Yup. Jerry is mid as a GM, building competitive teams with baffling gaps that limit their ceiling (often due to bizarre and counterproductive negotiations with their higher priced players), but he never gets better, whereas most teams eventually fire GMs who are mid.

I think if he were truly terrible at building rosters he might have faced reality, but being “one piece away” makes him think he’s finally going to make people forget that Jimmy Johnson built those 90s teams and Jerry’s main contribution was signing checks in the last era before proper free agency.

It may not get better either. Apparently Steven Jones is Bidwell/Brown cheap because he’s spent his adult life with the Cowboys being by far the family’s most valuable asset.