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Does high-profile Jerry Jones help or hurt the Cowboys?
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10:46 AM ET 12.29 | The Dallas Cowboys' home locker room after a game is suffused by a bright halo of light from a wall of TV cameras encircling the central figure in the room. It's not Tony Romo,DeMarcus Ware or some other critical player bathed in all that false sun, but owner Jerry Jones, who beats his own team to the microphones just minutes after it comes off the field. Which is when it becomes apparent that the largest column-free structure in the world is not Cowboys Stadium, but rather the self-sustaining ego of the man who built it. Most NFL owners exist more in the abstract than in our vision. We glimpse them sitting deep in the shadows of their skyboxes, surrounded by retainers, or traveling by black-windowed limo to a private tarmac, seldom obvious unless they hire or fire a head coach. Then there is Jones, who is so indelibly ever-present, sometimes standing on the sideline late in a game in his titan pose, arms folded in judgment, or milling about the locker room amid players stripping off sweaty gear, as if he too just played the game. He is always available for his close-up, and for his weekly radio show, the main actor in the psychodrama that is the Dallas Cowboys. Among the things we will see is whether the Cowboys can ever succeed with an owner who leans on them so heavily, and insists on being not just their general manager, but their principal face, in-house critic, motivator and backseat driver.
Jerry Jones, Streeter Lecka/Getty Images
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The Cowboys Are No Longer America's Team, Bro.
I Love LA
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JJ should fire his HC, OC, DC & ST coach & take over all of those duties. Then he'd have nobody to blame except himself.
W_A_M_U?
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I think Johnson means well, and he certainly knows more football than any other owner...but he needs to hire good people and let them do their jobs.
...the best policy
Harrodsburg, KY
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...the best policy. Who is "Johnson"? My Johnson means well, too. But that doesn't make him right.
mecca
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Love him or hate him, the dude does have three rings. I wish he would be somewhat more obscure, but what you gonna do.
SteveDallas
Amarillo, TX
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Is Ringling Bros helped or hurt by its ring leader?
Caveman HC6
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The Cowboys are Jerry's toy. They won't become a winner anytime soon but that doesn't matter, he's having fun, so let him.
Center Ice
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It's gotten to the point where you can't even make fun of it anymore. It's just plain old sad.
IceBerj
Cold White North, US
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What proof is there of this?
Joe Mammy
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All of the announcers on TV say it's true, so it must be.
Caveman HC6
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Maybe we should ask Jay Ratliff his opinion on this matter.
Joe Mammy
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Just like Al Davis.. as Jerry is growing older.. his decision making is crap.. its all ego now
WILD FAN
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Jay was out of adderall when he lost it!
Daffy Duck
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Sticking you fingers where they don't belong in sports is never good. See the Ford family with the Lions, never won anything.
shiprock
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Hasn't this story been written fifty times already?
Kenny_Powers
New York , NY
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