Troy Aikmans take is telling

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Just watched "A Football Life, Troy Aikman"

I find it interesting that after Jimmy left he had to be the heavy with his teammates. There was no accountability on the team anymore. He feels they should have won way more.

He said he didn't leave because of the injuries, it was because of the organization.

In the last few weeks of the season, Troy seemed to be particularly annoyed with the Cowboy organization and expressed an honest opinion on Jerry Jones.

Interesting, considering the **** show we have been watching.
 
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DeStorm said:
Just watched "A Football Life, Troy Aikman"

I find it interesting that after Jimmy left he had to be the heavy with his teammates. There was no accountability on the team anymore. He feels they should have won way more.

He said he didn't leave because of the injuries, it was because of the organization.

In the last few weeks of the season, Troy seemed to be particularly annoyed with the Cowboy organization and expressed an honest opinion on Jerry Jones.

Interesting, considering the **** show we have been watching.
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lol Troy was getting concussions from the water coming out of the shower by the time he retired.

Romo was saying his body was fine too. First hit he took he was gone.
 
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There are several moments of Aikman that are priceless in looking at how he views Jerry.

obviously, the last few months he’s been highly critical of the structure of the organization and culture.

I know at some point, he expressed regret on how the last few years of his career played out, i.e. the team had regressed immeasurably.

and the best was probably when NFL Films had him mic’d at Camp one year and he said to Moose in practice “he (Jerry) sells these guys as this and that, and they can’t play. They can’t play.” I’m paraphrasing, but obviously he has little respect for Jerry the football man.
 
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Troy’s back was shot.
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Bingo. Concussions and the Jerry Circus didn't help, but the back was the nail in the coffin. I remember him mentioning it in his press conference when retiring.

Aikman was too much of a class act to bring up the Jerry stuff in his press conference, but I still think he would have played on if the back hadn't given up.

More than the coaching circus, what frustrates me the most about what Jerry did to winners like Aikman was the poor drafting.

If Aikman had stayed healthy, I imagine he would have enjoyed the same rebirth as Randall Cunningham if we had been smart enough to draft Randy Moss and some other gimmes.

Someone posted here that Aikman was all for Tony Gonzalez but the it was Jerry World that settled on David Lafleur, although Aikman gets blamed for the Lafleur pick. Just those two guys alone - Moss and Gonzo - would have given him some extra life as long as we could protect him.
 
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DeStorm said:
Just watched "A Football Life, Troy Aikman"

I find it interesting that after Jimmy left he had to be the heavy with his teammates. There was no accountability on the team anymore. He feels they should have won way more.

He said he didn't leave because of the injuries, it was because of the organization.

In the last few weeks of the season, Troy seemed to be particularly annoyed with the Cowboy organization and expressed an honest opinion on Jerry Jones.

Interesting, considering the **** show we have been watching.
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fyi - for those who've never seen what he's talking about:



He's talking about you Jerry:

 
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LatinMind said:
lol Troy was getting concussions from the water coming out of the shower by the time he retired.

Romo was saying his body was fine too. First hit he took he was gone.
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I remember it differently than what Troy said on that show. Shortly after he retired he said it was his back that convinced him to retire. Throughout the 2000 season he was getting painkilling shots for his back before games. Add that to the concussions and that was the end of it for Aikman.

Troy is dead-on correct about the direction of the organization at the time. But I think the Cowboys could have won a lot more if Troy was healthy and was able to play four or five more years than he did.
 
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DeStorm said:
Just watched "A Football Life, Troy Aikman"

I find it interesting that after Jimmy left he had to be the heavy with his teammates. There was no accountability on the team anymore. He feels they should have won way more.

He said he didn't leave because of the injuries, it was because of the organization.

In the last few weeks of the season, Troy seemed to be particularly annoyed with the Cowboy organization and expressed an honest opinion on Jerry Jones.

Interesting, considering the **** show we have been watching.
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Troy keeping it real.
Jerry was none to happy about it either
 
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VaqueroTD said:
Bingo. Concussions and the Jerry Circus didn't help, but the back was the nail in the coffin. I remember him mentioning it in his press conference when retiring.

Aikman was too much of a class act to bring up the Jerry stuff in his press conference, but I still think he would have played on if the back hadn't given up.

More than the coaching circus, what frustrates me the most about what Jerry did to winners like Aikman was the poor drafting.

If Aikman had stayed healthy, I imagine he would have enjoyed the same rebirth as Randall Cunningham if we had been smart enough to draft Randy Moss and some other gimmes.

Someone posted here that Aikman was all for Tony Gonzalez but the it was Jerry World that settled on David Lafleur, although Aikman gets blamed for the Lafleur pick. Just those two guys alone - Moss and Gonzo - would have given him some extra life as long as we could protect him.
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The only way we would have gotten Gonzales is if we had traded up in the draft. He was drafted before we picked.
 
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DeStorm said:
Just watched "A Football Life, Troy Aikman"

I find it interesting that after Jimmy left he had to be the heavy with his teammates. There was no accountability on the team anymore. He feels they should have won way more.

He said he didn't leave because of the injuries, it was because of the organization.

In the last few weeks of the season, Troy seemed to be particularly annoyed with the Cowboy organization and expressed an honest opinion on Jerry Jones.

Interesting, considering the **** show we have been watching.
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He left because of back and head injuries.
 

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DeStorm said:
Just watched "A Football Life, Troy Aikman"

I find it interesting that after Jimmy left he had to be the heavy with his teammates. There was no accountability on the team anymore. He feels they should have won way more.

He said he didn't leave because of the injuries, it was because of the organization.

In the last few weeks of the season, Troy seemed to be particularly annoyed with the Cowboy organization and expressed an honest opinion on Jerry Jones.

Interesting, considering the **** show we have been watching.
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I really don’t this is a secret at all. Jerry Jones has had zero success since Jimmy Johnson left.
Jerry does not care about winning a SB. He just wants all the credit for any success this team has. I most unfortunate part is that he hired Jimmy Johnson as his first coach. If Jimmy was not first coach he hired he would have had zero success early and would not have been so butt headed! Jerry is a made man, most valuable franchise, 3 SB’s, HOF’r. How many teams have 3 SB wins since 1989?
Giants
Cowboys
Patriots
Broncos

Teams with 2
Ravens
49ers
Packers
Steelers

Change the year to how many after 1996 and the Cowboys drop to zero as well as the 49ers. At least the Niners have been to a SB . We haven’t even sniffed a championship game.

Basically Jerry’s legacy is already set and he does not give a damn about us fans or SB’s.
 
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Troy was going to decline no matter what. His play was part of the problem after the 95 season. He had about 5 elite seasons in the NFL before he fell off a cliff.
 
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CT Dal Fan said:
I remember it differently than what Troy said on that show. Shortly after he retired he said it was his back that convinced him to retire. Throughout the 2000 season he was getting painkilling shots for his back before games. Add that to the concussions and that was the end of it for Aikman.

Troy is dead-on correct about the direction of the organization at the time. But I think the Cowboys could have won a lot more if Troy was healthy and was able to play four or five more years than he did.
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I think Aikman is dead right about the team and how players were feeling themselves and they werent good enough as past years.

And he's right but this party culture was there, these players were brought into that culture they didnt know any different then what they walked into.

Jimmy left that culture and walked out on the team.

in 1999 Jerry saw he needed help so he brings in rocket. Was a great signing to pair with Irvin, but he goes down. And retires with Moose at the end of the yr.

2000 comes and he knows he needs a #1 for aikman with Irvin no longer there and a guy to pair with rocket. Joey Galloway was basically OBJ of that era. And him and aikman go down and thats Aikmans career.

Jerry made great signings in 1999 and 2000 and he did them to get guys for aikman and Emmitt. But when you lose 3 HOF in back to back yrs and have players you signed specifically to go with ur HOF QB and u retire That leaves Dallas in a huge hole. Resources were spent to get you what you needed to be successful.
 
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