You won the lottery, you own the cowboys

[Sarge]

WATCH THE PERSONAL ATTACKS OR THIS THREAD WILL BE CLOSED.

 

[Rack]

give it some thought. i'm trying to.

what do you do?

Fire anyone in the organization with the last name of "Jones" or anyone that looks like the crypt keeper.

Then for the next 5 years I'd try and get the salary cap under control, even if it means eating a crap ton of dead money the first couple of years. No more pushing large amounts of money to the future.

Of course I'd hire a real GM and make sure that new GM and I stayed out of the coaches' business.

 

[silver]

the OP premise is flawed since winning the lotto wont suffice to buy this team.

 

[Rack]

the OP premise is flawed since winning the lotto wont suffice to buy this team.

Then assume you won like 5 lottos in the same week. It's just fantasy... go along with it.

 

[funkytown]

I liked your post because your head is in the right place but are actions 5-7 really that easy?

They wont be easy, but feasible.

Building in the trenches, finding a good safety, adding a well rounded RB, and future QB should be possible.

 

[silver]

Then assume you won like 5 lottos in the same week. It's just fantasy... go along with it.

OK I'll play. Hire a real GM, maybe Ozzie Newsome understudy or the personnel guy in Seattle. Hire Kevin Sumlin as your HC and go from there.

 

[Fredd]

Seriously? I treat it like a work project

* I hire a team of football minds to assess the team - a think-tank (the Polians & Parcells of the world)
* Look at lean management styles and determine where I need to take hits to get the team to prominence on a long-term success basis
* Balance the plan against revenue to make sure the team stays relevant
* Develop realistic time-tables for the changes
* This think tank is also the group that hires the GM (it could be someone on the think tank)
* The GM has whatever the time table is to develop the plan (plus one year)

 

[Risen Star]

Hire a good/great GM. Someone with a track record. Then I'd get out of the way and let him build my team. Every Sunday I'd watch my 'Boys while sipping Mountain Dew (I don't drink) from my lavish suite.

Winner.

It may take you a few hires to find the right guy but at least the structure is sound.

Anything short of this is window dressing.

 

[Risen Star]

Hire Bill Polian as my gm. Get rid of Red and most likely hire Lovie as my HC.Put a muzzle on Stephan.

So in other words, hire Bill Polian and then do all his thinking for him.

 

[perrykemp]

Consider a Ted Thompson understudy as GM -- two have left in the last three years:

Schneider - GM of the Seahawks
Dorsey - Hired this year as the GM of the Chiefs

Can't complain about what those two franchises have done in recent years under these Ted Thompson disciples.

The guys I'd like to see the Cowboys hire is Elliot Wolf -- Ron Wolf's son -- he is currently the NFL's youngest Director of Player Personnel and is considered an absolute wonderkid. He started his NFL scouting when he was 14.

 

[black label]

Buy the fastest wheelchairs ever made
Find the biggest hills in Texas
Put kiffin,garret,jones in them and push them down the hill.

 

[9darter]

Same cure as always. Just get rid of the Jones family. It's not like some new disease has been discovered.

After that, well, try to come up with a vision and new identity for this team. No more Jerry-like "what tendencies in the league can I replicate" kind of thinking. No more country club and entitlement culture. No more attention to past history.

Redefine yourself and move forward. I don't really care about the exact plan for this. As long as you move on from the current ownership.

 

[hutch1254]

I'm going with the scenario that I buy the team after this season is over. I say goodbye to Jerry Jones. Build statues of him, induct him into Ring of Honor, etc. I show him nothing but class, and let him be around as long and as much as he wants. Without having any decision making abilities of course.

1) Find a GM, one who has a track record of strong drafts. Ted Thompson and Ozzie Newsome were named and would be great. Does Jimmy Johnson have any passion left?

2) Fire Garrett and begin a coaching search with my new GM. See if a big name gets fired like Tomlin in Pittsburgh. If not I go after Cowher or someone with a strong fire and passion.

3) Let the coach build his own staff, but try to push to have Lovie Smith as Defensive Coordinator w/ Marinelli on the staff. On the offensive side, build the offense around Dez much like Detroit does with Calvin Johnson..Find a coordinator that gets the ball to his playmakers.

4) Figure out this messy cap situation and get it fixed within the first few seasons. No more paying guys 2 or 3 years from free agency. You will have to earn your contract until it expires. We may have to eat some bad contracts the first few years and be bad. I'm willing to accept that, because we will put a premium on draft picks and build in the draft.

5) Personnel wise we build in the trenches. Go after Defensive and Offensive line in Free Agency/Draft. running back situation needs to be overhauled. We are missing speed and power in the backfield. Demarco is injury prone and Randle, Dunbar, Tanner are back ups. I try to find a gem in the middle rounds to go with Demarco next year. I do not resign Murray.

6) Find some safeties with range and play making ability. Not many of those out there but we need at least one. This secondary needs an upgrade. Carr is good and Scandrick is decent in the slot. All corners get beat from time to time. Not sure about Mo Claiborne.

7) Find my future QB. This is a QB deep draft, and you can find a guy in this draft to groom. Draft best available player,even if its a QB. We should be drafting in the mid to early 20s, and a QB could fall in the 1st. If not i'd be ok with getting one in the 2nd or 3rd. We need a young stud to sit behind Romo in 2014, and possibly be ready to take over in 2015 or 2016.

Pretty good post. Those that disagree with your take are the ones who want full blown change but don't want to go through the suffering of a rebuild. In order to correct certain issues there will be some suffering. I think if you have a good QB you can always be in the mix even during a rebuild. However, its going to take a crappy year or two and some lowered expectations during that time frame to get where you want to go.

 

[hutch1254]

Fire anyone in the organization with the last name of "Jones" or anyone that looks like the crypt keeper.

Well the punter just took inadvertent shrapnel.

 

[Naruto]

Hire Jimbo Fisher.

Go to Junction Texas for training camp re-named Franchise Cleansing. Cut all the losers, hanger-ons and dead weight who can't hang.

Suck bad for a couple years but stockpile talent in key areas.

Re-evaluate

 

[Rack]

Well the punter just took inadvertent shrapnel.

Eh, it's just a punter.

 

[hutch1254]

Eh, it's just a punter.

Yup and one that I don't considered to be a weapon in the special teams part of the game. To me he's just there.

 

[Rack]

Yup and one that I don't considered to be a weapon in the special teams part of the game. To me he's just there.

Yeah, he's average. But even if he were the greatest punter of all time... he's still just a punter.

 

[visionary]

Ask Ozzie Newsome if he'd like to come to Dallas.

If he says no, I turn to Ted Thompson.

I give them carte Blanche, and watch from my perch in the sky.

this

 

[Yakuza Rich]

I would keep the coaching staff, but I would look for somebody else to run the offense. I want to stick with the zone blocking scheme. I'd keep Callahan as the O-Line coach.

Since I'm the owner, I would look for an offensive mind that is not only creative from a pass play perspective, but from a running play perspective. I want *balance* on offense. And I want an offense designed to go for it on 4th downs quite often. But, I need a play caller that keeps that in mind.

The math behind it is simple. If I need 10 yards on 1st and 10, if have to get 3.33 yards per play in order to get a first down if I use the typical 3-down playcalling. But, if I use a 4-down mentality, now I only need 2.5 yards. And if it's 2nd and 10, it is the difference between 5 yards and 3.33 yards per play. 3rd and 10 it comes down to 10 yards versus 5 yards.

Since I'm the owner, I can take it. But, I have little doubt that this would work brilliantly once you work out the kinks. We would kill time of possession, we would make the RB and QB's jobs easier.

From there, I would work diligently to stockpile draft picks each year. I would try and set up 2014 draft as one 1st, two 2nds, and a 3rd, etc. Then take a 2nd rounder and draft a QB.

Defensively, I would start looking at taller corners and DB's. That is what Pete Carroll has done. Size and physicality on the backside, speed and explosiveness on the front side. It would also fit in with Kiffin and Marinelli's scheme.





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