Video: O-line hitch nod to Landry

Risen Star said:
I just completely disagree. You hate the head coach.I get it. But surely a rational fan would expect Garrett to know the history of the team considering his bloodlines than a few recent first round picks.

Also, no OL is going to pull a stunt like that without a coach knowing about it.
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Blind hate rots the brain.
 
AbeBeta said:
Not the coach but it speaks well of the culture he established
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The culture created. That is the key to let you know who did introduce this to the players. What guy is centered around doing things the Cowboys way? What guy insists on bringing back the glory of the Dallas Cowboys? Jason Garrett brought in films of great Cowboys teams, and in some of them was the OL Hitch. Our players loved it. Why that surprises anyone is really beyond me. We love it. Why wouldn't they?

I work directly with a guy who is a Raiders fan. Yesterday I showed him the Hitch. He remembers the days when Dallas was the only team that did that. He loved that about Dallas despite not being a fan. He's not the only person in my life not a fan who remembers those days and loved that. My friend Rick is a lions fan. He and I used to talk about that.and his belief with me that Herb Scott is one of the most under appreciated Cowboys of all time.

So, we have a Head Coach who believes in our History being important, that our culture as the Cowboys is important to our identity. Why is it so hard for people to believe that is where these players learned this? I am thrilled that they adopted it for the game play and not just the practices. It sounds like Garrett was too. Read his quote. "Somehow, some way they communicated with each other to take it to the game, and it was fun to see." Why would he think it was fun to see unless he loves that they did it? Listen to him describe this as one of the "signature things" of the Tom Landry teams. How would he know that if he was oblivious to this?

Lastly look at how he said it. "There is great history and tradition in this organization. Obviously the greatest coaches. The greatest players. Some of the greatest teams ever. It's something we embrace, and our players embrace."

Why would the players embrace it? Because that is the culture the Head Coach has created. It is the Coach who introduced it. it was the players who embraced it and took it to the game. Let's love this for what it is, a salute to our glorious History. So far I haven't heard even one dissenting voice against this. Of course I have a lot of people on Ignore, so I may be very naive about that. To think it was anyone other than the guy insisting on embracing our culture who introduced this to the team is really grasping for a reason to dislike the guy.

3-1 and looking a lot better than the predictions of the worst Defense ever, meshed with a pass happy game caller has been conveniently forgotten as people search for something new to dislike. The team has embraced our History and culture, we should embrace this team.

"Cowboys on three, make it loud. Cowboys!"
 
WV Cowboy said:
I'm probably wrong, but I could always just picture Parcells puffing on a big cigar, playing poker with his "Jersey boys" in some back room in New Jersey.

Telling them in between big barrel laughs, .. "yea Jerry is paying me $4 million a year, LOL, .. I can improve the roster pretty easily, but I promise you the Cowboys won't win anything while I'm in Dallas."

I always thought he punked Jerry.

He was Jersey and NY Giants through and through, .. nobody up there ever wants Dallas to win anything.
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Probably wrong? There's no doubt you are wrong. Parcells did more with less than any coach here ever has. If you think Parcells didn't care about winning I don't know what to say to you. The man was just about in tears when he said "You can't call them losers any more".
He did punk Jerry but not like you think he did. He made Jerry take a back seat and THAT is how he punked Jerry. Jerry had to walk on egg shells,
best thing he could do. I credit JG for putting up with the dumb things that Jerry says but he's punking Jerry also.
 
Hostile said:
The culture created. That is the key to let you know who did introduce this to the players. What guy is centered around doing things the Cowboys way? What guy insists on bringing back the glory of the Dallas Cowboys? Jason Garrett brought in films of great Cowboys teams, and in some of them was the OL Hitch. Our players loved it. Why that surprises anyone is really beyond me. We love it. Why wouldn't they?

I work directly with a guy who is a Raiders fan. Yesterday I showed him the Hitch. He remembers the days when Dallas was the only team that did that. He loved that about Dallas despite not being a fan. He's not the only person in my life not a fan who remembers those days and loved that. My friend Rick is a lions fan. He and I used to talk about that.and his belief with me that Herb Scott is one of the most under appreciated Cowboys of all time.

So, we have a Head Coach who believes in our History being important, that our culture as the Cowboys is important to our identity. Why is it so hard for people to believe that is where these players learned this? I am thrilled that they adopted it for the game play and not just the practices. It sounds like Garrett was too. Read his quote. "Somehow, some way they communicated with each other to take it to the game, and it was fun to see." Why would he think it was fun to see unless he loves that they did it? Listen to him describe this as one of the "signature things" of the Tom Landry teams. How would he know that if he was oblivious to this?

Lastly look at how he said it. "There is great history and tradition in this organization. Obviously the greatest coaches. The greatest players. Some of the greatest teams ever. It's something we embrace, and our players embrace."

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Why would the players embrace it? Because that is the culture the Head Coach has created. It is the Coach who introduced it. it was the players who embraced it and took it to the game. Let's love this for what it is, a salute to our glorious History. So far I haven't heard even one dissenting voice against this. Of course I have a lot of people on Ignore, so I may be very naive about that. To think it was anyone other than the guy insisting on embracing our culture who introduced this to the team is really grasping for a reason to dislike the guy.

3-1 and looking a lot better than the predictions of the worst Defense ever, meshed with a pass happy game caller has been conveniently forgotten as people search for something new to dislike. The team has embraced our History and culture, we should embrace this team.

"Cowboys on three, make it loud. Cowboys!"
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Good post Hos. It's sad the owner doesn't embrace the same things JG does about this franchise
 
What's really cool about it is that the coaches didn't even tell them to do it.They worked on it in practice for fun, but the players decided to do it on their own.
 
It was awesome to see the hitch. Made me laugh out loud in excitement about the victory. The best part for me personally was my mom texting me "did you see that? the hitch!!!"

Recognition of something that was a part of this organizations identity, a great thing. Do we role out the red white and blue stripe on the helmets next?
 
So many people debating who to give credit to for the OL hitch vs just enjoying the moment. Put me in the crowd that simply doesn't care who taught them or gave them permission to do it. To me, It was just a cool thing to do.
 
WoodysGirl said:
So many people debating who to give credit to for the OL hitch vs just enjoying the moment. Put me in the crowd that simply doesn't care who taught them or gave them permission to do it. To me, It was just a cool thing to do.
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I am enjoying the moment, along with a lot more than that. Sometimes the truth hurts.
 
Hostile said:
"Cowboys on three, make it loud. Cowboys!"
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I see what you did there. LOL

It only seems logical to me that Garrrett would be involved. Like I said earlier, anything we add to the current Cowboys culture that came from the Landry years, I'm all for it.

I can only hope that when/if Garrett wins a Super Bowl, the players will carry him off the field on their shoulders like Landry's players did, .. instead of the ridiculous custom of dumping Gatorade/water on his head.

When I see teams do that, I always think, .. nobody would have ever done that to Tom Landry.
 
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Dave_in-NC said:
Probably wrong? There's no doubt you are wrong. Parcells did more with less than any coach here ever has. If you think Parcells didn't care about winning I don't know what to say to you. The man was just about in tears when he said "You can't call them losers any more".
He did punk Jerry but not like you think he did. He made Jerry take a back seat and THAT is how he punked Jerry. Jerry had to walk on egg shells,
best thing he could do. I credit JG for putting up with the dumb things that Jerry says but he's punking Jerry also.
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So he improved the culture and the roster from the Campo years, ... whoop-t-doo.

Yea, I'm probably wrong, but it would not surprise me that someone who hated the Cowboys his whole career would want to bring them great success.

Listen, I wanted Parcells here, I was thrilled that we got him.

And maybe I expected too much, but we never won anything with him.

I had hoped for some post-season success.
 
Taurus said:
Maybe someone will ask. But it wouldn't surprise me at all if it is something the guys on the line just decided to do, on their own.
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I'll bet you one million dollars not one of the offensive linemen, who were born after 1990 except for Doug Free, have ever heard of one offensive lineman on the 77 Cowboys.

No, this is 100 percent the doing of Jason Garrett.
 
WV Cowboy said:
So he improved the culture and the roster from the Campo years, ... whoop-t-doo.

Yea, I'm probably wrong, but it would not surprise me that someone who hated the Cowboys his whole career would want to bring them great success.

Listen, I wanted Parcells here, I was thrilled that we got him.

And maybe I expected too much, but we never won anything with him.

I had hoped for some post-season success.
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I did to. But like every HC that has been here post Jimmy, he had to work with my way Jerry.
Improving the culture and roster from the campo days wasn't an easy task. But he did it.
I think if he would have stayed another year or two he would have had more success, Jerry couldn't take it.
Jerry wasn't the show.
 
Taurus said:
Those young first rounders sure might be little researchers in the offseason.

I don't see Garrett saying "Okay guys, look when we take the knee from Victory formation, I want you O-Linemen to do the 'hitch' from the old days. And then spending valuable practice time, getting it right?

Nah. I doubt Garrett even knows about the hitch, or its history. I bet these guys did this on their own and sprung it on everybody. Look at the clip, Romo seemed shocked - he'd never seen this.
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This is borderline classless.
 
Dave_in-NC said:
I did to. But like every HC that has been here post Jimmy, he had to work with my way Jerry.
Improving the culture and roster from the campo days wasn't an easy task. But he did it.
I think if he would have stayed another year or two he would have had more success, Jerry couldn't take it.
Jerry wasn't the show.
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I'm agreeing with everything you say about Jerry.

But I don't think it would have been hard to improve on the culture or the roster after Campo.
Most any coach worth his weight could do better than Campo and improve what he had.

You or I could have, .. I know I could have.
 
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