RecoveringCowboy
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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Those Cowboys had a shot of winning 3 in a row. Nice job, Jerry!"any one of 500 coaches could have won those Super Bowls"
A drunken Jerry telling Jimmy Johnson just before they split in 1994
^ you might be right
Sort of like "overinflated balls."“I’ve been around here when it was glory hole days and I’ve been here when it wasn’t. Having said that, I want me some glory hole.”
Jerry’s intention was to use a term from his oil and gas business days to get his point across. The problem is most people think of something totally different when they hear the term glory hole. Needless to say fans, media and late night TV host had a field day with this one.
The big problem with the Browns wasn't even the quarterbacks, whom everyone was focused on. The problem is Jimmy Haslam, "Hotspur" as I have called him for his recklessness and impatience. (No wonder he wanted Manziel in the draft! Neither has shown the ability to refrain from a bad impulse or to learn from his mistakes.)
The first time Haslam sat down with Plain Dealer editors and reporters shortly after buying the team, he spoke with admiration of Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, a superb businessman and brilliant marketer.
Jones has a reputation for interfering too much in the football side of the franchise. It was no surprise. He'd be involved, he said the day he bought the Cowboys, "from socks to jocks."
Compared to Hotspur, however, even Jerry Jones is closer to one of the patient, steady Rooneys in Pittsburgh, where Haslam was a minority owner. There, Haslam apparently learned none of the Steelers' lessons in successful stewardship of a franchise.
As for Jones, he has never fired a coach after only one season. Even Chan Gailey got two years. Haslam, an outsized personality, fired coach Pat Shurmur and the rest of the Mike Holmgren regime soon after he arrived.
Not the first by any means and there are plenty more like him, thank goodness. It is very important for the Patriots that there are a lot of meddling, incompetent owners making bad picks / trades in the draft.
JJ, Dan Synder, Raiders, ....it is all good for the Patriots...
Even Wellington Mara was not exactly a rocket scientist in respect to the draft, but he was a genuinely nice guy so he is forgiven. JJ is not a nice guy. Nor is Snyder, ha.
Sort of like "overinflated balls."
I so wish they picked Manziel and picked him high. I hate whoever talked him out of that.