DFW GM Rankings: Has your trust in Nico Harrison improved?
Now that the Mavericks season has cooled down and GM Nico Harrison has laid out his offseason priorities, it's time to take another look at the general managers around DFW. Between the Stars' Jim Nill, Rangers' Chris Young, Mavs' Nico Harrison, and Cowboys' Jerry Jones/Will McClay; who do you have the most confidence in? Has Nico moved up that list after the Mavs finals run? Shan, RJ, & Bobby share their thoughts above!
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00:00And after Nico Harrison talked about the Mavs off-season the other day, I said, you know
00:22what, let's rank the current GM confidence levels that you have on the Franklin Frankel
00:29Injury Attorney text line 877-881-1053, 877-881-1053, in no particular order.
00:39You start off with Nico Harrison, Chris Young, World Series ring, Jim Neal, Dallas Stars
00:47Greatness, and of course, well I guess not of course because Bobby just asked me in the
00:51commercial break, who are we listing as the GM, Jerry Jones or Will McClay?
00:56That is up to you, 1, 2, 3, 4, who feels set in their order right now?
01:04I feel set with number one, and that's Jim Neal.
01:11Of the, I'll leave the Cowboys out of this, but between him and Nico and Chris Young,
01:18Jim is the only one that is responsible for basically every player on the roster.
01:23Luca was here, John Daniels built a lot of the players on the Rangers roster, yeah I
01:32know right, can't even announce that, but it's true.
01:35Jim basically built the entire Dallas Stars roster, and they went to a cup final a couple
01:39years ago, and they went to the West Finals this year, and they won the West, they were
01:44the second most points in the league, one seed, he's got a long history of success,
01:53and again he's responsible for basically everybody here, and you can't really say that
01:58about Chris and Nico, so I will say Jim Neal, I have a lot of confidence he's number one.
02:09So beyond that, then I think it gets more dicey.
02:12Do you have a one?
02:13Yeah, Jim Neal is the one that I was thinking to, and I mean he just, whatever the name
02:18of that award is for being the general manager of the year hockey, he just got that, all
02:22of his moves have generally clicked into place for the Stars.
02:26The other three behind that are difficult, because I think it depends on how you value
02:31young player development versus free agent acquisition or outside veteran acquisition,
02:36and the way you stack that sort of thing.
02:38I would then lean towards whatever we want to call it, operating decisions coming out
02:44of like roster decisions coming out of the Cowboys.
02:46The Cowboys have built a roster consistently while being cheap and outside free agency,
02:52and at times not having the right draft capital, they hit more consistently than any of these
02:59four on the list on guys where the initial reaction from everyone else on a player they
03:04picked or whatever else is gross, this guy's going to be a bust.
03:07They hit on those players more consistently where they show you they're really good at
03:10what they do and know how to identify talent better than what conventional thinking says.
03:15So I would go with that one from a player acquisition standpoint, and then stop right
03:19there.
03:20So you have the Cowboys at two.
03:21You have Jerry slash will at two, right?
03:24Yeah.
03:25Okay.
03:26I could stack any of the three behind.
03:27So I initially put Jerry last, and I'm going to guess on the fan text Jerry's for Jerry
03:33is not fourth.
03:34He's fifth.
03:35All right.
03:36Greg Bibb, the wings.
03:37Yeah.
03:38Behind the Dallas wings and whoever FC Dallas guys got right now, what I need to remind
03:41myself of here, what I'm trying not to do is overrating the Rangers title for CY and
03:48remember what they were during the regular season and try not to underrate the Cowboys
03:53regular seasons and their lack of playoff success.
03:57That's my hard struggle here.
03:59That's going to be hard to do.
04:01Listen, I told you do have the Cowboys win 12 games a year.
04:06You do have a 12 in football team every year.
04:08Every year.
04:09And that's impressive.
04:11I keep going back to it.
04:12I sound like a broken record, but you basically go back to Bill Parcells as the last time
04:19the Cowboys didn't have a winning record in a year in which their quarterback did not
04:25get hurt or at least a 500 record.
04:29Yeah, they were 500.
04:31But the last of the four times they've had a losing record since like five every single
04:37year, there's been a catastrophic injury to the quarterback, Romo Collarbone, Romo
04:44Collarbone, Dak ankle, and Dak had the what the calf injury or whatever.
04:54But I mean, they weren't 12 and five that year still.
04:56So like that, like it said, that wasn't even a year where they were affected by it.
04:59Right.
05:00But it's Cooper Rush.
05:01It's been.