Troy Aikman: 'Unless practices change,' Cowboys may not win a title in another 20 years either

It would be a refreshing change to see this organization stop playing catch up and stop trying to copy other successful teams and finally develop a real plan of success and stick to it.

Jerry has been doing this for years. It's a copycat league and each year a new team comes into the spotlight with a new formula and then we chase our version of creating that for a season....

Going all in on pass rush last year was a reaction to 1 game in Greenbay.
This year we will probably go all in on QB to avoid this seasons failures.
Next year it will be something else that fell apart or failed and we will spend the offseason going "balls out" fixing this hole.


lol looking for pass rush is what every team should do. it is insanely important.
 
lol looking for pass rush is what every team should do. it is insanely important.

Agreed...however neglecting the rest of your team in a desperate attempt to find pass rush isn't what every team should do. Also the defenses like Denver and Carolina and even Seattle are not so good at pass rush because they have the best Talent on the defensive line. They all know how to scheme to generate pass rush. We just sent our front 4 and hope for the best while our secondary is playing 10-15 yards off the line.

Another point about what a mistake we made this last season...if we knew we were not going to resign Hardy we should have gotten Randy Gregory more game action. Why have Greg Hardy playing 95% of the snaps while a first round talent like Gregory sits and watches.
 
I think you're making excuses for Troy.

He said practices. He didn't mention anything else and I don't know why anybody would interpret it any differently.

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You know the word "practices" means other things than just running a bunch of players on a field a few times a week, right?
 
"I don't know," said Aikman. "This team, for 20 years, really has been so inconsistent. And unless practices change, I don't see that changing any time soon. You look back at last year and 12-4 and get excited about that, but was 12-4 really what this team is or is 8-8? I don't think 4-12 is this year because of the injuries that occurred.

"But you've got to do it more than once every seven or eight years before you can say, 'Hey, the things that we're doing are really paying off.' It's been a long history of frustration and up-and-down years, and, for the most part, disappointment.

"And I think you've got to be able to look back on something and say, 'OK, we're building something here and these things that we do pay off,' but I haven't seen that, so I don't anticipate any time soon anything being any different from what we've seen the last 20 years."

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not say he is wrong. he is being an analyst and has to walk a fine line...but he is right in one thing...being more consistent...I really think if Romo and Dez wouldn't get injured, it would have been a totally different year....everyone wants to pile it on garrett, but he much like all other coaches relies on his QB's abilities to win games....there isn't one of them out there that doesn't.....
 
What Troy says carries a lot of weight he's no Cowboys hater he played 12 years for the organization and led the team to 3 championships. He's giving an honest opinion but that seems to be frowned upon here even when it comes from former Cowboys players.

He does seem to be frowned upon, and yet his former backup is our HC now and some people think he hung the moon and can do no wrong! Funny how that works.
 
What Troy says carries a lot of weight he's no Cowboys hater he played 12 years for the organization and led the team to 3 championships. He's giving an honest opinion but that seems to be frowned upon here even when it comes from former Cowboys players.

Yep! If people aren't sunshine pumping 100% of the time they're considered haters.
 
I don't usually agree with Troy because he's nothing more than a closet Eagle's fan. But this time I tend to agree with him. I do think the team practices hard. I just don't think they practice the right things for the right situations. Coaching needs to change things up to better utilize the talent they got. Garrett doesn't do that at all. Thus were seeing the results of bad play each and every game.

That boils down to effectively game planning...and practices of management/coaching
 
Yep! If people aren't sunshine pumping 100% of the time they're considered haters.

It's not an either/or situation. Not all are locked up in a closet or walking around with a bullhorn.
 
Troy is right in the sense this team is probably not going to win a Super Bowl making the playoffs once every few years. Realistically speaking, winning a Super Bowl--just one--is a decade long goal. That is a decade of making the playoffs on a consistent basis

Your odds of winning the Super Bowl in any one year are slim. Just look how many times a great quarterback like Aaron Rodgers has lost in the playoffs, at home. You need to give yourself as many chances as possible and you can only do that by making the playoffs on a consistent basis.
 
It would be a refreshing change to see this organization stop playing catch up and stop trying to copy other successful teams and finally develop a real plan of success and stick to it.

Jerry has been doing this for years. It's a copycat league and each year a new team comes into the spotlight with a new formula and then we chase our version of creating that for a season....

Going all in on pass rush last year was a reaction to 1 game in Greenbay.
This year we will probably go all in on QB to avoid this seasons failures.
Next year it will be something else that fell apart or failed and we will spend the offseason going "balls out" fixing this hole.

I agree with you. We are always reactive and never proactive. This needs to change because we are almost always behind the NFL curve.
 
You know the word "practices" means other things than just running a bunch of players on a field a few times a week, right?

Jeez, it is painfully obvious what he was trying to say.
 
Troy is preaching to the choir. Is the congregation, namely Jerry & Co., paying attention? That's the key. Most of us know we have swung and missed for 20 years. The problem is that the emperor thinks he's got clothes year after year. In this case what's he's building is "invisible to those who are unfit for their positions, stupid, or incompetent." Nice to see at least Troy is willing to tell emperor Jones that he's parading himself "naked".
 
It's the whole point of the article, Jerry has to relinquish control to change a losing system. New "practices" implies new leadership, not simply plugging a new coach into the same dysfunctional structure.

lol. Jerry the owner is gonna relinquish control. Why even bother suggesting.
 
lol. Jerry the owner is gonna relinquish control. Why even bother suggesting.

He relinquished some control under Parcells. Maybe he will do it again if the chorus gets loud enough. Troy is too professional to really call Jerry out personally, but maybe someone else with some weight in his eyes might actually do it, someday.
 

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