I really enjoyed these 4 snippets of interview with Barry Switzer

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Switzer is a great all around person and coach .

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ROFL... the fanbase has been sipping Jimmy-wine quite liberally.
Jimmy was a tough and hard coach back when Dallas was a 1 win team.
He wasn't when they had won 2 titles.
His vets got whatever they wanted and no punishment of any note.
Dallas was the most insane team in the league off the field just as Jimmy's old Miami teams were.
Guys getting DUIs didn't miss a practice much less a game.

Barry was a better college coach than Jimmy but had no idea of pro football and took the Cowboys job as a baby sitter.
He inherited the entire staff. His job was to win a title for Jerry with the talent collected by Jimmy and he did that.
In 2 years he won a title and lost in the NFC Finals to an also elite 49ers.
 

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Then-Sports Illustrated writer Rick Reilly said it best, “Miami may be the only squad in America that has its team picture taken from the front and from the side.” On a team loaded with future NFL talent, Johnson basically didn’t believe in suspensions and handled all disciplinary action in-house.

That included several slap-on-the-wrist penalties for alleged shoplifting and fraud infractions. Miami’s swag wasn’t enough in the national championship game against Penn State after the Hurricanes infamously stepped off the plane in military fatigues.

Heisman-winning Miami quarterback Vinny Testaverde threw five interception(s) and the Hurricanes fell, 14-10, for their only loss of the season. The widespread hate started the previous season when Johnson and the Hurricanes blasted Notre Dame by 51 points in a Catholics vs. Criminals showdown.
 

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Sad that many have opinions without actually reading facts.
Barry Switzer was successful everywhere. Broyles hired him to coach at Arkansas, and he was a coach on their National title team that Jerry and Jimmy played on. Broyles called him one of the key coaching hires.
When he went to Oklahoma, he perfected the wishbone there as the offensive coordinator. Oklahoma was 3-7 in 1965. Switzer was hired as OC in 1966, took over as head coach ‘73-‘88. Not a single losing season after taking over the offense in 1966. He was the architect of the most prolific rushing offense in NCAA history. As head coach, 157-29-4. In the NFL, 40-24 with a 5-2 playoff record.

To say Barry Switzer couldn’t coach is just ridiculous.
No one has said Switzer couldn’t coach. But he wasn’t brought in to coach at Dallas. He was a figure head. Jerry’s first puppet.
 

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He helped lead us to a Super Bowl win that cemented the Cowboys as the team of the 90s. The players were unhappy that Jimmy was gone and Switzer was able to keep the team together. Our Super Bowl run appeared to be over after the 94 championship game loss to San Francisco but we were able to rebound the next season. The team fell apart because of free agency. We started losing key players every year as teams began raiding our roster. It’s not like any of the other head coaches Jerry hired had any success after Switzer. Don’t understand why Switzer receives so much grief from Cowboys fans, the team could have easily quit on him when he was hired but the Cowboys ended up winning another Super Bowl.
The team fell apart in 94 without Jimmys leadership and discipline.

Jimmys departure cost us 3 in a row and probably a couple more championships.

We win another one despite losing Jimmy cause the team was that great.
 

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Main reason Barry was hired was Jerry hated how Jimmy was immortalized being the only HC to win a championship in NFL and NCAA.

Jerry wanted to prove the team could win with any of 500 different HC. And knew no one else who’d come in and be a puppet who had NCAA championships.

The only thing Jerry didn’t anticipate is that Jimmy would still get credit since he built the team Barry won with.
 

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While Jerry did prove he could win one with that team with any HC he’s been attempting to overcome the demon of not being able to build another championship team without Jimmy which has been driving Jerry’s ambitions with his selfish idiotic narcissistic control ever since . And why we are what we have become this era.

Barry was basically the beginning of the end for our great football dynasty with the Dallas Cowboys as Jerry’s ambitions have derailed football operations ever since.
 
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True.

Jerry tore that super bowl team apart by letting key players walk so he could sign huge stars, Deion being one example. Guys that Jerry let walk: Stepnoski, Casillas, Jimmie Jones, Jeffcoat, James Washington, Harper, Gogan, Ken Norton, Gesek, and Cornish. Jerry did little to replace them. At this point, he was already showing his vast lack of football knowledge.
F all that noise..tired of that narrative , players with bigger names then that like Clowney, Mack, Cooper, bell, Brown, etc etc etc are traded or cut because of many business decsions..they are hard to replace and no guarantee but theres a cap and Gms and owners allegedly better then Jerry make decsions like this all the time..what happen to the Legion of boom? thats one example and many others etc

big time NFL stars are moved, cut, traded etc etc by all teams all the time..this wasnt jerry purposely blowing things up it happens..Jerry knows more then people give him credit for he played HS/college football and then has had years of working with Jimmy and Billp and others..just fans around here FEEL they know jerrys football knowledge..

SMH hes forgot more football then you know
 

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I didn’t like him much either but this is a bit harsh.

Perhaps, I just can’t stand Cowboy fans defending this idiot who brought in a culture of lack of accountability and discipline and cost us a 4 peat
 

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I agree with Jerry that he should have let Switzer go after the first Super Bowl win. Mission accomplished. Thanks.

But Jerry destroyed the team as much, if not more than Barry. Bringing in the Deion Show helped put the nail in the coffin on any discipline from Barry. And holy hell were those some awful drafts.

We had some bad luck too on the injuries. It's been so long now I get the Jimmy and Barry years mixed up, but I believe all of them happened under Switzer?

Novacek should have played a year or more. Big E and the car accident. Kevin Smith was a great corner before his injury. Irvin not playing some of those games in the mid 90's. Haley and his back. And so on...
 

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I didn’t like him much either but this is a bit harsh.

I think most of us go easier on Switzer as the years go by. As someone else said, he did what he was supposed to. 2 NFC Championships his first 2 years, 1 Super Bowl Win.

Yeah, it would have been nice to be the first threepeat, but again, I think Jerry and his first years learning how to be a successful GM without Jimmy's input and an established team around him were more responsible for the dynasty crashing than Barry.

Jimmy once said you can go hard to soft, but you can't go soft to hard as a coach. I think that's another reason why Switzer appeared to struggle sometimes. He treated them like grown men, professionals, and they took advantage of it.

Having dealt with the Oklahoma scandals though, Barry can't use that as a cop out. He ran one of those country clubs, he knew what was going on, both in college and the pros.
 

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True.

Jerry tore that super bowl team apart by letting key players walk so he could sign huge stars, Deion being one example. Guys that Jerry let walk: Stepnoski, Casillas, Jimmie Jones, Jeffcoat, James Washington, Harper, Gogan, Ken Norton, Gesek, and Cornish. Jerry did little to replace them. At this point, he was already showing his vast lack of football knowledge.

I'm not going to fault Jerry for letting those guys walk. That was the beginning of the salary cap era and tough choices had to be made. They could not afford to keep them all. Most of those players would have probably walked away even if Jimmy were still coaching the Cowboys at the time. That was just the nature of the salary cap and other teams wanting to pluck good players off a talented Dallas roster. The problem was Jerry not finding suitable replacements for the guys that left.

Some of those guys were not worth keeping anyway. While they helped Dallas win Superbowls, some were getting older and the money they wanted was not worth it. Alvin Harper was not worth the contract Tampa gave him. Gesek only played 2 more seasons in the league after leaving Dallas. Same with Cornish and Cornish never started another game after he left. James Washington only played one season in Washington(1995) after leaving Dallas. Those guys weren't big losses. Some of the others were. Dallas offered Ken Norton a good deal, but he wanted more. I'll never forget his stupid quote when he signed with the 49ers of "I want my kids to go to college".
 

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Perhaps, I just can’t stand Cowboy fans defending this idiot who brought in a culture of lack of accountability and discipline and cost us a 4 peat
He was a horrible coach. But I wouldn’t call him a moron or an idiot.
 

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F all that noise..tired of that narrative , players with bigger names then that like Clowney, Mack, Cooper, bell, Brown, etc etc etc are traded or cut because of many business decsions..they are hard to replace and no guarantee but theres a cap and Gms and owners allegedly better then Jerry make decsions like this all the time..what happen to the Legion of boom? thats one example and many others etc

big time NFL stars are moved, cut, traded etc etc by all teams all the time..this wasnt jerry purposely blowing things up it happens..Jerry knows more then people give him credit for he played HS/college football and then has had years of working with Jimmy and Billp and others..just fans around here FEEL they know jerrys football knowledge..

SMH hes forgot more football then you know
Your last statement is the weakest statement made on these boards. It generally means that you lost the argument and got nothing. Congrats for admitting it.
 

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Your last statement is the weakest statement made on these boards. It generally means that you lost the argument and got nothing. Congrats for admitting it.

nope,

its true fans like you with giant internet know it all muscles think they have it all figured it , Jerry is a football guy he was a player, part of a college football national championship and bought a team and has been INSIDE around it all around some of the best .. you are a internet GM bully amnd know SQUAT..you are the one that felt the need to decide a winner or loser..this is to what these boards are for SANS a small group of egomaniacal forum posters. Good luck with that

"generally means", who this judge and jury that says who wins and loses, YOU? LMAO bye troll
 

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I don't know what Johnson's problem with Booger was but he had one. Not only did he not show him any respect but he actually tried to come between Booger and the players. Campo told Switzer that he should get Booger back in the meetings and involved with the team and that's what he did, that's what he was hired to do. At that time, I don't think Booger's ego was the problem. Campo was to soon learn the danger of his advice.

What is wrong is to blame Switzer for that game in SF because no one knows if that happens with Johnson and you can forget that "he'd have them ready" because he was the HC at the previous SB and they needed a kick in the pants from James Washington because they were flat as hell. He was the SB MVP and it wasn't close.

No question about which coach was a better NFL coach, had Booger hired Switzer and that turnaround doesn't happen and he possibly goes the way of Bright and he's belly up. Jimmy got the big head and decided Booger was lucky he came to work for him instead of the other way around. I don't know if Jimmy took a real hard look at the lay of the land but there weren't many owners letting college coaches build their teams. It was the perfect marriage with an expiration date on it from the beginning.
 

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I don't know what Johnson's problem with Booger was but he had one. Not only did he not show him any respect but he actually tried to come between Booger and the players. Campo told Switzer that he should get Booger back in the meetings and involved with the team and that's what he did, that's what he was hired to do. At that time, I don't think Booger's ego was the problem. Campo was to soon learn the danger of his advice.

What is wrong is to blame Switzer for that game in SF because no one knows if that happens with Johnson and you can forget that "he'd have them ready" because he was the HC at the previous SB and they needed a kick in the pants from James Washington because they were flat as hell. He was the SB MVP and it wasn't close.

No question about which coach was a better NFL coach, had Booger hired Switzer and that turnaround doesn't happen and he possibly goes the way of Bright and he's belly up. Jimmy got the big head and decided Booger was lucky he came to work for him instead of the other way around. I don't know if Jimmy took a real hard look at the lay of the land but there weren't many owners letting college coaches build their teams. It was the perfect marriage with an expiration date on it from the beginning.
Who’s Booger?
 
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