I am finally tired of Jerry Jones and his big mouth

I thought Jerry knew a thing or two about sales. Why would anyone trade for a player that is likely to be cut if he doesn’t take a pay cut. I’m totally fine with Gurode leaving, I think waiting to have the surgery proved he isn’t the right kind of guy and he doesn’t fit our scheme. That being said, Jerry should have talked him up and inflated his value. Only Jerry Jones is stupid enough to trade for a player who will be cut or not resigned anyway (see Roy Williams.) I’m holding judgement on the defense, hard to judge them with a new scheme and no OTA’s or Minicamps and several starters being held out with injuries.

When has Jerry Said that Gurode will be cut? What if he was held out because Jerry already has a trade worked out?

Now I am not saying that what Jerry did was right…but I think that we should wait until all the facts on in before we start rushing to judgments….

You guys would make some lousy salesmen.

Oh man, check out this amazing center I have. All-Pro stump in the middle of your defense taking out the top NT or DT you want during the pass or run. He’s so terrific I’m going to put him on the trade block.

Come on, there’s a healthy skepticism that people with common sense have. Other GMs around the league aren’t going to buy that we love our Center so much that we want to trade him. I think playing the angle that he’s getting in the way of progress and we have an up and coming player that we want to plug in who’s not as good but fits in better with our long term plans is the better way to go.

I mean other teams aren’t dumb, they see the film and see how good or bad he is. His trade value is only influenced by his play on the field and the other team’s desire to acquire him, not by Jerry Jones’ assessment of an undrafted rookie.

As for Phil Costa being bad, he was an All-ACC Academic lineman during his tenure at Maryland. He was their best lineman. Not only that, he grades as well or better than Maurkice or Mike Pouncey in every single category for the combine despite having been heavier than them. I mean he had a 9’04" broad jump with a 35" vertical, that’s not easy for 308 pounds, compare that to 8’ and 25 inch vertical for Mike and 7’11" for Maurkice at 304 and 303 pounds respectively. He jacked up 30 bench reps compared to 25 for Maurkice and 24 for Mike.

You want to know the real knock on Phil Costa? It’s that he had short arms and played for the ACC. I can definitely understand why though, if you’re putting your job on the line every time you elect to draft a player you definitely want to maximize their measurables. Did anybody else see that special on ESPN with Bill Parcells? He surprised me quite a bit, he looked like FiTaT up there with the average physical statistics of players per position in the league. There were guys whose production he loved but they didn’t “measure” out to be in the league, and he said whenever that happened he had a huge gut check to decide whether or not to draft them – the only exception being running backs. Production is production for running backs and they vary greatly in sizes.

Cowboys have unearthed some downright GEMS in the draft for later round lineman lately. If they redid the draft today and could see Nagy on tape against NFL caliber players you think he’d last until the 7th round?

I don’t know, I’m just saying don’t jump the gun here guys.

I wasn’t expecting to hear that. What’s the cap hit if they cut dre?

No one knows anything yet.. and does this really sound like Jerry? The guy who kept RW in front of Miles, the guy who kept Barber in front of Felix.. no this sounds like JG and I LOVE IT!

It would be nice to have an organization that does not always tip their hand to what they are going to do.

The whole world does not need to know how Jerry feels about his team at all times.

But feel free to lambast away

We should be a Wild Card contending team. 8-11 wins.

I know this tidbit has passed into Lore and Legend and is cited whenever one of Jerry’s Kids feels the need to defend their man, but does anyone have a citation to an actual news story that reported this? A story contemporaneous with that particular draft?

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/sports/dolphins/miami-dolphins-gm-jeff-ireland-has-more-responsibility-1198684.html?printArticle=y

this seems pretty tame.

I still can’t believe that after the nightmare decade that cowboys have just endured some of you guys are NOW deciding that you’ve had enough of JJ and his mouth. Putting JG in charge looks like a genius move so far and if this young OL can be as good as it looks, he can talk day and night for all I care.

But hearing Jerry during the broadcast just spewing nonsense and giving a running commentary of the roster made me furious there is no need for it and it does not help make us better in any way

Of course I hope out o-line works out. I have been happy with the play of Tyron and Nagy and fully agree that we need to get younger there. I just want to see us win and I don’t see how it makes sense for our GM to go on live tv and announce his intentions.

but it appears we will have 4 out of 5 new starters or in the case of Kosier at a new position

This small little incident is what finally tired you of Jerry Jones?

that has bugged switz and this was just the final nail in the coffin so to speak. But who knows maybe he can clarify that much better. J.J the owner is pretty good but J.J the g.m is terrible, can’t stand the guy however I’ll give him credit for getting the cornerstones to this franchise romo, witten, ware, ratliff, tron etc…

I have always defended Jerry for the last 20 years. There is no owner I would rather have. I give him credit for spending money and acquiring many good players, esp the late round and undrafted guys like Ratliff and Romo..

What has pushed me over the edge on this one is that he just cannot keep his mouth shut. Him just running his mouth for a quarter with his standard hypberole last night made me furious.

If you want to cut or trade or make Gurode take a pay cut then go ahead. I trust the judgement of the coaches and organization. But just don’t yap about how great the player is but then also say that he’s not playing due to a “business decision”. It does nothing good and makes Jerry sound like a fool. Most likely we would not be able to trade him for anything due to his health and contract but what good does it do make this big deal over it?

I feel like the fact he cannot ever keep his mouth shut and always wants to brag about how shrewd he is puts our team at a disadvantage.

Hopefully Garrett can help change this situation.

I haven’t defended JJ for 20 years unlike your brave, loyal self, switzbeats. He lost me when he fired Jimmy Johnson. But like you, I am a life-long, die-hard, yellow-dog Cowboys fan and nothing he does will ever change that. FWIW, I support his Gurode decision and the O-line youth movement. Or as My Cousin Vinny would say, “the yoots.”

I sincerely wish Jerry would not go on camera and run his mouth. He enjoys hearing his own football wisdom way too much.

It’s Andre Gurode, the same guy many here bash all the time “Undeserved probowls” things of the nature.

Why now is it a problem to release him? Because he held him out, just in case he could get something in a trade? Because he came out and said exactly what he was doing, when asked? Or is this just another reason to take a shot at Jones?

I really don’t understand why people are throwing a fit over this. It’s not like he Steve McNair’d him or anything.

I really didn’t think this was that big of a deal.

He’s an old center who is good but not great and has a contract that makes him pretty much untradable.

It’s not that other people might not be interested, but I sincerely doubt that anyone was going to want to take that contract in a trade.