acr731
Jerry learned to GM from Pee Wee Herman
- Messages
- 9,572
- Reaction score
- 26,464
Some food for thought - Let's go back to 1994 for a second. Does anyone know / remember what started that year? The salary cap era in the NFL. Do you know who played a very large part in getting the salary cap era started? Our very own Jerry Jones.
According to Wikipedia the salary cap was implemented "to keep overall costs down, and also to maintain a competitive balance by restricting richer clubs from entrenching dominance by signing many more top players than their rivals". What's interesting about this? Guess who was the most valuable NFL franchise in 1994? It was the Dallas Cowboys. Jerry essentially destroyed his own ability to bring in the top players and in the process killed his franchise because he wanted to save a few bucks.
Coincidentally, that was also the first year after the Jimmy Johnson era came to a sudden end. We've all heard the stories concerning the split, but what if Jimmy got wind of what was about to come and said screw it, it's time to get out of here. Maybe he had an idea what the salary cap was going to do to his ability keep the championship level team he had built (yes, Jimmy built it, not Jerry) in place.
Sure, it's a bit of speculation, but what we know for certain is that 30 years later the franchise is still trying to climb out of the massive hole Jerry put it in.
According to Wikipedia the salary cap was implemented "to keep overall costs down, and also to maintain a competitive balance by restricting richer clubs from entrenching dominance by signing many more top players than their rivals". What's interesting about this? Guess who was the most valuable NFL franchise in 1994? It was the Dallas Cowboys. Jerry essentially destroyed his own ability to bring in the top players and in the process killed his franchise because he wanted to save a few bucks.
Coincidentally, that was also the first year after the Jimmy Johnson era came to a sudden end. We've all heard the stories concerning the split, but what if Jimmy got wind of what was about to come and said screw it, it's time to get out of here. Maybe he had an idea what the salary cap was going to do to his ability keep the championship level team he had built (yes, Jimmy built it, not Jerry) in place.
Sure, it's a bit of speculation, but what we know for certain is that 30 years later the franchise is still trying to climb out of the massive hole Jerry put it in.
