Wheat;1369710 said:
This is Jerry and Wade's chance to prove all the folks who think this was a bad hire, wrong.
That simple.
Of course people are going to say this junk. They have history behind them. So, until that changes, its a nice chip on the shoulder of your coach and players. Embrace it.
sure we have history - and it's valid and fair game. but so is the 4 years jerry took the back seat (well, 3 years and 10 months - he did come out a couple of times to check the weather and lob TO on us) and proved he'll let a coach do it their own way.
that history gets ignored or downplayed by "the other side" and that starts senseles arguments that can't be won because when you're that deep on either side, logic gets left at the door in some inane attempt to be right about something vs. seeing if it changed.
yes, jones may revert.
yes, jones has been a terrible GM and even owner at times
yes, jones has screwed up more than a few times (name 1 owner that hasn't)
and yes, jones does like to "drive"
but he paid for this show and it's his, 100%. i dare say if any of us owned the cowboys we'd probably not sit back in the office sipping mocca'latte's and reading the wall street journal. hell, some of us may even try to be on the team like in "heaven can wait". i'd try but at 41 and with a knee that goes out depending on the weather i'd be sitting next to rivera just looking the fool.
jones may yes, revert to be what we hated. history is there.
history is also there that he *can* back off.
he's admitted he's meddled and he's said he needs to quit.
like someone else said - you either believe him or you don't.
while phillips isn't who i wanted, i can see the logic of the pick. he also gets to pick up like 8 more coaches along the way and jones only hired 1 assistant and kept 2 on staff in case phillips wanted them, or he/jones just didn't want that much change at once.
i'll give it time to play out before i put my prophet hat on and call jones the jones of old simply because one or two pieces do not a whole puzzle make.
and no, i didn't have chinese for lunch.
