News: Moore: What Stephen Jones' influence on the Cowboys really is

[CCBoy]

Moore: What Stephen Jones' influence on the Cowboys really is, from drafting Martin to Murray
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IRVING — Stephen Jones removes his jacket, folds it and carefully lays it across a chair in his office. The light-blue pocket square sparks a story.

Every morning at 8, when the Dallas Cowboys were building their stadium, Jones had a standing appointment to meet with Bill Parcells. Whenever Jones walked into the head coach’s office wearing a suit and a hanky, as Parcells liked to call it, he knew what was coming.

“I’m getting Stadium Steve today,” Parcells would bellow. “I guess you’re into things that aren’t important to Bill. I’m trying to win games, and you’re trying to build a stadium.

“Now we have a conflict.”

Jones laughs as he remembers those days. In three hours he’ll be wearing his jacket as he announces Ford will have its name on the Frisco practice facility scheduled to open in the summer of 2016...

 

[PhillyCowboysFan]

Moore: What Stephen Jones' influence on the Cowboys really is, from drafting Martin to Murray
http://www.***BANNED-URL***/sports/...from-drafting-martin-to-letting-murray-go.ece





IRVING — Stephen Jones removes his jacket, folds it and carefully lays it across a chair in his office. The light-blue pocket square sparks a story.

Every morning at 8, when the Dallas Cowboys were building their stadium, Jones had a standing appointment to meet with Bill Parcells. Whenever Jones walked into the head coach’s office wearing a suit and a hanky, as Parcells liked to call it, he knew what was coming.

“I’m getting Stadium Steve today,” Parcells would bellow. “I guess you’re into things that aren’t important to Bill. I’m trying to win games, and you’re trying to build a stadium.

“Now we have a conflict.”

Jones laughs as he remembers those days. In three hours he’ll be wearing his jacket as he announces Ford will have its name on the Frisco practice facility scheduled to open in the summer of 2016...

Thank you CC for posting that. It really is a good read.

 

[SHAMSzy]

Thanks! All Cowboy fans should read this article

 

[Plumfool]

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[CCBoy]

The Cowboys selected Martin. Jerry, the former college offensive linemen, leaned over and whispered in his son’s ear.

“Son, if you want to do special things in life, you can’t keep picking and doing things down the middle,” he said. “What we just did was down the middle.”

I think that a first year All Pro pretty well settles the middle-of-the-road label problem. That swing at a home run connected.

 

[Risen Star]

The Cowboys selected Martin. Jerry, the former college offensive linemen, leaned over and whispered in his son’s ear.

“Son, if you want to do special things in life, you can’t keep picking and doing things down the middle,” he said. “What we just did was down the middle.”

I think that a first year All Pro pretty well settles the middle-of-the-road label problem. That swing at a home run connected.

That's your GM talking.

He's an empty vessel. You could literally build a better team just doing the opposite of whatever he wants to do.

 

[JoeKing]

I don't even think it is Stephen Jones so much as it is Stephen Jones' right hand man, Will McClay. Stephen is smart enough to continue paying Will whatever it takes to keep him by his side.

 

[The Quest for Six]

nice article....I said for years that I'd look forward to when Steven is running this organization, it's clear that day has arrived....If I'm running a business, I'd want Jerry, if I'm running a Football team, I'd want Steven..

 

[ThreeandOut]

nice article....I said for years that I'd look forward to when Steven is running this organization, it's clear that day has arrived....If I'm running a business, I'd want Jerry, if I'm running a Football team, I'd want Steven..

Jerry's willingness to take risks is not necessarily a bad quality. It's probably the reason Hardy and Gregory are on this team. What Stephen has helped them do is take more calculated risks. Signing Hardy on his current contract is a reasonable level of risk. Taking Gregory at the back end of round 2 is a reasonable level of risk. I hope Stephen is willing to take risks when he assumes control, but that he does so at the appropriate value.

 

[The Quest for Six]

Jerry's willingness to take risks is not necessarily a bad quality. It's probably the reason Hardy and Gregory are on this team. What Stephen has helped them do is take more calculated risks. Signing Hardy on his current contract is a reasonable level of risk. Taking Gregory at the back end of round 2 is a reasonable level of risk. I hope Stephen is willing to take risks when he assumes control, but that he does so at the appropriate value.

“Son, if you want to do special things in life, you can’t keep picking and doing things down the middle,” he said. “What we just did was down the middle.”

that statement is all you need to know why this organization has struggled over the previous 18 years when Jerry was running the show....he's a snake oil salesman, you can't be a snake oil salesman and risk taker running a football team

If Jerry was in charge, he would have signed Hardy to a long term deal, Steven would sign him to a one year deal. Jerry would have taken Gregory in the first round and probably moved up to take him, Steven would have taken him in the second...Jerry would have taken Manziel, Steven would take Martin, those are the differences in a solid football man and a blind man throwing darts at a draft board as Jerry has done for years

 

[CCBoy]

“Son, if you want to do special things in life, you can’t keep picking and doing things down the middle,” he said. “What we just did was down the middle.”

that statement is all you need to know why this organization has struggled over the previous 18 years when Jerry was running the show....he's a snake oil salesman, you can't be a snake oil salesman and risk taker running a football team

If Jerry was in charge, he would have signed Hardy to a long term deal, Steven would sign him to a one year deal. Jerry would have taken Gregory in the first round and probably moved up to take him, Steven would have taken him in the second...Jerry would have taken Manziel, Steven would take Martin, those are the differences in a solid football man and a blind man throwing darts at a draft board as Jerry has done for years

Tad bit, drama filled...

 

[ConstantReboot]

Jerry's willingness to take risks is not necessarily a bad quality. It's probably the reason Hardy and Gregory are on this team. What Stephen has helped them do is take more calculated risks. Signing Hardy on his current contract is a reasonable level of risk. Taking Gregory at the back end of round 2 is a reasonable level of risk. I hope Stephen is willing to take risks when he assumes control, but that he does so at the appropriate value.

I think Stephen was on board with taking a risk on both Hardy and Gregory. I saw an interview on him once stating that "we needed to fix our passrush." Thus just because he's a consensus guy and takes everyone's input to heart, doesn't mean he won't take a risk like Jerry does.

 

[DallasDomination]

You need both Jerry and Stephen. People want to give Stephen all this credit now and it's fine..but at the end of the day Jerry's willingness to take chances are helping us get players like Gregory, Dez and Hardy. And Stephen push on pops helps us stay balanced by getting Zack Martin etc. They work good together.

 

[ConstantReboot]

Great article.

I've come to respect Stephen. I can tell he knows more about what makes this team tick as much as Jerry and doesn't shot from the hip - unlike Jerry.

Some folks mentioned that the drafting of Manziel was nothing more than a smoke screen. But reading this article Jerry would have taken Manziel. Luckily, Stephen was around to make sure that didn't happen. If we've taken Manziel I don't think we would have had such as successful season last year and this place would have been a circus.

 

[elkthestar]

Offensive lineman as we know arent the flashy pick but championships are won in the trenches. Down the "middle" All Pro is what Martin is and Jones im sure, realizes that now.

 

[ThreeandOut]

“Son, if you want to do special things in life, you can’t keep picking and doing things down the middle,” he said. “What we just did was down the middle.”

that statement is all you need to know why this organization has struggled over the previous 18 years when Jerry was running the show....he's a snake oil salesman, you can't be a snake oil salesman and risk taker running a football team

If Jerry was in charge, he would have signed Hardy to a long term deal, Steven would sign him to a one year deal. Jerry would have taken Gregory in the first round and probably moved up to take him, Steven would have taken him in the second...Jerry would have taken Manziel, Steven would take Martin, those are the differences in a solid football man and a blind man throwing darts at a draft board as Jerry has done for years

It's probably the difference between the oil wildcatter (Jerry) and the engineer (Stephen). Jerry often makes decisions based on intuition, Stephen on the data.

 

[TheDuke]

“Son, if you want to do special things in life, you can’t keep picking and doing things down the middle,” he said. “What we just did was down the middle.”

that statement is all you need to know why this organization has struggled over the previous 18 years when Jerry was running the show....he's a snake oil salesman, you can't be a snake oil salesman and risk taker running a football team

If Jerry was in charge, he would have signed Hardy to a long term deal, Steven would sign him to a one year deal. Jerry would have taken Gregory in the first round and probably moved up to take him, Steven would have taken him in the second...Jerry would have taken Manziel, Steven would take Martin, those are the differences in a solid football man and a blind man throwing darts at a draft board as Jerry has done for years

Nailed it.

 

[theogt]

It's probably the difference between the oil wildcatter (Jerry) and the engineer (Stephen). Jerry often makes decisions based on intuition, Stephen on the data.

I don't think it has anything to do with data or lack of data. Jerry just has a higher risk tolerance. Some people are risk averse, some aren't.

 

[Eddie]

That's your GM talking.

He's an empty vessel. You could literally build a better team just doing the opposite of whatever he wants to do.

At this point, if I ever went to dinner with Jerry Jones, I'd order whatever was on the exact other side of the menu of what Jerry ordered.

This article is nice, but we haven't won anything in 20 years. There's hope with Stephen ... but in the end, there's a lot of dust sitting in the trophy case next to that last Super Bowl.

 

[CCBoy]

At this point, if I ever went to dinner with Jerry Jones, I'd order whatever was on the exact other side of the menu of what Jerry ordered.

This article is nice, but we haven't won anything in 20 years. There's hope with Stephen ... but in the end, there's a lot of dust sitting in the trophy case next to that last Super Bowl.

Sorry, I never forget that there are five there...and the person who has three of them, is still owner.