What timing. Just hours before Jerry Jones signed CeeDee Lamb to the second-largest receiver contract in NFL history, he proclaimed, in a rather profane interview with DLLS that nobody “could f------ come in here and do all the contracts … and be a GM any better than I can.”
It’s an interesting sentiment. We don’t have a sample size to compare another general manager with that kind of longevity. I have a lot of faith in humanity, so take what I’m about to say with a grain of salt, but I would imagine that most general managers, if given 27 years from 1997 to 2024, could have at least made it to one Super Bowl. Maybe I’m out of my depth. But anyway …
