The Most Damning Article Ever Written on Jerry (Bob Sturm)

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fivetwos said:
Wrong. He asked BP to keep Zimmer since Jerry just extended him and he didn’t want to eat the deal.
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I didn’t find any article saying this, but I’m pretty sure a coach of Parcells’ caliber had final say on his staff. He kept Zimmer and then the following year they wanted to keep him as well because he could’ve accepted an offer from Nebraska.
 
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You would think Jerry would tire of being proven to be an incompetent clown over and over and over. At this point I’m not even sure if he understands any longer how much of an idiot EVERYONE thinks he and his son are from a football perspective. He’s been doing it for so long that I think it’s just normal to him now.

I am happy to say that I can’t ever recall the overwhelmingly over the top, constant negativity towards Jerry from the fan base, local and national media and pretty much everyone at this point. Just keep his feet to the fire and keep clowning him because that’s all he deserves. I was very disappointed to listen to his follow up spot on 105.3 this week where they basically just let him off the hook instead of doubling down on their questions about his utter mismanagement of the 2024 offseason and the roster he put together. The man deserves to have his failures thrown back into his face 24/7 until he and every single family member of his steps aside from every aspect of the day to day operations Of this team
 
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Jerry sorely needs to abandon an ego that won't allow a much more capable GM than himself to take his place.

It's been an ongoing football disaster for his team for ages. Why anyone with half a brain can't see that is crazy.
 
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Hawkeye0202 said:
This has always been my issue with Jerry.......he wants the title but refuses to roll up his sleeves. Bottom line as stated many times .....he and Stephen are lazy.
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If you look at how they approach the offseason, and I don't want to call it amateurish. but if they were amateurs, what would they do differently?
 
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This just gets better day after day. Let's keep it going, and all the damage control in the world the old bat is trying to be successful at, is clearly making him look worse in the public and media eye. At some point, this outta drive the clown insane
 
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Local Dallas radio host Bob Sturm of The Ticket radio has just written a masterpiece of clarity for us fans. I encourage everyone to read it as it is the best summary of what Jerry has done to our franchise.

https://bobsturm.substack.com/p/founders-choice-the-airing-of-grievances

Some Highlights:
  1. He is the ultimate “Dress-Up General Manager” - "He has insisted on playing dress-up and claiming the most important role in any organization – the General Manager – without ever actually fulfilling the role by doing its duties, and more bothersome, never once wavering by giving the role up.

    "But the notion that he could take over as owner of the Cowboys and also take over as the GM and replace Tex Schramm was a bad plan in 1989 and a worse plan every year since Jimmy Johnson left (Johnson had, in his contract, full control of personnel moves for his tenure, but of course, no head coach has had that since).

    To claim the title suggests that you cannot find anyone more qualified than yourself. Again, he isn’t the first man to suffer from extreme hubris because his bank account allowed it, but at what point of a football team failing would a man seek help?"

  2. Even after 35 years, we still don’t know his personal philosophy on football - "If you talk to anyone who has worked or does work in that organization for any period of time, they would tell you that Jerry has no personal, authentic takes on how the game should be played. Rather he is a product of crowd-sourcing thoughts from current events and the last person who has been in his ear. This is not what good leaders do, of course, because it results in spinning in circles over the long-term.

    Instead, the Cowboys have reversed fields countless times since Jerry has been running things. This tells you that there might not be any real core beliefs that are non-negotiable about how the game should be played or how a team should be built or even what sort of players you want in your building. They chase butterflies of past mistakes, current trends, or the belief that they can somehow recreate the 1990s Cowboys dynasty in the 2020s where the game is barely recognizable between those two eras."

  3. He has not let a head coach truly be the actual head coach in decades - "Jerry has never respected the office of head coach enough to allow them to run their program. Because along the way, he has never allowed them to do something as basic as “name their own staff.” Regardless of who it has been and even if that head coach has already demonstrated he can win a Super Bowl, Jerry has constantly pushed coordinators on his new head coaches that the new man had never worked with in any capacity. He gave Mike Zimmer to Parcells. He hired Jason Garrett as offensive coordinator before he even hired Wade Phillips. He suggested strongly that Kellen Moore was on Mike McCarthy’s first staff. He gave Barry Switzer and Chan Gailey full staffs that were already here and employed with the last coach that was fired.

    So, when players circumvent the coach to take up an issue with the owner, in most places that would get the player in hot water with the organization. Here, it simply cements the fact that Jones has been this team’s actual head coach in these matters since before these players were born. He welcomes them in and hears their issues. It sends the message that the coach is not powerful. Again."

  4. He wanted to be right more than he wanted to win - "In many ways, it is no longer about just winning a title. It is about winning a title in precisely the way that people have long said he cannot. He needs to show people that he has been correct all along and that is why nothing ever changes besides the names and the faces of those who serve him.

    It all feels like one large plot-line narrative to demonstrate that everyone else was wrong and that eventually he could do this very thing in the way that he saw fit – gathering all of the money and attention – and still win that one last trophy.

    He wants to be right much more than he wants to win. Which is why I doubt he will ever be able to do either.    "

    This is the best summary of what Jerry has done to our franchise, not from a forum poster but from an industry insider who has covered the Cowboys for more than a quarter of a century. This is exactly who Jerry is and it's high time ALL Cowboys fans saw him as he really is.
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But it doesn't take an insider to see this. If anyone has been following this franchise for the last 3 decades then it was clear as day. I NEVER understood how some fans treated Jerry like a celebrity. His legacy will forever be destroying the Dallas Cowboys and the sad thing is his ego believes he is the Dallas Cowboys. He's now a senile angry old man so buckle up.
 
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OGSixshooter said:
This is was a laser shot. He basically described an egomaniac.

From the article: https://bobsturm.substack.com/p/founders-choice-the-airing-of-grievances

"If Jerry ever did the job of a General Manager – ran a scouting department, evaluated players personally, oversaw the league’s personnel so he could pounce on opportunities, built a football department while monitoring a coaching staff so things were seamless as an organization, hit the road to scout college players, and wrote up his own evaluations of potential picks, and on and on – we would have to respect the hours and years he has put into his craft.

But the trouble has always been this: he doesn’t hit the road. He doesn’t evaluate players. I am not sure he ever even watches the All-22 of Cowboys games. He certainly could not tell you all the starters’ names on the Lions’ defense or the top five tight ends in college football for the 2025 draft without being prepped the question was coming. Every other GM in the sport could, by the way, without any prep time."
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I still remember during the 2014 draft, Jerry asked the room if they were sure they didn't want Johnny Manziel(he obviously wanted to draft him, but everyone else in the room said no).

Johnny Manziel played a total of 14 games in the NFL, and we drafted future HOF Zack Martin.
 

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Hastur108 said:
I still remember during the 2014 draft, Jerry asked the room if they were sure they didn't want Johnny Manziel(he obviously wanted to draft him, but everyone else in the room said no).

Johnny Manziel played a total of 14 games in the NFL, and we drafted future HOF Zack Martin.
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Same draft...live on TV...

Mel Kiper being visually and verbally frustrated with Jon Gruden for thinking every team next to draft should take Manziel.

It was uncomfortable TV, Mel Kiper talking to another grown adult male like they are the dumbest person in the World live on TV.
 
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