Rank Top 10 Jerry Jones Mistakes

[baltcowboy]

Lol...how do you do a top 10 list and not include Carson Wentz?

Franchise altering mistake. Much more impactful than Randy Moss. Who would have come to a declining team.

Wentz would not be as good with this organization. Garrett and Linehan would have ruined him. Fans would have turned on Wentz for replacing Romo. Zeke would have ran for 2000 with the Eagles. Plus he is corny. That shake hand celebration with Matthews. Geez........

 

[RamziD]

Buying the Cowboys

 

[PA Cowboy Fan]

Buying the Cowboys

How did you like those 3 SB's? lol

 

[Jipper]

Poor drafting is a huge problem. No depth anywhere and an offense full of holes.

Don't agree at all on the bad drafting, this team hitting on draft picks has not been the issue. We have more hits and more pro bowl homegrown players than the majority of teams. Yes a lot of those are higher picks and we have not been the best in the late rounds but drafting isn't a problem


Our issue is coaching and filling gaps properly with FA...

 

[PA Cowboy Fan]

When Parcells left and we had a choice between Norv Turner and Wade Phillips. Talk about a letdown. And let your coaches pick their staff. And you pay your OC ,JG as much as your HC. Quit undermining your coaches Jerry. They aren't much but they might be better if you quit undermining them.

 

[sunalsorises]

Letting Jimmy Johnson go was his biggest mistake. Everything else is derivative of that move.

 

[ClintDagger]

As much as I dislike some of Deion's crud. He had a huge impact on the team, and more importantly, the defense

Probably won a SB and took it away from SF. I don’t see how that can be called a mistake.

 

[jsb357]

Spending a 1 and a 2 on a man wearing a cast...Claiborne

Dave Compost HC

playing GM resulting in the failure to deliver a professional quality product on the field

 

[Aerolithe_Lion]

Deion? TO? Both of those had positive effects on the franchise. TO was awesome in dallas, and Deion shifted the power from SF back to you.

 

[PA Cowboy Fan]

Getting T.O. hastened Parcells departure which led to JG.

 

[CATCH17]

I just like this, but Could you clarify how could the Cowboys get Carson Wentz? Do you mean he should have traded up in that year? What would the cost be?

Many thanks

It's a QB man.. You do whatever it takes.

How much different would things look with Wentz playing for us?

We could find a RB somewhere.

 

[CF74]

Accepting the HOF induction

 

[Hogeboom4TheWin]

Yes. When you're sitting there with the 4th overall pick with a starting QB on his last legs and the teams at 1 and 2 want to trade out because they have their QBs you make the deal to get the guy #1 on your board. The guy you coached at the Senior Bowl. The player who evidently wowed them in the interviews as Stephen Jones has mentioned being the most impressive ever.

What you don't do is assume against all rational thought that your QB can play another 5 years, watch your division rival jump ahead of you to take that player while you settle for a RB at 4.

That is easily one of the top 5 biggest mistakes of the Jerry era. The next Aaron Rodgers was gift wrapped for us and we were like "nah, we're good".

Stop pretending the Cowboys didn't have the chance at Wentz. They had the best chance and our glorious front office screwed things up yet again.

This Wentz scenario is a specific example of what I consider to be one of the biggest mistakes that Mr. Jones has made over the last several years: Always playing the short game instead of planning for the long haul. He always seems to be under the illusion that the Cowboys are one or two players away from a championship. He probably thought taking Elliott at #4 would give them a super-charged D. Murray and an instant return to 2014 offensive ground game production. And, he was partially right (although no one can say that they foresaw the hot streak Prescott would have that year). And now here we are 2 years later with an offenses that is in shambles and a QB that seems to struggle on every throw. Sure, maneuvering to get Wentz probably would have meant a train-wreck of a season in 2016 but perhaps by now things would be looking up for a long time to come. Teams have won Super Bowls without “franchise QBs” but it is the exception rather than the rule. So when you have a chance to get one, you take it...even if it means you will take a beating in the short term.

 

[Bullflop]

I think all 10 mistakes came when Jerry Jones took the GM job!!

 

[Cowboyz88]

For the record, Jerry did not learn from his previous mistake, yet again, because there were TWO, noted “special team/backup” drafts.

After both the 1995 and 2009 drafts, Jerry alluded to the fact that they were looking primarily for special teamers and depth.

They were both monumental failures.

 

[Reverend Conehead]

As much as I dislike some of Deion's crud. He had a huge impact on the team, and more importantly, the defense

Agreed. He made a big difference and was needed after the injury to Kevin Smith.

 

[Jarv]

Letting Sean Payton go, that lost us a couple of Superbowls during the Romo/Witten/Dez period.

 

[LucaBrasi]

1. Jerry Jones, "ultimate decision maker"
2. March 30, 1994
3. March 31, 1994
4. Nepotism (Stephen, Lacewell, Garrett,etc.)
5. Dave Campo, Head Coach
6. The Special Teams draft 1995
7. The Special Teams draft 2009
8. Quincy Carter drafted in the 2nd round
9. Joey Galloway Trade
10. Roy Williams Trade


difficult to stop at just ten...

 

[The Fonz]

Based on what? From what I've seen looks like he's a vast improvement...no mantel, better drafting, etc...sounds like Stephen might be what we need

He talk too much like his dad .

 

[jsb357]

overpaying mediocre players.

using the anointing oil willy nilly