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Jerry Jones: Always To The Extreme
Published: July 2, 2009
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I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with Jerry Jones.
The reason why is because moderation is not a word that appears in Jones’ dictionary. Whenever he has an idea, it’s always to the extreme or not at all.
Back when Jerry first bought the team in 1989, he made the gutsiest move of all and fired Tom Landry. He slotted in Jimmy Johnson as head coach, resulting in an uproar from the fans. As we all know, the questionable move paid off as the Cowboys went on to win two Super Bowls under Johnson’s rein.
Jerry took a new approach in 2006, which was to not worry about player history and just look at the talent. Jerry then went on to sign Terrell Owens and Tank Johnson. In 2007, this didn’t seem to be a problem as the Cowboys went 13-3.
At the start of the 2008 season, Jerry then went on to trade for Adam “Pacman” Jones, who was suspended at the time of the trade.
Pacman never made an impact and just caused trouble during his tenure in Dallas.
After a sub-par 2008 season in which the Cowboys’ went 9-7, not to mention team chemistry was being questioned, Jerry decided to completely clean the house of anyone who had caused an iota of trouble.
The result of this: the departure of Terrell Owens, Adam Jones, Tank Johnson, and Greg Ellis.
It now seems as though Jerry has a new fad, which is team unity instead of talent.
I will always thank Jerry for the things he’s done as an owner. He is a great marketer and businessman, but when it comes to dealing with football, Jerry makes some strange decisions. I think that if he really cared about winning, he would either step down from his role as GM or at least hire a skilled adviser to help him make some wiser player personnel decisions.
Jerry is far too proud and has too big of an ego to even contemplate doing this. For Cowboy fans, be prepared for many more seasons to come of you scratching your head and asking why.
Five Wide Receiviers That Will Step Their Production Up in ’09
Published: June 28, 2009
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Every year in the NFL a wide receivers production will differ, usually not to a significant degree but sometimes their numbers will drop horrendously or they will explode and break out into a career year. I am going to select five wide receivers that I think are going to step up and make a difference with a bigger production load this year.
5. Braylon Edwards
Edwards put up some great numbers in 2007 with over 1000 receiving yards and pulling 16 touchdown passes. In 2008 however Edwards dropped off terribly and only managed to pull in three touchdowns and gain 873 yards.
His drop off in production cannot be completely blamed on his lack off play, there was the terrible situation at quarterback, where two of the three QB’s were placed on IR.
In 2009 though I believe the Browns will have more stability at quarterback and Edwards will thrive on this and put up just as good numbers as he did in 2007, if not better.
4. Marques Colston
Colston also had a breakout year on 2007 and being the number one receiver for Drew Bree’s most people thought his numbers could only get better. 2008 however was not Colston’s year as he tore a ligament in his thumb and was not the same from then on.
Colston is a huge target though 6’4″, 225 and if he is fully recovered will bounce back hard and will be that number one receiver Drew Brees’ need.
3. Jeremy Maclin
I’m going out on a limb here and predicting that this rookie is going to put up some great numbers, some will ask why I didn’t pick Michael Crabtree. I didn’t select Crabtree because of the system he is in, I believe he is a fantastic receiver and will be an All Pro someday, but in the 49er’s system putting up big numbers is too much to ask.
Maclin will contribute immediately this is because he will be stepping right into Andy Reid’s pass heavy offense and will see a lot of balls coming his way and with the 4.3 forty speed this guy posses, he will be able to run by a lot of people and pull down some long passes for some huge gains.
2. Chad Ocho Cinco
In 2008 Chad concentrated too much on getting out of Cincinnati than actually playing for Cincinnati that he damaged his stock a bit.
After only gaining 540 yards and pulling in three touchdowns (career lows bar rookie season in ’01) and now it seems he will be in Bengal town for a long time to come, Chad has also come to realize this and now has stated he is going to put in a lot more effort to get back in shape and again become a lethal receiving threat.
This is an obvious selection as he is a great receiver and with a great quarterback in Carson Palmer there’s no doubt he can do some great things.
1. Roy Williams
When Williams was traded to Dallas most people believed that his would now make their offense unstoppable, but unfortunately for Dallas things didn’t pan out and Williams ended up with only 198 yards and one touchdown.
There is no doubt that at the moment Roy Williams is nothing but hype, but if he can get back to his 2006 pro bowl form and become more substance he will easily fill the void at receiver left by the departure of Terrell Owens.
All these receivers have something to prove, whether it’s just the beginning for them, they’re trying to prove they can come back from injury or that they can bounce back from a down year to be a great receiver.
One thing they all have in common is talent, all they have to do is prove they can use and they’ll get those big pay checks and help their teams get those big W’s!
