The Coach: Jimmy Johnson
Key Roster Names:
QB - Aikman
RB - E. Smith
RB - Moose
WR1 - Irvin
TE - Novacek
OGs - Newton, Gogan
OTs - Tuinei, Cheek
C - Stepnoski
Pretty good offense there, right?
The 1990 Cowboys started off 3-7. There was no social media, but they were getting CRUSHED by the media at the time. They said Johnson was in over his head (that would change just 6 games later), Aikman was being vilified because the offense was pathetic (they score 20 points once in 10 games), etc. Yet, in a terrible NFCE at the time, they managed to win 4 in a row and needed to finish just 8-8 to make the playoffs. Spoiler: Aikman got hurt and we lost the last two, finishing 7-9.
I hold the 90's Cowboys in high regard, maybe one of the best teams ever assembled. Still, good teams and good coaches can have bad years.
You want to switch coaches? Okay. Be prepared for some possible losing, though. Even with a great team, it may take years before another coach gets a team to gel, and many of today's players might be past their peak performing years.
In 1996, I didn't consider our team old and the roster was almost exactly the same as our SB teams. No more SBs, though.
you are comparing apples to oranges, lol but I see your point, but it just does not fit the current situation with JG and this team.
Are you thinking that this team with JG as HC is on the verge of becoming a SB team???
I have some of the 91 games, and all of the 92 games, and I noticed the same thing , that a lot of the SB team guys were there in 91.
The 91 team had SB potential, but Aikman got hurt in game 10 and was ready to play physically, but not in the groove for playing in the detroit WC game.
They won and got in with buerlien but were not as good as they would have been had Aikman not got hurt and played the whole season.
The other thing was they lost games early in the 91 season that sort of doomed them to the WC level and the 2 SB years they were top seed , play only
2 games at home then the SB.
Had they won enough of those early games to finish top seed, and Aikman not hurt, then they would not have had to play detroit on the road, or even at all.
If they did it would be in Dallas with a Aikman who had played all year.
To me that was the main difference between the 91 and 92 teams.
In 92 Aikman plays whole season and they win more early games and finish top seed.
The also had more time to gel as units off def ST and added norv hailey and some others. But Jimmy preached lets be top seed, play at home, because
that does make a difference, avoid the extra games and or road games.
The 92 team did not look awesome during the season, they did enough to win enough games and then once in playoffs they stepped up
their play and rolled to the SB and rolled over Buffalo. That is a 3 game stretch if your top seed.
Dallas is nowhere near being a SB team right now , they are not on the verge, they are too sloppy and inconsistent, they look great at times,
then play awful. The coaching is pitiful running out of time and not using timeouts is horrible game mgmt, and there is no excuse for JG doing that.
The punt return, the kickoff short but guy in endzone, those are all things that would not happen with jimmy as hc in his 2nd year onward.
JG needs to go elsewhere and be an asst coach for years, then maybe he can learn more of the basic stuff, and as far as common sense I dont
think he has any.