That sucked but looking for something bright to pull out of thin air ass group the defense looked alot better than pretty much anyone expected. Only gave up 21 points and those were off turnovers. It was a crap first game but it was pretty much what i expected.
Yeah we sucked. Romo sucked. Turnovers killed us. I'm starting to really hope garret loses the locker room and gets canned a little over half the season in. Our offense is still going to be real good. If we end up 5-11 or 6-10 than we could really focus on defense in the first 3 rounds with grabbing a qb somewhere in there. Target some defensive free agents and get a quality coach. And it's practically a one year window with Romo.
I think they should sign Garrett and Romo to extensions but then again . . I'm no cowboy fan LOL Seriously . . . . I cannot see how Jerry cannot see that those guys are problems I'd be surprised if Garret gets another HC job after this one Romo *was* good to decent . . .now not so much . . . he is adequate. They need an OC that will sit on him and make him a 'game manager' Rocket River
Ol' Jerruh was decidedly miffed after that game particularly with the Death Star being packed full of SF fans. ESPN 103.3 has audio where a reporter asks Jerry about all of the SF fans at the game and his reply was classic Jerry in denial: "I was watching the game on the field and not looking at who was in the stands". Fact is that on opening day, over 40% of the seats were taken by SF fans as season ticket holders sold their seats and stayed home. Can't wait to see what happens when they face "Who Dat?" nation.
Jones is a business man who is about that all mighty dollar, as long as fans keep buying his product and he gets to play God.. All is well in Jerryland.
Funny you mention the Texans' game. It's the number selling ticket right now. Cows fans are bailing in droves. It's really funny to watch. Their arrogance has been replaced with anger at Jerry for what's happened to "America's Team".
Romo had one bad game after essentially propelling the Cowboys to a shot at the playoffs with the worst defense in the league last year by a long shot. And, chances were high we would have been in had he not been injured. Now, everyone seems to be claiming Romo is no longer good just like that after the first game of the season with basically a half pre-season of reps and coming off a major back injury. Talking about knee jerk reactions all over the Internet. Tony does bad...you hear all about it. He does good...it's a non-event until he does bad again. That's what being the QB of the Cowboys gets you.
Well, you know Rocket River... not everybody's cut out to be a Cowboys fan. Takes a special...something...you know? Let you in on a little secret...from a man who's been a fan of the 'Boys since before Jackie Smith dropped that touchdown pass in the back of the end zone from Rodger the Dodger in the Orange Bowl back in '79.... Bill Parcells, when he was coaching the Cowboys, said pretty much the same thing about Tony Romo. I knew then he was right, before anybody had seen him play and he was the hotshot backup who everybody want to play. The problem, then, now and since Mr. Jerruh Jones has taken the reins and systematically kept the Cowboys in the NFL ditch the past 15 years or so.... ...is that the Cowboys haven't had anybody there in a coaching capacity with the stones to tell Jerry to get the hell out of the way. Parcells often said of Romo that he liked him, that the "kid" (who was behind Drew Bledsoe and Vinny Testeverde at one point) had a lot of moxie...he wanted to play...but that he just couldn't trust him. I expect Parcells knew that Romo was a quarterback that needed help...not because he'd make bad throws...but because he was prone to make bad decisions and needed to be groomed into better decision-making processes. Especially coming out of a little school like Eastern Illinois...where he probably got a lot done just on his physical talent at a small school and not seeing the type of talent he would weekly against NFL competition...he needed to be coached...and he never has gotten any of that. People have long whispered about Romo's habits being bad (little to no film study, last-in, first-out, et al), and I'm sure Parcells would have held him accountable if he had been able to stomach Jones' meddling long enough to see if he could work it out. Jones can't see problems where he tells himself there isn't one, Rocket River. And people that tell Jerry Jones that he's right all the time are the people Jones tends to listen to. Everybody knows what the biggest problem is with the Cowboys. It's not Tony Romo. It's not Jason Garrett. Neither of them help, but they contribute to an odd sort of consistently irritating narrative, no matter how many different actors you get playing the same lead roles. Everybody knows what's wrong with the Cowboys except Jerry Jones. And that's the problem.
Like I've said to another poster here, Surfguy... Personally, I don't think Tony Romo quarterbacking the Dallas Cowboys has been as big a problem as it's been made. It's been made a problem by Romo himself at times...but mostly because of how the Cowboys (read: Jerry Jones) choose to run their business. Jones is a phenomenal businessman and salesman. Only he could get away with selling women's lingerie at a pro football sporting event and make a profit. And in spite of himself, it seems, Jones doesn't usually pick players (in his role as GM) that are all that terrible. I imagine, for a guy like Jones, picking professional athletes is a lot like a woman shopping for shoes...there's never a WRONG or BAD choice...just gotta pick something that goes with what you're wearing...so it becomes a self-replicating problem that, for women, becomes thousands of pairs of shoes in a couple of closets... ..and for the 'Boys...keeps Jones in the stupor that he knows what it takes to build a good football team. You look at the antithesis of Jones--New England Patriots owner Bob Kraft. The only time you ever see him or hear from him is if there's a PR photo op with him or Bill Belichek or Tom Brady at some community or league event. Or winning a Super Bowl or three in the last ten years. Kraft, I understand, is a huge fan of the game, and of course, of his team. But you don't think of Kraft's ownership the same way people think of "Jerruh's" in Dallas. Whenever anybody talks about anything Patriots-related (either on or off the field), they talk about Belichek. And for better or worse (not to mention a HOF QB in Tom Brady, that Belichek may just mastermind his way into keeping from winning another Super Bowl before he retires, it seems), they run a tight ship, and the only captain there is 'ol Bill Bellyache (my own little special name for him, and I say it with love and respect)... Jones has always had this desire to be seen as the architect of the Cowboys...the reason why the Cowboys on the field are a "great" team. It was obvious in how he dealt with the personification of the Cowboys at the time he bought the team...Tom Landry. It was way past time for Landry to retire, perhaps. Nobody would argue with that. But the callous way Jones handled it revealed, if not an odd kind of contempt for coaches, then certainly a tone-deafness into the psychology of a football team and culture. Which, anyone familiar with Jones' amateur football background (in Arkansas) would know, is surprisingly out of touch. It was obvious in how he dealt with Jimmy Johnson. He seemed to seethe that Johnson got the credit for building the Cowboys into a "dynasty" in the mid 1990s. Johnson's Cowboys won the Super Bowl in 1995 with Johnson in absentia, effectively. Barry Switzer (a great college coach, undoubtedly) was the precursor to the type of head coach that the Cowboys have had since Johnson abruptly left...the type of head coach that would let Jerry make the decisions and give Jerry all the credit and take all the blame when things went south. I still can't get that ridiculous image of Switzer being locked out of his office in Valley Ranch after the Cowboys lost to Carolina in 1997, with a full news crew in tow to capture that for posterity. I say all this to say that Romo is the one everybody is most comfortable going after. Everybody knows that Jones is far too meddlesome as an owner (he essentially fraternizes with the players and undermines any coaching staff (promoting Jason Garrett and dumping Rob Ryan for instance, not to mention digging up Monty Kiffen's corpse and trying to run a 4-3 defense with 3-4 personnel...and I could go on and on really)... ...and galls anyone who asks him publicly with his stance on "...knowing what the Cowboys fans want..."... Jones picks players, but he doesn't build teams. He hires coaches that aren't in charge of anything. He's in the way so much and so often that after all this time, he probably thinks he's supposed to be there. Wouldn't it be something if, after 25 years, Jones is the one who gets treated the way he's treated anybody with "authority" that potentially rivaled his as the "face of the franchise"? I couldn't be that lucky though. No Cowboys fan could, I think. What with medical technology today, and his bank account, Jones would probably still be running things from a cryogenic chamber with nothing but his head attached to a bunch of wires and vats a century from now. And that, unfortunately, would actually be an improvement....
Remember those pictures of ol' Jerry in the bathroom with two strippers that surfaced back in April? Well the Jerry Go Round continues: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/headlines/20140909-lawsuit-accuses-cowboys-owner-jerry-jones-of-sexual-assault-in-2009-hotel-incident.ece By SCOTT FARWELL Staff Writer sfarwell@dallasnews.com Jana Weckerly, 27, a former exotic dancer from Ardmore, Okla., said Jones, 71, fondled her genitals, forced her to touch or rub his penis, and made her watch as he received oral sex from another woman (???). Weckerly seeks over $1 million in punitive damages. Levi McCathern II, an attorney for Jones, said the court sealed the case late Tuesday. “These allegations are completely false,” he wrote in a prepared statement. “The legal complaint is unsupported by facts or evidence of any kind. This is nothing more than an attempt to embarrass and extort Jerry Jones. This is a money grab by a lawyer who is a solo practitioner just trying to make a name for himself. The alleged incidents would have been more than 5 years old. “We intend to vigorously contest this complaint and expect it will be shown for what it is — a shakedown. Due to the seriousness of these baseless allegations, we have also involved law enforcement.” Jones has said photos “misrepresented” what happened that night, but would not answer questions about the incident. The Dallas Morning News generally does not names victims of sex crimes, but Weckerly consented to her name being used because it had already been widely reported. Weckerly was not available for comment Tuesday. Her Dallas attorney, Thomas Bowers, said that the woman has been in counseling and is taking medicine to help her cope with trauma from the incident. The alleged details of the encounter between Jones and three women were first disclosed last month in a rambling manifesto by a man named Frank Hoover of Wichita, Kan. He included three photos of the Cowboys owner and two women in sexually suggestive poses. Weckerly did not appear in the photos. She reportedly took them with her cellphone. Hoover, who has said that he is the son of God, claimed that Jones later paid Weckerly and others several hundred thousand dollars to keep quiet. Bowers denied his client was involved in any attempt to extort money from Jones. “If anybody did something wrong, it was the Cowboys and Jerry Jones,” Bowers said. “Sometimes powerful people think they can get by with anything.” The lawsuit also accuses Jones of conspiring to cover up the incident by coercing Weckerly to sign an agreement to keep quiet about what happened that night. Bowers said Tuesday the sexual assault occurred in a room at a local five-star hotel. Afterward, Jones and the women went to a dance floor, where he allegedly continued his advances. “After apparently too much resistance from Weckerly, Jones did what perhaps billionaires do,” Bowers wrote in a news release. “He had his large personal security men lift Weckerly and the two other women from the ground and pack them out of the club.” Bowers said Jones started out as a friendly guy with a desire to party, at one point offering to put his Super Bowl ring on Weckerly’s finger. The attorney also said Jones posed with a kneeling woman after she spent “special time” with him and his shirt was out and his pants were unzipped. A representative for the NFL said the league had no comment on the lawsuit, which came one day after a video surfaced showing running back Ray Rice punching his fiancée, who is now his wife, in an elevator. The Baltimore Ravens fired Rice, and on Monday, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell suspended him from the league indefinitely. “It’s amazing how athletes are held to a different standard than the owners, who are allowed to do things an athlete would probably lose his job for,” Bowers said. “So I’ll be very curious to see what the league does with this.” That's the fun part about living in Dallas - I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried.
This might be the first time a stripper has been paid for sexual favors..... A couple of things stick out here. The amount of money that is sought for the case seems minimal based off of the net-worth of Jones. Seems by keeping the suit small, the hope would be that it settles quickly out of court. If there were a true case, I'd expect the amounts to be considerably higher. The fact that she was one taking the photos would suggest that she had the freedom to leave at any time if she were, indeed, uncomfortable. Would have been nice for the team if there were any real chance of a forced sale, but this just looks like a move for a settlement.
