Darren Woodson Speaks

[CowboyRoy]

The Zeke "investigation" will conclude the day after we win the NFC championship. Leaving enough time for an appeal and denial.

If not this season next. Possibly the one after that...

 

[Reverend Conehead]

I never thought I would see an owner fire a head coach who just won back-to-back Super Bowls. When you have a coach and a team like Johnson and the early 90s Cowboys, you must find a way to get along.

 

[Alexander]

What? No evil media comments? You guys are getting soft.

For some reason, Woodson is immune to the evil media label.

 

[PA Cowboy Fan]

For some reason, Woodson is immune to the evil media label.

The only Cowboy in the media that is evil according to the Zone is Aikman. lol

 

[Redball Express]

He's right. The time to win is now.

We should have won the last 2 games against Green Bay in the playoffs..

We should have won at least one of those games and should have advanced.

So the window to win has been open for 3 years now.

Nothing.

Don't think with all these suspensions we can do it.

So much pressure is on the offense..

any injuries will do us in.

What now?

 

[plasticman]

I never thought we would have won more than maybe one extra SB if Jimmy had stayed. By 96 this team was no longer capable of winning it all.
Now one can hope that Jimmy sticking around might have made a difference in the draft but remember his edge in knowing the college players was gone by 93.

And it is questionable that Jimmy would have been on board with bringing in Deion which by taking him away from the 49rs and putting him on our roster certainly made a difference.

We might have won the SB in 94 but that is certainly up for argument.

Barry Switzer won championships at Oklahoma because he made sure he had the best players. His strength was in recruiting and he used every trick in the book. However, he was never a master strategist nor was he good at preparing gameplans. He didn't have to be. He used the Wishbone offense which featured three RB's and another one disguised as a quarterback. Most of them were drafted high. The offensive line was typically all future 1st and 2ncd round draft picks. they threw the ball maybe five times a game.

Troy Aikman had to complain to Jerry Jones that Barry's practices weren't hard enough. They were not prepared for the intensity of the first quarter of the 1994 NFC championship game, hence the 3 turnovers.

You can bet every penny you ever made and every penny you will make in the future that it would have never happened had Jimmy Johnson been the coach, no way. Still, the Cowboys almost came back, they were that good and should have won the Super Bowl that year.

Jerry Jones made many mistakes but the signing of Deion Sanders was, by far, the worse team personnel decision he ever made.

That signing completely destroyed cap management for the next ten years. It was the catalyst for the exit of a dozen players that had helped them to win those two previous championships. Jimmy Johnson would never have made that deal, Jerry traded as many as three future Super Bowl appearences for Deion Sanders

They wouldn't need Deion Sanders in 1995 because they would have more of their players and they would have been far better prepared.

Back then, five million a year would have kept a lot of players. They lost so many great players, many of them after having made it to the pro Bowl.

Starters lost:

1994

Kevin Gogan
Tony Casillas
Ken Norton
Thomas Everett

1995

Alvin Harper
Mark Stepnoski
Russell Maryland
James Washington
Robert Jones

1996

Nate Newton
Leon Lett
Darrin Smith


They also lost some key contributors that were situational, rotational, or special teams:

Jim Jeffcoat
Kenny Gant
Ron Stone
Jimmy Jones
Dave Thomas
kevin Williams

Most went onto finish up some great careers. Some made several Pro Bowls after being a Cowboy. Some came back to haunt the Cowboys. The Sanders contract wasn't worth it. the fact that Jerry Jones considers this his best move is absolute proof that, as a GM, he was clueless.

Jimmy Johnson knew talent well into the 21st century, not just talent, but talent evaluators. He hired the guy who scouted Larry Allen. Allen was on his draft board before he left.

 

[Zordon]

We should have won the last 2 games against Green Bay in the playoffs..

We should have won at least one of those games and should have advanced.

So the window to win has been open for 3 years now.

Nothing.

Don't think with all these suspensions we can do it.

So much pressure is on the offense..

any injuries will do us in.

What now?

Fire the loser in your sig?

I agree, it's unacceptable that we didn't get to the NFCG last year.

 

[yimyammer]

And it is questionable that Jimmy would have been on board with bringing in Deion which by taking him away from the 49rs and putting him on our roster certainly made a difference.

 

[Redball Express]

Fire the loser in your sig?

I agree, it's unacceptable that we didn't get to the NFCG last year.

My sig was Coach of the Year last year.

Fire him?

I will admit he has trouble getting the team ready to play in the playpffs..

Not sure why.

The assistant coaches have some blame there too.

 

[xwalker]

Darren Woodson: Jerry Jones, Jimmy Johnson “blew it” by letting pride get in way
Posted by Charean Williams on August 9, 2017, 5:59 PM EDT

During his Hall of Fame speech, Jerry Jones tried to heal some old wounds with almost apologetic words to Tom Landry, Gil Brandt and Jimmy Johnson. But some players on the Cowboys’ three Super Bowl teams of the 1990s still haven’t gotten over Jimmy and Jerry’s breakup.

“I think both of them understand one thing: They didn’t live in the moment back then, because if they had lived in the moment, we would probably have four or five rings instead of the two we had with Jimmy,” former safety Darren Woodson said on Matt Mosley and Ed Werder’s Doomsday Podcast. “I think it’s pride got in the way. Both of them realize that. Would they go back and change things? Probably not. Their pride would probably still be big in those situations. But time has healed a lot of those wounds, and Jimmy is a different guy. You see Jimmy now from what he was in ’92 and ’93 and back to ’89. He was intense, felt like this was his team and for the right reasons, Jerry felt like, ‘Hey, I pay you, and I pay all the rest of these coaches at the same, so it’s my team.’ So I can understand there being some issues, but again, I should probably have four or five rings on my fingers if those two would have just gotten along.”

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...-johnson-blew-it-by-letting-pride-get-in-way/
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Darren Woodson calls Dallas Cowboys suspensions ‘sickening’; warns of threat to championship window

The Ring of Honor member and current ESPN NFL analyst joined Dennis and Cowlishaw on 103.3 ESPN Radio in Dallas on Thursday to talk about how the time missed could hurt the club’s window to win a Super Bowl.

“It’s sickening, man,” Woodson said. “David Irving is going through this process. Damien Wilson is about to go through this process. [Ezekiel Elliott] is probably another one. And it is. It’s very frustrating.”

Though Woodson observes the entire NFL and admits some of the off-field issues may be blown out of proportion due to the Cowboys being a marquee franchise, the three-time Super Bowl champion pointed out how the actions of a few players can be so unfair to the rest of the hardworking players who strive to make the team better.

“It has to be frustrating for the coaching staff, for the veteran players like the Jason Wittens who are doing the right things or Tyrone Crawfords who are doing the right thing,” Woodson said.

https://www.all22.com/dallas-cowboy...cowboys-dont-want-suspensions-rob-prime-years

If Goodell had been around back then, 3/4ths of the team would have been suspended.

The Cowboys would have shown up to games with Aikman, Emmitt, Woodson, Chad Hennings and Moose. The rest would have been on suspension.

 

[ALBIT]

Darren Woodson: Jerry Jones, Jimmy Johnson “blew it” by letting pride get in way
Posted by Charean Williams on August 9, 2017, 5:59 PM EDT

During his Hall of Fame speech, Jerry Jones tried to heal some old wounds with almost apologetic words to Tom Landry, Gil Brandt and Jimmy Johnson. But some players on the Cowboys’ three Super Bowl teams of the 1990s still haven’t gotten over Jimmy and Jerry’s breakup.

“I think both of them understand one thing: They didn’t live in the moment back then, because if they had lived in the moment, we would probably have four or five rings instead of the two we had with Jimmy,” former safety Darren Woodson said on Matt Mosley and Ed Werder’s Doomsday Podcast. “I think it’s pride got in the way. Both of them realize that. Would they go back and change things? Probably not. Their pride would probably still be big in those situations. But time has healed a lot of those wounds, and Jimmy is a different guy. You see Jimmy now from what he was in ’92 and ’93 and back to ’89. He was intense, felt like this was his team and for the right reasons, Jerry felt like, ‘Hey, I pay you, and I pay all the rest of these coaches at the same, so it’s my team.’ So I can understand there being some issues, but again, I should probably have four or five rings on my fingers if those two would have just gotten along.”

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...-johnson-blew-it-by-letting-pride-get-in-way/
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Darren Woodson calls Dallas Cowboys suspensions ‘sickening’; warns of threat to championship window

The Ring of Honor member and current ESPN NFL analyst joined Dennis and Cowlishaw on 103.3 ESPN Radio in Dallas on Thursday to talk about how the time missed could hurt the club’s window to win a Super Bowl.

“It’s sickening, man,” Woodson said. “David Irving is going through this process. Damien Wilson is about to go through this process. [Ezekiel Elliott] is probably another one. And it is. It’s very frustrating.”

Though Woodson observes the entire NFL and admits some of the off-field issues may be blown out of proportion due to the Cowboys being a marquee franchise, the three-time Super Bowl champion pointed out how the actions of a few players can be so unfair to the rest of the hardworking players who strive to make the team better.

“It has to be frustrating for the coaching staff, for the veteran players like the Jason Wittens who are doing the right things or Tyrone Crawfords who are doing the right thing,” Woodson said.

https://www.all22.com/dallas-cowboy...cowboys-dont-want-suspensions-rob-prime-years[/QUOTE

That is a man you gets it. The best safety to ever wear a cowboy uniorm

 

[TellerMorrow34]

I've always given them equal blame for the dynasty ending sooner than it should have.

We can never know for sure but I've always believed, completely, that had Jimmy stayed that team would have won 4 in a row.

 

[links18]

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We might have won the SB in 94 but that is certainly up for argument.

Switzer sure didn't help in the '94 Championship game when he got a 15 yard penalty with the game still winnable. Jimmy probably wouldn't have made that mistake....