Our FO hit it out of the park

[Jstopper]

Do you happen to have a list?

Didn't know everyone off my head so went and checked. Number is actually 3. Edwards, Gibson and Agnew confirmed on other teams rosters

 

[FolsomCowboy]

Not quite five.

But 3 more than zero

 

[big dog cowboy]

Not quite five.

Cowboys practice squad so far:
Jameill Showers
John Wetzel
Dakorey Johnson
Tim Scott
Kellen Moore
Gus Johnson
Vince Mayle

 

[erod]

BUUUT...JJ and JG still don't know what they're doing. This (as well as every other good pic/move) was all blind luck...

Will McClay.

Jerry had nothing to do with any of this, other than hiring McClay and Garrett and getting out of the way, which I give him credit for. Stephen is running the show now, and he entrusts all football decisions to the football people. He just focuses on contracts.

 

[LandryFan]

Will McClay.

Jerry had nothing to do with any of this, other than hiring McClay and Garrett and getting out of the way, which I give him credit for. Stephen is running the show now, and he entrusts all football decisions to the football people. He just focuses on contracts.

Jerry owns the team. If the team is successful, he should get credit (he sure as hell gets the blame when they fail). I'm not saying he personally makes the trades and draft picks, but I'm pretty sure he has a significant hand in it. If you don't want to give him credit, that's fine. To me, since he is the owner (and a very active one, at that), he has ultimate accountability for success or failure.

 

[erod]

Jerry owns the team. If the team is successful, he should get credit (he sure as hell gets the blame when they fail). I'm not saying he personally makes the trades and draft picks, but I'm pretty sure he has a significant hand in it. If you don't want to give him credit, that's fine. To me, since he is the owner (and a very active one, at that), he has ultimate accountability for success or failure.

I've got 20 years of head-scratching futility and horrendous personnel decisions that I just can't ignore.

 

[LandryFan]

I've got 20 years of head-scratching futility and horrendous personnel decisions that I just can't ignore.

Well, my hope is that you have at least several years of Cowboys football bliss to counter that. It has been a very long haul since the 90's run.

 

[Doomsday101]

Decisions are just guesses until the results play out.

That is true but when did people feel the need to say that on decisions they have not liked. We don't know how the McFadden situation will work but has not stopped people from being critical.

 

[Doomsday101]

I've got 20 years of head-scratching futility and horrendous personnel decisions that I just can't ignore.

I agree but you can't change the past only the future. Dallas has changed in how they go about putting a team together.

 

[erod]

Well, my hope is that you have at least several years of Cowboys football bliss to counter that. It has been a very long haul since the 90's run.

No doubt about that, and I think we do. I really like the structure of things right now, and I think Garrett wants to do a mini-Landry here. I hate coach churning.

 

[LandryFan]

No doubt about that, and I think we do. I really like the structure of things right now, and I think Garrett wants to do a mini-Landry here. I hate coach churning.

Amen, Brother!

 

[JoeBoBBY]

Simple minds require the easiest route, I suppose.

Everything worked out so I must have made the right decision!

"The decisions we make, dont have nearly as much impact, as compared to how we handle the consqeunces of that decision. " - Jack Noitall.

 

[Doc50]

Do you think that GMs are fired when they made correct decisions, and didn't get results, or when they made a different, potentially incorrect, decision, and got good results?

It's a results oriented business - Bobby Beathard made what was considered widely as a very good decision in selecting Ryan Leaf #2 overall in 1998, and it blew up in his face. Tom Braatz made what was considered a sage selection when he picked Tony Mandarich #2 overall in 1989, and it ended up costing him his job.

Why? Because they didn't get the results of making the "correct" decision.

They failed because of what they should have known about those picks -- one was juiced, and the other was a knucklehead.

It each suffered career-ending injuries (not associated with a pre-existing condition), then they would be blameless.

They did not perform due diligence.