Any question of forgiveness is a deflection, although some people have self-created Jerry Jones as Satan or The Devil within their own minds as an emotional self-coping device. Whether anyone forgives Jones for Jones' sake is irrelevant. The man could not care less about anything he knows nothing about.
There is a central issue though. It has been plainly obvious in over 26 years since Super Bowl XXX, which was the last great football accomplishment achieved from the remnants of what both Jones and Jimmy Johnson forged together during their first five years.
Any business person seeking success continually re-assesses any obstacles in achieving it. Even wealthy and successful business people like Milton Hershey and Henry Ford failed before figuring it out. The quick accumulation of three Super Bowl victories and massive financial fortune is not an excuse for Jones to do the same.
He is the owner. He named himself President. Being general manager is not a requirement. That is his choice.
Five years is generally an unofficial tenure for general managers to succeed or get the axe. Jones has underperformed as a National Football League general manager during the 1996-2000 seasons, 2001-2005 seasons, 2006-2010 seasons, 2011-2015 seasons and 2016-2020 seasons. He fell short last season.
Perhaps forgiveness isn't a deflection. Maybe Jones should forgive himself by benefitting from one, two, three, four, FIVE mulligans any other business person would have not likely given him as a general manager. Wait. Tack on a year on top of a quarter century of compounding, avoidable, post-1996 general manager ineptitude.
I hope, as he hopes, that the 2022 season will be different. Wish Frank Sinatra was still alive and standing next to him holding the Lombardi Trophy. Then Ol' Blue Eyes could lean over and whisper in his ear, "This isn't what I meant by 'I did it my way'."
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