Fmr. NFL DL/current idiot says ‘Tony Romo has not earned a dollar he’s been given'

[L.T. Fan]

People say they were both at fault, and that's true, but Jerry moreso. Jimmy was the important one, and Jerry should have realized it and placated him to keep him around.

Jimmy engineered his departure because he wanted out. Had he not schemed his plan chances are he would have been around for a long time but he wanted out an had a history of premature exits.

 

[VA Cowboy]

Jimmy wasn't going to stay 10 years but I don't think he intended to leave at the end of March like he did. Why wait til after the combines and about a month before the draft to decided to leave? No doubt Jimmy was getting fed up with Jerry's increased B.S. but it was Jerry drunken tirade that led to Jimmy leaving when he did.

Then to exasperate it, he hired fricking Switzer with himself being the actual GM, not just someone rubberstamping Jimmy's decisions like he did the first 5 years. And other than a short reprieve with Parcells, we haven't had a quality HC in all this time since that day in late March or a GM.

 

[boozeman]

Jimmy wasn't going to stay 10 years but I don't think he intended to leave at the end of March like he did. Why wait til after the combines and about a month before the draft to decided to leave? No doubt Jimmy was getting fed up with Jerry's increased B.S. but it was Jerry drunken tirade that led to Jimmy leaving when he did.

It is no secret he was planning to get out. But he had told himself prior to the night Jerry Jones got liquored up and pissy, that he was going to give it one more shot.

It is disingenuous to imply that Jones' behavior had nothing to do with speeding up the process already in motion.

 

[boozeman]

So those three SB's were all due to Aikman and nothing to do with probably the deepest, most talented teams to ever play in this league? Come on man. You're smarter than that.

And Steve Young's one ring wasn't due to the 49ers being very talented after buying Deion Sanders, Tim Harris, Rickey Jackson and Ken Norton?

C'mon, you are smarter th...wait.

 

[Genghis Khan]

Aikman wasn't asked to pass a lot, like Young was. I'm sure if he was, he could have put up gaudy numbers, too. There were a lot of games where he was only asked to throw the ball 20 times. Or less. It was nothing to see a line from Aikman that read 11-17 1 TD 160 yds. Did Young have a single game he threw it less than 20 times, barring injury? Doubtful. Could Young have played in the same system Aikman did without becoming a problem? I'm not so sure. They both were the best at what they were asked to do, but I bet Aikman would be better in Young's system than vice versa.

This is how I look at it.

 

[Smitty]

And Steve Young's one ring wasn't due to the 49ers being very talented after buying Deion Sanders, Tim Harris, Rickey Jackson and Ken Norton?

C'mon, you are smarter th...wait.

Yeah, that 49ers team had a lot of still-productive pieces from the late-80s run on it, and others who had come up that were still quite good.

That 49ers team would destroy any team in the league today, for sure. Just cause they were runner up to Dallas for a 4 year period there doesn't mean that Steve Young was the only good player on that team.

 

[Lotuseater]

And Steve Young's one ring wasn't due to the 49ers being very talented after buying Deion Sanders, Tim Harris, Rickey Jackson and Ken Norton?

C'mon, you are smarter th...wait.

Deion, Harris, Jackson and Norton were NOTHING compared to what Aikman had around him. Switch Aikman and Young's places and the 90's Cowboys win 4 in a row.

 

[VA Cowboy]

If my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle.

and her named would be Hillary

 

[Smitty]

Jimmy wasn't going to stay 10 years but I don't think he intended to leave at the end of March like he did. Why wait til after the combines and about a month before the draft to decided to leave? No doubt Jimmy was getting fed up with Jerry's increased B.S. but it was Jerry drunken tirade that led to Jimmy leaving when he did.

Then to exasperate it, he hired fricking Switzer with himself being the actual GM, not just someone rubberstamping Jimmy's decisions like he did the first 5 years. And other than a short reprieve with Parcells, we haven't had a quality HC in all this time since that day in late March or a GM.

I agree. I don't think Jimmy was a long termer but Jones could have coaxed him to stay. Instead he showed him the door.

 

[L.T. Fan]

I agree. I don't think Jimmy was a long termer but Jones could have coaxed him to stay. Instead he showed him the door.

As a general matter it is not always a good idea to try to retain someone who wants to leave.

 

[VA Cowboy]

And much of the reason Jimmy even wanted to leave had to do with Jerry's meddling.

 

[ravidubey]

And much of the reason Jimmy even wanted to leave had to do with Jerry's meddling.

Jimmy's the kind of personality that gets more uptight the longer he's in a commitment. Jerry was nothing, a hick, and putty in Jimmy's hands.

The author of "Boys will be Boys" paints Johnson as being very high strung throughout the Cowboys 1993-1994 season and that he barely enjoyed the second Superbowl victory. Some of it had to do with Jones and the Emmitt holdout, but it was more to do with Jimmy's own nature. By the end Johnson was looking for a reason to go and Jerry handed it to him on a silver platter (along with about 2 million bucks). Of course he's going to seize the opportunity (and get paid for doing it).

I know Jimmy would have made in 1994. No way the team trades up for Shante Carver, but then again would he have drafted Larry Allen? I do believe Jimmy would have looked for Emmitt insurance in the draft, though, if for no other reason than to not have his team held hostage like it had been to start the year before. He couldn't have prevented Big E from getting hammered and driving his Mercedes into a guard rail, but he sure as Hell would have been better prepared to deal with the muddy field in San Francisco than Barry Switzer was.

No way would he have taken three deep shots down the field with time expiring in the first half of the NFC Championship game giving the 49ers another scoring opportunity or ever allowed Larry Brown to cover Jerry Rice one on one. I think he'd have made a 10 point difference in that game as poorly as it had been coached, and that would have tied the score leaving the outcome in doubt.

 

[L.T. Fan]

And much of the reason Jimmy even wanted to leave had to do with Jerry's meddling.

Jimmy wanted to go back to Florida plus he never stayed anywhere over 5 years.

 

[rcntc]

Travis Johnson is (guest) co-hosting a sports talk radio show here in Houston for the next few days. He's playing off his comments about Romo and how he is getting tons of hate about what he said. Saying things like, "I guess you have to have a HOF career in order to have an opinion about Romo." and that his 6 years in the league isn't enough creditability to have opinions. That he was being killed by ESPN analysts about the things he said. blah, blah, blah.

Of course he is getting a very warm welcome from idiot Texans fans here, because the only thing they like more than rooting for their team, is hating the Cowboys. It's so pathetic in this city the inferiority complex they have towards DC.

 

[Texas Ace]

Of course he is getting a very warm welcome from idiot Texans fans here, because the only thing they like more than rooting for their team, is hating the Cowboys. It's so pathetic in this city the inferiority complex they have towards DC.

 

[Cowboysrock55]

Saying things like, "I guess you have to have a HOF career in order to have an opinion about Romo."

There are plenty of well respects experts who were never HOFers and even some who never played in the NFL at all. When an opinion is retarded though, people are going to call you out for it. If you don't want to be ripped apart don't say stupid shit.

 

[Texas Ace]

There are plenty of well respects experts who were never HOFers and even some who never played in the NFL at all. When an opinion is retarded though, people are going to call you out for it. If you don't want to be ripped apart don't say stupid shit.

Right.

There are also guys who were HOF talents but are horrible analysts/commentators. You wonder how someone who played the game so long, and at a high level, could consistently say and predict so many head-scratching things.

I don't think you have to have played the game to know it just like I don't think having played it automatically means you are smart at observing things about the game.