We first want to say thank you for being an amazing owner the past 25 years. I think too many people forget how bad this franchise was in trouble in 85-89 and going nowhere fast. We had aging players, an aging stadium that didn't make or bring in any additional revenue, and no star power other than Hershel Walker & a rookie in '88 with huge potential named Mike Irvin. So we give a big thanks to you for helping the team grow into a $2B enterprise, a revenue streaming monster, a media magnet and the most amazing stadium in the world, by far.
Now enough of that kind sir. You need to be an owner. A Bob Kraft if you will. A Rooney. An owner who throw's lavish parties in his stadium suites, hangs out with politicians and keeps the revenue coming in with savvy business moves and take a back seat to the thing you say you care about the most: YOUR team, the Dallas Cowboys.
You are single handedly RUINING this once proud franchise. Your stubbornness and egotistical ways have brought us so far down that it may take another 20 years for this to get corrected. We get it, you played football at Arkansas, won a National Championship; you were part of a team that helped win 3 Super Bowls in 4 years. But you made millions, upon millions in the oil business. Did you have to help build the derrick and climb the rig? No. Step aside and let a football man do the behind the scenes work and build a team the correct way. You have this innate desire to try and "show" the world and the rest of the NFL execs that YOU can build a team and win...without Jimmy...but you cannot. I'm sorry. You're not a football guy in that regard.
I know you're mad reading this. I get it. But Cowboys Nation adores you for what you have meant ot the blue star and everything you have helped this team do over the past 25 years. You have charisma, charm, a personality the size of DFW, and love to flaunt your money. But you don't know talent and don't know how to truly BUILD a team. There is a reason the Patriots have had continuous success for 14 years running now. They built a team and stuck with that blueprint.
You keep trying to hit a homerun in the draft or free agency and it's killing this team even more. Let's take a look at YOUR drafts the past 7 years, the year after Parcells walked away because he couldn't handle your pestering ways.
2007-Anthony Spencer, James Marten, Isaiah Stanback, Doug Free, Nick Folk, Deon Anderson, Courtney Brown, Alan Ball
*Spencer & Free have had solid careers, but nothing out of the ordinary. Safe to say you missed on all the others.
**Should have took: Joe Staley in 1st; Charles Johnson (DE) in the 3rd
2008-You had two 1st RD picks & blew them both (F.Jones & M.Jenkins). You should have traded out of the 1st to stock pile picks in the 2nd & 3rd of this & next years draft. Yout took Marty B in the 2nd (why when you had Witten), when you could have got D.Jackson and/or Ray Rice.
*Only Scandrick is still on the roster by the way
2009-You acn consider this the worst draft in Cowboys history. You had 12 picks total, 0 in the 1st or 2nd rounds because of your ridiculous trade for WR Roy Williams. None of these players are on the roster today, nor did they do anything for this team.
*You could have had: Mike Wallace, Lardarius Webb, or even Henry Melton who you just signed as a FA.
**Side note: you took a 2nd kicker for the team (Buehler) in the 5th and passed on the following-Jason Mccourty and Captain Munnerly, which our defense would have loved.
2010-D.Bryant,S.Lee and that's about it. But solid picks in this draft. But you keep dropping the ball by only having 5-7 picks a year. This team needs depth, and you need to hit at least every other year on the 4th-6th round picks.
2011-2013: By this time, your drafts have saddled this team and we had 22 picks in a 3 year span. When you should have traded down and added value and picks, you trade up for your infamous "game changer" player drafted. Yup, it sells jerseys and tickets, but doesn't help us win games. In '11 we got T.Smith & D.Murray, great picks. But nothing else after (unless D.Harris can be solid contributer on offense). In 2012 we got Mo Claiborne (gave up way too much) and....NOTHING else. In 2013 we got a 10 year center, great. But in the 1st round? Then you took another TE in the 2nd round, epic fail with these, and again, NOTHING else.
This is just draft talk by the way. We didn't even mention drafts in the '96-'03 seasons. This doesn't even begin your epic failures regarding trades regarding Joey Galloway & Roy Williams. That is four #1 picks we should have, still on this roster. But no. You blew that too. You've overpaid players after minimal success (Miles Austin, Doug Free, Marion Barber, etc). You have consistently made very bad choices since 1996. Shockingly, that is the year the cookie started to crumble as the team that JIMMY built was all but gone.
We love you Jerry. But more, we love this team. We love OUR Dallas Cowboys. We want our team back, and in good hands. Do yourself and your family a favor, step down as General Manager immediately. Hire a lifelong football man (Polian, Holmgren, Casserly) to be the GM, and let them do it THEIR way. You can then sit back and reap the benefits and fill your trophy case.
Unless all you care about is raking in tons of money for about a 10 more years, and TRYING your damndest to win "your way." But I assure you, fans will eventually walk away from the exhorbitant prices. I promise you that.
From a very concerned, lifelong Cowboys fan.
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