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Jiggyfly

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He doesn't understand because Aikman is assuming the most important things at Valley Ranch are wins and losses.
Wait what?

So manufacturing a QB controversy is more important than the team continuing to win?

Really, you actually believe that about Jerry?
 

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It's just Jerry being Jerry. Stephen seems to be in control but he is still going to have to put up with Jerry's mouth as long as reporters need stories.

Just because you can doesn't mean you should, though. A lot of headaches would be solved (not just in sports) if mouths would just shut.
 

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They are...a much bigger story would have been made of Romo replacing Dak as the starter. They stuck with Prescott, they have kept winning, so I am not tracking this line of thinking.
Really?

You don't see the logic in all of this? :lol
 

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It's just Jerry being Jerry. Stephen seems to be in control but he is still going to have to put up with Jerry's mouth as long as reporters need stories.

Just because you can doesn't mean you should, though. A lot of headaches would be solved (not just in sports) if mouths would just shut.
Hey it worked for Trump.

:tippytoe
 

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Wait what?

So manufacturing a QB controversy is more important than the team continuing to win?

Really, you actually believe that about Jerry?
I believe that as long as people are talking about him he is happy
 

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Jason Garrett responds to Jerry Jones fanning flames on Dak/Romo debate


By Jon Machota , Staff Writer Contact Jon Machota on Twitter: @jonmachota


FRISCO -- While Jerry Jones is busy fanning the flames of the Dak Prescott/Tony Romo quarterback debate, Jason Garrett says he's not listening to the noise.

"We're just focused on today," the Cowboys head coach responded Thursday. "We all have a job to do. The best way to do your job is to focus on what you need to do each and every day and to prepare to do your job as well as you can do it. It's a big theme for our football team and guys understand the importance of it."


Does Garrett spend some extra time sitting Prescott down, explaining how the outside noise doesn't matter?

"We talk about the importance of focusing on our team right from the start," Garrett said. "We talk about it at the outset of the season and certainly every week, to get your mindset and mentality right. That's an important word for everybody, coaches and players alike.

"That's not new this year, that's not new this week. It's a really important thing to being your best and to focus on the right things. We try to do that each and every day."

Garrett then fielded a fourth and final question about Jones: How much do non-media members bring up Jones' comments to Garrett during the season?

"Again, guys, I'm a pretty focused guy," Garrett said. "Our staff is focused and our team is focused. We don't listen to much outside of what our immediate concerns are to prepare our best to play the best game on Sunday. That's really what our focus is."
 

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Troy Aikman 'dumbfounded' by Jerry Jones' comments; Jason Garrett won't bite


4:20 PM ET

Todd Archer
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FRISCO, Texas -- Jerry Jones has spoken almost wistfully at times about seeing Tony Romo play this season and help the Dallas Cowboys win games if Dak Prescott falters.

This week was no exception.

Jones called a quarterback debate by those outside the organization a “legitimate discussion,” and while he did not want to mention the ways Prescott could lose his job -- poor play or injury -- he did not do the rookie quarterback any favors.

"I don't have a definition for it, but you'll know it when you see it," Jones said on 105.3 The Fan in Dallas on Tuesday. "It's kind of like a definition I heard one time of another issue trying to define a negative topic, and they said, 'I don't know how to say it, but it's just something that when you see it, you'll know it's there.' We'll see it."

Count Cowboys’ Hall of Fame quarterback Troy Aikman among those wondering why Jones continues to say the things he said.

"I'm just really dumbfounded by the comments, and not only the first time, but why they continue," Aikman said Thursday on KTCK 1310 AM The Ticket in Dallas. "I don't understand why you would talk."

Aikman added, “I'm not sure that Tony, if it was left up to the owner, wouldn't be the starter now, just based on the comments that I've heard in the last couple weeks."

It all leaves coach Jason Garrett in the middle of a debate that he does not want to have. Since taking over midway through the 2010 season, Garrett has adeptly handled questions about things Jones has said regarding the team, whereas his predecessor, Wade Phillips, would joke, “Well, whatever Jerry says.”

Garrett was asked four separate questions Thursday about Jones’ comments, ranging from dealing with the fallout of what the owner says to if he talks to Prescott about what is being said.

“We talk about the importance of being focused with our team right from the start,” Garrett said. “And we talk about it at start of the season and certainly every week to get your mindset, your mentality right. It’s an important word for everybody, coaches and players alike. So that’s not new this year. That’s not new this week. It’s really an important thing to be your best, to focus on the right things and we try to do that each and every day.”

It’s one thing for the media or fans to bring up discussions; it’s another for the owner and general manager of the team.

“We all have a job to do and the best way to do your job is to focus on what you need to do each and every day to prepare to do your job as well as you can do it,” Garrett said. “It’s a big theme for our football team and the guys understand the importance of it.”

More than most, Aikman understands the Cowboys’ dynamic from his time with the team, but even he scratches his head over some of Jones’ comments.






"If Tony ends up getting in the game at some point, great," Aikman said on The Ticket. “But to dismiss what a young rookie quarterback has done... (Do you) know what would be a great story? (It) would be if a rookie quarterback takes this team to a Super Bowl championship. That'd be a great story. Whether Romo is a part of that ultimately and gets on the field and plays, if he does that'd be great. I mean he's put a lot of time in this city and he's meant a lot to the organization, but if he doesn't and they do it a different way, then that's great, too.

“The bottom line is winning games, so I just don't understand it."
 

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Jerry just needs to smile and say "Dak Prescott is our QB" when baited into answering under what conditions you'd start Romo.

Anything else gets taken out of context and fuels a media feeding frenzy.
 

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Jerry just needs to smile and say "Dak Prescott is our QB" when baited into answering under what conditions you'd start Romo.

Anything else gets taken out of context and fuels a media feeding frenzy.
When has Jerry ever said anything that intentionally brought him less attention?
 

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When has Jerry ever said anything that intentionally brought him less attention?
He thought his whole "pornography" line was cute and worth sharing.

He refuses to see how QB controversies are one of those topics the media will go out of its way to inflame and inflate.
 

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When has Jerry ever said anything that intentionally brought him less attention?
Jerry just loves the sound of his own voice and feeling important. It's why he continues to talk even when he should keep his mouth shut.
 

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He thought his whole "pornography" line was cute and worth sharing.

He refuses to see how QB controversies are one of those topics the media will go out of its way to inflame and inflate.
Oh, I think he full well knows what he is doing. Having the Cowboys on the front page is very important to him. Even if it might mean some distraction to the team.
 

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Jones’ family relationship with Tony Romo made sitting QB “tough”

By Charean Williams


cjwilliams@star-telegram.com


FRISCO —

The Jones family’s relationship with Tony Romo made benching him one of the hardest decisions they have made.

“Tough,” Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones said Thursday. “You’ve got both sides. No one has more respect for a man and what Tony has done for us. He’s special. He’s done a lot of great things for this franchise that never happen without him. Until we finally got Dak [Prescott], everybody was able to see first hand when we had Tony in the games what was going on, we were winning them and when he wasn’t in the games, we weren’t. He was definitely the most valuable guy in the building for many, many years. I think he’s the most successful quarterback in terms of his production on the field.”

But with the Cowboys off to an 8-1 start when Romo returned from a compression fracture in his back, the Cowboys kept Prescott in the lineup. Romo has served as Prescott’s the past four games.

It’s possible Romo has played his last game for the Cowboys. He holds the franchise records in passing yards (34,154), completion percentage (65.3), touchdowns (247) and passer rating (97.07).

Romo, 36, has a 78-49 regular-season record but only a 2-4 postseason mark. He has never made an NFC Championship Game.

“Obviously, it stings that we don’t have a championship, and I know Jerry [Jones] and I both wear that heavily in terms of the fact that we haven’t been able to get the right team around him so that he could win one, because he obviously has all the skills to do it,” Stephen Jones said. “It’s difficult. No question. No one wanted to get his hands on this team more than he did. Things happen for a reason, and obviously that was a very unfortunate freak injury that happened to him in Seattle. It’s fortunate but misfortune in terms of Tony that obviously in Dak we found a very special football player at quarterback.”

Stephen Jones said Prescott should appreciate Jerry Jones’ loyalty to Romo.

“Dak will appreciate this - that over the long haul Jerry is a very loyal person, and Dak will be the biggest beneficiary of this organization when it's all said and done,” Stephen Jones said. “Jerry does not forget the people that do special things for him. Tony's had several special seasons here, and it's obvious to everybody that Tony has a special place. I tell everybody, ‘Does that bother you?' and it shouldn't bother Dak. He should love that. One day he will benefit in spades from Jerry's loyalty. I know Dak's going to do so many special things for our organization going forward.”
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Still kind of odd that Stephen calls his father Jerry like Bart calls his dad Homer.
 

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Still kind of odd that Stephen calls his father Jerry like Bart calls his dad Homer.
I don't think it's odd at all. I know a lot of people that do that in a business setting.

To me, it would seem a lot more odd hearing him say things like "Well, my dad thinks that we should..." or "You'll have to talk to my dad about that..."
 

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I don't think it's odd at all. I know a lot of people that do that in a business setting.

To me, it would seem a lot more odd hearing him say things like "Well, my dad thinks that we should..." or "You'll have to talk to my dad about that..."
I agree. Even worse if he uses Daddy, instead. Would be thinking about Junior and Sherriff Buford T Justice of Portague County.
 

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I agree. Even worse if he uses Daddy, instead. Would be thinking about Junior and Sherriff Buford T Justice of Portague County.
My hat blew off, Daddy.

There's no way, NO way that you came from my loins. Soon as I get home, first thing I'm gonna do is punch yo mamma in da mouth!


:lol

Yeah, I could see a conversation like that between Jerry and Stephen.
 

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My hat blew off, Daddy.

There's no way, NO way that you came from my loins. Soon as I get home, first thing I'm gonna do is punch yo mamma in da mouth!


:lol

Yeah, I could see a conversation like that between Jerry and Stephen.
:lol:lol:towel:lol:lol
 
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