I really enjoyed these 4 snippets of interview with Barry Switzer

kskboys said:
True.

Jerry tore that super bowl team apart by letting key players walk so he could sign huge stars, Deion being one example. Guys that Jerry let walk: Stepnoski, Casillas, Jimmie Jones, Jeffcoat, James Washington, Harper, Gogan, Ken Norton, Gesek, and Cornish. Jerry did little to replace them. At this point, he was already showing his vast lack of football knowledge.
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The team started being torn apart because we didn’t handle the salary cap well. The Deion signing helped put us in real cap hell. Even had Jimmy stayed around the team was going to decline with all the players we were losing. He didn’t have much success in Miami because they were in cap trouble and couldn’t bring in good players.
 
KJJ said:
Granted Switzer had his flaws but Troy was getting frustrated watching his decline and the decline of the team. The point I’m making is Switzer wasn’t the reason the Cowboys began to fall from grace. Go check out the number of key players the Cowboys lost to free agency during Barry Switzer’s tenure as head coach. We were very lucky to win that third Super Bowl. Let’s face it the Cowboys got worse after Barry Switzer left. It’s not like any of the other head coaches Jerry hired turned the team around.
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If Jerry hired a real headcoach after Jimmy who instilled Discipline, leadership and structure, this team could have competed for more and won Superbowls, they were still one of the youngest teams in the NFL, and they signed Deion Sanders so the notion of free agency gutted the team.....but under Barry, poor drafts, no leadership, no Discipline, this team was failing from the moment Barry arrived in Dallas.....Moose Johnston, stated that Barry ran a very loose ship and trusted the players(men) to act correct when off the field, Moose said there were too many guys on this team that you couldn't give that trust too off the field..And as Troy said, when Dallas won against Pittsburgh, that the team wasn't as good as the year before and the 94 team wasn't as good as the 93 team.....the team was on decline because of the headcoach lacking to take charge....Players under Jimmy loved playing on gameday because they were prepared for every situation because the practices were tougher than gameday but under Barry they were nothing but messing around, players late, hungover players and practices cut short because Barry said the team wasn't into it.....rutterless ship under Barry, plain and simple, just like it was for most of the years under Jerry running the show!
 
The Quest for Six said:
If Jerry hired a real headcoach after Jimmy who instilled Discipline, leadership and structure, this team could have competed for more and won Superbowls, they were still one of the youngest teams in the NFL, and they signed Deion Sanders so the notion of free agency gutted the team...
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You’re lying to yourself if you think the team would have won several more Super Bowls after Jimmy left with all the players we were losing in free agency. We were losing experienced veterans who were in the prime of their careers. It doesn’t matter how young your team is if the players aren’t that good. We weren’t able to replace the players we were losing with quality players because of the salary cap. Do you want to keep wasting your time with this go ahead. Jimmy had little success in Miami because of cap problems and the lack of talent.
 
Jimmy found out his first two seasons with the Cowboys you can’t win football games without talented players. Free agency ravaged our great 90s teams. It’s laughable for anyone to think we were going to win several more Super Bowls with the laundry list of quality players we were losing in free agency.
 
KJJ said:
You’re lying to yourself if you think the team would have won several more Super Bowls after Jimmy left with all the players we were losing in free agency. We were losing experienced veterans who were in the prime of their careers. It doesn’t matter how young your team is if the players aren’t that good. We weren’t able to replace the players we were losing with quality players because of the salary cap. Do you want to keep wasting your time with this go ahead. Jimmy had little success in Miami because of cap problems and the lack of talent.
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If Jimmy was still the headcoach, this team would have won more chamionships...player after player deride Barry's running of the team...that should tell you volumes!
 
The Quest for Six said:
If Jimmy was still the headcoach, this team would have won more chamionships...player after player deride Barry's running of the team...that should tell you volumes!
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Had Jimmy stayed around the Cowboys may have won three in a row but after the 95 season it would have been over even with him. We had lost too many quality players to free agency and we were in cap trouble. Jimmy talked about the problems he had in Miami due to their cap issues and not being able to bring in good players. Go see for yourself all the good players we lost between 93 and 97.
 
Ranching said:
I loved Barry! He was just collecting a paycheck by the time we got him, but he was a character! Imagine playing for Jimmy and then for Barry.....like getting out of prison and going to Hawaii. Lol
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Better than playing for Garrett.
 
free agency gave the league parity. i can't think of any other dynasty's after the early 90's cowboys. but to make matters worse, jerry horribly mismanaged the salary cap.
 
I’m no Barry Switzer fan but it’s totally unfair to blame him for our decline when you look at all the players we lost to free agency. When we still had a lot of talent we won a lot of games with Switzer including a Super Bowl. By 97 it didn’t matter who our head coach was we weren’t going to win a lot of games. We had lost too much talent and the good players we had were aging. There’s a reason it continued to get worse for the Cowboys after Switzer was fired.
 
Posters here and there have been critical of Switzer and think he can't coach don't know jack about coaching. He's the reason Jimmy went into coaching and Booger wanted to. Want to get the real skinny, watch "Before They Were Cowboys" on the SECN about Switzer and the two of them at AR.

Switzer's Achilles had always been the same thing, he didn't like discipline and he counted on every player being accountable and responsible to the team and even said that when he came into the NFL. His Wild Bunch at OU was the only thing keeping Jimmy's at OSU off the front page but they were cut from the same cloth. They expected players to show up on game day and didn't really care what they did the rest of the time.

When they played AR in the Orange Bowl one year, AR had suspended 3 players, the 2 best on O, the RB and WR, and after they beat OU, Barry seemed more surprised that they'd suspended 3 players than they won the game, I lmao at his interview.

It wasn't that Barry and Jimmy were permissive because they weren't, they just didn't want to know so they don't have to deal with it. What they don't know can't hurt them. The irony is that 64 National Champs team was as rowdy as any Barry or Jimmy ever coached and there are still stories told about some of those players. I think that might have set the wheels in motion that rowdy = good.
 
The two greatest coaches the Cowboys ever had Landry and Jimmy had a worse season than Campo and Garrett ever had when their teams lacked talent. The 1960 Cowboys under Landry didn’t even win a game. Jimmy’s 1989 team is ranked in the top 10 worst teams in NFL history with only one win. Even the greatest head coaches need some talent. Check all the players we lost in free agency between 93 and 97. We lost starters and key role players. By 97 we lost most of our depth. That great defensive rotation we had in the early 90s was long gone.
 
erod said:
Switzer was the perfect hire at that time with Norv Turner already gone.

What coach could have possibly followed Jimmy and "run" that team after two championships? Those players would have laughed in their face.
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They laughed in Switzer’s face. He was a joke!
 
Ranching said:
I loved Barry! He was just collecting a paycheck by the time we got him, but he was a character! Imagine playing for Jimmy and then for Barry.....like getting out of prison and going to Hawaii. Lol
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Unless you're Troy. Then it's like being the warden when everyone breaks prison.
 
I thoroughly enjoyed that. What a character.

Dude makes a grip of money and still asked his boss to pay for a party Jerry wasn't at.... hahaha.
 
Either Switzer did a good job winning a championship in 4 seasons with a great W/L record or Jerry was right in that any idiot could win a Super Bowl with that roster. Brain dead Cowboy fans have to choose one unpopular answer.
 
Chuck 54 said:
It’s so hard not to like the guy and respect him as a coach. His personality made him seem like a defuse at times because he did it his own way that no one was used to, but the guy was successful everywhere, and when he is asked a question, you know you’ll get an honest, entertaining answer.

https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2020/08/09...ma-coach-barry-switzer/?ref=NEWSandRUMORS.com
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Barry Switzer was the right and only choice to replace the 2nd Hall of Fame Coach Jerry Dumbo GM Jones fired.

Switzer was going to get players on his side, and was not going to change anything offensively of defensively that the Cowboys did to win back to back Super Bowls. He would tell the story of his bootlegger father, his mother's suicide, his father's black mistresses, how he would play with the black kids, his father black friends, and how his father died in a car crash with his black mistress getting to the hospital after being shot by her. That got most of the black players to sympathize with Switzer who would cry when telling them the story.

The problem with Switzerland is that it was not meant to last. He could not coach at the pro level, he did not pay attention to the draft like Jimmy Johnson so he could not and did not give his valuable insight to Jerry Jones, who as he said knew nothing about X and O, and talent of football. Switzer slept through his first draft on live TV waking up wondering why they drafted a thin frame pass rusher from Arizona St. Larry Lacewell and Jerry Jones was the worst Director of Pro Personnel and GM in football history. They destroyed a dynasty built to last through 2002 in 2 years.

Switzer use to fly to watch his son play football Saturday before a Cowboys game on Sunday. So collecting a paycheck is applicable. However, he also had the charm to get players on his side by the end of the day. However, it might have been at the expense of his relationship with Troy Aikman. Switzer gave Jerry enough rope to hang himself or tie it around his waste to save himself. Jerry chose hanging a dynasty thinking he and Lacewell could create what Jimmy Johnson, Bob Ackles, and John Wooten created in the Team of the 90's.

In regard to Jimmy Johnson not letting Jerry Jones in his football team, Jimmy was trying to save Jerry from himself. +25 years later we see that Jimmy Johnson was right in keeping Jerry Jones out of the football sided of the business of Pro Football. Switzer therefore killed the Cowboys Dynasty right along with Jerry Dumbo GM Jones.
 
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