Why is Jerry destroying his Legacy?

john van brocklin

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Can't figure this guy out .... at all.

28 years of not making the NFCCG puts us with Deadskins as the only 2 teams in the NFL in that category of futility.

I know the money is flowing in, but is that how Jerry wants to be remembered ?

I mean he has has enough money to last a 1000 lifetimes, doesn't he want to be remembered as a winner?

How hard would it be to hire a professional GM and see if that can't turn things around ?

I wonder if Jerry has any sense of mortality?

Then you got the whole "ALL IN" comments, then he sits on his hands this off season.

I don't have anything personally against the man, I just hate that he is destroying the team I have loved my whole life.

I can't remember being this discouraged in an off season.
 

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It’s not a legacy if it was a one time, 100% lucky strike that has never been replicated.
Jerry is nothing more than a lottery winner that duped himself into believing he won everything by skill and his superior intellect….while everyone laughs at him.
 

john van brocklin

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It’s not a legacy if it was a one time, 100% lucky strike that has never been replicated.
Jerry is nothing more than a lottery winner that duped himself into believing he won everything by skill and his superior intellect….while everyone laughs at him.
Well, he won 3 SB's as owner and he is in the HOF.
So I would think he has something of a legacy to protect and consider.
 

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Can't figure this guy out .... at all.

28 years of not making the NFCCG puts us with Deadskins as the only 2 teams in the NFL in that category of futility.

I know the money is flowing in, but is that how Jerry wants to be remembered ?

I mean he has has enough money to last a 1000 lifetimes, doesn't he want to be remembered as a winner?

How hard would it be to hire a professional GM and see if that can't turn things around ?

I wonder if Jerry has any sense of mortality?

Then you got the whole "ALL IN" comments, then he sits on his hands this off season.

I don't have anything personally against the man, I just hate that he is destroying the team I have loved my whole life.

I can't remember being this discouraged in an off season.
LOL..........His EGO took over in 1995 and he never looked back, baby!
Jerry won 3 Superbowls and is content playing football GOD while we sit on the sidelines making him richer and debating his ineptness for the last 30 years.
Cowboys are his TOY and until the man in the sky comes calling no one and I mean NO ONE is taking his precious from him!!!
 

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LOL..........His EGO took over in 1995 and he never looked back, baby!
Jerry won 3 Superbowls and is content playing football GOD while we sit on the sidelines making him richer and debating his ineptness for the last 30 years.
Cowboys are his TOY and until the man in the sky comes calling no one and I mean NO ONE is taking his precious from him!!!
lol @ 1995. Jerry Jones' narcissism went full throttle March 29, 1994. His body has throttled down since then but his ego has stayed just as young.
 

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Can't figure this guy out .... at all.

28 years of not making the NFCCG puts us with Deadskins as the only 2 teams in the NFL in that category of futility.

I know the money is flowing in, but is that how Jerry wants to be remembered ?

I mean he has has enough money to last a 1000 lifetimes, doesn't he want to be remembered as a winner?

How hard would it be to hire a professional GM and see if that can't turn things around ?

I wonder if Jerry has any sense of mortality?

Then you got the whole "ALL IN" comments, then he sits on his hands this off season.

I don't have anything personally against the man, I just hate that he is destroying the team I have loved my whole life.

I can't remember being this discouraged in an off season.
His legacy is cemented. Hall of Famer, Super Bowl winner…..everything he did for the league….hes gonna go down as one of the best owners to ever be in the NFL
 

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I don’t like how he’s run things either, but destroying his legacy?
  • 3 Lombardy trophies.
  • Taking a struggling organization and moving it to the most lucrative business in all of sports.
  • Changing the way the NFL operates and helping to make it the beast of professional sports and its owners all much richer.
  • Inducted into the Hall of Fame.
His legacy is secure no matter what he does at this point.
 

john van brocklin

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LOL..........His EGO took over in 1995 and he never looked back, baby!
Jerry won 3 Superbowls and is content playing football GOD while we sit on the sidelines making him richer and debating his ineptness for the last 30 years.
Cowboys are his TOY and until the man in the sky comes calling no one and I mean NO ONE is taking his precious from him!!!
Great "Lord of the Rings" reference , :lmao:
 

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His legacy is that he made himself and many others tons of money and brought endless publicity to the league. He is a contributor. That is the only reason he is in the pro football HOF. Not football accumen.
Yeah these are some of the most ridiculous comments ever he has no football acumen the dude was on a national championship team he actually played football in college I know it wasn't big time college but it was Arkansas it was with Jimmy Johnson this would have never happened without Jerry Jones he has three titles on his own Tom Landry and bum bright whoever else that management was had two titles in the same span yeah they won a lot of games but they also lost big games the Pittsburgh Steelers own them they made mistakes you remember the catch game I mean listen the other ownership wasn't that much better it's about titles right Jerry has three the other regime had two if my math is right....

Jerry's already got a Hall of Fame jacket but he knows something about football why because he played, I guarantee high school and college football at a higher level than you or anybody in here you show me all the professionals in here, because if not Jerry's resume says he has a national championship ring from college football regardless of how much of A player he was or not he played football he bought this team because of his passion for football, ohh and by the way you think being around football people for the last 35 years here in the professionals at all ranks that work for him and under him that he's picked up nothing ?? he's learned no on the job training at all??

the man knows nothing about football is what you're saying, dude take that nonsense out of here I'm sick of it you can't know nothing about football if you played high level football in high school and college is that on the team, and not just an owner in the background at GM who is very close to the operations on a daily basis you're saying these are nothing the dude knows more about football than anybody in here, I guarantee it just because you think he wants to be a coach and doesn't coach that he wants to medal, no the dude's a talker, he likes publicity the man has a big ego and lots of billionaires have big egos...

I don't want to hear this anymore don't tell me about he has no football acumen when the man has done more than I've been anybody else in here and I know there's a few coaches and people who played high school football and some that may have been decent college football players but show me the list of people in here that discuss Cowboys football that have a national championship ring from college and that's lived in the daily operations of a professional football team around football people for 35 years you show me anybody in here that's done that?​

It's rhetorical because I bet you can't...

He may not be the best GM that does crazy things like Howie Roseman but he's put together and been around plenty of championship teams and he's kept this team winning games enough that he's so relative that the league continues to give the Dallas Cowboys all the primetime games they can Max out on, it's made social media make sure they mention the Dallas Cowboys and all their content, and all the sport shows don't go a day without mentioning the Dallas Cowboys, regardless of how you feel about that Jerry still has a winning product on the field if the last three years doesn't show that we're a top six team, you know 36 wins ,two division titles against Howie Roseman and his awesome Eagles team that goes All in all the time ,but doesn't have much to show for, and add five playoff appearances in the last eight years..

So,

whatever Jerry doesn't know he definitely has people under him that know and by the way he's not the GM anymore and he hasn't been he's been a GM by title for quite a while guys like will McClay & a committee of very smart people work for him.. he's a businessman, he knows how to put together management in layers and layers of people who are smarter than him at certain things he doesn't know... if you don't think you could build a business that is how you build the corporation and that's how he's built the Cowboys.

And I get it we want more we want an NFC championship game appearance, we want another Super Bowl ,but don't act like Jerry Jones knows nothing about football and has the Cowboys sucking every year because they don't they're better than about 28 other teams in this league because all those teams with these great football people are not even beating the Dallas Cowboys on a regular basis and that includes the Eagles everybody slobbers over, all the moves and how active the Howie Roseman is and by the way go check out the Kansas City Chiefs you by the way beat it Eagles and the 49ers, who have been all in for quite some time and can't seem to get past the team that's done less and less every year ,

the Kansas City Chiefs have made less moves than the Dallas Cowboys that's a fact they pretty much run it NFL team very much like the Dallas Cowboys and most other teams in the NFL if you think all teams do what the Rams only did once do what the Eagles seem to try to do and the 49ers everybody else runs their team with less risk they're not gambling they're not going all in so all this nonsense about Jerry just not knowing anything about football and that's why the Cowboys are just about money hasn't been watching.. Go look at their regular season win percentage you can't not know what you're doing and put together a top six team in the NFL, who's had some of their best success since the 90s the last five years.

Don't get me wrong I'm not putting Jerry in like top management GM ownership type but he for sure deserves some more respect than he gets in here, I for sure putting him in the top ten because our team outside of the lack of playoff success has remained relative and that's because they're still winning, they're not just over marketing a bad team... Yes they fell short but it could be much worse we could be one of those teams like the Cleveland Browns who haven't even won a division title since 1989,

so let's get over all this other nonsense about him not having football acumen because I guarantee he does,

his ego may keep him from giving people credit where credit is due and it may cause some problems but he no longer medals in the everyday operations of coaching he listens to his people he lets people draft who they want for the most part I mean we have proof of that he wanted Johnny Manziel and didn't get him that's just one example of many,

so let's just get over it he's not perfect he's not the best but he deserves more respect than people sit here and mutter out there very amateurish mails you know nothing on the level that he does you let me know when you get a $10 billion team and have it since 1989 and have a Hall of Fame jacket have a national championship ring and three Super Bowl titles along with the fact that he's kept the team in the top 10 in winning percentage in the regular season but we're right now on top five lately there's 32 teams in the league saying Jerry doesn't know anything about football somebody always staying ahead of those normal GM's and teams and ownership somehow he's remained at least good enough to be better than them...
 

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The saddest part of Jerry's "legacy" is that early-on in his ownership, he relied upon Jimmy Johnson as his GM/HC and did all he could to take credit for the years that Jimmy guided the Cowboys to excellence. Sadly, the GM title was Jerry's but only in name but not in performance. The Super Bowls that followed Jimmy's activities as the acting GM were his, much to the chagrin of Jerry and his self-awarded title of GM. Jerry will likely forever be remembered as an effective owner and a horrible GM. Jerry tried as best he could to take the full credit for Jimmy's decisions to no avail. Once Jimmy left, things gradually de-escalated into a lesser product on the field, despite much of the talent that was left over from Jimmy's reign.

Granted, Jerry's reign as an owner who did so many things to bring the brand of the Cowboys to world acclaim as an organization is still intact. That's where Jerry's legacy will always be admired the most, rather than anything that was accomplished on the field of play. He'll deny it 'til the day he dies, however. His ego won't allow anything else to consider as true, in his own mind. Unfortunately, Stephen seems to mirror his image, as well.
 
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Can't figure this guy out .... at all.


How hard would it be to hire a professional GM and see if that can't turn things around ?
Not hard at all, he'd just need to "put the ad in the paper", and the best and brightest would be vying for the job.

But in that same vein, how hard would it have been for Jerry to simply not fire Jimmy Johnson and ride him to several more championships? Once again....not hard at all.

It's a hard thing to for us all to realize....that one senile old man puts his glory over millions of fan's happiness, and would rather have a 1% chance of winning the SuperBowl every year under HIS leadership, than tripling or quadrupling those odds under another GM's leadership.

It really is kind of a disgusting trait of his as a human being, knowing the millions of people's interest are involved, the very millions of people that fundnhis organizations, and the epitome of selfishness....but that's who Jerry Jones is.
 
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