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News 8 poll: Fans dislike Jones as Cowboys GM
[SIZE=-1]12:54 AM CST on Tuesday, February 24, 2009[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]By JASON WHITELY / WFAA-TV[/SIZE]
NEWS 8 POLL
February 24th, 2009
[SIZE=-1]12:54 AM CST on Tuesday, February 24, 2009[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]By JASON WHITELY / WFAA-TV[/SIZE]
NEWS 8 POLL
February 24th, 2009
- DALLAS – For many Dallas Cowboys fans, it's been a frustrating 12 years with four coaches and not a single playoff win, and most have their minds made up when it comes to who's at fault.
"Mr. Jones clearly sets policy and his policy is pretty straight forward, ‘Let's make the franchise worth a lot of money and let's win football games,'" said Michael Davis, a finance lecturer at the SMU Cox School of Business. “[Jones] has succeeded in the first but not so much in the second."
In a poll commissioned by WFAA, more than half of North Texas sports fans said Jerry Jones is responsible for the current state of the Dallas Cowboys. His business model gets the most blame.
Jones, 66, is revered as the owner and reviled as the general manager – a position that is hands on with drafting players and recruiting coaches.
"It is, no doubt about it, a very unusual management style," Davis said. "I don't want to psychoanalyze him too much, but it could be he's somehow deceived into thinking it's really easier than it is."
When asked what the Cowboys need in order to be more successful next season, 44 percent, which was a majority of respondents in the News 8 poll, said the team needed a general manager separate from ownership.
Jones is one of three owners of NFL teams who is also the general manager.
Mike Brown, son of Hall of Famer Paul Brown, owns and manages the Cincinnati Bengals. But Brown has only one winning season since buying his team in 1991.
Al Davis has three championship rings as owner and general manager of the Oakland Raiders. He's the only one with prior coaching and general manager experience. But, Davis hasn't won a Super Bowl in 25 years.
Jones, a former Arkansas oilman, has three championships as well, but he has no prior coaching or general manager experience.
Still, none of the three has won a championship since 1996.
Dallas Cowboys fans sent a clear message in the News 8 poll on whether it's a good idea for Jones to manage his own team. Almost two-thirds said "no," the Cowboys suffer because of it. But, 28 percent agreed with Jones that it's a good idea for him to have that role.
Other owners have had even less success, but aggravated fans believe Jones just does too much and is too busy marketing the Cowboys and making headlines. With a decade-long drought on the field, Jones, the GM, would have been fired by any other owner.
Personality and players aside, few dispute Jones is a genius when it comes to business. Just look at the value of the team. In 1989, Jones bought the team for $150 million. Today, Forbes Magazine estimates it's worth $1.6 billion - the most valuable professional team in the country.
If a championship is the mark of success or failure, why won't Jones consider hiring a general manager? Some say ego, though he would likely point to his past success.
Barry Mendelson, a former executive with several NBA teams, thinks if Jones can keep from getting blinded by the Cowboys brand, he can win again.
"I can see his positions he takes and I can understand it,” Mendelson said. “And ultimately, at the end of the day, that man is the man on the line. He's on the note. He's got to pay that debt."
Now, 20 years after buying the Dallas Cowboys, News 8 asked Jones his biggest regret.
"I would like to have one more Super Bowl," he said. "I really would. I would like to have one more Super Bowl."
Jones has recently assembled what may be the NFL's most talented roster.
But critics complain it's a team with no chemistry that has yet to win in the playoffs; and fans blame no one more than Jones, the general manager.
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Just being lumped in with the Bengals and Raiders as the other NFL teams that have an Owner/GM had me puking in a mouth a bit.
Those are the last two franchises you want to 'be like' in any way, shape or form.
But things are not changing for the Cowboys. And talent isn't the problem so I don't think Jerry is doing a terrible job in getting some good players.
It's unwillingness to give up some power which would allow him to go get a real head coach and then let that head coach have a say in assembling a 'team'.
Just putting together a 'fantasy football team' has obviously not worked.
a sad time a VA....and for fans...