I know I'm not the only Cowboys fan that's tired of Jerry Jones reign of stupidity continuing. I know I am not the only one that's tired of him driving this team into the ground. Again I plead with my fellow Cowboys fans, please don't spend any money on any thing Cowboys related. The only way we fans can make our impact felt is by not financially supporting Jones and his minions. Please don't go to Cowboys games or buy Cowboys merchandise of any sort, do not put any more money in the pocket of Jones. Maybe if he loses enough money, he'll be forced to sale.
One of my favorite baseball teams went through something similar, the Dodgers were owned by a very greedy, short-sighted Frank McCourt. He ruined the franchise so much that he was forced to sell. I'm so thankful that someone with deep pockets bought the team and seems intent on building a winner the right way. The Dodgers current ownership group have made some less than intelligent decisions so far, but at least they have a plan in place. Jerry Jones has shown time and time again that deep pockets isn't a guarantee to running a winning team. Sound business decisions are the way to go, not ego, hubris and vanity of a crazy man.
Working together Cowboys fans we can force Jerry to sale the Cowboys. Please join me. I would like to see the Cowboys win at least one more Super Bowl in my life. The way the team is going now they are going in the wrong direction. I would like to see this season's team fall completely apart in order to force the Cowboys to make real changes, starting with them getting a GM who knows what he's doing.
I've been a Dallas Cowboys fan most of my life. However because of the stupidity of Jones, I'm slowly becoming a 49ers fan. It's one thing for a team to be bad, I'll cheer for that team forever. However for a team to be continually bad because of their egomaniac owner is one thing I can't tolerate forever. I've followed the Cowboys since the days of Tony Dorsett, Roger Staubach and the great Tom Landry. I remember Ed "Too Tall" Jones' boxing career. My oldest son's middle name is Emmitt, named after one of the greatest running backs of all-time. Jones many years of stupidity can even overwhelm 30 years of living through the good and bad times with the Cowboys.
Thanks to the great coaching of Jimmy Johnson, the Cowboys won 3 Super Bowls in the 90's. Then Jerry Jones in a fit of stupidity forced out Johnson after the Cowboys second Super Bowl of the 90s. Two years later Barry Switzer, using Johnson's players, won the fifth Super Bowl for the Cowboys. And since then no more Super Bowl appearances and even making the playoffs is a rare thing for the Cowboys.
Since those mid-90's glory days, things for Cowboys fans have been getting worse with Jerry Jones making most of the decisions. Most of his decisions are based not on wanting to win, but on making him looking like a football genius. Only he's unaware that ship sailed long ago, no one will ever confuse Jones for a football genius. He's a genius of hype, poor football decisions and making money. He's also a genius at trying to justify his terrible decisions, which he should be with all the practice he's had for that. But he's a complete failure as a football genius.
Here I'd like to keep track of some of the dumber things that Jerry Jones has said and done over the last several years. 99 more days until the regular season starts, so I know I'll be adding a lot more of Jones idiocy to this blog. Thanks to ESPN.com for all quotes unless otherwise noted.
The things listed here are have happened or were reported from May, 2013 to today:
July 20th, 2013 Jones talking about Garrett: "To answer your question specifically, one of the neatest things about not only this year but a positive about this year is that, if you're in close here, you see how Jason is responding to obviously unsatisfactory times. And I can tell you firsthand that's impressive, so I like that looking ahead at the future. It is very good."
As Garrett sat immediately to his right, Jones expressed "great confidence in the head coach and direction of the team" before being asked any questions.
"I can tell you that it's very comforting to have Jason as our head coach," Jones said. (As always thanks to ESPN.com.)
I wonder how long Jones will stick by the above statement. Also the man has been alive 70 years when is he going to learn how to speak clearly?
On July 19th, 2013 the Jerrster strikes again. According to ESPN Dallas: Jones made a joke today about this Cowboys team making a Super Bowl run. Yes that is a joke. Of course Jones as a GM is also a big time joke, except no one is laughing at that joke. Well at least no Cowboys fan. After he made that joke, he then made another joke. Although it seems he was serious when he said: "I think we’ve taken steps to improve our team," Jones said. "We are a better team, no question in my mind, than we were at this same time last year. We've got a lot of work to do."Jones said the Cowboys are a better team. This is otherwise known as the same thing he says every year. The master of hype is pumping up his Cowboys, I'm embarrassed by how many years I fell for it. Although it took me too long to learn this lesson, I know fully have learned my lesson. I no longer a believer in Jones annual line of bullshit. How does anyone know if this team will be better without playing any games? Will this still be a better team if the Cowboys start 1-4, Jason Garrett makes several coaching mistakes, Callahan makes terrible play calls and Tony Romo throws several interceptions?
Jerry Jones' lack of intelligence and common sense continues to show. The only thing Jerry loves more than himself is being in front of the camera. But he being such a camera hog has it's disadvantages. From ESPN on May 31st, 2013:
"The Dallas Cowboys are aware their 2013 NFL draft board has been compromised. Blogging The Boys, a website that covers the team, compiled the Cowboys' draft board by piecing together pictures of owner Jerry Jones, who was standing in front of the board while conducting TV interviews in the team's war room, from several different angles. Multiple sources confirmed that Jones did television interviews inside the war room.
During the draft, the Cowboys provide fans with glimpses of the war room on the team's website. The camera, however, is stationed in front of Jones, executive vice president Stephen Jones and coach Jason Garrett and you can't see the draft board." (Thanks to ESPN.com.)
Sometimes I wonder if Jones actually thinks about things before he does them. Especially since something similar happened to the Cowboys in 2010. The Cowboys continue to be the NFL's dumbest franchise.
These items listed here are items that have happened through the early part of May, 2013.
1) In 2013 Jones decided to give a $100 million plus to a quarterback, Tony Romo, that has won a grand total of one playoff game. Romo is 1-6 in win or go home games. The Cowboys haven't even been to the playoffs for 4 of the last 5 seasons. In 2013 I don't know how the Cowboys will fail, but once again they won't make the playoffs.
2) Picking a center in the first round, even though centers aren't usually picked in the first round. That center Travis Frederick may end up being a great player, but the Cowboys could have probably drafted him in the second or third round.
3) Jones gave up too much for both Joey Galloway and Roy Williams. Both players ended up being very ineffective.
4) In 2013 Jones said that Jason Garrett wasn't fighting for his job, even though everyone knows that he is. He also referred to Jones as a "premier asset", which is hilarious. Jones only calls Garrett that to try and cover up his own coach hiring decisions. This will be Garrett's last season in Dallas, after which he'll never get another head coaching job. After firing Garrett, Jones will hire another coach equally as bad and not understand why the Cowboys still suck.
No one can mangle the English language like Jerry Jones, here he is speaking about Garrett:
"Well, no, no he's not ... to the last question: Is Jason coaching for his job? No," Jones told the NFL Network in an interview from the NFL's spring meetings in Boston that aired last week. "What we're doing is taking the assets that we have, and Jason being right at the top and certainly our premier asset, and we're using them to the best of our ability."
5) What the hell did he just say? What Jones said about the cyst on Romo's back: "Do you want to call it a toothache?"
6) More garbled English by Jones, talking about his adopted son Romo:
"He's played a lot of games now," Jones said. "He certainly had a lot of time on the job before he ever started and played. He has a unique grasp of our offensive concepts. The people who are around him the most -- his coaches -- tell me he's never had a bad idea. If you think about where he's at right now, he's 10 years older than most of the players we have on the field. We think his skill level right now is very much where we hoped it would be and will be for several years to come. But what we want to use more than we ever have is the kind of thing that (ex-Cowboys quarterback Roger) Staubach contributed -- input into designing a plan that helps us beat that opponent."
7) Jones about Romo again:
“I want to use everything that he’s got in his computer,” Jerry told reporters during rookie minicamp, referring to Romo. “The way to do that is have him involved in a lot of the design and the preparation as we not only prepare the team in general, but as we prepare for the opponents. He’s qualified to do that.”
8) What Jones said about safety Matt Johnson, who's never played a regular season play: “I don’t know when I’ve ever seen a player impress our staff without having played in a ballgame any more than Matt Johnson."
9) Jones talking about his hero Romo yet again. Some of the stupid things Jones says, no one would be able to make up. Comparing Romo to Peyton Manning in anything football related is simply asinine.
"Peyton Manning-type time on the job. Tony is more involved in the finished product,” Jones said. “He is more involved, unequivocally. I’m counting that in. That ought to produce some success. It will produce some success. I’m talking about the kind of plays we run, a lot of what we do offensively."
I'd think that someone that has hogged the limelight for so long would actually know how to speak to the press.
10) Jones speaking to season ticket holders, this comment was about the country club atmosphere that Jimmy Johnson says applies to the current Cowboys team:
"I don’t think that we do have a country club atmosphere around here. There’s too much competition. These players recognize how fortunate they are to be in the NFL, to have these opportunities. We’ve got as good or better leadership than my experience in 24 years with the Cowboys has seen."
On the same conference call talking about Tim Tebow, which won't surprise me someday if Dallas signs him. I'm hoping that Jones isn't that stupid, but no promises.
"We really feel good about Kyle Orton and that's where it all starts and stops right there. He will be used differently to some degree than we use (Tony) Romo, but he's capable of winning big games and we know how important that backup slot is, especially if it's temporary if you don't have Romo. We're pretty set at quarterback there. We wish Tim all the luck and the best in the world."
11) Jones original quote about Tony Romo being prepared:
“I can speak for Jason in this respect: Everything he is about wants more buy-in and more participation from the player,” Jones said. “So if Tony, for instance, would be here Monday through Saturday and be here from seven in the morning to six o’clock at night all over this place, then that’s better than the way it’s been. We’ll have more success, and Jason believes that. It’s certainly at quarterback but he believes it at the other positions, too.
“Tony is going to have more time, more presence. Not only is having in the offseason but when the season starts, beginning Mondays, assuming we played Sundays, he’s going to have more time on the job.
“A part of what we agreed with was extra time on the job, beyond the norm. That doesn’t mean that he didn’t have a lot of time on the job, but extra time on the job, Peyton Manning-type time on the job."
12) Jones trying to justify picking Frederick on draft night:
“I had hoped we could come out of this thing with a legitimate starter, a legitimate starter, and he will start, He will start. First-rounder and not starting? I know coach wants there to be competition and should be, and we all know that’s the way it is.”
13) Jones, trying again to justify his poor decisions, in drafting the two 2008 first round picks:
“You’re paying Jenkins whether Jenkins is here or not. You’re paying somebody else,” Jerry Jones said. “The facts are that in the system we are in today, when you draft a [Rashard] Mendenhall or you draft a Felix Jones, you are going to be paying a running back; you just don’t know whether you’re going to be paying the one you drafted or the one you’re going to go get.
“You said while you’ve got him during those four or five years are very important and we’d like to use him to be going to playoffs and competing for the Super Bowl. ... So 48 months from now you’re going to be sitting here deciding whether or not to pay him just like you would be a free agent out here. And so during those early years is when you want to get a lot of mileage relative to players.”
14) How to insult offensive lineman when you are trying to compliment them, this was a couple of days before the draft. By the way Jones was an offensive lineman in college. More strangled English by Jones:
"But there’s also cap reasons why these offensive linemen are going to be going early in this draft," Jones said during a news conference Monday. "Because they fit in a free agent (spot) that could play to that level. And figure what it might cost you to have one of those guys that are that, relative to what that first-or-second-round pick makes. So you forgo the idea of getting the big skill players early. You forgo that idea to actually go in there and get guys that are going to be doing the blocking for them, which traditionally have been lesser guys relative to where they’re taken in the draft."
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