Cowboys To Be Featured on Hard Knocks
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BREAKING: Cowboys Will Be On HBO's 'Hard Knocks' - And Why It's A Terrible 'Football' Idea
HBO's 'Hard Knocks'? The football side of the building here at The Star in Frisco should've begged, pleaded, demanded to avoid involvement.
MIKE FISHER
UPDATED:JUL 2, 2021
ORIGINAL:JUL 2, 2021
FRISCO - Hard Knocks on HBO is a clever, interesting and popular show, and it's a great idea for the Dallas Cowboys if they wish to "market'' and "sell'' and maybe once again squeeze old friend Dave Campo into a dolphin swim and a wetsuit.
And so they will. Congrats to the sales and marketing people here inside The Star.
But ... Otherwise? It's a terrible way to run a football team.
NFL.com recently did the math on the guidelines for which teams are eligible for Hard Knocks in 2021, and yeah, Dallas fit the parameters. Not that the Cowboys have a choice here, as a team can simply be mandated to participate, as Dallas has done a couple of times before.
But the football side of the building here at The Star in Frisco should've begged, pleaded and even demanded to avoid involvement.
Whose job is it to say "yes''? Charlotte Jones is largely on the marketing side of the building, as is Jerry Jr. But the view from here: They need to get out-voted by Stephen Jones, by Will McClay, by coach Mike McCarthy.
And ultimately, by owner Jerry Jones, who has often proudly told me of his desire to be equal parts "businessman'' and "sportsman'' - but here, must choose the latter.
NFL.com ranks the attractiveness of the potential teams involved and - guess what? - the Cowboys came up at No. 1. Why? As NFL.com writes:
"The Cowboys sell. The consistent prime-time love and endless talk show segments dedicated to the various dramas unfolding at Jerrah World (prove) the Cowboys move the needle from a business standpoint and NFL Films and HBO want as many people to watch their show as possible. ... If the Cowboys are indeed the team in August, it will likely be because the Jones family wants it.''
I don't know that the last point is true. But I hope it is, because of the Jones family can say "yes,'' that means it can also say "no.''
"No'' to the presence of cameras and microphones forcing bogus posing, conversations and even evaluations. As one Dallas staffer told me the last time the Cowboys were on the show, "You're sitting in a meeting room wondering if you can say what needs to be said, concerned that you might be saying too much, making sure you don't slouch or pick your nose.
"It's not a natural football environment.''
Indeed, and haven't the Cowboys - after 25 years of having been The Marketing King but a playoffs Court Jester - had enough of "unnatural football environments''?
Hard Knocks makes TV stars out of relative nobodies, makes coaches issue "staged'' remarks rather than frank ones, steals focus from the real training-camp task at hand.
Do the Dallas Cowboys even remember what that task is?
NFL.com says the Jacksonville Jaguars really wanted to be chosen here. God bless that. Urban Meyer! Trevor Lawrence! Congrats, Jags, you had my vote.
There are times to prance and pose for TV cameras. Maybe, for a Cowboys franchise basking in a trio of Super Bowl wins, that time once existed. But today? This is a 6-10 team that is surfing off the success of its "America's Team'' ancestors. It'll be quite a show. Jerry. Dak's ankle. Zeke's abs. A rookie's rapping. Oxnard. Hollywood. Canton.
The truth is, even without Hard Knocks, the Dallas Cowboys already do enough "prancing and posing'' as it is. So it's off to Oxnard we go, with a little more posing and a little less football.
HBO's 'Hard Knocks'? The football side of the building here at The Star in Frisco should've begged, pleaded, demanded to avoid involvement.
MIKE FISHER
UPDATED:JUL 2, 2021
ORIGINAL:JUL 2, 2021
FRISCO - Hard Knocks on HBO is a clever, interesting and popular show, and it's a great idea for the Dallas Cowboys if they wish to "market'' and "sell'' and maybe once again squeeze old friend Dave Campo into a dolphin swim and a wetsuit.
And so they will. Congrats to the sales and marketing people here inside The Star.
But ... Otherwise? It's a terrible way to run a football team.
NFL.com recently did the math on the guidelines for which teams are eligible for Hard Knocks in 2021, and yeah, Dallas fit the parameters. Not that the Cowboys have a choice here, as a team can simply be mandated to participate, as Dallas has done a couple of times before.
But the football side of the building here at The Star in Frisco should've begged, pleaded and even demanded to avoid involvement.
Whose job is it to say "yes''? Charlotte Jones is largely on the marketing side of the building, as is Jerry Jr. But the view from here: They need to get out-voted by Stephen Jones, by Will McClay, by coach Mike McCarthy.
And ultimately, by owner Jerry Jones, who has often proudly told me of his desire to be equal parts "businessman'' and "sportsman'' - but here, must choose the latter.
NFL.com ranks the attractiveness of the potential teams involved and - guess what? - the Cowboys came up at No. 1. Why? As NFL.com writes:
"The Cowboys sell. The consistent prime-time love and endless talk show segments dedicated to the various dramas unfolding at Jerrah World (prove) the Cowboys move the needle from a business standpoint and NFL Films and HBO want as many people to watch their show as possible. ... If the Cowboys are indeed the team in August, it will likely be because the Jones family wants it.''
I don't know that the last point is true. But I hope it is, because of the Jones family can say "yes,'' that means it can also say "no.''
"No'' to the presence of cameras and microphones forcing bogus posing, conversations and even evaluations. As one Dallas staffer told me the last time the Cowboys were on the show, "You're sitting in a meeting room wondering if you can say what needs to be said, concerned that you might be saying too much, making sure you don't slouch or pick your nose.
"It's not a natural football environment.''
Indeed, and haven't the Cowboys - after 25 years of having been The Marketing King but a playoffs Court Jester - had enough of "unnatural football environments''?
Hard Knocks makes TV stars out of relative nobodies, makes coaches issue "staged'' remarks rather than frank ones, steals focus from the real training-camp task at hand.
Do the Dallas Cowboys even remember what that task is?
NFL.com says the Jacksonville Jaguars really wanted to be chosen here. God bless that. Urban Meyer! Trevor Lawrence! Congrats, Jags, you had my vote.
There are times to prance and pose for TV cameras. Maybe, for a Cowboys franchise basking in a trio of Super Bowl wins, that time once existed. But today? This is a 6-10 team that is surfing off the success of its "America's Team'' ancestors. It'll be quite a show. Jerry. Dak's ankle. Zeke's abs. A rookie's rapping. Oxnard. Hollywood. Canton.
The truth is, even without Hard Knocks, the Dallas Cowboys already do enough "prancing and posing'' as it is. So it's off to Oxnard we go, with a little more posing and a little less football.
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That show had a nice idea to it, but the talent they got to compete was shit.
And the fact that Jesse Holley actually got on this team is a bit of a shame.
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I'm shocked... that might be the most I've ever seen Fisher go against the party line.
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This fucker is basically a con man and makes my personal top 10 list of most punchable faces.
He is settled into a shit job with SI which is ghetto trash.
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He does, but he joked even back in the late 90s about being known as Jerry's Backpocket Boy. I remember him on KLIF trashing Jimmy and propping Barry, so you know where that agenda came from.
Even the rare times he does criticize the team, he's very measured about it. Makes me wonder if something has happened.
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Amazon had “All or Nothing” in Dallas in 2017, and we really took a step back then too, just like in 2002 with Campo’s fake farts and 2008 with Owens silhouetted against an ocean backdrop.
It’s the Observer Effect in physics, you can’t ever watch something without disturbing and changing it.
Take that times 1000 in this day of social media and streaming tv. Coaches and players will be doubly aware of being judged not only by each other but also by outsiders. They’ll change the way they act in a way that is just fake, and nothing undermines real work faster than that.
We don’t have strong enough coaching to withstand it. Not yet anyway.
MM tried by muting the televised “practice” last year, and the effort no doubt took away from the product on the field.
Now it’s going to be ever-present.
It’s the Observer Effect in physics, you can’t ever watch something without disturbing and changing it.
Take that times 1000 in this day of social media and streaming tv. Coaches and players will be doubly aware of being judged not only by each other but also by outsiders. They’ll change the way they act in a way that is just fake, and nothing undermines real work faster than that.
We don’t have strong enough coaching to withstand it. Not yet anyway.
MM tried by muting the televised “practice” last year, and the effort no doubt took away from the product on the field.
Now it’s going to be ever-present.
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It ain't looking good since we know that unless the Jones family jet goes down with every last one of them aboard, we are eternally fucked.
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Just now seeing this, and I hate it, but I agree with @Genghis Khan, if we lose simply because of this the team was too weak-willed to win to begin with.
ravidubey
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Entitled and gutless has been the theme for 25 years, except maybe in 2003.
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The real question is who is going to take them to SeaWorld, or sing My Girl for karaoke.
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I want to see Fat Mike smash a watermelon for old time's sake.
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Well, and he’s still living in that brief period of fame
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