{"id":4247,"date":"2013-12-17T22:17:20","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T22:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=4247"},"modified":"2019-12-27T14:42:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T14:42:09","slug":"would-the-cowboys-owner-fire-himself-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=4247","title":{"rendered":"Would the Cowboys’ owner fire himself … please?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I hate commenting on sports because I don’t know enough of the nitty-gritty to talk intelligently about it.<\/p>\n

However, I do know bad management when I see it. It’s running rampant inside the head office of the Dallas\/Irving\/Arlington Cowboys professional football franchise.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/1890803-cowboys-wont-find-success-before-massive-culture-change-in-dallas?utm_source=cnn.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=cnn-sports-bin&hpt=hp_bn15<\/a><\/p>\n

The team owner Jerry Jones also is the team’s general manager. He’s got his own TV show on which he blathers on about football strategy and other on-the-field things about which he knows next to nothing.<\/p>\n

I haven’t been a Cowboys fan since Jones bought the team in 1989 and fired a living legend, Tom Landry, the team’s head coach since it entered the NFL in 1960. I used to like the upstarts from Big D, when they tried to knock the Green Bay Packers off in the late 1960s. They came close — and nearly froze to death in the Ice Bowl game played in Green Bay.<\/p>\n

Then along came Jones. The former Arkansas Razorback hired his old Hog teammate Jimmy Johnson as head coach. After a spell, the two parted company because Johnson didn’t like the owner meddling in football strategy and tactics. Their friendship ended, too.<\/p>\n

Now the Cowboys are languishing again. As the blog linked to this note observes, the Cowboys are known as one of the NFL’s best teams — on paper — but they are managing yet again to prove they cannot win consistently.<\/p>\n

Yep, the Cowboys have won some Super Bowls since Jones took over the team. It’s looking, though, as if the next<\/em> one is slipping farther and farther into the future.<\/p>\n

Why? It has to be Jones. The owner is a smart businessman who made enough money to buy himself a professional football team that has moved from the Cotton Bowl at the State Fairgrounds in Dallas, to a new stadium in Irving and now the place nicknamed Jerry World way over in Arlington — which is a lot closer to Fort Worth than it is to Dallas. Take it from me, many of the folks in Fort Worth detest the reference to the Dallas<\/em> Cowboys.<\/p>\n

Jones may be an adequate owner. He needs desperately, however, to turn over the day-to-day management of the team to someone who knows what the bleep he’s doing.<\/p>\n

That someone is not Jerry Jones.<\/p>\n

Take a hike, big guy. Sign the paychecks, pay the bills and get the heck out of the way.<\/p>\n\n

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I hate commenting on sports because I don’t know enough of the nitty-gritty to talk intelligently about it. However, I do know bad management when I see it. It’s running rampant inside the head office of the Dallas\/Irving\/Arlington Cowboys professional football franchise. http:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/1890803-cowboys-wont-find-success-before-massive-culture-change-in-dallas?utm_source=cnn.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=cnn-sports-bin&hpt=hp_bn15 The team owner Jerry Jones also is the team’s general manager. He’s … Continue reading Would the Cowboys’ owner fire himself … please?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1167,1241,2001,2447,2493,2724,4710,4847],"class_list":["post-4247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cotton-bowl","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-green-bay-packers","tag-jerry-jones","tag-jimmy-johnson","tag-lambeau-field","tag-texas-state-fair","tag-tom-landry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40508,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247\/revisions\/40508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}