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Doesn’t mean he can do it again. Plus, he had Jimmie Johnson on them all the time, keeping them in line. Phillips can’t do that.

If Jerry could just be an owner who uses his money for the best of the organization (not through cheap publicity stunts like signing Pacman) and stay out of the rest of it, we could sign a GM who could really help. If it’s hard enough to find head coaches who can also be a GM, imagine being an owner trying to complete a new stadium and trying to be a GM as well. He’s setting himself up for failure.

He needs to let Stephen come in and be the GM. He seems to have a good head on his shoulders and could always hire a consultant or someone else to help him out.

Right now, the future is looking bleak for the ‘Boys just because of leadership issues. If they can get figured out….watch out. Until then, I’ll continue to be baffled by the inability of the front office to humble themselves and change. If you can’t do it, how will your employees do it? Lead by example Jerry!

But he forgot about this thing called leadership while he was assembling the team. He brings in a HC who can’t discipline, an OC just biding his time, trying not to screw up to bad until he can take over for Phillips and a bunch of talented yet troubled (Pac, Tank, TO) players. Add that in with a sensitive QB, a bipolar Oline and no real vocal leader (the only vocal people on the team are James, Newman, TO, Crayton and Ellis and they never say anything of value) and what are you left with? A group of players who pretty much try to run things themselves because they don’t trust their leadership or each other.

And it’s not like they can look to Jerry to learn trust. How much does he trust his head coaches if he’s always mettling in their affairs? He won’t let them draft or sign the players they want, but he can sure sign players for them.

Face it, until Jerry decides to either trust a coach or at least his son to be the GM, nothing is going to get fixed. Change needs to start at the top so everyone can see it and mirror it.

is the roles and the responsibilities are in conflict with each other. as a GM he has to support the coach and have autority over him. he has to hold players responsible and be the last disciplinarian and make tough player personnel decisions. as the president he wants more money, more exposure, more TV time, more advertising money. as the owner he wasnts team success along with team financial prosperity.

Thus players get pulled for media and marketing purposes. they are late to meeting so they are excused. This is in conflict with GM role that needs to make sure the players follow team rules. so because he is in conflict with himself, he lowers the $12k fine to $100. so he satisfies the GM in him and allows himself and the players the ability to be pulled into none football things like marketing.

so as the owner, he played judge and jury allowed the president to over ride the GM and had the GM satisfied by saying here is the fines your are looking for.

its a joke. one person can not successfully fullfill all the roles without another person becoming the sounding board and pushing back to create balance. Parcells and Jimmy did that. these other coaches are not doing that.

As the GM he is also allowing himself to by pass the line of command and get involved in player and football operations issues, because the owner who paid millions to the players is concerned about his investment and wants the GM involved. no sounding board. plays judge and Jury again and gets involved when he doesn’t need to (like the comments about barber, TO, Roy Williams (WR), etc.).