ESPN.com: Jerry Jones will always be GM

[SirClintonPortis]

May he own and GM the Cowboys forever and ever so that they don't add anything to that trophy case for a good long while.

[zoony]

That is the best news i've heard in quite some time. I hope he stays there and lives to be 140.

It really is. Even better that Cowboy fans still love him. God Bless every one of them

Jerry Jones really isnt a bad gm. The cowboys were constantly ranked top 5 talent wise for much of the past 10 years and most of his flops were players and coaches that had a lot of hype around the league ala Jason Garret.

[TheLongshot]

There is a difference between collecting talent and building a football team, and Jones hasn't always been good at judging talent. (See the Cowboys between when Johnson and Parcells were head coaches.)

The big problem with the Cowboys organization is that unless you have a Johnson or a Parcells with the history of doing it, it is hard for any head coach to get traction when they are thinking the owner is calling all the shots. This was a problem with the Raiders toward the end as well. You need that clear demarcation so that a team can function.

[Rey]

His mom lived up to 90! God help us.

[VCDefectors]

While it may be the truth to say that Jimmy ran the show while he was in Dallas, there are two things that often don't get mentioned. First, there were quite a few future Cowboys stars already on the roster when Jerruh bought the team. Jerruh also inherited the first pick in the 1989 draft, where he selected Aikman. Also, it should be noted that Jimmy wasn't really a high-percentage hitter in the draft. There were tons of misses and on at least three draft picks, they ended up trading future pro-bowlers to other teams, including G Steve Wisnewski, WR Jimmy Smith, and DT Kelvin Pritchett. They also surrendered the rights to having the number one overall pick in the 1990 draft by drafting QB Steve Walsh (who ended up being an average QB for the Saints) in the 1989 supplemental draft.

What the Cowboys did right was that Herschel Walker trade. They had so many extra picks, they didn't know what to do with them. They could easily afford to move up and down the draft board. They took a huge risk by trading back up into the 1st round of the 1990 draft and took Emmitt Smith. And they did nail trading a 2nd to the 49ers for Charles Haley.

Overall, it was a combination of luck (what other team than the Vikings would have been dumb enough to surrender so much for one overrated and overworked RB), having more than enough draft picks to rebuild and inheriting a team that already had enough young prospects including Michael Irvin being overshadowed by the declining Cowboys stars of the 80s.

I did like Johnson as a motivator type of coach. He took crap from nobody and was second to none in using sports psychology to manage a team. He wasn't an X & O type of coach and didn't try to run any of the over-complicated schemes that you see today. The formula was simple. Simple playbook, huge 300lb+ average per man offensive live (at a time when most teams were running Bill Walsh west coast offenses that require smaller and more athletic lineman), a fast, speedy defense that could cover from sideline to sideline. And a Jimmy Johnson team didn't make a lot of mistakes.

[Rey]

While it may be the truth to say that Jimmy ran the show while he was in Dallas, there are two things that often don't get mentioned. First, there were quite a few future Cowboys stars already on the roster when Jerruh bought the team. Jerruh also inherited the first pick in the 1989 draft, where he selected Aikman. Also, it should be noted that Jimmy wasn't really a high-percentage hitter in the draft. There were tons of misses and on at least three draft picks, they ended up trading future pro-bowlers to other teams, including G Steve Wisnewski, WR Jimmy Smith, and DT Kelvin Pritchett. They also surrendered the rights to having the number one overall pick in the 1990 draft by drafting QB Steve Walsh (who ended up being an average QB for the Saints) in the 1989 supplemental draft.

What the Cowboys did right was that Herschel Walker trade. They had so many extra picks, they didn't know what to do with them. They could easily afford to move up and down the draft board. They took a huge risk by trading back up into the 1st round of the 1990 draft and took Emmitt Smith. And they did nail trading a 2nd to the 49ers for Charles Haley.

Overall, it was a combination of luck (what other team than the Vikings would have been dumb enough to surrender so much for one overrated and overworked RB), having more than enough draft picks to rebuild and inheriting a team that already had enough young prospects including Michael Irvin being overshadowed by the declining Cowboys stars of the 80s.

I did like Johnson as a motivator type of coach. He took crap from nobody and was second to none in using sports psychology to manage a team. He wasn't an X & O type of coach and didn't try to run any of the over-complicated schemes that you see today. The formula was simple. Simple playbook, huge 300lb+ average per man offensive live (at a time when most teams were running Bill Walsh west coast offenses that require smaller and more athletic teams), a fast, speedy defense that could cover from sideline to sideline. And a Jimmy Johnson team didn't make a lot of mistakes.

The Herschel trade definitely had some luck to it. I'd have LOVED to relive the 90's in a world where Jimmy stays with the Cowboys.