Let's go back to 1996

[Redball Express]

Remember when Jerry said there were 500 coaches who could win a SB with this team...?

Guess whst?

We have been jinxed by our GM.

Not so much as a sniff.

Ok..

I think we need to see that list, Jerrah.

Who is on that list and how do we get them in.?

In times of trouble..

we can depend on Jerrah to pull a distraction to deflect critics who are growing in number.

That was the Cooper trade.

Just like the Dion Sanders signing..

just like the Roy Williams trade..

just like the Seattle trade for Joey Galloway.

The die has been cast.

A couple more losses and the muffled cries become deafening for change.

 

[LandryFan]

Remember when Jerry said there were 500 coaches who could win a SB with this team...?

Guess whst?

We have been jinxed by our GM.

Not so much as a sniff.

Ok..

I think we need to see that list, Jerrah.

Who is on that list and how do we get them in.?

In times of trouble..

we can depend on Jerrah to pull a distraction to deflect critics who are growing in number.

That was the Cooper trade.

Just like the Dion Sanders digning..

just like the Roy Williams trade..

just like the Seattle trade for Joey Galloway.

The die has been cast.

A couple more losses and the muffled cries become deafening for change.

To be fair, I'm pretty sure his "500 coaches" comment was in relation to the team that existed at that time. It was stacked. So that type of comment, although not meant literally, I'm sure, was pretty accurate. There were a number of coaches that could have won with that talent...Barry Switzer is proof of that, IMO. That said, we haven't come close to that level of talent since, so maybe JJ should focus on finding one of the few coaches that could maybe take this team past the divisional round of the tournament.

 

[Outlaw Heroes]

Your time machine needs tuning. It was ‘93 when he made that comment. It was subsequently vindicated in ‘95 when the bumbling fool he hired to replace Jimmy won a Super Bowl with the roster Jimmy had built.

What Jerry overlooked is that there probably weren’t 5 guys, let alone 500, who could have built that roster. And he definitely wasn’t among the 5.

 

[millennial_legend]

I was 2 years old that year... just learning the negative repercussions of going #1 in my diaper instead of the toilet.

 

[LandryFan]

Your time machine needs tuning. It was ‘93 when he made that comment. It was subsequently vindicated in ‘95 when the bumbling fool he hired to replace Jimmy won a Super Bowl with the roster Jimmy had built.

What Jerry overlooked is that there probably weren’t 5 guys, let alone 500, who could have built that roster. And he definitely wasn’t among the 5.

Good catch. I didn't connect the "'96" reference in the title to the "500 coaches" comment in the text. I just locked in on the "500 coaches" part. And you are so correct on the building of that talent.

 

[Redball Express]

Your time machine needs tuning. It was ‘93 when he made that comment. It was subsequently vindicated in ‘95 when the bumbling fool he hired to replace Jimmy won a Super Bowl with the roster Jimmy had built.

What Jerry overlooked is that there probably weren’t 5 guys, let alone 500, who could have built that roster. And he definitely wasn’t among the 5.

Yeah..

I don't research those dates..

can't you tell?

But you get my drift.

Our owner thinks it's all about him.

But when he says stuff like that..

and we go 25 years without a title.

and coaches have come and gone..

and none come close to Johnson..

it's just.so obvious to all of us.

 

[CCBoy]

Closer to his playing days, Jerry thirsted to win...now, he is a former gambler that survived as a wildcatter, and then was a well informed investor. He is now a business man first, and focused on details of putting on a 'controlled' show. He is old in the avenue of pure enjoyment of the sport...and is responsible for that, himself.

I have watched a ton of, yea, good football with his ownership...but the edge of competition, not talent, is missing now.

 

[Outlaw Heroes]

Yeah..

I don't research those dates..

can't you tell?

But you get my drift.

Our owner thinks it's all about him.

But when he says stuff like that..

and we go 25 years without a title.

and coaches have come and gone..

and none come close to Johnson..

it's just.so obvious to all of us.

I think Parcells was on Jimmy’s level. He didn’t have Jimmy’s advantages in Dallas was the biggest difference. Jimmy knew the NCAA talent pool cold in the early ‘90s, having recruited (not always successfully) many of the nation’s best players to play at the preeminent college program of the late ‘80s. His inability to reproduce his success in Miami was partly because that advantage had largely evaporated.

Parcells turned this team (and several others) completely around. The Campo years were the dark ages.

 

[Quickdraw]

I think that was after Superbowl XXVIII in '93. But I get what you're saying and he was dead wrong.

 

[Joe Realist]

2018: Feelin' Fine at 7 and 9!

 

[millennial_legend]

2018: Feelin' Fine at 7 and 9!

Nope. We're #Greatin8-8

 

[nightrain]

wish we were on #8 since those comments.