Jones' Clear but Sneaky Objective

[blueblood70]

I am trying not to think too hard about what Jerry might be up to because I get the impression his mind if going, and trying to guess the motives of a demented person is an exercise in futility.

Jerrys not the lone decision makers, there's nearly 1200 employees and many layers of management and sane clear people who advise him and there's no motive because hes not doing this by himself, tons and tons of meetings and debates on what moves are to be made or not to be made, he may seem like the final say guy BUT hes not.

He has Will Mclay, scouts, coaching staffs and other's like SJ to advise. Blame his advisors more than him.. if he's not clear, his confidants should be helping.

 

[Mk2_Cowboys]

Is it just me, or is it not obvious that Jerry & co are basically setting McCarthy up to fail this year?

We might be treading on to conspiracy theory levels here, but I am really starting to believe that Jerry signed no one at all outside of “cornerstones” almost SO the team would fail.

With a complete failure, it would leave out any possible argument/decision to retain McCarthy past this season.

If this is the case, I’m honestly not against it. Would I have preferred just canning the guy after the GB loss? Of course, but our ownership is cheap.

I would agree if Dak would not have been extended. The extension torpedoes that theory in my opinion.

 

[IceBowler]

Is it just me, or is it not obvious that Jerry & co are basically setting McCarthy up to fail this year?

We might be treading on to conspiracy theory levels here, but I am really starting to believe that Jerry signed no one at all outside of “cornerstones” almost SO the team would fail.

With a complete failure, it would leave out any possible argument/decision to retain McCarthy past this season.

If this is the case, I’m honestly not against it. Would I have preferred just canning the guy after the GB loss? Of course, but our ownership is cheap.

I don't know about you but, if I'm the Owner, I don't need to "set him up for failure." I just can him if I feel like it.

 

[chasecooley5308]

Just one more way this franchise is poorly ran. They dont seem to care about the many careers they have wasted and continue to waste. I was hoping they wouldnt sign dak, based solely on the fact that dak is too good of a human to be subjected to this tom foolery that is the Jones'

 

[loublue22]

Only Jerry would engage in some elaborate conspiracy to get rid if someone he could show the door any time he wants. 31 NFL organizations fire the coach after that playoff game.

 

[john van brocklin]

Nah, the ball just has to bounce the right way….for only three more playoff games in a row than it has lately.

They are very, very close. Just bad luck.

I once thought those type of words were sales pitches, but I now realize that they are the kings of misevaluation and actually believe the crap that they spew. They think getting absolutely rolled in the first round is “close,” a term which also implies that you’re not good enough, then proceed to follow that comment with doing nothing to get any better.

THATS why people speculate that they are tanking because none of it adds up when compared to a real plan to win.

They aren’t good enough as is. That’s been proven repeatedly. Now they claim to not have enough cap room to add anyone else. Where is this all headed if that’s the case? No one can seem to either ask or answer that one.

Yep, we are are on the road to nowhere.
I have totally given up on this team.
I will watch, but expect nothing positive.
Until we get a real GM , I know that's our reality.

 

[zekecowboy]

he'll make millions losing or winning, doesn't really matter!! He just has to make it look semi good to impress the fools (fans) to go out and support this mess, which we do!

Speak for yourself on supporting Dallas. This site users opinion has sunk to a new low due to the great enthusiasm of the Dallas Cowboys.

 

[buybuydandavis]

Is it just me, or is it not obvious that Jerry & co are basically setting McCarthy up to fail this year?

We might be treading on to conspiracy theory levels here, but I am really starting to believe that Jerry signed no one at all outside of “cornerstones” almost SO the team would fail.

With a complete failure, it would leave out any possible argument/decision to retain McCarthy past this season.

If this is the case, I’m honestly not against it. Would I have preferred just canning the guy after the GB loss? Of course, but our ownership is cheap.

I just don't see any reason for Jerry to sabotage the team this year to get rid of McCarthy. Who's going to complain? Most people would have been relieved if Jerry had dumped McCarthy after Green Bay last year. Many would have cheered.

My theory was that Jerry crippled the team in easily correctable ways to pressure *Dak*, either to force him into asking for a trade this year, or to give him a crappy year and force down his asking price next year.

Instead, Jerry sabotaged the team at DT and RB *and* extended Dak. Just craziness. I can't account for it.

Can there really be more profit in a humiliating loss early in the playoffs?

On sabotaging Dak, it seems to have worked.

Per Pro Football Focus, Dak was 1 and 2 in the league on Bad Throws and On Target% last year.
This year, 14 and 24. A complete collapse.

 

[buybuydandavis]

No reason to help him fail. I think JJ is making money regardless and had no problem wasting a season

But why go out of your way to fail?

 

[buybuydandavis]

Hades, I'm not sure the Zeke signing even makes the top 20 of stupid Jerry signings.

The stupid this year was *not* signing or drafting any better RB.

RB with the highest ypc? Luepke at 4.0.
Clown Team

Oh, this is hilarious.
Luepke has the highest YPT on the team - 10.4. Higher than Lamb.

Luepke MVP!

 

[buybuydandavis]

Crawford was the dumbest contract as he had really shown nothing.
Zeke led the NFL in rushing and Jaylon made the pro bowl

The Jaylon contract was a consensus below market value contract.

Should have known better about the leg. Jerry got his own sports doc and built him a medical center. But all on the field indications were that the leg had largely recovered and was still on the upswing for improvement.

 

[AshyLarry06]

Exactly I don't know where all this nonsense comes from they say they didn't wanna eat Mike McCarthy's 8 million why would they have signed Prescott and lamb and to record contracts if they wanted to have a bad year I mean literally they just would've gone ahead and tried to make trades for these guys or in 2025 made it apparent that they were moving on from the roster and the coaches but to eat less than 8,000,000 versus build a roster that's costing them over 250 million to just lose on purpose it's never made any sense for anybody to say that out loud people around here need common sense versus conspiracy theory this is how the front office has always operated and they looked at Mike McCarthy and Dan Quinn and they wanted a both back Dan Quinn did not get fired as a matter of fact he almost didn't even get a job he'd still be here at Washington denier it was the last opening and they went with him but jerry was giving him a choice to stay here he was not fired..

If this was a franchise that wanted to lose and tank they would not be signing these players I mean they literally redid Martin's contract and this offseason I think they restructured steel they signed Prescott and lamb the record deals and people around here think they want Mike McCarthy to fail you know put a roster together and spend all that time with the draft to purposely put your head coach in a position to fail this was organic this is something they've always done late signing contracts maybe they weren't sure they wanted to keep Prescott and lamb but they did that tells me they wanted to win this year there is no other explanation there's no truth not even 1% that there's a conspiracy they wanted Mike McCarthy to fail it literally would have fired him and started this whole roster I thought when Dan Quinn took the job in Washington Jerry might still fire Mike McCarthy because then he wouldn't be able to bring back his full staff and why not start fresh he had other coaches like Bill Belichick Rex Ryan and Vrabel interested in this job if he wanted to move on he could have done that and you know what like you said he don't care what the fans think if he did he wouldn't be landing his helicopter near practice he wouldn't be saying the things he says in public and he for sure wouldn't keep treating free agency like he's on a budget he doesn't care he would have fired him if he wanted to he wanted Mike to have one more shot at this with this same roster...

i mean when you look at mike mccarthy he was the best coaching hire in 2020 and jery sees that all the other coaches that were hired already gone had far worse showings, then the playoff three straight years with 2 division titles, and 36 wins...

that's what jerry saw and he wanted to try and get one more shot at getting over the hump.

Bc all Jerry cares about is his team staying RELEVANT and making MONEY, and he can’t do that if his team is trotting out Trey Lance and the Clint Stoerners of the world. An all out tank would be a death blow to his ego- do you remember the 5-11 Dave Campo years? He’s delusional and thinks if he keeps his cornerstones, all he gotta do is plug in a great coach next year and we’re back.

 

[blueblood70]

Bc all Jerry cares about is his team staying RELEVANT and making MONEY, and he can’t do that if his team is trotting out Trey Lance and the Clint Stoerners of the world. An all out tank would be a death blow to his ego- do you remember the 5-11 Dave Campo years? He’s delusional and thinks if he keeps his cornerstones, all he gotta do is plug in a great coach next year and we’re back.

You do realize you're talking out the side of your mouth right I mean putting those two guys on the team makes the Cowboys more of a contender increases the odds by 150% that we would win you see this issue with the way you're trying to make this a negative that they signed 2 of what would be considered the best players at their position like they're in the top five at their position that somehow that you're making that a negative dude please put it down whenever you're smoking you're drinking it's not working it's not winning he signed the guys because it gives the team the best chance to win that is caring about winning cause yes winning can deliver money that would be all the teams in every CEO and business on this planet bro every single one of them...

 

[Howboutdemcowboys31]

You'd think at Jerry's age he wouldn't want to waste a single season, but he's a buffoon so it wouldn't shock me

 

[OGSixshooter]

The Reactive Doofus is talented enough to fail all on his own. Jerry - really Will McClay - has given the man a roster that is the envy of the league - sans the QB...no set up.

 

[ottawacowpoke]

I think we are giving too much credit to Jerry and Stephen with respect to surreptitiously sabotaging Dallas’ season.
These two narcissists exhibit an astonishing level of arrogance and ignorance in running an NFL franchise; the Cowboys have been irrelevant for 30 years since their last Super Bowl appearance, which was under the leadership of Jimmy.
The Jones’ constantly overvalue their talent level and overpay for it; they have no clue, or overall plan on how to build a playoff caliber team. The best franchises aggressively acquire players to shore up weaknesses and make their teams better; the Cowboys FO just seems to make excuses as to why they can’t afford playmakers and instead sign some JAG that they know won’t make a difference in an effort to appease fans. It’s just incredulous.

Every time I see a Derek Henry highlight I’m overcome with rage.

 

[AshyLarry06]

You do realize you're talking out the side of your mouth right I mean putting those two guys on the team makes the Cowboys more of a contender increases the odds by 150% that we would win you see this issue with the way you're trying to make this a negative that they signed 2 of what would be considered the best players at their position like they're in the top five at their position that somehow that you're making that a negative dude please put it down whenever you're smoking you're drinking it's not working it's not winning he signed the guys because it gives the team the best chance to win that is caring about winning cause yes winning can deliver money that would be all the teams in every CEO and business on this planet bro every single one of them...

Punctuation and paragraphs were created for a reason…

 

[blueblood70]

Punctuation and paragraphs were created for a reason…

pretty simple..... i use talk to text and i don't prioritize this nonsense.too bad so sad.

 

[Cowboysfandarin]

No, Jerry would be direct. He doesn’t conspire to do things like that if he wanted to fire Mike McCarthy on the spot, he would just do it. Look what he did to Tom Landry and Jimmy Johnson. He can be spineless when he needs to he doesn’t need to set him up. Mike could win the next four or five games in a row which by the way is not gonna happen if Jerry had a chance to sign Belichick or something like that he would just do it if he wanted to.

 

[kskboys]

Jerrys not the lone decision makers, there's nearly 1200 employees and many layers of management and sane clear people who advise him and there's no motive because hes not doing this by himself, tons and tons of meetings and debates on what moves are to be made or not to be made, he may seem like the final say guy BUT hes not.

He has Will Mclay, scouts, coaching staffs and other's like SJ to advise. Blame his advisors more than him.. if he's not clear, his confidants should be helping.

I think you are incorrect. Why do you think this? Lots of evidence to the contrary.