Troy Aikmans take is telling

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 is a perfectionist.

Nothing wrong with that unless you are expecting it from imperfect people you have to rely on.

Troy only has to worry about himself. Give him 52 other guys plus organization requirements from those employees and Katy Bar the Door.

He has matured considerably since he wrote that book.

I would like him in the FO in any position for us.

Never happen.

catiii said:

Quite irrelevant to the discussion at hand. I'm not even going to address it. Keep your hate chained up.

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And you keep tracking your fantasy #s.

OldJarhead said:

Well, he had 1/10th of the team that Troy had.

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I’ll agree but it doesn’t change the fact he couldn’t tote Aikman’s jock.

It's funny to read all of the prophetic crap some of you spew. Aikman said the deciding factor he retired was not because of injuries, but the front office. And so many want to call him a liar. Does the truth hurt or disturb you? Face it, no matter who is coaching next year they must do it while kissing some Jerry butt (making respect an almost impossibility).

The only person that could overshadow Jerruh is Bill Belichick. Not sure that would be great as he must be kinda gassed after the football life he has lived.

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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Aikman got mad because they cut him in March before a 10 million roster bonus was due.

Aikman's story is revisionist history. His story has changed at least once.

Aikmaniac said:

Troy’s back was shot.

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According to who? You? If Troy himself says that he could have played longer, there is absolutely no reason for anyone, particularly a fan, to doubt it.

I would rather listen to beasley's rap than troy singing Oklahoma boys on an Oklahoma night. Cringeworthy.

dckid said:

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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Dallas won a Super Bowl after Jimmy left
Thats better than zero success.

If you want to give Jimmy credit, go ahead. But just saying...

xwalker said:

Aikman got mad because they cut him in March before a 10 million roster bonus was due.

Aikman's story is revisionist history. His story has changed at least once.

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You are correct. I’m not sure about the roster bonus, but Aikman was waived. He retired after that.

plymkr said:

When Jimmy left the coaches on the team were Michael Irvin, Aikman, Woodson. The stars of the team took over but most of the brunt of the leadership fell on Aikman. When Aikman retired we have not had a coach until Parcells came, then once Parcells left we have not had a coach. The problem is 2 fold. Jerry won't hire a coach he can't control. The other problem is Emmitt, Irvin, Woodson, Aikman, etc. were special players and special people that wanted to win so so badly they didn't care about having the extra responsibility of being the unnamed coaches. They just wanted to win at all costs. The players we get want to be famous, look pretty, and if they win great, if not then at least they looked good losing. Our players accept mediocrity from themselves and each other and they don't have a coach, or an owner, that pushes them. That's the main difference between now and 94-99. Aikman and company simply would not lose they just ran out of time to win. Our players come to play on sundays like it's a job, they punch in for the game, do their job and go home and get on IG and Twitter for attention. Those 90's players wanted to win, they didn't care about anything else.

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a major reason why we also lost is because Norv Turner left and Novacek had back problems. Also, because of the Eric Williams injury. Otherwise we would have had Larry Allen and Williams “paired” together through their primes.

Troy actually tried “reuniting” with Norv in San Diego and a Miami after his stint in Dallas ended.

cern said:

I would rather listen to beasley's rap than troy singing Oklahoma boys on an Oklahoma night. Cringeworthy.

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Nothing was as bad as Chad Hutchison singing and playing the guitar. Part of me died that day I saw it on Hard Knocks.

plymkr said:

Nothing was as bad as Chad Hutchison singing and playing the guitar. Part of me died that day I saw it on Hard Knocks.

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His playing was a real close second.

There was no discipline after Jimmy left. Troy managed to hold it together and have enough accountability to win one more championship in 1995, but then he started getting beat up a lot and the injuries took their toll.

Switzer and Jerry loved the party atmosphere, Troy hated it.

Jerry ran through 3 weak coaches with no power until he'd made the Cowboys such a laughingstock with all the bad drafting he'd done he finally reached out like a drowning man to Bill Parcells in 2003.

Once Parcells had the ship righted Jerry ditched him and since then we've gone through Wade Phillips and Jason Garrett, two more weak coaches who nobody respected or feared because everybody knows Jerry is the real power and the coach is just a employee.

Remember why the Jimmy/Jerry relationship soured: Jerry absolutely insisted on getting respect as a FOOTBALL MAN from his head coach. Jimmy wouldn't give it to him.

Any new coach we hire, everybody will know Jerry is the one who really runs things. Not that coach. This is because we have an owner who thinks he's the new Al Davis in his prime, when Davis was both owner/GM and taking the Raiders to the playoffs every year.

Well Jerry is not Al Davis or Paul Brown no matter HOW many *** kissing yes men he surrounds himself with.

Eddie DeBartolo was never sitting in the war room telling Bill Walsh who to draft. Robert Kraft would never dream of telling Bill Belichick how to do his business.

Jerry Jones not only expects to do BOTH of these things, he'll only hire coaches who will smile, swallow hard, and put up with it.

That's why this will never change until Jerry leaves. Troy Aikman understands this in a way a lot of the fans never will.

Lavar Arrington is why Aikman retired.

DandyDon1722 said:

His playing was a real close second.

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Lol, true

Aviano90 said:

Can’t wait until we get another leader like Troy behind center. We have been trying to get by with scraps.

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Ahhh, doing a little forum fishing, doing a little trolling eh.

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 Aikman is the most overrated human being of our lifetime

Troy Aikman was washed up after 1997. I pissed a lot of people off in the summer of 2000 when I said the Cowboys should cut Troy and trade Darren Woodson and Larry Allen.

lol funny @ troy saying he retired because of dysfunction... no you were washed and nobody gave you a sniff of interest. Marino had retired a year earlier and he had serious courtship with Vikings. Nobody wanted this washed up, glorified Brad Johnson!

I remember when Troy used to say his back is why he quit. Now it’s dysfunction.

Sure

Another thing: they could’ve won 4 straight but if he thinks that team would’ve won more than that , then he is wrong. The Cowboys would’ve needed in influx of talent from the draft to sustain winning beyond 1996, no matter who was coaching the team.

93,94,95,96 drafts were a bigger problem than the coaching

khiladi said:

a major reason why we also lost is because Norv Turner left and Novacek had back problems. Also, because of the Eric Williams injury. Otherwise we would have had Larry Allen and Williams “paired” together through their primes.

Troy actually tried “reuniting” with Norv in San Diego and a Miami after his stint in Dallas ended.

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And I would add to your good points is another reason we lost is Deion's no call when he Pass Interfered with Irvin. In '94, if Erik Williams doesn't get in that car accident we could have won that game. That was a brutal injury to us. But yeah in '96 losing the likes of Novacek, Stepnoski, Harper, and combined with the horrible draft of '95 when we purposefully drafted back ups, it was more talent was leaving then coming in. And with a bad head coach that didn't coach up or develop players we just couldn't get it right. I do vaguely remember Troy talking to Miami and San Diego. I also remember a story that Troy confronted Jerry in the tunnel at Texas Stadium when he was a broadcaster as "reminded" Jerry that he was released and then decided to retire to spend more time with his family. But Troy was a little unhappy with the narrative that he retired and wasn't released.

Cutting Troy was symbolic of cutting away any discipline the organization had. Someone said it right in an earlier post that Troy was a perfectionist. I agree and he wanted things run in a way that set up the team to win. Irvin was gone and injured, Troy was cut. Only Emmitt remained but Emmitt didn't have the perfectionist and discipline nature Troy did and to be honest Troy was the last person in our organization that had it. And we so need that back either in a head coach, players or something because Jerry has allowed a culture of "try hard and hope for the best" and it erased the competitive culture that Irvin and Aikman established.

We've never been the same since Troy retired/cut/or whatever. That's why I say he's the most underrated HOFer and not appreciated enough in NFL circles because his demand for perfection was more powerful than the owner's acceptance of mediocrity. That's a powerful man that can do that.

plymkr said:

When Jimmy left the coaches on the team were Michael Irvin, Aikman, Woodson. The stars of the team took over but most of the brunt of the leadership fell on Aikman. When Aikman retired we have not had a coach until Parcells came, then once Parcells left we have not had a coach. The problem is 2 fold. Jerry won't hire a coach he can't control. The other problem is Emmitt, Irvin, Woodson, Aikman, etc. were special players and special people that wanted to win so so badly they didn't care about having the extra responsibility of being the unnamed coaches. They just wanted to win at all costs. The players we get want to be famous, look pretty, and if they win great, if not then at least they looked good losing. Our players accept mediocrity from themselves and each other and they don't have a coach, or an owner, that pushes them. That's the main difference between now and 94-99. Aikman and company simply would not lose they just ran out of time to win. Our players come to play on sundays like it's a job, they punch in for the game, do their job and go home and get on IG and Twitter for attention. Those 90's players wanted to win, they didn't care about anything else.

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Agree somewhat.......you're right the 90's players wanted to win but they partied hard. Just they knew how to take care of business on the field. Remember Cowboys players White House, or Michael Irvin cocaine issues. How about Lawrence Taylor's drug issues or Deion Prime Time and his brand. What interesting is how forgiving fans are as long their team is winning.

I don't buy the players today don't wanna win. Technology and social media have created a different culture.

I'd take Switzer over Garrett any day