Why was the franchise sold to specificaly Jerry Jones. The dynasty years under that same Jerry Jones brought in 3 Lombardis. The game changed during that decade and there is absolutely no guarantee that any other owner could have even done that...just facts.
No guarantee that another owner couldn't have.
Somebody was going to hire Jimmy Johnson, the major catalyst to those early 90's teams.
Then again, Championships could very well have been won by Landry. I'm not going to say three championships but it was possible.
When the Cowboys didn't make the playoffs in 1974 it was thought that the Cowboys needed to go through a 3 to 5 year rebuilding process. They were losing the starters that made them contenders since 1966. There were even claims that Landry didn't have the ability to rebuild and should retire. Landry's answer to these pundits was to send the 1975 team to the Super Bowl with 12 rookie contributors. There is no reason to believe that he couldn't rebuild the Cowboys.
Landry had already terminated his DC and was working on a new defense, one that seemed to use elements of the 3-4.
Besides that, we should remember that many of those SB starters were already on the team before Jimmy Johnson arrived. They included O-line starters like Newton, Gogan and Tuinei. They included receivers like Michael Irvin and Kelvin Martin as well as defenders Ken Norton and Jim Jeffcoat. It was common knowledge they were going to draft Troy Aikman. Landry had even been to some of his games.
