Remember This Cowboys Team? Let's Talk About Coaching and Talent

zrinkill

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This thread just makes Garrett look worse.

I don't understand what the OP was trying to accomplish
 

gimmesix

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The Coach: Jimmy Johnson

Key Roster Names:

QB - Aikman
RB - E. Smith
RB - Moose
WR1 - Irvin
TE - Novacek
OGs - Newton, Gogan
OTs - Tuinei, Cheek
C - Stepnoski

Pretty good offense there, right?

The 1990 Cowboys started off 3-7. There was no social media, but they were getting CRUSHED by the media at the time. They said Johnson was in over his head (that would change just 6 games later), Aikman was being vilified because the offense was pathetic (they score 20 points once in 10 games), etc. Yet, in a terrible NFCE at the time, they managed to win 4 in a row and needed to finish just 8-8 to make the playoffs. Spoiler: Aikman got hurt and we lost the last two, finishing 7-9.

I hold the 90's Cowboys in high regard, maybe one of the best teams ever assembled. Still, good teams and good coaches can have bad years.

You want to switch coaches? Okay. Be prepared for some possible losing, though. Even with a great team, it may take years before another coach gets a team to gel, and many of today's players might be past their peak performing years.

In 1996, I didn't consider our team old and the roster was almost exactly the same as our SB teams. No more SBs, though.

Different situations. Johnson was just getting his team built after becoming head coach in 1989 and pretty much stripping it down.

A team is built here based on Garrett's process and just needs someone to guide it in the right direction. Plus, with the advent of the salary cap, it has made getting the missing parts easier than it was during that NFL era. That's why in the 2000s, only one Super Bowl winning coach failed to win the championship within his first five years at coach.
 

Future

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What I mean is that we are all being a bit gratuitous in our assessment of his overall work. In a league where in the past decade there have been clear teams that were losing teams, like the Dolphins and Browns, JG led us to mediocrity.
You mean like when we had a clear losing team and went 4-12 in 2015?

He's an awful coach. That's not gratuitous. He has wasted more talent than most coaches have in their entire careers.
 

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he did enough in enough seasons to keep me going man we are one or two position players away, one or two blown calls away, one or two drop passes, etc, etc, etc...
See that right there is Jerrys' problem - he sees the Cowboys thru the eyes of a FAN- an optimistic one at that- not a GM.

He gets buddy buddy with the players and coaches, and thats what leads him to the culture that he creates.
 
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