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Originally Posted by Snake Doctor
Hands on owners almost never work out.
Jerry Jones thought he was smarter than Jimmy Johnson......then finally wised up and gave control to Bill Parcells, who built his current juggernaut. It remains to be seen how they'll do long term with Jerry as the official GM.
Dan Snyder finally seems to have wised up and is letting the football people run the operation...at least this year. His drunken sailor spending sprees didn't win Washington any playoff games.
The only hands-on owner who ever accomplished anything was Steinbrenner, but when you can spend twice as much as any other team, that makes it alot easier.
Unfortunately Raider fans are just gonna have to wait for Davis to die or at least become "officially" senile and lose control of the team.
I'm a Dolphins fan and my owner is the EXACT opposite of Al Davis. He's totally hands off....which is great when Don Shula or Jimmy Johnson are running your team, but really sucks ass when Dave Wannstedt or Cam Cameron are running your team.
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there was a show on HBO over the last part of this summer that was an inside look at the cowboys pre-season training- it was titled "hard knocks"
i was amazed at how much jones is still hands-on. it was a great show and i hate the cowboys/jones.
there was a scene where they were contemplating starting spots and jones basically decided on his own and looked around the room for agreement to everyone BUT phillips, then you can see the look on his face when he realizes he never looked at philips then looks over to him and says "coach, that ok with you?" lolololol, classic.