Who was the head coach and not the owner or GM. That was a very good structure back then for a team. Both of the owners/GM's won Lombardis then.Jerry should have called Jimmy on the flight back from SF and begged him to come back as a football personnel consultant and fix this mess.
Don't then rub up a large tab if one's reference is the drinks...moron No1 ad moron No2 couldn't put a championship team together if they tryed and 28 years have proved that. So swallow the bourbon and the pride and bring back JJ to influence this team or your going to grave without another SB that a fact jack
Jerry keeps his business word...others do the doubting.The longer Jerry holds on to his grudge, the longer Cowboy fans have to suffer through this insanity.
There are very few criticisms of Jerry Jones the owner of the Dallas Cowboys. The one exception that dominates his legacy is the very very poor choice he made in his selection of a GM. Other than that, he's practically golden.That's not ball park on what he has achieved and earned. He should feel extreme pride in ownership of the very best sports franchise in the world. Not only that, but respect should immediately extended that fact from the start. To not acknowledge that association is really improper as well as high level disrespect in any business enterprise which the Dallas Cowboys still are a member of that group as well.
The facts on merit are being ignored, so that on both ownership and accomplishments are invalid as to voracity of truth. They just aren't. I think lies are a break with faith...in life and that includes sport.
Emotions are valid and motivation. That is supposed to be in sport...lying and insult are wrong where and when they occur.
He won’t bc he’s too proud. He has tried many times over the years to re-write the history of that era inflating his own role and trying to take credit for things he didn’t do.That's the best head coach he has ever had. Jimmy was basically the GM too and was great at that too. So yah Jerry better put Jimmy in the ROH before it's too late. Without Jimmy , Jerry Jones would have been an abysmal failure in the NFL.
Jimmy moved up to draft emmitt. Jerry never over road him! LolTroy was going to be the first pick regardless.
Jimmy wanted an LB, but I believe he was gone at that point so they selected Emmitt. But it’s not like it was Jerry’s or Jimmy’s decision and Jerry override him.
Wow.Your kind of regular, stud, is here...
When the team was winning Super Bowls in the mid 1990s, Jones looked at every option to keep the momentum going. If that meant adding Deion Sanders on a massive contract, he was willing to open his wallet. If it meant adding a veteran quarterback in Bernie Kosar when Troy Aikman was injured in 1993, he went and signed him. The moves paid off then, but Jones has pulled back since some moves went south.
Dallas made some big trades this offseason, but it has been a few years since Jones was willing to bring in players with resumes like Stephon Gillmore and Brandin Cooks. Some of the trades Jerry has made throughout his time have gone well, but a good amount failed.
1. Terry Glenn (Best)
2. Amari Cooper (Best)
3. Charles Haley (Best)
4. Hershel Walker (The Best)
5. Joey Galloway (Worst)
6. Roy Williams (The Worst)
https://thelandryhat.com/posts/4-best-2-worst-cowboys-trades-under-jerry-jones
The Dallas Cowboys, aware of Walker's earlier interest in playing for them, acquired Walker's NFL rights by selecting him in the fifth round (114th overall) of the 1985 NFL Draft.
In 1986, he was signed by the Cowboys and moved to fullback, so he could share backfield duties with Tony Dorsett, becoming the second Heisman backfield tandem in NFL history, after George Rogers and Earl Campbell teamed with the 1984 New Orleans Saints. This move created tension, as it would limit Dorsett's playing time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herschel_Walker
The Cowboys were interested well before Jimmy was a dream.
He came in along with the presence of Tony Dorsett...no, Jimmy Johnson didn't just have a divine intervention.
In 1989, the Cowboys traded Walker to the Minnesota Vikings for a total of five players (linebacker Jesse Solomon, defensive back Issiac Holt, running back Darrin Nelson, linebacker David Howard, defensive end Alex Stewart) and six future draft picks.
All of Jimmy's drafting wasn't a backside shining act...then staff started to step in with college scouting of players he was no longer knowledgeable.
Here, Gil Brandt and other Cowboys influential in personnel, well, had intense and long talks with Jerry as well.
*The five players were tied to potential draft picks Minnesota would give Dallas if a player was cut (which led to Emmitt Smith, Russell Maryland, Kevin Smith, and Darren Woodson).
That was the over the top additions.
The Wall was with dropped NFL players and no-names drafted...all Jimmy?
Walker's $5 million five-year contract exceeded his $4.5 million five-year contract. Think that did not involve Jerry?
A coach takes a money matter to his GM. All coaches are required to do that. The GM gave the money, when that money was badly needed for that group of Cowboys to even survive existence. Jerry really not involved?
Not in the picture involved here.
Jimmy was a part...not the whole. Take out all realities for achievement, then yea, one is left with sure, yea, he walked on water and turned water into wine also...
Charles Haley (Best)
Jerry and other players from the Super Bowl teams have often said they could not spell Super Bowl until Charles Haley arrived. After making the playoffs in 1991, Dallas knew they still needed more help. The team traded a 1993 second round pick and 1994 third round pick to the 49ers for Haley in the 1992 offseason.
Haley came to Dallas with question marks, having clashed with 49ers coaches and management, but Jones was willing to take the risk. The move paid off immediately as Haley had six sacks with 39 tackles and helped the Cowboys defense rank first in the NFL in 1992. Dallas won its first of three Super Bowls in the 1990s.
Haley helped Dallas win two more Super Bowls in 1993 and 1995. While his off-field problems were well known, he continued to be a force for the defense. Haley retired after the 1996 season, but returned to San Francisco for the final two years of his career.
https://thelandryhat.com/posts/4-best-2-worst-cowboys-trades-under-jerry-jones/4
He also was acquired under Jimmy Johnson and Jerry Jones.
“I think everybody understands the last couple of years we have been looking for a pass rusher,” Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson said. “We felt we had improved our defense significantly over the last couple of years, and I think this undoubtedly will make it even better. He will have an immediate impact on our pass rush.”
https://www.profootballhistory.com/charles-haley/
Even Cowboys owner Jerry Jones felt confident that Haley would work out fine for the team.
https://www.profootballhistory.com/charles-haley/
Hershel Walker (The Best)
The only trade that could top Charles Haley is "The Trade". Jerry Jones dealt the team's best player Hershel Walker to the Vikings in 1989 for a bunch of random players and future draft picks. Dallas might have gone 1-15, but great changes were coming.
In exchange for Walker, the Cowboys received Jesse Solomon, David Howard, Issaic Holt, and Alex Stewart along with a first second and sixth round pick. Dallas cut all five players also giving them conditional draft picks for the 1991 and 1992 drafts. With a boatload of draft picks, the Cowboys could now build a new team around Troy Aikman and Michael Irvin.
Emmitt Smith, Darren Woodson, and Russell Maryland are just a few of the players Dallas acquired over the next few seasons that helped turn the franchise around. To this day, it remains one of the biggest and arguably most notable trades in NFL history. Trading one player who ultimately helped a team rebuild and win three championships is an unbelievable story.
https://thelandryhat.com/posts/4-best-2-worst-cowboys-trades-under-jerry-jones/5
At this point in a discussion, it should be noted that how teams are run now has changed in almost all factions of management and play today.
Now, most things are tasked to certain management groups, scouts, until there is some source indicating interest or have made it known that a team is in the market.
Usually a Head Coach first introduces this on up, still ends at Jerry Jones' desk.
Naw, it doesn't take press clippings or congressional votes to get something done today.
When Jimmy and Jerry started out the team of Cowboys were losing a $1M a game. Jerry and Jimmy literally had to do most of what was done then. That took a team atmosphere. But Jerry was the owner and Jimmy apparently wanted more control than was doable at that point for survival of ownership. Jerry even had loans of significant to even qualify for the purchase. That's the facts and not just, hero worship. Jerry tried to walk a supportive road in a very hostile and polarized time of history. He has maintained a world view now, as well. Top Team in revenue for sports. Jimmy angered at the Saudi Prince being shown the functions of a NFL team. Some was ego and some was lack of true loyalty to his players, by Jimmy Johnson.
The role of scouts are very advanced for now and evaluations about all things on the carpet are both good and effective. Jerry is a role, not a fool.
In the spring of 1991, in Dallas Cowboys headquarters, a petroleum engineer named Mike McCoy sat down at his desk to devise one of the most influential innovations in the past three decades of the NFL. He plotted on logarithmic paper every trade involving a draft pick over the previous four years. He wanted to quantify the value of each pick.
Over the previous two years, the franchise’s brash leaders, owner Jerry Jones and Coach Jimmy Johnson, had built a war chest for the draft. They had shipped star running back Herschel Walker to Minnesota for a massive haul, including eight picks, and quarterback Steve Walsh to New Orleans for three more. Now, Jones’s oil-and-gas business partner was trying to figure out how much the picks were worth.
In his office, McCoy created a graph, assigned the No. 1 pick a random value (3,000) and used a regression formula to calculate the rest. The result — the famous but misunderstood and misattributed “Jimmy Johnson draft-pick value chart” — revolutionized the NFL draft.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/04/25/nfl-trade-value-chart/
Coaches under Jimmy:
David Shula. Shula was the offensive coordinator for the Dallas Cowboys in the 1989-1990 seasons, a total of two years. Shula's record as the team's offensive coordinator was 8-24-0, making him the least successful offensive coordinator in Dallas Cowboys history. Shula was again, Jimmy's selection.
Now explain why 'walk on water' Jimmy had to replace him or lose Troy Aikman. with Norv Turner. He coached from 1991 to 1993.
He was replaced by :
Ernie Zampese 1994-1997 40-24-0
Under Switzer, his Defensive Coordinator was:
Coach Years Record Win Percentage Playoff Record Dave Campo 1995-1999 46-34-0 57.5% 4-3
Those changes were all forced by that same Jimmy Johnson...now say they weren't.
Bill Parcells
He began as an assistant coach at Hastings (1964) before moving on to Wichita State (1965), Army (1966–69), Florida State (1970–72), Vanderbilt (1973–74), and Texas Tech (1975–77). In 1978, he became the head coach at the Air Force Academy for one season.[7]While serving as linebackers coach at Army, Parcells was also a part-time assistant basketball coach for Bob Knight during the 1966–67 season, which led to their longtime friendship.
He served as a head coach in the National Football League (NFL) for 19 seasons. He rose to prominence as the head coach of the New York Giants from 1983 to 1990, where he won two Super Bowl titles.
Parcells was later the head coach of the New England Patriots from 1993 to 1996, the New York Jets from 1997 to 1999, and the Dallas Cowboys from 2003 to 2006. Nicknamed "the Big Tuna", he is the only NFL coach to lead four different franchises to the playoffs and three to a conference championship game.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Parcells
Now, on coaches after Jimmy Johnson, except for Chan Gailey and then Jason Garrett, the records of coaches were as follows:
Switzer had 3 playoff seasons in 4 seasons.
Chan Gailey had 2 playoff seasons in 2 seasons.
Bill Parcells 2 playoff seasons in 4 seasons.
Wade Phillips 2 playoff seasons in 4 seasons.
Mike McCarthy 2 playoff seasons in 3 seasons.
I guess Jerry learned pretty good from San Francisco how to win in the NFL when he studied with the owner of them just prior to his purchase of the Cowboys as well with studying under Oakland's owner and GM.
That's the facts and not a rewrite by fans feeling the desire to Hero Worship. Jimmy was good, but he was very lucky that he did sign on with Jerry before he returned to Florida, again...
4,000 yard seasons under Jerry Jones:
1983 - 4156
1985 - 4236
1986 - 4003
2006 - 4067
2007 - 4290
2009 - 4483
2010 - 4208
2011 - 4453
2012 - 4992
2013 - 4226
2014 - 4008
2019 - 4902
2020 - 4511
2021 - 4963
2022 - 3911
(4,000 yard seasons with coaches)
Bill Parcells 2003-2006 (1)
Wade Phillips 2007-2010 (3)
Jason Garrett 2010-2019 (5)
Mike McCarthy 2020-Present (2)
The passing game efficiency for Dallas has steadily improved since Jimmy Johnson.
By the way, did Troy have a single 4,000 completion season? No
Did Roger Staubach? No
https://www.profootballhof.com/football-history/4000-yard-seasons-by-quarterback/
that was a lot of spin, protecting and defending a man whose organization hasn't accomplished anything in post season that really counts. we are bottom three in post season success over the past 20 years. let that sink in. bottom three. all the regular season success is meaningless without post season success. its participation trophy.You have played the same insult with the same song and dance and presented a number count to hide all good football provided. How many 12 win seasons have the Cowboys had since Jimmy was told to leave? First item, do more than run your mouth and insult Jerry Jones and CCBoy...Houston is still #2 violent crime center in the Country...and that is a fact. Behind San Antonio. One may ask why that is included...simple, that is where you live! Why did they fire Bum Phillips and release Earl Campbell?
I already have posted an OP that stated the fact on Dallas winning, playoffs, and facts in comparisons to the entire NFL as well as the 13 teams in today's NFL who have never won a Super Bowl. Get a real dirty complaint line, and stick with it beyond a crap load of an arbitrary 25...I again tell You I don't care about what is actually a number and not a description or explanation of accomplishments and opportunities created by Jerry Jones.
.Jerry was an offensive lineman at about 189 pounds at Arkansas. They loved football and over coming to achieve. If they were looking for fun in sport, they would have played baseball instead.
The very first NFL team that came to Dallas was in 1952. It was called the Yanks prior to moving to Dallas, and then renamed the Dallas Texans. It survived a partial season, ended up 1-11 and then moved to Baltimore and then became the Colts and a Johnny Unitas led team there allowed by George Halas.
The team had been part of the American Football Conference, before landing in Dallas. The Colts won the 1958 NFL Championship Game five years later!
Clint Murchison, Sr. was estimated with a fortune of around $300 M. He was friends with J. Edgar Hoover, FBI. His second son, Clint, was a 130 pound halfback with MIT.
H.L. Hunt was another oilman and wealthy. Lamar Hunt was his son. Both Lamar Hunt and Clint Murchison both wanted intensely to participate in professional football.
George Halas, the owner and coach of the Chicago Bears was the most powerful man in the NFL. He was the chairman of the Expansion Committee and had no plans on expanding to a 13th and 14th team.
Lamar Hunt decided that he wasn't going to wait and in 1959 founded the American Football League with it's opening season in 1960. That forced Halas to reconsider and to offer Clint Murchison a franchise in Dallas with the rights to the Washington Fight Song as blackmail against a non-vote. Then the price tag was $6,000,000.
Murchison hired Tex Schramm as his General Manager. He was only a sports writer in Austin at the time. Schramm then hired Gil Brandt, who was at that time a professional photographer. Brandt and never before played or coached football before that ... but he had done some scouting.
'When in 1965 Joe Robbie bought the Miami Dolphins, Jerry Jones tried to purchase a minority ownership. He was no able to accomplish that.
A year later there was a legitimate chance for Jerry Jones to purchase the San Diego Chargers for $5.8 M, but he couldn't quite handle the loan requirements then.
Jerry was lucky as a wildcatter and built his own monies up from there.
In 1987, Bill Walsh offered to Jerry to fully explain finances, workings, and how to run an NFL organization from top to bottom. Jerry spent a lot of time learning the franchise necessary perspectives and caught up completely with the NFL at that time. This included scouting, player management, and evaluations determined by Head Coach directions in changes.
Jerry stretched everything, especially finances that carried a cost of $160 M and took him to task trying to stay ahead of Turk who was head of collections for the Dallas Cowboys even then.
It was Jerry who provided the opportunity to both Jimmy Johnson and players alike.
Information taken from 'American's Team' by Jeff Sullivan.
Gil Brandt
He served as the Dallas Cowboys' chief talent scout since the club's inception in 1960. He had served as a part-time scout for the Los Angeles Rams under General Manager Tex Schramm in the 1950s. When Schramm took command of the newly formed Dallas franchise in 1960, Brandt was one of the first people he hired. Schramm, Brandt and Coach Tom Landry formed the triumvirate which guided the Cowboys for their first 29 years.
He helped pioneer many of the scouting techniques used by NFL clubs today,[3] such as:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Brandt
- Creating a new scouting and evaluation system for prospects, which would later spread throughout the NFL. In the NFL Films' documentary series Finding Giants, Ernie Accorsi mentioned how then-general manager George Young built the New York Giants scouting process based on the Cowboys system.[4]
- Using computers for scouting and talent evaluations. To achieve this level of automatization, the Cowboys had to systematically define which were the traits, measurable qualities and skills that could be expressed into numbers and formulas in order for a computer to understand them.[5] Different traits were prioritized for different positions.[6]
Player evaluations and developments there developed to where it is today, but through the leadership of Jerry Jones!
Under Schram, who developed Tom Landry teams via scouting:
In late 1959, when it became apparent that the NFL was intent on expanding to Dallas, Schramm told his friends in football that he was interested in running the team. Chicago Bears owner George Halas introduced Schramm to Clint Murchison Jr., who had tried to bring the NFL to Dallas several times in the past. Murchison hired Schramm as the general manager for a potential Dallas team, which became a reality when the league awarded a franchise to the city on January 28, 1960.[citation needed]
In 1960, Schramm hired head coach Tom Landry and chief scout Gil Brandt. By the mid-1960s, the three men had built the Cowboys into an elite team. The Cowboys, despite two consecutive losses to the Green Bay Packers in the NFL Championship Game in 1966 and '67, had 20 consecutive winning seasons, and won the most games of any NFL team of the 1970s. They appeared in five Super Bowls that decade, winning Super Bowls VI and XII, and losing Super Bowls V, X, and XIII by a combined 11 points. The Cowboys became a marquee NFL franchise, their popularity inspiring the nickname "America's Team".
In 1966, Schramm met secretly with American Football League (AFL) founder Lamar Hunt to begin the negotiations that led to the 1970 merger of the NFL and AFL, as well as the first Super Bowl in 1967.
Schramm was known as the most powerful general manager in the NFL. The Cowboys' owners during his tenure, Murchison (1960–84) and Bum Bright (1984–1988), largely left day-to-day operations in his hands. Schramm represented the Cowboys at league meetings and exercised the team's voting rights, something normally reserved for team owners.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tex_Schramm
History of playoff appearances since 1996 following the last Lombardi:
1996-Switzer
1998-Chan Gailey
1999-Chan Gailey
2003-Bill Parcells
2006-Bill Parcells
2007-Wade Phillips
2009-Wade Phillips
*(real gap in team successes)
2014-Jason Garrett
2016-Jason Garrett
2018-Jason Garrett
2021-Mike McCarthy
2022-Mike McCarthy
That is the playoff years.
Switzer had 3 playoff seasons in 4 seasons.
Chan Gailey had 2 playoff seasons in 2 seasons.
Dave Campo no playoff seasons in 3 seasons.
Bill Parcells 2 playoff seasons in 4 seasons.
Wade Phillips 2 playoff seasons in 4 seasons.
Jason Garrett 3 playoff seasons in 10 seasons.
Mike McCarthy 2 playoff seasons in 3 seasons.
Jason Garrett's record at Dallas and by year
* – Interim head coach
DAL 2014 12 4 0 .750 1st in NFC East 1 1 .500 Lost to Green Bay Packers in NFC Divisional Game DAL 2015 4 12 0 .250 4th in NFC East – – – – DAL 2016 13 3 0 .813 1st in NFC East 0 1 .000 Lost to Green Bay Packers in NFC Divisional Game DAL 2017 9 7 0 .563 2nd in NFC East – – – – DAL 2018 10 6 0 .625 1st in NFC East 1 1 .500 Lost to Los Angeles Rams in NFC Divisional Game DAL 2019 8 8 0 .500 2nd in NFC East – – – –
First Green Bay loss, a last second field goal. 34-32.
Second Green Bay loss...Dallas held a lead in the second half, but after losing the lead due to a late Aaron Rodgers touchdown pass, had a potentially game-winning catch by Dez Bryant overturned in official replay, therefore sealing a 26–21 defeat to Green Bay.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Garrett
Now prove your hillbilly ballad...you merely show a biased attitude/opinion. Now take any of the many points provided you and disprove them beyond your own bias. ANY of the referenced points. Provide any referenced source beyond a brother-in-law and similar opinion. I don't care a thing about your excuse for rejection of any discussion if you use 24, 25, 59...what ever number you seem to think has real merit in evaluation and not your own whipping boy excuse seeking instead to substitute an exchange of merit. Try 66 next maybe...that is supposed to be a holy number.that was a lot of spin, protecting and defending a man whose organization hasn't accomplished anything in post season that really counts. we are bottom three in post season success over the past 20 years. let that sink in. bottom three. all the regular season success is meaningless without post season success. its participation trophy.
bottom line. if you were leader of an organization that lost money for 28 straight years and didn't improve and able to compete in the market, would you still be the leader of that company if you were not the owner? Our success is about post season. which we haven't had any.
end of story. everything else is just a long spin.
He earned the delay for insulting purposely his boss and the team. Like carnivals? There at least is honest and tastey food for your money.Lol Jimmy is in the Hall of Fame for what he did for this franchise but not in the team’s Ring of Honor for what he did for this franchise.
Jerry Jones……
Jerry retained the smart aspect of protecting the franchise through fragile economic developing periods, as they did in Oakland. They were both successful and economically able to stand on their own. There were many sources of reference to Jerry during that time, that involved the elements and their management.There are very few criticisms of Jerry Jones the owner of the Dallas Cowboys. The one exception that dominates his legacy is the very very poor choice he made in his selection of a GM. Other than that, he's practically golden.
Jerry Jones has been meticulously building the greatest lie of them all using the politics of economic power as well as the knowledge that, if you repeat something often enough, you can get enough people to actually start believing it. It simply doesn't work on those who witnessed the truth.
Fact !That's the best head coach he has ever had. Jimmy was basically the GM too and was great at that too. So yah Jerry better put Jimmy in the ROH before it's too late. Without Jimmy , Jerry Jones would have been an abysmal failure in the NFL.
hillbilly...hmmm interesting. when all else fails, then resort to insults because you have nothing of value to say.Now prove your hillbilly ballad...you merely show a biased attitude/opinion. Now take any of the many points provided you and disprove them beyond your own bias. ANY of the referenced points. Provide any referenced source beyond a brother-in-law and similar opinion. I don't care a thing about your excuse for rejection of any discussion if you use 24, 25, 59...what ever number you seem to think has real merit in evaluation and not your own whipping boy excuse seeking instead to substitute an exchange of merit. Try 66 next maybe...that is supposed to be a holy number.
You sound like a bitter old woman.He earned the delay for insulting purposely his boss and the team. Like carnivals? There at least is honest and tastey food for your money.
Jimmy deserved to be in the Hall...when a reward of the team is involved, that is the call of the team and not based upon your insults. The honor has been promised...that part is never your call, case at point. If you can't live with that....hey, suffer then. Respect is given by Jerry saying that he deserves inclusion, but that act still belongs to him as to when.
Why don't you ask the Pope for Holy water and just change the elements of insult and disloyalty by Jimmy. I don't over look poor character...forgive, but call a misdeed by JIMMY as well.
I wouldn't show up if he did if I was Jimmy. I thought only women made decisions based on emotion...at least most of the time. It's a bad look on JerryThat's the best head coach he has ever had. Jimmy was basically the GM too and was great at that too. So yah Jerry better put Jimmy in the ROH before it's too late. Without Jimmy , Jerry Jones would have been an abysmal failure in the NFL.
4,000 yard seasons under Jerry Jones:hillbilly...hmmm interesting. when all else fails, then resort to insults because you have nothing of value to say.
not a biased attitude, but fact based. I have given you opportunity after opportunity and yet it clearly seems you have been the one with the Ballad (or should I say war and peace) responses.
facts. and only facts. what have the cowboys accomplished in the past 28 years that is a measure of success in the NFL. no ballads. just simple response.
and in the end I am not sure what you are complaining about my responses. you went on and on and on about 24, 25, 59, and 66, etc....all meaningless drivel and perhaps your point is just to argue.
tell me once again, what have the cowboys accomplished with Jerry Jones in the pat 28 years?