For some people the task of presenting the General Manager, Owner and Head Coach of the Dallas Cowboys would be a very simple task, they'll point their finger at just one person.

Jerry Jones.

Has he been VERY wrong in the past? Yeah, he sucked. Was he wrong when he said what he said in the radio? No, he wasn't. And if you want to argue, I'll present to you what wikipedia says (and that's a knowledgeable girl):

Sports teams

In most professional sports, the general manager is a team executive responsible for acquiring the rights to player personnel, negotiating their contracts, and reassigning or dismissing players no longer desired on the team. The general manager may also have responsibility for hiring the head coach of the team.

For many years in U.S. professional sports, coaches often served as general managers for their teams as well, deciding which players would be kept on the team and which ones dismissed, and even negotiating the terms of their contracts in cooperation with the ownership of the team. In fact, many sports teams in the early years of U.S. professional sports were coached by the owner of the team, so in some cases the same individual served as owner, general manager and head coach.

As the amount of money involved in professional sports increased, many prominent players began to hire agents to negotiate contracts on their behalf. The intensified contract negotiations that resulted, as well as the overall increased need for professional business management, drove many sports teams to separate the positions of coach and general manager. Some coaches, however, still insist on being allowed to fill both positions as a condition of employment.

In some sports leagues salary caps have been adopted to maintain a competitive balance and in these leagues it is one of the functions of the general manager to ensure all player contracts are in accordance with these caps, as well as consistent with the desires of the ownership and its ability to pay.

General managers are usually responsible for the selection of players in player drafts and work with the coaching staff and scouts to build a strong team. In sports with developmental or minor leagues, the general manager is usually the team executive with the overall responsibility for "sending down" and "calling up" players to and from these leagues, although the head coach may also have significant input into these decisions.

Player acquisition? Check.

Decisions on personnel? Check.

Monetary decisions? Check.

You want to talk about the past? About the late 90s and early 2000s? Go ahead, knock you inconscious, I won't listen (what's the purpose), I want to talk about right now, which are Jerry's present mistakes?

• Roy Williams? The current whip boy. Jerry gave up too much for too little. Maybe. This isn't a closed book, at the very least the guy has talent. And because of that, the team needs to continue to play him.
• Wade Phillips? For many the wrong choice. I tend to simplify things. A my-way-or-the-highway Coach couldn't manage the right kind of production out of a bunch of talented underachievers? Ok, I'll try something different, what about player friendly?
• Player acquisition? The Draft has a success rate that's up there in competition with the best run franchises... In Free Agency we've seen the likes of Colombo, Davis, Brooking, Kosier, Hamlin, Sensabaugh, etc. They also have a high success rate.
• Money? They have no money problems and they're making decisions with the future on mind.

Hear me out, in the past 6 years have you seen or heard of a single time when Jerry made a decision that went exactly against the head coach wishes? I'm hearing Terrell Owens? Wrong, Parcells met with Owens not once, but twice (once in Frisco, yes, Parcells traveled out of his way to met with a player, then in Dallas), before he talked contract with Jerry. On playing young guys because the Coaches were forced to? The average fan would have started Henson (yeah, some salt in those fries Henson, take that Tex!) and Romo a lot earlier than Parcells did. Other than them who's an easy call? Miles Austin? You mean the Austin that was guilty of an interception and of dropped passes earlier in the year? The stone hands Austin of previous years?

But yeah, I kind of get it, Jerry Jones is the antichrist and anything that he does is just wrong.