Jerry Jones insists he’s the right G.M. for the Cowboys

[Midswat]

Posted by Michael David Smith on January 4, 2012, 7:39 AM EST

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones says he will remain Cowboys General Manager Jerry Jones, and no one is going to talk him out of that.

According to Jones, he has done a good job at the main roles of a G.M. — hiring a coach and acquiring talent — and therefore there’s no reason for him to quit doing that job.

“One of the first jobs of a G.M. is to have good coaching,” Jones said on 105.3 FM. “I think we’ve got good coaching. I know that they know it can be better, but every team can say that. I look at our coaching and I like it. I look at our personnel. We had a total of 71 players on the roster all year, 31 were new players. I look at the mix of players, the veteran, the young player, where we’re going to be with our core. I know we can do better, but I think there are some positives there.”

But doesn’t the Cowboys’ 8-8 record suggest that the coaching and the players aren’t good enough, and therefore the owner/general manager who put them in place isn’t good enough? Not according to Jones, who wants Cowboys fans to understand that he has access to all the information he needs to make the right calls.

“The way we’re structured and the way it is, our fans need to understand that I have the ability to go get anybody and any bit of information that there is, sports or football, and I do. I go get it. We get it from a lot of sources,” Jones said.

The bottom line is that the Cowboys belong to Jerry Jones, and he didn’t buy them to be a hands-off owner. As long as he owns the team, he’s calling the shots.

 

[RoyTheHammer]

Trying to convince himself at this point.. good Lord.

 

[Sheik]

The way we're structured has ruined this once proud franchise.

We'll be a perennial 5-11/6-10 team again soon.

I can't believe that he thinks he's done a great job acquiring talent.

He doesn't know how to put together a football team. He can put 5 or 6 stars out there every year if he wants, but if they're playing with a bunch of scrubs beside them, we see the same results we've seen the last 15 years.

Human piece of shit. I hate the jerk.

 

[cmd34]

The way we're structured has ruined this once proud franchise.

We'll be a perennial 5-11/6-10 team again soon.

I can't believe that he thinks he's done a great job acquiring talent.

He doesn't know how to put together a football team. He can put 5 or 6 stars out there every year if he wants, but if they're playing with a bunch of scrubs beside them, we see the same results we've seen the last 15 years.

Human piece of shit. I hate the jerk.

I believe he has convinced himelf that because of Romo and Austin that he and his amazing staff can find guys no one knows about and outsmart the entire league. The reality is the back end of our roster is filled with slow safeties, conversion projects, and veterans who have overstayed their welcome. I think we have as much talent at the top of our roster as any team. I also think we have the worst depth in the league.

 

[Cr122]

He'll never change. He has too much on his plate.

You can't be the owner and be the GM too. It just amazes me that he thinks his way is working.

If it weren't for Jimmy Johnson or Bill Parcells we would be in a worse situation than we are now.

Don't plan on winning anything next year either.

 

[Sheik]

Hit him where it hurts.

 

[Clutch88]

yea blah blah blah jerry tom landry an my daddy are turning over in their graves or laughing at you like the rest of the NFL,you took Americas team and made them americas blah blah blah,well you wont listen to the fans at all,you dont understand who can play defense and you sign players to good contracts who hasnt show even to be that good are you kidding me hire a GM or assitant GM to help because you keep thinking your going to get it right well guess what jerry jones,,youve failed once to many times man look at philly your so scared funny how that killed this team too what a speech thank God you dont run for prez!! because you would lose alot of campaign money like your players a bust jerry your our top 10 bust,jimmy johnson showed you the door to winning yet you blew that to pieces,so i think your trying to show your as good as jimmy your not and never will be until you listen to the FANS JERRY LISTEN TO THE FANS

 

[Sheik]

He is listening to the fans.

He keeps selling tickets.

 

[UVAwahoos]

Hit him where it hurts.

I talked about this on CZ for a bit, but it's actually too late to hurt his wallet. Now that he has that stadium, the 8 days of NFL football are like nothing for him. He has so many revenue generating events there throughout the rest of the calendar year, that it's essentially impossible to hurt his wallet.

 

[Sheik]

It would hurt him to see empty seats.

 

[Cr122]

I haven't been to a Cowboys game since 89'.
Empty seats and bags over the fans heads might do it. aper

 

[VA Cowboy]

“One of the first jobs of a G.M. is to have good coaching,” Jones said

Barry Switzer
Chan Gailey
Dave Campo
Wade Phillips

Hiring coaches he can walk all over is his main objective. And don't even get started with his player acquisitions over the last 17 years.

 

[UVAwahoos]

It would hurt him to see empty seats.

Most of the expensive seats were sold with a PSL license, which means their owners are locked in for 30 years. There also tons of corporations that buy bundles of tix ahead of time. He's making lots of money up front. Even if 10,000 true, diehard fans started boycotting, he'd still have over 80,000 people there for each of the 8 home games. Even now, with the team popular, the stadium is usually 10,000-15,000 below capacity for each of the home games since it's just so damn big.

http://www.pslsource.com/dallas_cowboys_psl

 

[Clutch88]

I can't even say that Jerry is a great owner at this point, because a great owner would fire the GM of this organization after years and years of mediocrity. A great owner would never put an individual (in this case the GM) ahead of the team. A great owner would fire the GM of the Dallas Cowboys for the betterment of the franchise.

Jerry the owner, you need to hold your GM more accountable. That's what a great owner would do. He'd put the GM's a$$ to the fire and let him know that another season like this is longer acceptable.

Sadly... none of this will ever happen.

The Dallas Cowboys have become and NFL punchline

 

[UVAwahoos]

He might change coaches if Garrett continues to blow, but the days of hiring a Parcells-type figurehead to essentially make all the decisions are completely over. It'll be a puppet from here on out. Particularly if Fisher isn't signed this year. I don't think Jerry respects any other coach to allow that type of ego blow.

Plus, Jerry admitted himself that the only reason Parcells was ever hired was to help him get the new stadium. He locked people into those 30 year contracts, and now he can essentially do whatever he wants for however long he wants.

 

[UVAwahoos]

He might change coaches if Garrett continues to blow, but the days of hiring a Parcells-type figurehead to essentially make all the decisions are completely over. It'll be a puppet from here on out. Particularly if Fisher isn't signed this year. I don't think Jerry respects any other coach to allow that type of ego blow.

Plus, Jerry admitted himself that the only reason Parcells was ever hired was to help him get the new stadium. He locked people into those 30 year contracts, and now he can essentially do whatever he wants for however long he wants.

 

[Cr122]

“One of the first jobs of a G.M. is to have good coaching,” Jones said

Barry Switzer
Chan Gailey
Dave Campo
Wade Phillips

Hiring coaches he can walk all over is his main objective. And don't even get started with his player acquisitions over the last 17 years.

Ayuh, and the only reason Switzer had success is Jimmy Johnson handed him a winning team already.

The rest failures. Yet, any other GM in football with this track record would've been shit canned a long time ago.

 

[Cr122]

He might change coaches if Garrett continues to blow, but the days of hiring a Parcells-type figurehead to essentially make all the decisions are completely over. It'll be a puppet from here on out. Particularly if Fisher isn't signed this year. I don't think Jerry respects any other coach to allow that type of ego blow.

Plus, Jerry admitted himself that the only reason Parcells was ever hired was to help him get the new stadium. He locked people into those 30 year contracts, and now he can essentially do whatever he wants for however long he wants.

No reason to delete this. It's spot on.

 

[marionbarberthe4th]

I've seen a solid amounf of empty seats in decent seasons .


Problem Is our Ratings are never gonna go down. People love piling on us

 

[Cr122]

[h=1]Don't expect Jerry Jones to 'fire himself'[/h]
By Dan Graziano http://espn.go.com/blog/dallas/cowboys/post/_/id/4689331/dont-expect-jerry-jones-to-fire-himself

Debate is nice. Debate is the lifeblood of our ongoing modern sports discussion. Without it, it'd be tough to fill up this blog, this site or all of these TV stations every day. But some debates aren't worth having, and this one about whether the Dallas Cowboys should hire a GM is one of them. Jerry Jones owns the team and has served as its GM since he bought it. He likes the job and has no intention of giving it up. And this is just one of those things that, if you're a Cowboys fan and you don't like it, you're pretty much out of luck.

It's a tried-and-true axiom in sports that you can't fire the owner. But it runs deeper than that. The owner, by definition, gets to do whatever he wants. If Jones wants to be the GM, he's going to be the GM. If he wanted to be the video assistant or the defensive coordinator or the head coach or the starting tight end, guess what? He'd be the video assistant or the defensive coordinator or the head coach or the starting tight end. Considering the myriad possibilities, Cowboys fans really should be happy he doesn't have bigger or more bizarre aspirations.

If you're a Cowboys fan in 2012, this is your reality, and you have no choice but to cheer for your team under these guidelines. Jones is going to be the GM because that's what he wants and that's the way he thinks his team runs the best. We can debate for hours on end whether that's the best thing for the franchise, but this is one of those situations in which the debate isn't even worth having. There can be no other result besides status quo, and if you don't like the way the Cowboys are run you're not going to like it as long as Jones is the owner -- which will be as long as he wants to be.

Things could be worse. In Jones, the Cowboys have an owner who will spend what it takes to win. Many teams don't have that. They have an owner who burns to win, who takes it hard when the team doesn't win, and who seems to feel the way the fans feel about the successes and failures. The negative flip side is an owner who insists on making personnel decisions instead of hiring someone better qualified. An owner who addresses the media in a huge scrum in the middle of the locker room immediately after every game, win or lose. An owner who does a couple of newsmaking radio appearances a week because he likes being the out-front face of the franchise -- because that's one of the reasons he wanted to own the team in the first place.

Some will argue that the Cowboys can never win a championship with this dynamic in place. Others, including Jones, will point out that they already have, three times. The key thing to watch over the next few seasons is not whether Jones improves or has improved as a talent evaluator. His current coaches have plenty of say in player acquisition and personnel decisions anyway, and he's far more open-minded and solicitous of opinions than is reputation gives him credit for. No, the thing to watch is the way Jason Garrett develops as a coach within the organizational structure that Jones has set up and insists on maintaining. Jones wants Garrett to be a great coach and will allow him as much leeway as Jones' personality equips him to allow. It's just that, when you coach, play or root for the Cowboys, you have to understand what that means. And that it's not going to change.