Post by prossman on Jan 22, 2009 17:47:30 GMT -7
FWST: Jerry Jones is facing the biggest crisis in his 20-year reign with the Cowboys
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Jerry Jones is facing the biggest crisis in his 20-year reign with the Dallas Cowboys
By RANDY GALLOWAY
rgalloway@star-telegram.com
We have witnessed this week democracy in action.
Our team, the fightin’ U.S. Americans, has a new head coach. It came down to a vote. He was elected in a landslide, and took office Tuesday. Our team had a real bad year, and this one ain’t looking so good, but with change, comes renewed hope and promises of bipartisan locker-room leadership.
Good luck, of course, to the Americans, although I’m also looking over the World League standings, and right now we’ve got a lot of improving to do. But despite the obstacles facing our U.S. team, new head coach Barack is fortunate in one regard.
Of all the bailout plans on the table in Washington, none that I know of involves the local football monarchy known as Cowboy Kingdom. In other words, Obama doesn’t have to fix the impossible.
For the last 20 years, or four U.S. Americans head coaches later, King Jerry of Cowboy Kingdom has experimented with all forms of government leadership. He had given his country the soft-softer-softest head coach method, and King Jerry also has gone with a couple of iron-fisted dictators.
You don’t have to be a Commie to know that democracy based on pacifist leadership has seriously failed in Cowboy Nation. The only success (Jimster), and the only progress (Big Bill) came with leaders who made Castro seem like Howdy Doody. Speaking of puppets, Jerry certainly likes to appoint wooden heads.
The blame, of course, goes to the King. It’s not news that Jerry is a football idiot.
But at the moment, Cowboys Parkway in Irving is the Wall Street of the NFL, where a combination of greed and stupidity has reached a crisis point.
This is the worst moment of King Jerry’s 20-year reign, even with a roster that is moderately rich in talent, at least on paper.
How bad?
Well, for me, Tony Romo should and would be ranked as the No. 1 team concern. The game is about the quarterback. There is no worry in the NFL like quarterback worries, and Romo is now a huge worry.
But despite needing a lube job on his brain and his game, Tony currently sinks to third — I said third — on the Cowboy Kingdom list of biggest headaches.
No. 1, by far, is the toxic chemical disaster that spilled across the locker room in December, and shows absolutely no sign of being resolved. There is not an easy answer, including the most obvious: Remove the most toxic player in football immediately.
But Eldorado Owens has his band of disciples in that locker room. He’s a charismatic leader in his own perverted way, and the weak will follow him. Even if he’s gone — which I still doubt, knowing Jerry — his message of team wreckage will remain in many corners of the room.
This is basically the same scene that played out in Philadelphia with Owens, although it happened here later in his stay, mainly because King Jerry overpaid him greatly. But it still happened, money or not.
Then there’s the No. 2 biggest headache for the Cowboys — lack of locker-room leadership — which directly connects with No. 1, and even No. 3.
It’s not Wade Phillips’ fault the team has a head coach who is weak on discipline, a head coach whom the players control, instead of the other way around. Wade is Wade. Jerry knew what he was hiring.
There has been talk this week of players operating daily on their own clock, despite what Wade’s time schedule for meetings, for injury rehab and for practice might say. This is not new news. This is what Valley Ranch has become. No discipline.
I got a hoot out of a newspaper column last week ripping Brian Stewart, the former assistant with the title of defensive coordinator. Jerry, not Wade, fired Stewart. It was a total injustice, and then Stewart had to read the players had no respect for him and ignored him.
Oh, really? Well, name me one coach at Valley Ranch who currently has the respect of the players. And to even suggest the problem was with a departed assistant coach means you are giving a copout to gutless players who in consecutive seasons collapsed under pressure.
Anyway, when it comes to respect, how many players have it currently at Valley Ranch? Start counting. See if you can fill up one hand.
Wade deserves no defense, but outside of Jimmy and Big Bill, all other head coaches also have been helpless when it comes to attempting to control the players. Jerry allows himself to be the shoulder the players lean on, to the detriment of the head coach.
Jerry is not going to change Jerry. Jerry can, and will, eventually, change head coaches. But it remains to be seen if he will ever bring in another Jimmy or another Big Bill type of personality. Those Alpha males make Jerry uncomfortable.
Over many years, going back to Tom Landry, we’ve seen some bad teams at Valley Ranch, most of them void of adequate talent. But only in about ’96 or ’97 (as the demise of the Dynasty Days began), can I remember anything remotely close to this mess, and at least to me, this is worse than that.
Be thankful, Mr. Obama, that of all your problems, Cowboy Kingdom is not one.
www.star-telegram.com/332/story/1157773.html
__________________
Waiting to be wow'ed!
"Welcome to my world, Jason" - Tony Romo
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Jerry Jones is facing the biggest crisis in his 20-year reign with the Dallas Cowboys
By RANDY GALLOWAY
rgalloway@star-telegram.com
We have witnessed this week democracy in action.
Our team, the fightin’ U.S. Americans, has a new head coach. It came down to a vote. He was elected in a landslide, and took office Tuesday. Our team had a real bad year, and this one ain’t looking so good, but with change, comes renewed hope and promises of bipartisan locker-room leadership.
Good luck, of course, to the Americans, although I’m also looking over the World League standings, and right now we’ve got a lot of improving to do. But despite the obstacles facing our U.S. team, new head coach Barack is fortunate in one regard.
Of all the bailout plans on the table in Washington, none that I know of involves the local football monarchy known as Cowboy Kingdom. In other words, Obama doesn’t have to fix the impossible.
For the last 20 years, or four U.S. Americans head coaches later, King Jerry of Cowboy Kingdom has experimented with all forms of government leadership. He had given his country the soft-softer-softest head coach method, and King Jerry also has gone with a couple of iron-fisted dictators.
You don’t have to be a Commie to know that democracy based on pacifist leadership has seriously failed in Cowboy Nation. The only success (Jimster), and the only progress (Big Bill) came with leaders who made Castro seem like Howdy Doody. Speaking of puppets, Jerry certainly likes to appoint wooden heads.
The blame, of course, goes to the King. It’s not news that Jerry is a football idiot.
But at the moment, Cowboys Parkway in Irving is the Wall Street of the NFL, where a combination of greed and stupidity has reached a crisis point.
This is the worst moment of King Jerry’s 20-year reign, even with a roster that is moderately rich in talent, at least on paper.
How bad?
Well, for me, Tony Romo should and would be ranked as the No. 1 team concern. The game is about the quarterback. There is no worry in the NFL like quarterback worries, and Romo is now a huge worry.
But despite needing a lube job on his brain and his game, Tony currently sinks to third — I said third — on the Cowboy Kingdom list of biggest headaches.
No. 1, by far, is the toxic chemical disaster that spilled across the locker room in December, and shows absolutely no sign of being resolved. There is not an easy answer, including the most obvious: Remove the most toxic player in football immediately.
But Eldorado Owens has his band of disciples in that locker room. He’s a charismatic leader in his own perverted way, and the weak will follow him. Even if he’s gone — which I still doubt, knowing Jerry — his message of team wreckage will remain in many corners of the room.
This is basically the same scene that played out in Philadelphia with Owens, although it happened here later in his stay, mainly because King Jerry overpaid him greatly. But it still happened, money or not.
Then there’s the No. 2 biggest headache for the Cowboys — lack of locker-room leadership — which directly connects with No. 1, and even No. 3.
It’s not Wade Phillips’ fault the team has a head coach who is weak on discipline, a head coach whom the players control, instead of the other way around. Wade is Wade. Jerry knew what he was hiring.
There has been talk this week of players operating daily on their own clock, despite what Wade’s time schedule for meetings, for injury rehab and for practice might say. This is not new news. This is what Valley Ranch has become. No discipline.
I got a hoot out of a newspaper column last week ripping Brian Stewart, the former assistant with the title of defensive coordinator. Jerry, not Wade, fired Stewart. It was a total injustice, and then Stewart had to read the players had no respect for him and ignored him.
Oh, really? Well, name me one coach at Valley Ranch who currently has the respect of the players. And to even suggest the problem was with a departed assistant coach means you are giving a copout to gutless players who in consecutive seasons collapsed under pressure.
Anyway, when it comes to respect, how many players have it currently at Valley Ranch? Start counting. See if you can fill up one hand.
Wade deserves no defense, but outside of Jimmy and Big Bill, all other head coaches also have been helpless when it comes to attempting to control the players. Jerry allows himself to be the shoulder the players lean on, to the detriment of the head coach.
Jerry is not going to change Jerry. Jerry can, and will, eventually, change head coaches. But it remains to be seen if he will ever bring in another Jimmy or another Big Bill type of personality. Those Alpha males make Jerry uncomfortable.
Over many years, going back to Tom Landry, we’ve seen some bad teams at Valley Ranch, most of them void of adequate talent. But only in about ’96 or ’97 (as the demise of the Dynasty Days began), can I remember anything remotely close to this mess, and at least to me, this is worse than that.
Be thankful, Mr. Obama, that of all your problems, Cowboy Kingdom is not one.
www.star-telegram.com/332/story/1157773.html
__________________
Waiting to be wow'ed!
"Welcome to my world, Jason" - Tony Romo