nyc;3784045 said:
He was straight up awful. The man had absolutely ZERO control. Just like Wade Phillips had zero control and was awful.
How could Switzer have been awful when he was able to lead the team to a very important SB win?
Had the Cowboys not won that 3rd SB in the 90's they wouldn't have claimed the crown as the team of that decade.
There would have been 3 teams Dallas, SF and Denver with two SB wins which would have left no clear cut team of the 90's. It would have been debatable which was the better team that decade.
Switzer took over the Cowboys having been out of coaching for several years and having no NFL experience.
The players loved Jimmy so it was no easy task for any coach to come in and keep that team focused.
It would have been very easy for the Cowboys to become complacent and pack it in after winning back to back SB's with Jimmy being gone.
Switzer came in and kept the team together long enough for the Cowboys to get another SB win despite losing some players to free agency.
It amazes me the hate that some fans have for Switzer despite him leading the team to the NFC title game in his first year as Cowboys HC and to their 3rd SB win the following year.
Most felt the loss to SF in the 94 NFC title game marked the end of the road for those great Cowboy teams but Switzer got the team to rebound from that disappointing loss the following year.
I give Switzer a lot of credit for leading the team to their final SB championship. The Cowboys beat a Steelers team that had never lost a SB and had beaten the Cowboys in two previous SB's.
That win not only cemented the Cowboys as the team of the 90's but it gave the franchise and us fans some measure of revenge over the Steelers for those two SB's losses during the 70's.
The fans that hate on Switzer obviously don't realize what he helped the Cowboys accomplish during his tenure.