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Rolling Stone Lists Top 15 Owners In Sports

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Kevin Greene Newbie

Kevin Greene

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I think JR is shady and greedy. Horrible combo.

 

 

Yeah, I love the didn't lay off a single employee schtick.

The team he fielded in 2010 was a reflection of the purge he did on his employee roster in an effort to be ready to sit out fat and happy what he thought was going to be a strike season.

Then he compounded the roster with a lame duck head Coach in John Fox who literally said fug this roster I have left and punched his ticket to next job town early.

 

We the fans were left to watch the 2-14 on field disaster that resulted while other owners actually prepared and succeeded at winning that year. Basically it was fug you and fug me.

Unforgivable.

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t96 Grand Master

t96

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Gentleman is the laughing stock of the NFL for cutting Steve Smith. There isn't a damn person outside of this message board and the city of charlotte that thinks it was a smart move.

King, Mcnutt, Avant, and Underwood. You and everybody else hyped those guys up all year and none of them are even on the team anymore. 3 didn't even make it to the start of the season.

 

Come on man. You don't get it.

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The NFL Shield At Midfield Grand Master

The NFL Shield At Midfield

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Can we put this mickey mouse crap about the lockout to bed please

It wasn't scrooge McDuck who only cares about money versus a bunch of swell gentlesirs who just wanted to get back to football. Did any of the owners condemn Richardson's comments? Did any of them express discomfort with him leading the charge to lock out the players?

He wasn't an army of one in that or some poo. The other owners like money too and Richardson was their pit bull. At the absolute least they were totally complicit with everything that went down.

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LUUUUUKE Rookie

LUUUUUKE

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And again, people don't get it.

Everyone who has any experience actually working with Jerry Richardson would tell you he cares a great deal about winning. He's also hardly a miser given that he's about the only owner who didn't lay off a single person from his team's staff during the lockout. Lots of owners did just that to save costs, but Richardson chose instead to take care of his employees. The whole dumbass notion that he's just some Scrooge who doesn't care about winning is something only the uninformed hold on to. That's never been the problem.

The problem isn't motive. It's execution.

His biggest missteps have included giving his son Mark a prominent position on the team, Dom Capers full control, handing the reins to George Seifert, hiring a GM that wasn't a football guy, staying loyal to that GM even through consistently bad results (largely because that GM was loyal to him), disastrously bad PR during the lockout and coach hiring processes and fostering an 'inmates run the asylum' atmosphere by telling Jeff Davidson he wasn't even allowed to talk to Steve Smith.

Richardson absolutely wants to build a winner, but he's done a lousy job trying, generally by choosing the wrong people for their jobs.

Happily, I think he finally got it right with Dave Gettleman, and I believe if Gettleman has enough power (to which the cut of Steve Smith would testify affirmative) then he can right the ship.

Might take time and might hurt along the way, but it could happen.

Looks like JR chose wrong again. He hinged his last years and his legacy on Gettleman's shoulders?

LMFAO!

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