Bobhaze is exactly correct.
There needs to be a great awakening that Jerry deserves no football success for championships won in 92, 93, and 95.
Jerry has been a football failure -- no ifs, ands, or buts.
Jerry can never get out of the shadow of the great Jimmy Johnson.
In short, the Jerry fanboy club in the media, and in the public sphere need to be shamed.
For over 28 years, Jerry has been living off Jimmy's coattails and Jimmy's championship football success as the head coach/GM during Jimmy's tenure -- 1989 - 1993.
The Jerry fanboy club continually rewrites the narrative of Jerry's "success" by claiming a revisionist history of player acquisitions (like Jerry wanted Troy, drafted Emmitt, traded for Haley, etc., -- it is maddening and twisted logic), conflating Jerry the owner as the GM during Jimmy's tenure & blaming Jimmy's ego for departure.
Context matters.
The fact is when Jerry bought the team in 1989, Jimmy was contractual hired by Jerry to run all football operations -- player personnel department, scouting, hiring/firing coaching staff, and overseeing the complete drafting process.
By 1989, Jimmy had 25 years of experience in developing management operations, viable connections with collegiate, and professional football programs, and excelling in growing and maintaining solid football programs given his coaching expertise, with his successful stints at Louisiana Tech, Wichita State University, Iowa State University, University of Oklahoma, University of Arkansas, University of Pittsburgh, Oklahoma State University, and the University of Miami.
In 1989, Jimmy was a proven, reliable, endorsed, and accepted leader in the building, flourishing, orchestrating, and maintaining successful football programs, and talented football players.
In 1989, Jerry had zero experience in the management of a football organization -- Zero.
Jerry was simply an oilman wildcatter.
Jerry paid $140 million--$65 million for the team, and $75 million for Texas Stadium (he used $90 million of his own money, and borrowed the rest).
The Cowboys were losing money, and Jerry was heavily involved in reversing his, and the Cowboys' financial morass upon his purchase of the Cowboys.
Jerry managed the finances -- that is it.
From 1989 -- 1993, Jerry certainly did not have the knowledge, expertise, acumen, or the time devoted to the success of the football side of the Dallas Cowboys.
In private, Jerry deferred the football side of the Cowboys to Jimmy.
Jimmy realized the deficiency of the Cowboys roster, orchestrated the trades, hired and fired coaches/scouting department personnel, spearheaded the drafting process, and most important, coached the entire team.
Put it simple -- Jerry wanted credit, publicly & privately, for the success of Jimmy's football accomplishments (Jerry would publicly bladder to the media about Jimmy's trades, and player acquisitions of which he was not directly involved or coordinated -- Jerry openly wanted public attention, and excessive adulation).
Jerry gets credit for buying the Cowboys, and for hiring, yielding, and deferring to Jimmy as the full sole chief executive of the football operations of the Cowboys.
Jimmy left because Jerry, the owner was interfering, interjecting, intrusive, and meddling on the football operations, of which Jimmy had complete contractual control.
The workplace became intolerable, Jerry did not value Jimmy, and most relevant, Jimmy's contractual job tile, as GM/head coach, had been breached and violated by Jerry's increasing, expanding, and accelerating incursion into areas, and duties specifically contractually guaranteed solely for Jimmy.
Overall, Jerry has been living off Jimmy's coattails for over 30 years, propagandizing the media with his constant embellished bravado, & perpetual intentional misstatements of the facts during the years 1989 -- 1993, which in turn has created a false deceptive narrative, which the lazy, and pro-Jerry media, and certain fans buy hook, line, and sinker -- it is sad, pathetic, and juvenile.
The evidence of the above is indisputable given the empirical fact that Jerry has been a complete football failure (for over 27 years) even since Jimmy's football culture-creation evaporated from the organization.
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