Any surprise Lewis doesn’t have a job?
The best Jerry Jones could do to fill a high profile, highly desired head coaching position is get Mike McCarthy?! Green Bay got rid of him because Rodgers hated him and the offense underachieved under his direction. I don’t get it.
I think the Patriots have skewed everyone’s opinion about what a great team is. 8 straight playoff appearances with a Super Bowl win is pretty damn good. An supposedly he’s spent this entire season studying modern offensive schemes.
As my daddy used to say, “We shall see what we shall see.” The NFL brutally exposes bullshit fairly quickly.
Depends on how you look at it. From a coach’s perspective, he’s definitely in the bottom third (or I’d argue, bottom 3) because of the level of control he exerts over the coach’s decisions.
Overall, he gets bumped up because he makes a lot of good decisions when it comes to the team (and some bad ones too). He gets bumped down again because he can’t get a great coach, due to the first problem.
Yeah - he’s been “very effective” in keeping his team from competing for any real championships for decades (which is perfectly fine by me).
If I thought I was head coach material for the N.F.L. I wouldn’t solicit any offers from that team based in Texas. I wouldn’t, anyway - but I certainly wouldn’t given who owns that team right now, I don’t care how much that moron would be willing to pay me.
What I’ve read in several places is that McCarthy hopes to have a “second act” akin to what Andy Reid is doing in Kansas City. After getting fired by the Eagles, Reid, too, opened up his thinking, and found new concepts (particularly from college ball) to incorporate.
I know you’re not going to be even remotely objective about this, but let’s look at the teams who have won the exact same number of Super Bowls as the Cowboys this century.
Chicago, Detroit, Minnesota, New York Jets, Buffalo, Miami, Tennessee, Jacksonville, Houston, Washington, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Oakland, San Diego/LA, Kansas City, St Louis/LA, San Francisco, Atlanta, Arizona and Carolina.
At a glance, all but 7 of those never lost one either. The Cowboys were in the playoffs 7 times which is solidly middle of the pack.
Now, Jerry is insufferable but if you think he’s a bottom 3 owner because he “can’t win” you’re simply ignoring the facts. There’s only 1 winner each year and with the Patriots being the Patriots, there really are only a couple of franchises that could pass your silly litmus test.
Jones is a successful owner in the exact same way that Favre is a great quarterback.
In other words, that was once true.
Yeah, but how many of those other franchises get hyped up every season the way that team based in Texas does? Frankly, I couldn’t care less - the longer time goes on without that team winning anything of note, the better. You wanna “talk him up” as if he’s a “great” owner when that team hasn’t won anything of note in ¼ century, you go for it. Have at it. I’ll just keep laughing from a distance at the difference in expectations and hype for that team every season and actual performance.
Back that up. Seriously, what’s your argument? Because he stuck with Jason Garrett longer than the media thought he should? He was in the playoffs 3 of the last 6 seasons and won a game twice. They’ve got talent all over the place (which is why the underachievement of Garrett was a problem in the first place).
Please, provide examples.
What the fuck does that have to do with Jones? He’s not running ESPN. If anything that’s an example of him being a excellent owner if he’s able to get his team more TV time than the record merits.
And if you think I’m somehow in the tank for the Cowboys you really haven’t been paying attention.
That team has been in the playoffs that many times over the last 20, or so, seasons? They’ve had so little impact that I never would’ve guessed. When’s the last time that team made it to a conference championship game? Uh huh - it’s been a while. And my take on all those playoff appearances is that they probably wouldn’t have NEARLY that many if their division didn’t have one team with maybe the very WORST owner in the league, one that’s a bit of a dumpster fire right now, and another that is merely “decent.”
Obviously I HAVE been paying attention and you obviously are very intent on defending that team. You can defend it all you want to - it doesn’t change the fact - NOT ONE BIT - that it really hasn’t done anything of note for a whole quarter century. Those who truly HAVE been “paying attention” - like ME - know that. It’s not my problem that you want to defend a team - and an owner - that have no idea what they’re doing but have somehow Jedi mind tricked certain people into thinking that they do.
Jones a fine owner. His team has a huge fanbase nationwide, makes lots of money on top of revenue sharing sources, and he wields extraordinary influence among the ownership group.
Jones really sucks as a GM.
A good owner gets a good GM. Jones did not do that, so he can still be fairly criticized as a bad owner in at least one important way.
As **garygnu **said, Jerry is the best owner in the league when it comes to revenue, TV ratings, events, etc. You can’t ask for better. Even with the Cowboys’ mediocre performance over the past two decades, Dallas ***still ***tops the league in ratings, value, etc. - now just imagine what a tsunami would be unleashed if the Cowboys even did manage to just advance to another Super Bowl sometime soon, let alone win one.
The guy is an absolutely terrible GM though. That being said, though, there are occasionally times when Jerry overruled coaches for the team’s better good - such as when Bill Parcells wanted the Cowboys to pass on DeMarcus Ware in 2005 and Jerry rightfully said, “nuh-uh, we’re going to take Ware.”
But yes he needs to find an actual real football GM.
It’s still a thing. Predictably, it often just leads to tokenism. A brown-skinned coaching candidate shows up for the interview, knowing perfectly well the franchise isn’t going to consider him seriously but is just checking the box off the checklist.
That team (for some reason) had a huge following long before J.J. owned it so I’m not willing to give him the credit for that that some of you are. Bottom line - his team hasn’t won anything of note since the best years of all the players that team fleeced the Vikings for ended. I hope that continues for as long as that person owns that team.