The only hope I have

[Rockport]

Particularly easy for Jerry Jones.

Do you really think he doesn’t care about winning as long as the team is making money?

 

[Blackrain]

Your post #56 sure sounds like someone who’s given up.

It’s a new team every year. New coaches, new players. Jerry nor Stephen are not on the field playing. The Cowboys will probably be one of the 3 youngest teams on opening day. Football is a young mans sport. That in and of itself portends hope for the season. Lots of reasons to have hope and to be optimistic. It sure beats your alternative, and many others here, coming here daily and saying there’s no hope as long as Jerry’s here and complaining about everything under the sun.

Your post #56 sure sounds like someone who’s given up.

It’s a new team every year. New coaches, new players. Jerry nor Stephen are not on the field playing. The Cowboys will probably be one of the 3 youngest teams on opening day. Football is a young mans sport. That in and of itself portends hope for the season. Lots of reasons to have hope and to be optimistic. It sure beats your alternative, and many others here, coming here daily and saying there’s no hope as long as Jerry’s here and complaining about everything under the sun.

No Rocky I have not given up whatsoever but I can only control what I can control if I had the power to build the team it would be no holds barred and we would be championship prepared.

Sure I love watching the new players come in guys like Ferguson, Smith .
Right up into the point where they decide that winning a super bowl isn't important and gaining a big contract is.
Jerry has poisoned the well with his business model he teaches these guys that marketing their brand and making the right business decisions is more important than winning a super bowl.
So what can I do other than wait it out and hope to see some good football right up into the time we embarrass ourselves which we do with startling regularity.

I saw the absolute best in cowboy football and if I don't miss my guess you probably did too.

You know what it looks like you know what's missing you know what it takes to get back to that point you also know like I do that the proper steps are not being taken.
It's not about giving up it's about having our hands tied and not being able to fix the problem that is what's incredibly frustrating

 

[Blackrain]

Do you really think he doesn’t care about winning as long as the team is making money?

He doesn't care near enough why????
Because nothing he has is ever threatened he's never made to feel uncomfortable no one ever tells him it's his fault that we aren't getting further.

He goes along the money rolls in in spite of our failures.

If the fans could hold him truly accountable it may be a whole different story.

 

[Rockport]

He doesn't care near enough why????
Because nothing he has is ever threatened he's never made to feel uncomfortable no one ever tells him it's his fault that we aren't getting further.

He goes along the money rolls in in spite of our failures.

If the fans could hold him truly accountable it may be a whole different story.

The problem is that he believes his way WILL produce a Super Bowl.

 

[Rockport]

No Rocky I have not given up whatsoever but I can only control what I can control if I had the power to build the team it would be no holds barred and we would be championship prepared.

Sure I love watching the new players come in guys like Ferguson, Smith .
Right up into the point where they decide that winning a super bowl isn't important and gaining a big contract is.
Jerry has poisoned the well with his business model he teaches these guys that marketing their brand and making the right business decisions is more important than winning a super bowl.
So what can I do other than wait it out and hope to see some good football right up into the time we embarrass ourselves which we do with startling regularity.

I saw the absolute best in cowboy football and if I don't miss my guess you probably did too.

You know what it looks like you know what's missing you know what it takes to get back to that point you also know like I do that the proper steps are not being taken.
It's not about giving up it's about having our hands tied and not being able to fix the problem that is what's incredibly frustrating

We need a team like those 90’s teams who could run the ball down peoples throats no matter what they did to try and stop it. And we need a defense where the DC is not just concerned about sacks instead be able tot stop the run. And we need leadership from the Coaches and key players. I think they’ll be a better team this year because of all the changes. I’m not going to wait until Jerry passes to enjoy the Cowboys and I’ll have hope every year going into the season.

 

[Blackrain]

We need a team like those 90’s teams who could run the ball down peoples throats no matter what they did to try and stop it. And we need a defense where the DC is not just concerned about sacks instead be able tot stop the run. And we need leadership from the Coaches and key players. I think they’ll be a better team this year because of all the changes. I’m not going to wait until Jerry passes to enjoy the Cowboys and I’ll have hope every year going into the season.

I hear that my brother and the teams of the seventies were all so running teams that emphasized run stopping in the defensive line

Bob Lilly. Jethro Pugh Randy White. Harvey Martin and too tall Jones.

Those are the kind of guys that could anchor a defensive line not this hot boy's crap.

Ernie Stautner was the defensive coordinator the guy held people accountable and didn't take any crap.
Trust me I enjoy the Cowboys but this whole thing of being a coach short this year a couple players the next year and just not doing what's necessary to get over the hump is really getting long in the tooth I mean it's perfectly evident the things we need and they keep getting ignored for Jerry's comfort and his monetary gain.

I'm just saying brother after three decades do whatever it takes and throw the fans a bone just give us a little taste and shoot the works we could all live with a couple down years after a super bowl why can't Jerry.

 

[Bullflop]

IMHO, it's a bit difficult to say exactly how Stephen will handle this team when Jerry passes on. The fact that he's been so prone to being a tightwad in negotiating contracts isn't very encouraging, though. Whether he promotes Will McClay as his GM, or not, might affect change to some extent, however. Perhaps he'll choose to hire another GM with a highly reputable past, instead.

In any case, my son seems to have his mind made up that the Cowboys are a hopeless team that won't ever measure up to the best of them again. I'm practically the only one in my entire family tree who sees this team as worthy of attention. Even then, I keep my expectations at arm's length and consider them as mere entertainment to avoid serious disappointment.

 

[Bullflop]

I feel compelled, somehow, to add the possibility of pro football eventually becoming a flag football event, rather than today's version. Believe it or not, there are others that share that same sentiment. In the meantime, I'll enjoy the product. as is, and just hope it doesn't come to that.

 

[Blackrain]

The problem is that he believes his way WILL produce a Super Bowl.

This is also true Rocky 100% and winning that super bowl with Barry Switzer I have said many times was probably one of the worst things that happened because that validated Jerry's thoughts that anyone could coach the team and that he could be a good general manager.

I think if Jerry had failed miserably after Jimmy left there is a slight chance he may have altered his thought process on the whole thing.

Winning that super bowl made him feel like the ultimate football guy with Switzer up there saying we did it our way totally making him think his way was the right way. All the while making us fans destined to a three decade experiment that keeps ending in disaster every year.

 

[Blackrain]

IMHO, it's a bit difficult to say exactly how Stephen will handle this team when Jerry passes on. The fact that he's been so prone to being a tightwad in negotiating contracts isn't very encouraging, though. Whether he promotes Will McClay as his GM, or not, might affect change to some extent, however. Perhaps he'll choose to hire another GM with a highly reputable past, instead.

In any case, my son seems to have his mind made up that the Cowboys are a hopeless team that won't ever measure up to the best of them again. I'm practically the only one in my entire family tree who sees this team as worthy of attention. Even then, I keep my expectations at arm's length and consider them as mere entertainment to avoid serious disappointment.

Yep don't have a good feeling at All about Steven Jones the guy seems to take tightwad to a whole new level.

At least Jerry at times would Gamble and try to do something radical to make a change even if it was wrong.

I don't see Steven getting the good free agents we need to get us over the top when we're nine tenths of the way there just don't see it happening.

It's really pretty simple you need somebody in charge that the super bowl means more to them than anything else and they will stop at nothing to get it.

That guy needs to hire like-minded players that hopefully are talented enough to do the job talented players that care nothing about winning a super bowl are really just a waste of time for us fans and unfortunately this team seems loaded with them