He ain't lying but also I also think it's ideal getting his return on investment of Troy, Romo, and now Dak's huge contracts and surrounding them with top-level players. But not realizing/accepting your QB can just as successful with a great defense.
Stupid article.
A) 1992 No-Name Defense was a perfect amalgamation of speed, youth, and desire.
Johnson, Wannstedt, and David brought the Univ of Miami philosophy (which valued speed over size). Safeties-LBers, LBers-DE's. College DE's into interior DL.
The Cowboys between 90-92 aimed player acquisition to ensure their team was 2-5% faster @ every Defensive position in the starting 11, through the depth chart.
Then JJ put the fear of God in them to avoid failure with instant releases of non-fit players.
Haley was the cherry on top and you had quality, quick, D-Linemen (Maryland, Casillas, J.Jones, Lett, in waves and a vet like Jeffcoat available for 3rd and Forevers.
They just out hustled everybody, sat in Cover-4 and made you beat them.
It helped that from 91' on with Emmitt, Mike, Troy, the 'Boyshad a mauling ball control, precision offense that made you pay dearly for any 3 and Out.
Speed, speed, speed. Rotation, Rotation, Rotation. ALL day every snap.
X Woods would not have survived his quote 5 mins after he said it in '91-'94.
https://www.si.com/nfl/talkoffame/nfl/no-d-in-big-d-blame-jimm
No D in Big D? Blame Jimmy
Rick Gosselin
a day ago
Looking for someone to blame for the atrocious defensive play by the Dallas Cowboys this season?
Blame their newly-minted Hall of Fame coach Jimmy Johnson.
Almost three decades ago, Jimmy showed Cowboys owner Jerry Jones that you can play defense on the cheap and still win championships. The Triplets were showered with all the glory in 1992 when the Cowboys won their first Super Bowl of the decade. Overlooked was the fact the Cowboys led the NFL in defense that year, yet didn’t place a single defender on the Pro Bowl team.
There were no stars on that side of the ball that season. At least no Pro Bowl-level stars. Jimmy showed Jerry how it's done and it became gospel for the Cowboys owner. He has been all about offense ever since. The players that touch the football, score the points and show up on the Sunday-night highlights are the names plastered on the franchise marquee. Offensive skill rules. Defense became – and remains -- an afterthought.