It's been 16 cold winters since Troy Aikman led the Cowboys to victory in Super Bowl XXX, but you wouldn't know it from the amount of attention heaped annually upon a team that's won just two playoff games since. Some believe the issues in Dallas begin and end with Jerry Jones, the team's owner who doubles as general manager and remains involved with every major and minor transaction associated with a roster filled with talent, but unable to regain dominance in the NFC East. Jones' position as GM is unusual in the NFL, where owners range from hyper-involved to distant, almost ghostlike. "The facts are that I've spent 22 years doing this exactly the same way," Jones said Tuesday on KRLD-FM, via ESPN Dallas. "I've made a lot of changes from year to year as time goes along, but frankly, I know that when we do not have the kind of success, when we don't have expectations lived up to, the one that should get the most heat is the one that ultimately makes the decisions, period, with the Dallas Cowboys. And that's me." Jones is willing to accept the heat and floated the theory that his role as GM has actually spared fans from a turnstile of other men who might have attempted the role in Dallas, only to be shown the door as frequently as the coach (no less than five since Barry Switzer won the team's last Super Bowl). "The thing you've got to realize is that when you have an owner that is full-time as the owner, then you create a situation where you have as much turnover at GM as you do at coaching level," Jones said. "And I think that just deters from the mix." However the Dallas faithful feel about Jones (and that's probably a complex tangle of emotions by now) he remains as hungry for another Cowboys Super Bowl as anyone directly or indirectly attached to the team -- and, like it or not, he's here to stay. Source: NFL.com
He hasn't been as good of late but he has had quite alot of success. They need better scouts and assistants to Jerry to help him out.
Expect nothing but mediocrity every year as lom as he in control of player personnel. Giants Eagles. Redskins should rejoice.
No. They need a new GM. And the sooner the better. But, like replacing Romo, that's not going to happen.
Why would you replace Romo? Get your crap together haha. Romo's a top 10 QB. Give him an O.line and a D.:icon_eek:
I'm not saying I want to replace Romo, but a lot of people are saying that they want him gone. I'm just saying that the chances of both things happening are slim and none.
The only problem with Romo is that he isn't Aikman. Just like Danny White's only problem was that he wasn't Staubach. Never mind that White took the Cowboys to three straight NFC Championship Games. White didn't win them. And that's how you're judged in the NFL. Whether you win or lose.
I honestly don't have a problem with Jerry running the team. I Believe in every player almost that we have because of the way we draft and find talent via Undrafted free agents. What other team has a beastly ol' pair of players who wasn't drafted in Tony Romo hooking up with Miles Austin? The only thing I've ever had a problem with is they never.. since drafting Roy Williams and Terrence Newman have they ever put more pieces around them up until the Mike Jenkins/Orlando Scandrick draft when we then needed Safeties because Roy was gone, and his career was basically over cause he sucked. And if they do.. they try to do it in the 4th and 5th round of the draft.
