them and myself.

Does Booger not think McGovern and Williams and even Chaz Green were playing their best, trying to hold onto their jobs and get another contract?

I learned my first valuable lesson and managing people. If you expect something from people they cannot give you; they might not give you all they have to give.

All he can ask is their best and if that is not good enough, the mistake is on who hired them.

One thing that every player in the league knows is that he cannot hide. There are cameras on every player on every play and you can bet these coaches are looking at the effort first. Because good ones know not to ask for something someone cannot give you.

He needs this OL at their absolute best and putting that on them, "step up", denotes they have not been giving what they've got.

Did he and his son step up when they lost the LG and RT and have a LT that hasn't played a full season in 5 years?

 

[RJ_MacReady]

They need to “step up”?

The common denominator in the past 25+ years is you, not the players/coaches..

How about you and your inept son “step down”?

 

[Montanalo]

What a flashback for me as a first-time manager. I thought I could get people to perform beyond themselves, their own capabilities. I thought I could coerce, inspire and motivate them to do what I wanted done. All I did was frustrate them and myself.

Does Booger not think McGovern and Williams and even Chaz Green were playing their best, trying to hold onto their jobs and get another contract?

I learned my first valuable lesson and managing people. If you expect something from people they cannot give you; they might not give you all they have to give.

All he can ask is their best and if that is not good enough, the mistake is on who hired them.

One thing that every player in the league knows is that he cannot hide. There are cameras on every player on every play and you can bet these coaches are looking at the effort first. Because good ones know not to ask for something someone cannot give you.

He needs this OL at their absolute best and putting that on them, "step up", denotes they have not been giving what they've got.

Did he and his son step up when they lost the LG and RT and have a LT that hasn't played a full season in 5 years?

Excellent post CC