Rumor: Jim Irsay tweets about Possible Trade

[visionary]

Holy irony Batman.

no irony

saying

"we are in a bad situation, i would have changed things if i could but i have no control"

is very different than saying

"all is good, you only think we are not doing well, we actually are doing great"

 

[Doomsday]

1) did you read and understand the thread with jimmy's tweet? jerry was GM in name only, jimmy had control. jerry hired jimmy and got out of the way other than rubber-stamping decisions made by jimmy.

2) even if i give you that, it was 16 years back. if you are the owner of an NFL team and your GM won 3 SBs but has one playoff win in the last 16, will you keep him around? please answer yes or no. be honest and think before you answer.

You are going under the assumption that Jimmy is telling the truth and Jerry is lying about his role. I have read numerous articles that it was Jerry who closed the trade to obtain Hailey, if he was GM in name only why is he negotiating trades etc? With Jerry's ego it is hard to believe he bought the franchise and just sat around watching Jimmy do his thing. Like I said before the truth is probably some where in between the way they both remember things working.

 

[visionary]

You are going under the assumption that Jimmy is telling the truth and Jerry is lying about his role. I have read numerous articles that it was Jerry who closed the trade to obtain Hailey, if he was GM in name only why is he negotiating trades etc? With Jerry's ego it is hard to believe he bought the franchise and just sat around watching Jimmy do his thing. Like I said before the truth is probably some where in between the way they both remember things working.

lets assume, for a minute, that you are correct
jimmy and jerry did it together

moving on

16 years later, we have jerry's track record doing it by himself ("with input from others")
if you are the owner, does he remain your GM?

simple yes or no

so, while the truth may be somewhere in the middle for the early 90's, it is certainly not somewhere in the middle since then