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Hell yeah, now you're talkin.
2024 Cowboys Free Agency Thread
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Chocolate Lab
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That's the next step, I guess. Blame the fans for not being smart enough to "understand."
Kind of like how the dumb fans didn't understand that nosetackles aren't supposed to rack up stats so don't be down on Mazi.
Kind of like how the dumb fans didn't understand that nosetackles aren't supposed to rack up stats so don't be down on Mazi.
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Reminds me of our government.
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Or how NTs aren't supposed to be big.
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Who ever said that running a football team is easy?
Of course we don't understand the nuances, but we've also never been in the situation.
I believe that with 35 years of on-the-job GM learning, though, any of 80% of DCCers could figure out enough of the nuances to eventually build a champion.
When you're the richest team in ALL of sports, #1.........and you're the cheapest team in your league in talent acquisition, you're obviously trying to run your football team like that business, efficiently as possible.
That's cool, you're the boss.
But it's time to make a smart business decision.
Get em off Jer's ass and hire a real GM.
Of course we don't understand the nuances, but we've also never been in the situation.
I believe that with 35 years of on-the-job GM learning, though, any of 80% of DCCers could figure out enough of the nuances to eventually build a champion.
When you're the richest team in ALL of sports, #1.........and you're the cheapest team in your league in talent acquisition, you're obviously trying to run your football team like that business, efficiently as possible.
That's cool, you're the boss.
But it's time to make a smart business decision.
Get em off Jer's ass and hire a real GM.
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Genghis Khan
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What makes this interaction even funnier is that apparently Ickes is an accountant and has an MBA.
Bill Shatner
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Funny how baseball teams can hand out 400 mil contracts like candy and the richest team in sports is cash poor.
Simpleton
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This isn't a serious football organization, that's all it comes down to. Their priorities are completely out of whack, there's no urgency to win because of the complete absence of accountability (nobody's job is on the line), and the organization is basically a standalone island surrounded by a moat where there's no incentive whatsoever to win at all costs.
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Maybe I'm a sucker, but I at least kinda always believed Jerry that he "wants to win." I just think he was too selfish, stupid, and incompetent to realize that he was not capable of constructing a winner unless he hired someone who did know how to do it, like Parcells, and he was too egotistical to ever think that anyone could do a better job than him, which is why he'd never step back. It was so egregious that it reached the point of "not wanting to win," because the inability to actually win was so obvious that it was undeniable.
But I think on some level, despite unwillingness to turn over power, Jerry wanted to win as long as he clung to that power.
I no longer believe Stephen Jones wants to win. I think Stephen wants to make money and build an empire and that has nothing to do with the Dallas Cowboys. I hope he sells when Dad dies.
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The Cowboys make too much money for him to sell.
Smitty
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Well, no, the article posted the other day kinda indicates the opposite.
The Cowboys make a ton of money compared to other mere billionaires' investments.
But the Cowboys are a loss-leader for the Jones family's other investments. The Cowboys are a marketing cost for their other industries. Every dollar invested in the Cowboys makes less than a dollar invested in their other businesses.
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Sucker.
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I guess if he admits he sucked against Miami, it's all okay.
bbgun
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I think he did when Tyler Smith was hurt.