For me it would be changing the mentality of “we like our guys” to a more do whatever it takes to win now!

  • PersonBehindAScreenBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Having the Jones family completely hands off of the football/player management/front office side of the team they can stay in the business/marketing side. No I don’t care how much Jerry or Stephen has pulled back in the last decade or whatever it is we claim it is now . I want 100% of their fingerprints off of that side of the house unless it’s to fire someone who’s time is up

    • SeanBourneBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, it’s telling when in the draft room you see Jerry, Stephen, and Charlotte all in the room… and now a couple of the grandkids. Feel like it’s only Jerry Jr. of ‘gen 2’ that isn’t consistently in the room, though that just might be that I don’t recognize him quite as easily as S or C.

  • SeanBourneBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    So, for years after Jimmy, the boys were pretty shit at drafting… we’d have a few hits… but far more misses. At the same time, they’d try to patch things up by signing overpriced names.

    Sometime in the 2010s, they simultaneously got far better at drafting, and extremely suspicious of other team’s players. This got them from being perennial ‘water-treaders’ to quite a few years of ‘one of the most talented rosters’.

    In the last couple of years, they’ve demonstrated that they are ‘thawing’ on acquiring other team’s players. I think the peak is obviously the Gilly and Cooks moves this offseason.

    I think they’re still ‘early stage‘/relatively inexperienced with being skilled at mid-season moves and/or judging trade value.

    Growing up as a hockey fan (where in-season trades have been around since before I was born, and the - very late in the season - trade deadline is an event almost on par with the draft), I’d love to see them become as skilled at trading as they are at drafting. There are lots of opportunities to find value, which is something that I think they should be able to do.

    Right now, a handful of teams seem to have a nose for it (KC, LAR, SF, PHI, though still nowhere near a half-way competent hockey team)… but if the boys got good here, they’d still be among the early movers, and if they kept going, there’s definitely room to beat the top teams.

  • ZacapaRocksBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The elephant in the room is Jerry Jones. Everyone in the league knows that.

    - Dallas has the brand, the fans, and the history. It should be a destination for the best coaches. They will not work with Jerry Jones.

    - He is not and will never be a football guy. Him being a GM is a complete joke.

    - He cares more about the value of the franchise than the success of the team.

    Getting rid of Jerry is the fastest route to the next Super Bowl.