Was the 2024 season essentially a Jerry temper tantrum for the GB playoff loss?

[ArtClink]

this is old time thinking. it doesnt apply anymore.

the people dont have the power here.

the suites do, the corporations who buy the suites is what Jerry targets., Do you think a guy who makes billions is selling to the 4 dollar guy?

Home Depot does this. Their doors are NOT opened for the common guy. They are open for the contractors. Your money as the common guy doesnt go far enough to keep the lights on. They want the contractors. Jerry wants to tout to the high paying customer.

So go ahead with the protests, it doesnt change anything. You dont bring in enough for him to notice.

Companies that buy up the suites to entertain customers or flex how wealthy you are, thats the purpose of a palace.

I understand your corporations comment and I understand fans have no power, but it's not "old school" thinking to cite how bad our GM has been for three decades with no accountability and no end in sight to winning consecutive playoff games. Tell me how those facts are "old school"? They are just facts. If I hadn't mentioned how far back I go with this team, you wouldn't mentioned "old school" lol.

 

[Bullflop]

Lately, I've become considerably concerned about this FO's tendency to skimp on important things other than player contracts. There's a tendency to get by cheaply regarding the number of training and injury corrective personnel that are simply too limited. Other teams are known to pay far more attention to these essential requirements.

These things factor into the success of the players to perform at the highest level possible. Extracting the level of performances that are needed for this team's level of success should be of greater concern. To that end, many of the players are willing to personally contribute the funds to make these improvements materialize. Skimping on player training and injury rehabilitation are legit flaws to correct for the sake of better performance.

 

[TexasBacon]

I think that is giving him too much credit. What you posed takes a lot of thought and planning…….things we rarely see from Jerry. I will stick with football incompetence with no discernible direction for the building of the roster. They have no idea what they are doing, there is three decades that prove it.

I would agree with you, but even after all we've seen it's hard to believe someone who has made billions and been successful in so many ventures is that blatantly incompetent when it comes to what are seemingly common-sense decisions. It does feel like ego and spite outweigh everything else with Jerry and are the driving motivator behind many of his decisions.

 

[SteveTheCowboy]

When you give the team an old Zeke and a barely JAG Mingo, and highest contract ever to Dak....you might be sabotaging your own team.

On purpose?

 

[jterrell]

It is still impossible for to decipher what 2024 was.
It feels like a senile, incompetent, petty tyrant decided to burn the boats to protect his " key business principles".
Namely that people perform best under pressure for their jobs and that the proper way to handle contracts is negotiate in the media and then hammer out a deal last second.
--both those philosophies are largely incorrect.
If my job was in serious jeopardy, I would be utilizing a ton of work time to find a new job.
And if my contract was about to be up, I'd sure be looking around for other offers.
Jerry's take is stupid in other words.


Could have moved DLaw and Zack Martin early in the year or pre-season for draft capital and just tanked.
At least then we'd have seen the vision.
I was out on the season because they had no plan whatsoever.
You have to at least give me enough to lie to myself.
They didn't even bother.
This was like Romo's "if this is the worst thing to ever happen to me" but in owner's form and repeated daily for 6 months.

 

[Bobhaze]

When you give the team an old Zeke and a barely JAG Mingo, and highest contract ever to Dak....you might be sabotaging your own team.

On purpose?

I like what @ScipioCowboy said earlier in this thread that Jerry’s behavior this past off-season and the 2024 season was actually more of a “flex” than a temper tantrum.

A “flex“ meaning Jerry decided in essence to say publicly “I will show everyone who’s criticizing me that I’m in charge here by flexing my authority and reminding everyone that I’m not going anywhere and I will do whatever I want around here.” Thats probably about right.

 

[CowboyFanInLexKy]

I believe you are spot on with this. Our GM has the emotions and impulses of a teenager without any accountability which is a great formula for never winning consecutive playoff games for almost 30 years, and make no mistake as long as the Jones family own this team we will definitely hit that 3 decade mark.

It's sad, it's broken, the foundation is flawed, and it's fool's gold to think a Jerry led team will ever win consecutive playoff games and Stephen has shown he will continue to strangle this organization courtesy of the Jones' football micromanagement.

I have watched almost every games since the '72 season and it's just sadder for older fans who experienced the Cowboys being the model, elite franchise.

I met one of my heroes, Mel Renfro a few years ago and he said that, "The Cowboys are now just all about money" and I agree 100%.

I do hope the training camp attendance continues to decline and more season ticket holders sell their seats to opposing fans. Nothing will get to Jerry except shame and humiliation which would be in the form of home games being home games for the visiting teams. There is no scenario where we make a deep playoff run unless the team is sold and I don't see that happening.

Jerry doesn't care if Cowboys fans buy tickets or if the opposing fan's buy tickets to A&T Stadium. as long as there are butts in the seats, Jerry is happy.

 

[Bobhaze]

It is still impossible for to decipher what 2024 was.
It feels like a senile, incompetent, petty tyrant decided to burn the boats to protect his " key business principles".
Namely that people perform best under pressure for their jobs and that the proper way to handle contracts is negotiate in the media and then hammer out a deal last second.
--both those philosophies are largely incorrect.
If my job was in serious jeopardy, I would be utilizing a ton of work time to find a new job.
And if my contract was about to be up, I'd sure be looking around for other offers.
Jerry's take is stupid in other words.


Could have moved DLaw and Zack Martin early in the year or pre-season for draft capital and just tanked.
At least then we'd have seen the vision.
I was out on the season because they had no plan whatsoever.
You have to at least give me enough to lie to myself.
They didn't even bother.
This was like Romo's "if this is the worst thing to ever happen to me" but in owner's form and repeated daily for 6 months.

Excellent post.

 

[OGSixshooter]

I'm not 50 yet and I already know I don't have time for "that" when things go wrong or not as planned.

It's amazing to me that an 82 year old man thinks like he does.. but here we are. I guess with his money, he believes he can transplant every organ.

Just turned 50...well, last year lol. Tell you what...you even begin to put your ego on the chopping table when it comes to saving time. But Jerry has a pre-existing condition: malignant narcissism. Because narcissists are just self-absorbed primates, they rely on gaslighting to inflate their ego....but it has its limits. For example, you can convince a ton of credulous Cowboys fans that they were going to the playoff this year...that's one thing. But you can't convince even the DUMBEST of Cowboys fan that you won a SB when you didn't. Or that you didn't get blownout...or that the team doesn't EPICALLY FAIL almost every playoff game. That kind of thing will drive a narcissist to upend the chessboard or something else that is similarly counter-productive.

 

[OGSixshooter]

I like what @ScipioCowboy said earlier in this thread that Jerry’s behavior this past off-season and the 2024 season was actually more of a “flex” than a temper tantrum.

A “flex“ meaning Jerry decided in essence to say publicly “I will show everyone who’s criticizing me that I’m in charge here by flexing my authority and reminding everyone that I’m not going anywhere and I will do whatever I want around here.” Thats probably about right.

Including bucking the conventional thinking that "Jerry doesn't have a year to waste". Apparently he believes he has several more years to waste...including the upcoming season. I honestly can't see any series of moves that enables us to compete with Philly and/or Washington in 2025.

 

[MajesticRey]

He downgraded the talent on the team every year after going 12 - 5, And was rewarded with another 12 - 5 season. So I think he thought the Green Bay loss was an aberration. Just like he thought the San Francisco loss was an aberration. I said after SF beat us in our home stadium that if we played them 10 times they would win 7. Then after watching them beat us 3 straight....I said they would beat us 10 out of 10. Green Bay is no different. That Green Bay team would have beaten Dallas 10 straight times.

How we perform against good teams SHOULD be how he evaluates this roster. Our division stinks, there were enough bad teams on our schedule, The combination of that AND us being good enough is why we were able to amass double digit wins. But a closer look is necessary. Especially when you are the architect of a franchise. This roster is bad. And we will not win 12 games next year.

So thinking he was throwing a temper tantrum is giving him too much credit. He is clueless. And what's scary....there are either clueless people in his ear...or he ignores them. Either scenario is bad. So it does not matter what coach we hire, who we draft, or who we sign. We have not won more than 1 game in a postseason in almost 30 years. And one offseason will not position this team to win 3 or 4 straight postseason games in a row. The primary reason this will not happen is the primary reason it has NOT happened. And that reason is the Jones Boys. Until that changes...all of our rationalizing are just exercises to pass the time.

I swear that the real reason was Prescott, according to this board…

 

[shabazz]

So I wonder….When I look back on the disastrous 2024 season, and after some time to reflect, I’m starting to wonder - was this crazy off-season and season just an extended temper tantrum for Jerry Jones, upset by the worst playoff loss in team history last January to the packers? And instead of acting like a responsible, focused GM, did he just act like a spoiled child upset that his favorite toy disappointed him?

Instead of thinking clearly and decisively, Jerry appears to have just decided to make the 2024 season a kamikaze mission designed to express his frustration. Instead of getting past it by analyzing not only why it happened but what was needed to get better, it appears he may have just wanted to make everyone “uncomfortable” as he likes to call it.

Before anyone says, “That’s crazy Bob”, let me remind any Cowboys fan that Jerry Jones has thrown whole seasons away before. Like the 2000-02 seasons which were three straight 5-11 throwaways under Dave Campo. Or the decade long experiment with Jason Garrett getting us to the playoffs three times so we could win two wild card games.

Most GMs whose livelihood and reputations are on the line would never have taken the almost laughably bad road JJ took this year in the off-season. And despite the lies about the cap he and his #1 son have spewed, he actually had two sane choices:

1. Deciding the Mike McCarthy experiment was done and the team needed a new direction AND infusion of talent. Mac is fired and a new leader is brought in and the reset button pushed.
2. Or realizing that Big Mac was still the guy to lead us and is given an extension to try again. A few FAs signed, a great draft class - it was certainly possible.

Either approach could have been rational and measured. He chose neither. He chose to…well do what he did which was the worst off-season I’ve ever seen in my 5+ decades as a Cowboys fan. And as we stand today we are essentially worse off than when the GB loss ended last January. It’s a complete self inflicted mess.

Was the 2024 season just an extended temper tantrum by the only unaccountable GM in the NFL?

Agree with alot of this..

After the GB loss, He immediately said ;

" we're gonna run this back"......nonsensical to think this underachieving group would deliver different results.

And later says, "We're going all in" ....in which he literally spends the least in free agency out of the 32 teams.

He's a petulant child that lashes out and digs the hole even deeper.

Stand by for zero changes in 2025

 

[shabazz]

I like what @ScipioCowboy said earlier in this thread that Jerry’s behavior this past off-season and the 2024 season was actually more of a “flex” than a temper tantrum.

A “flex“ meaning Jerry decided in essence to say publicly “I will show everyone who’s criticizing me that I’m in charge here by flexing my authority and reminding everyone that I’m not going anywhere and I will do whatever I want around here.” Thats probably about right.

I would argue that a flex and a tantrum are one in the same.

Both are driven by emotion, recklessness and narcissism......a rose by any other name still smell like boo boo

 

[Johannes44]

I think Jerry thought that the GB loss was a fluke, when in reality the GB loss was the Dallas Cowboys current version hitting it's ceiling.

 

[phildadon86]

So I wonder….When I look back on the disastrous 2024 season, and after some time to reflect, I’m starting to wonder - was this crazy off-season and season just an extended temper tantrum for Jerry Jones, upset by the worst playoff loss in team history last January to the packers? And instead of acting like a responsible, focused GM, did he just act like a spoiled child upset that his favorite toy disappointed him?

Instead of thinking clearly and decisively, Jerry appears to have just decided to make the 2024 season a kamikaze mission designed to express his frustration. Instead of getting past it by analyzing not only why it happened but what was needed to get better, it appears he may have just wanted to make everyone “uncomfortable” as he likes to call it.

Before anyone says, “That’s crazy Bob”, let me remind any Cowboys fan that Jerry Jones has thrown whole seasons away before. Like the 2000-02 seasons which were three straight 5-11 throwaways under Dave Campo. Or the decade long experiment with Jason Garrett getting us to the playoffs three times so we could win two wild card games.

Most GMs whose livelihood and reputations are on the line would never have taken the almost laughably bad road JJ took this year in the off-season. And despite the lies about the cap he and his #1 son have spewed, he actually had two sane choices:

1. Deciding the Mike McCarthy experiment was done and the team needed a new direction AND infusion of talent. Mac is fired and a new leader is brought in and the reset button pushed.
2. Or realizing that Big Mac was still the guy to lead us and is given an extension to try again. A few FAs signed, a great draft class - it was certainly possible.

Either approach could have been rational and measured. He chose neither. He chose to…well do what he did which was the worst off-season I’ve ever seen in my 5+ decades as a Cowboys fan. And as we stand today we are essentially worse off than when the GB loss ended last January. It’s a complete self inflicted mess.

Was the 2024 season just an extended temper tantrum by the only unaccountable GM in the NFL?

In his new documentary coming out he says out of his mouth.

Keep them talking.
365 day a year soap opera.
The field isnt as important as being relevant.

He wasnt throwing a tantrum. He was drumming up the media and the fan base to keep them relevant. He and his son are just plain lazy.

 

[beware_d-ware]

From a personnel perspective, 2024 was a season without a plan. Dak and McCarthy go unsigned, half a dozen starters walk in free agency, OK this looks like a tank-out. Then we panic-sign Dak, what are we doing here. Then we panic-trade for Mingo, are we trying to make a playoff push or something?

This team is just totally rudderless. I genuinely think Jerry is losing his mind, and Stephen is a moron.

 

[Johannes44]

From a personnel perspective, 2024 was a season without a plan. Dak and McCarthy go unsigned, half a dozen starters walk in free agency, OK this looks like a tank-out. Then we panic-sign Dak, what are we doing here. Then we panic-trade for Mingo, are we trying to make a playoff push or something?

This team is just totally rudderless. I genuinely think Jerry is losing his mind, and Stephen is a moron.

It's more indicative of not having a full-time dedicated GM. Everything seems hurried and done in the last minute. There is no direction or plan, just the GM tossing what he can find to the coaching staff who needs to then make do with it.

 

[fivetwos]

It's more indicative of not having a full-time dedicated GM. Everything seems hurried and done in the last minute. There is no direction or plan, just the GM tossing what he can find to the coaching staff who needs to then make do with it.

That’s why this needs to crash and burn, which may force them to bring in someone with a plan/direction that they will listen to.

That’s a ways away though. They still think they are building on three hollow 12 win seasons.

 

[ArtClink]

Jerry doesn't care if Cowboys fans buy tickets or if the opposing fan's buy tickets to A&T Stadium. as long as there are butts in the seats, Jerry is happy.

I agree. But for me, it’s a matter of principle and I have happily spent my sports dollars on the Stars and Mavs, teams actually capable of playing in the conf finals.