I'm about to make Norm's rant look like a timid objection.
I can't tell you how many times I've had to post link after link confirming the reality of Jerry Jones's "contribution" to ay success of the Dallas Cowboys.
I can't till you how many debates I've had where I provide data, archived articles, and quotes confirming facts that I longer even care if you doubt them. Most of them take a minimal amount of common sense, others are glaringly obvious. If you don't believe them then its because you jut don't want to, It would challenge too many comfortable, but flawed perceptions.
Here is the first fact, I'm dedicating a page to each. Yeah, it's gonna be long, I really don't care if you read it, these posts are for me , I just have to get them out of my system, there are too many fans that just don' understand the degree to which Jerry Jones screwed us by placing personal glory ahead of winning.
And before anybody blurts out the redundant, irrelevant "It's his team, he can do what he wants", I'm not impressed with the size of that trophy or the one for making millions of dollars by stringing us along, gradually decreasing the standards until we believe a 12-4 season is a remarkable achievement.
Jerry Jones fired Tom Landry.
Don't even try the lame "It was Bum Bright" trash. Bright didn't know jack about football or even the Dallas Cowboys, he never had the ability to understand what it is like just to be a sports fan. Bum Bright was a businessman, not a very good one at the time, he was in financial trouble.
The Cowboys was just an investment to him. If you came in and replaced the whole team with Siberian monkeys he could have cared less so long as he was satisfied with the team's sale.
In Jerry Jones's very first press conference he told us he was a Cowboy fan. That was a lie. You can't possibly be a fan of the Cowboys and fire the guy that invented half of what we all still see when we watch an NFL game. You don't just fire the guy that came in and turned an expansion team into one of the most elite sports teams in American history.
For you fans that never saw a game during the last 60's to mid 80's, please don't tell me hat the game had passed him by, you wouldn't know what the "F" you were talking about. Again, he INVENTED a great deal of what we still see, examples, the 4-3 defense, pre-snap motion, passing from the shotgun, to name few.
Not to mention, the last time It was declared he was done was 1974 after the Cowboys went 8-6, missing the playoffs.
The "Doomsday Defense" was old, and they were all about to retire. It was predicted that the 1975 season would be the first of a string of losing ones as other teams, coaches and fans gleefully witnessed their decline. Didn't happen. Retooled overnight. Superbowl.
You don't fire Tom Landry, someone in the same class as Don Shula, Paul Brown, and Vince Lombardi. That guy has earned the right to make that call himself.
Yeah, I know, Jimmy Johnson. No way do we get him, he was the hottest commodity that season. We only got him, not because of any relationship with Jerry Jones, no, but because Jerry Jones agreed to let Jimmy Johnson run the entire team operations, including each and every personnel decision, it was in his contract. Despite Jerry's campaign to rewrite history It doesn't happen unless Jimmy Johnson gets all final say in football operations...subject non-debatable.
But you don't fire Tom Landry. What you do is get him to retire by giving him an offer that he couldn't refuse. Then, when you build your new stadium, you name it after him. That's what you do for the guy responsible for the team having the value that Jerry Jones was willing to pay. That's what you do for the guy that is, to this day, is a primary force in the marketing of your team. You give him a couple percentage points in ownership, the PR alone makes it worthwhile.
But you don't fire him like some B-rate coach that had his 3 year shot and couldn't break .500.
Jerry Jones....what a freakin' hypocrite....Tom Landry had three losing seasons after 20 consecutive winning ones. How devastating were those losing seasons? 7-8 (strike year), 7-9, and 3-13 when the Cowboys lost their 11 year veteran starting quarterback for the season, Danny White, in game #2. They lost their WR, rookie Michel Irvin for six games......sound familiar?
Tom Landry was fired 5 seasons after his last conference championship. When was Jerry Jones's last conference championship, not that he was in anyway responsible for it? 20 years! Name me another GM that can keep his job after 3 consecutive 5-11 seasons (2000 to 2002), 10 playoff games in 20 years and only two victories, both in the wildcard round?
Tom Landry is out after three losing seasons in his last 20 years. Only 32 playoff games in his last 20 seasons. Only 19 playoff victories in his last 20 seasons.
Jerry Jones fired him! Did Jerry Jones not then set the standard?
Tom Landry was "too old" to do his job any more. He was 74. How old is Jerry today? He's 73, time to start packing, Jerry. Keep in mind that Tom Landry did not drink and always kept himself in great physical condition. And Jerry Jones? Does his lifestyle instill confidence that his mental faculties are sharp as a razor?
Not that I'm implying that Jerry Jones ever did his job as GM. In fact, his only success was when he suckered a real football expert like Jimmy Johnson an Bill Parcells into believing that he would stay out of the way. Both Jimmy Johnson and Bill Parcells left because they were fed up with Jerry Jones's interference. They knew that almost every decision he would make would decrease probable future success.....fact....non-debatable.
"Jerry Jones won 3 Super Bowls and built a dynasty", get the "H" out of here with that "BS".
First of all, a "dynasty' doesn't have an epic reign of just 6 years of winning seasons before turning into a complete joke. a dynasty lasts at least a decade. Jerry Jones systematically eroded that team into nothing with poor decisions, poor trades, and poor drafts.
"But Jerry Jones is the GM"....lmao....He didn't even have the guts to announce he had given himself the title, an empty one at that since Jimmy Johnson made every decision. When he was confronted two years later by the media about the title, he tried to play it off. I still remember a reporter point blank asking him, "Who is the real GM of this team"?
His answer?...."The team has two GM's."....on my mother's grave!
It doesn't even make any common sense. I mean, who here is stupid enough to believe that the person responsible for success wasn't the guy that had just won the college national championship, not the guy whose recruiting classes netted 50 NFL draft picks in five years including 12 1st round picks.
No, it was the guy that had bought the team, the one that never had even a day's experience in coaching, scouting, evaluating, gameplanning, training.....yeah, he was the wizard, the architect, the genius behind all the Cowboys success.
Jerry Jones did not envison the Walker trade, he merely contacted the Vikings on Jimmy's behalf. Jerry Jones did not make the Charles Haley trade, he just met him at the at the airport and began to imply it was his idea, an early indication that Jones's ego would lead to disaster.
Jerry Jones did try to lowball Emmitt Smith' contract, leading to his holdout and an 0-2 stat to the 1993 season.
Jerry Jones....if he bought 5 star restaurant, he'd hire himself as the Head Chef.
Next, I post his profile, the profile of a few real GM's and point out a few paragraphs missing from Jerry's....the ones listing something often referred to as "credentials".
