The greatest coaching staff ever in Cowboys history; or did Jimmy just get lucky?

[DallasEast]

A helpful link for the 'single year' prerequisite:

https://pro-football-history.com/franchise/20/dallas-cowboys-coaches

Every season's coaching staff is listed.

Personally, I would line up Tom Landry's 1977 staff opposite Jimmy Johnson's 1993 staff, throw swords down at their feet and let them work out who's best between themselves.

My money's on the Fedora boys. Dave Campo would be disqualified for trying to pants people though.

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

Wanny was a LB coach before promoting up through the ranks ahead of Butch Davis IIRC.

Jimmy had insanely talented defensive coaches, Special teams guy in Coach Joe and Joe Brodsky is why we had Emmitt.
Offensively, those largely weren't Jimmy coaches but guys they brought in to replace a terrible offensive staff.
Jerry had a big hand in Norv being here.

Jimmy had eyed the NFL for a bit and he had a plan and that plan was executed very well.
He deserves tons of credit for the job he did in Dallas.
But he also got lucky and was fortunate to have the owner tell him to trade Herschel because he wanted "QB money".
As in most things the truth is somewhere in the middle.

Good, unbiased overview!