I don’t mind the Cowboys acquiring Jon Kitna.

Actually, I think it was a good move, because he should be a legitimate backup quarterback. While he won’t push Tony Romo for the starting job, he’s certainly capable of helping the Cowboys win games if they need him to start for two or three weeks – something Brad Johnson couldn’t do.

But I have no idea why the Cowboys would trade starting cornerback Anthony Henry to acquire a player who spent the last two months of the season on injured reserve and was expected to be released.

Trading for him means the Cowboys don’t have to compete with other teams for his services, which is a plus. Still, Henry could help the Cowboys for 16 games; Kitna might not play at all.

Besides, conventional NFL wisdom says you don’t trade for players who are going to be released. And if you do, you certainly don’t trade a starter. You maybe give up a conditional sixth- or seventh-round pick.

Clearly, the Cowboys overpaid.

It would’ve made more sense to give up safety Roy Williams, since they’ve been shopping him around the league. Maybe Detroit didn’t want him.

Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised by the trade.

The Cowboys also overpaid for receiver Roy Williams at the trade deadline, handing Detroit a bushel of draft picks, including a No. 1 for a player no other team was trying to acquire.

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CFR mentioned in a blurb in the Los Angeles Times

Cowboys’ Jerry Jones has managed to annoy many fans

By Barry Stavro
February 26, 2009

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-…,5385268.story

Jones’ 20 years as owner of the team have been a success (three Super Bowl wins), but many wonder if it isn’t time for him to hire someone other than himself as general manager.

This week is the 20th anniversary of Jerry Jones’ purchase of the Dallas Cowboys.

On his first day, Jones fired Tom Landry, and for Cowboys fans it has been love-hate ever since.

Jones, the businessman, has gotten kudos for pouring money into the team, signing big-name players and coaches and for winning three Super Bowls in his tenure. He’s also about to open a $1.1-billion state-of-the art stadium.

But Jones, the meddler, has been trashed for prowling the sidelines, naming himself general manager, his revolving door of inept head coaches and the long drought since the Cowboys’ last playoff win. He also has triggered a boom in Cowboys blogs.

From CowboysFanRebellion.com: “The time is now, Jerry. Hire a real GM.”

Firegmjerry.com: “Jerry, you cannot have it both ways. You cannot act like, promote, and charge us for a superior product when you are fielding a disaster. You owe us a decent chance at winning. You owe us to get out of your own way.”

Or FireTheCowboysGM.com: “Based on the results from the last 12 years (no playoff wins), how many times would Jerry Jones have fired the General Manager, if it wasn’t him?”

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Tonight at 9:30 CST, I will be joining Doyle and Larry on Cowboys Pride radio.  Join us as we talk about the true problem that faces this storied organization.

Go here to listen.

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This is a quote from Jerry on February 25, 1989.  The same day he fired Tom Landry.  It was quite foreshadowing of things to come. 

“There’s no way in the world that with my enthusiasm and love for what I’m getting ready to do, and the kind of price I’m paying, that I can look in the mirror if I don’t plan to be a part of everything. I want to understand that everyone associated with it is giving it everything that they can do.’

You can read the entire article from 1989 here.

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Gag order just latest misstep from Cowboys
by Alex Marvez

The gag order imposed on the Dallas coaching staff is like Cowboys owner Jerry Jones’ other recent decisions.

A sound idea in theory gone horribly awry when actually executed.

Surrounding cornerback Adam “Pacman” Jones with bodyguards to keep him on the straight and narrow was embarrassingly ineffective. Showing a long-term commitment to Terrell Owens with a contract extension last offseason emboldened the wide receiver to re-embrace his selfish ways rather than become a team player. Making a midseason mega-trade for wide receiver Roy Williams disrupted the offensive chemistry in 2008 far more than it helped.

And now this latest example: Nobody but Jones himself is to speak with the media.

Jones told Cowboys beat writers this was being done to thwart the kind of “misinformation” he claims was reported about the team earlier this offseason. While those stories quoted anonymous sources rather than coaches who might not even be involved, what Jones is doing makes sense on other levels. (more…)

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Many of the more level-headed among us had a feeling that this team wouldn’t open up Yet-To-Be-Decided-Corporate-Sponsor Stadium with Wade Phillips at the helm. Or at least, that’s what we hoped.

Come on. Wade Phillips? A head coach who has never won a playoff game in his long, long, NFL career? A man who has just presided over quite possibly one of the most embarrassing seasons ever for your Dallas Cowboys? A character who, in terms of the always important marketability angle, is more likely to cause fans to part with their hard earned dollars for a multitude of various prescription and non-prescription drugs as opposed to personal seat licenses?  

So it was no real surprise when I logged onto the interweb recently and found out, officially, that he’s no longer running the show. Sure, there had been evidence before. Hints dropped here and there. But now we know for sure. Ladies and Gentlemen, the Head Coach for the 2009 Dallas Cowboys will be…. (more…)

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By JENNIFER FLOYD ENGEL
jenfloyd@star-telegram.com

A nickname change apparently is needed.

See ya, Coach Cupcake.

Please say hello to Assistant Coach Cupcake.

Thursday’s news from Indianapolis that Cowboys owner Jerry Jones officially had gagged all of his coaches via memo took away any and all pretense about what Wade Phillips is or how he stayed employed after that debacle in Philly.

He is a powerless puppet, with a sock in his mouth.

“Can’t,” he said Thursday when asked to provide answers on football topics. “Against the rules.”

Self-gagged, or Jerry-gagged? Doesn’t matter.

The fact is the lone voice of the Cowboys is the owner, and it is unprecedented in any league to have your coach silent on his team. Can you imagine Bill Parcells or Jimmy Johnson… (more…)

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By Robert Wilonsky

Published on February 12, 1998

Since Barry Switzer’s, uh, resignation, the world has hardly stopped. We discovered that President Clinton probably screwed a 21-year-old intern. Sonny Bono died in a skiing accident, and former SMU football great Doak Walker was paralyzed in a similar mishap. More than 4,000 people died in an earthquake in Afghanistan. Convicted rapist and ex-boxer Mike Tyson hooked up with the World Wrestling Federation. John Elway’s Denver Broncos finally won a Super Bowl. Tom Hicks announced he was going to buy the Texas Rangers.

And Jerry Jones lied to us. Again. (more…)

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When Jerry Jones fired Jimmy Johnson, the owner of the Dallas Cowboys sold his soul to prove that he’s in charge. Now his ego has made America’s Team an NFL laughingstock, but it’s fans like me who are in hell.

by Gary Cartwright

Following the stumbling and bumbling of the Dallas Cowboys this past summer, I began obsessing on Jerry Jones’s goofy grin. The grin is a Jones trademark and an enigma that has puzzled many an unsmiling and frustrated Cowboy devotee. Blackie Sherrod, the incomparable Dallas newspaper columnist, long ago identified the expression and labeled the Cowboys’ owner and general manager “Smiley Jones,” a moniker not without irony. But what are we to make of this dippy turn of the mouth? At a glance it seems pleasant enough, the sweet innocence of a baby with gas. It implies a generous helping of ego, self-satisfaction, and arrogance. Some see it as the smirk of a cobra, ruthless and deadly. Or maybe it’s merely the smile of a fool. As I watched the Cowboys during training camp and the preseason, lurching about like left-footed geese, regressing into what is sure to be a milestone season of despair, I reached a discomforting conclusion. It’s all of the above.

The news from Valley Ranch is bad, my friends, worse than any of us dared imagine. The 58-year-old Jones has lost it—if indeed he ever had it—and it ain’t coming back. The mystique and majesty that permitted this franchise to win five Super Bowls while posing as America’s Team are history, at least as long as Jones rules. Meet the new chumps of pro football, America’s Losers. How did a football club that dominated the NFL for the first half of the nineties take such an abysmal dive? Was it the advent of the salary cap? Or free agency? Or a series of injuries that shortened the careers of Troy Aikman, Michael Irvin, Jay Novacek, and other quality players? Certainly these are factors. But this team has rotted from the top down. Blame the man behind the grin. Blame his dictatorial arrogance, his obsessive need to prove that he too is a real football guy, his stubborn refusal to hire the real article to run this operation. As veteran NFL writer Frank Luksa observed recently in the Dallas Morning News, Jones suffers from “delusions of adequacy.” I couldn’t have said it better myself. (more…)

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Jones insists Campo is the coach, not him

by Chris Mortensen

Oct. 10, 2001

Jerry Jones really is a good man. He is a glass-half-full optimist. He has a wonderful heart. He loves his family.

And, yes, he loves his football team. I did say his team. He is owner, president and general manager of the Dallas Cowboys.

Is he “Coach Jones,” too, as I fondly jest with him?

“No, I am not,” said Jones. “Dave Campo is the head coach of the Cowboys.”

Campo’s status as head coach of America’s (former) Team has been under scrutiny since the day he took the job. The most recent attack on his credibility came Sunday when the Dallas Morning News reported — using Jones as a primary source — that Campo must share player substitution decisions with the owner, even on game day.

“Let me be real clear: Dave, on game day, makes the decision as to who starts and who is going in and out of the game,” said Jones. “It does Dave a disservice to suggest otherwise.” (more…)

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