Yep that puzzles me about some soorts team owners. Almost all are very wealthy from running other businesses. Yet when somebody like Jerry Jones or Snyder buy a team, they think just because they are passionate fans that they are smarter than career football men.
I’ve always thought the best approach, is that these owners should check their ego, hire the best GM and other career football men they can find, then get out of the way and allow them to do their jobs. I’m sure that’s how they did things in their other businesses.
Jerry Jones bought the Cowboys for $140 million. The franchise is now worth $5 Billion.
Jerry must be doing something right.
Especially in the cap era. I think that’s the thing that really damages Snyder and Jones. They live in a world where they can just throw money at problems and make them go away. Any problem, any amount of money. In a hard cap sport it’s just not like that. So they tend to throw too much money in one area and the team suffers. The Cousins thing was a classic example. I can see not being sure Cousins was good enough for a long term contract, I can even see tagging him one year on a “prove it or lose it”. But the second tag, with the penalty that ensues from consecutive tagging?! That was just bone headed. You can’t throw that much at a player because you’re not sure, the talent you don’t get to sign damages the team long term.