He ended up being wrong for that season, but that phrase sums up his era as Cowboy's coach perfectly. I was a cowboy fan as a kid in the 80s and it was a bummer that they sucked so bad. Seemed like they'd never be good again but Jimmy turned that all around.
@garybeltrand5802 Yep! We've missed that fire ever since. Parcells had it for a couple yrs. Until our GM is not the owner, we will be the Dallas Raiders.
@@garybeltrand5802Tom Landry’s Cowboys went to three straight NFC championship games in the 80’s… Won his last division title in 85… Going into the game vs the Giants in 86 they were 6-2 and in the game Danny White had his wrist broken and he and Landry’s Cowboys were never the same… Landry gets little credit but deserves so much… He had Irvin and was building the famous o line… So sad he didn’t get the chance to work with Aikman… Once White went down, he had no stability at QB… Aikman would’ve give him that.. For those that wanna say Jimmy didn’t get lucky and land in the perfect spot taking what Landry was building… How did he do with the Dolphins?!
I remember that 1-15 season. We beat Washington to end their perfect season that year. The NFC East is the most dominant division in football. Any of those teams would have more superbowl appearances if they weren't beat up so terribly by the rest of their own division by the end of the season.
once you get to know the personalities - Troy - Irvin - Emmitt - Jimmy, you understand that you have a perfect storm of greatness that all came together at once.
An endless source of energy and spirit, a mechanically perfect perfectionist , and a quiet ball of thunder and lightning with immovable will. Jimmy harnessed that into something unbelievable and unmatched before or since.
I LOVE this NFL announcing duo. By far my favorite. Even though Aikman ripped my heart out as a Bills fan in two straight Super Bowls, I very, very much admire him and always have. A real leader and man.
I watched almost every game Aikman played for the Cowboys. I have a mental picture of one particular play. Troy was waiting for his receiver to reach a certain point before he could throw a timing pass. A lineman was running full speed at Troy. Troy didn't flinch. He threw the pass a split second before the lineman speared him in the chin with the top of his helmet. It was a scary hit. Pass completed and Troy's chin got bandaged up and Cowboys won.
I remember in his rookie season, Troy threw a touchdown pass just as he was knocked out cold. He was an old-school tough guy. Today they'd tell him to throw the ball away. I think his willingness to hold the ball till the last second probably shortened his career by a few years, because he really took a beating.
That's a lot better than my memory of Mark Sanchez, I can still see the split second he rammed his face into into his lineman's ass and dropped the ball.
That play was in an NFL highlight VHS tape no ? Troy's poise was insane. Him completing a pass on 3rd down basically on his knees to Kevin Williams in the 94NFCCG was amazing.
A long time Cowboys fan since I was a kid growing up in Texas. I watched all of the Super Bowls the Cowboys played in. When Jimmy came along as the head coach he was the foundation of this team. There will never be triplets like Troy, Emmitt and Irvin. Every time Troy talks I listen. He is one of my favorite players. Its about time Jimmy is going into the Ring of Honor. The news brought tears of joy. I believe the 90s Cowboys were the best team ever. May we ride high in the saddle someday soon. All I got to say is How but them Cowboys? Go Cowboys. Americas team. DC4L
Which is just absolutely crazy! Why would you not play to your players' strengths?! Instead so many OC's just wanna do what they wanna do, and try to force their players to conform to it. I think that was the biggest issue with Kellen Moore.
@@jaker9901 so in the end... it WAS a strength of those RB's. Had they tried it and those guys sucked at it, but they kept doing it anyway... THAT is what a lot of OC's do, simply because they want to force their system even though their players do not fit it.
Troy made a comment that illustrates something that is so often overlooked about those Dallas teams. Before Jimmy or Jerry ever came to town the Cowboys were already planning to draft Aikman. Michael was already there, Ken Norton Jr. was already there, half of the players that would make up the O Line were already there. Landry and Schramn may have lost a step from their peak but nobody gives them credit for recognizing a lot of the problems and laying a solid foundation to address those problems. Now here we are 28 years removed from the last Cowboys Lombardi Trophy and I think about not just how badly Coach Landry was wronged by Jerry Jones but how badly he was treated by the fans in his last two or three years when the team was going through hard times. I'd rather have 3 losing seasons following 20 years of winning seasons, 18 playoff seasons, 5 Super Bowl visits and 2 Super Bowl wins than 28 years of hope deferred mediocrity.
If you read Jeff Pearlman’s book one of the conditions for buying the team was that any new owner HAD to fire Landry, it was because of the old owners hatred of him. Not a JJ fan but least he did it in person
@@Jakemufcfan oh I know all about Bum Bright and what a D bag he was and what he thought of Landry. It's one of the reasons I swallowed what Jerry did because I knew a lot of it was down to Bum Bright. But even Jerry admits he botched Landry's dismissal from the team.
Interesting him admitting his weaknesses in addition to strengths and you can just see it because nobody threw the comback routes like that guy. I hated the cowboys but man that Aikman to Irvin come back route was crisp AF. Nobody could do it like them.
The one thing that Jimmy did very well was draft the right players to help Troy and the team. That Herschel Walker trade was the foundation to their 90's dynasty. Emmitt Smith gets drafted in that the next season and the Cowboys go 7-9 in 1990, 11-5, and then next season in 92, Jimmy sticks with Aikman and they went 13-3. Their final piece of the puzzle was getting Charles Haley from the 49ers for a pass rusher and the rest is history.
Let's not forget Deion. I remember an interview with Jerry Jones in 1995 when they got him. He said "we don't need Deion to win the Super Bowl but we sure don't want him to be playing for the other team".
Jimmy knew a lot about the top college players because he was just out of college coaching. A few years later his knowledge of top college players was second hand. Draft suffered.
They had a lot of talent, Moose, Harper, Novacek, Newton, Williams on offense, Woodson, Norton, Lett, etc... on defense. So many great names on that team. Jimmy leaving was heart breaking and think they would have been the first team to threepeat if he stayed.
Troy was the most fun quarterback for me to watch. I've been a dallas fan since i've been An existence and I still believe that watching Troy equipment in the Cowboys was the most excited time to watch football. I still go back every year or two and youtube's those old games and watch them
Agree for the most part. Troy was the best Cowboy QB, then Staubach. But my all time fav is Tony Romo. Something about his game play just made me smile.
Roger was the most fun to watch!! That man was one of the toughest QB"s I've ever seen play. If you ever saw his throwing hand while he was still playing ,you would agree. If he broke a finger, he didn't miss time, he would tape it to the finger next to it and go out and throw strikes. His right hand had fingers all messed up but it never stopped him from playing football. I always said it was because he believed Landry would have benched him if he would have missed time. Laundry had a lot of players believe this, because he used that to get the best out of them.
I was at the Rams game in November 1990. What was exciting was that not only did they beat a good Rams team, but you could see and feel the team getting better. I did not know then that Troy was tired of it all, but he certainly made the right choice by sticking around !
I understand where you're coming from,Troy definitely has the smarts, but nowadays he couldn't be effective with the prima donnas they've got suiting up. They'd whine on social media and to every sports talking head that would listen about how "abusive" and "toxic" he was.
We beat the Skins that year, it was like winning the Super Bowl that year! I am so happy you made it out alive, you were awesome and such a great athlete and QB!
I watched every play of every game that year. When they beat skins I thought something was about to happen to extend the game so that they would lose again. Lean times made the wins even sweeter.
Man, nobody remembers now, but it was touch & go for a minute between Troy Aikman & Steve Walsh as to who was going to be the Cowboys QB of the future. The 1 win they had in 1989 Walsh was the QB.
Walsh was a very good college player, but his arm strength was way below average and nowhere near enough for the nfl caliber of players. That’s what did him in.
@@robertjayroe9900 Here's the worst part...Dallas would have had the #1 pick in the 1990 draft, but since they drafted Walsh in the supplemental draft they had to forego that pick. Who could they have had? Try Cortez Kennedy. Then again, they may have drafted Blair Thomas & then never drafted Emmitt Smith who probably becomes a Viking or Packer.
Demon is my favorite sports commentator. I like his voice. He’s probably second all-time to John Madden John Madden used to say Troy was the most accurate quarterback to ever played in the NFL.
There is such a winning formula to coaching that coaches hate to use that Troy is talking about above. Got people to do what they were best at. John Wooden at UCLA did the same thing which made him the winningest coach in college men's basketball.
Those team were loaded with talent at coaching. Wannstedt, Davis, Norv, Houck, Campo etc. Almost all of them got a shot at being at a HC in the NFL. Though they did not do well lol.
I met Troy back then. I was at Bellagio in Vegas. We were down at restaurant for breakfast and he walks in and sits down a few tables over from me. I wanted to say hello to him but he just seemed to have the weight of world on his shoulders. I said, I think I will leave him in peace to have breakfast. As it turns out I saw him again in lobby. Such a quality guy. I told him he sat near me in restaurant and I thought about telling him I was huge cowboy fan. He smiled and said thank you. I’ve been able to meet Roger Staubach twice, Bob Lily, I was at Tony Dorset’s house making a leak repair on his roof one day. After I finished he sat in living room and just talked for 15 minutes. The next thing we knew there was knocking at his door. It was Murray w tv sports show. They wanted to know his comment on cowboys signing Herschel Walker for much bigger contract than he had. He was so angry. He deserved better than Dallas gave him that day. The next day I saw him at San Francisco Steakhouse with a beautiful blond girl. He was drunk and was all over her while sitting in lobby. It was obscene.
I've written offenses and that is what you do. I'm amazed at how many coaches can't do this while continue to have a job. Norv was a very good OC, but was an average HC.
They have a bunch of primadonnas now complaining on social media about "hard training camps". Forget it, only the guy with old-school mindse can right this ship. Oh, and Jerry should sell the Cowboys to someone who cares.
Never understood why more coordinators don't do it that way. I understand having a system philosophy, but in the end, you have to work with what you've got.
This is great, never heard the bottom line scoop that determines a winner, or not! Dallas, ' my Cowboys" teetering on the brink of "nothing lessning" in da NFL. To what they became several years after ward, is truly remarkable! this a great film for ALL Cowboys fans!!!! Thumbs up!!!!
I really liked this video. I wasn't really much into football at this particular time when Aikman got drafted as the number one pick overall and that was the year that they went 1-15. So it was really the following year that I actually started paying more attention to football in general and following the Cowboys and they were a bit frustrating to watch I have to say. They did end up going 7-9 that year and I can remember a couple of those games and one in particular. I think it was against New Orleans and Bobby Hebert was the quarterback and I was like we can beat these guys because at this point they already have Aikman, Irvin, and Emmitt Smith and there was a lot of talk about how this is a promising team, they have a lot of potential, they got talent, and so on and so forth and so I was like yeah we can beat these guys and they got beat in that game. You could see sparks here and there and like they mentioned in the video, towards the end of the year they went on a little run and they won like four straight and things were starting to look up and of course after that it's just the history of what happened from that point on with the Cowboys. They go on and win like three straight Super Bowls and so it was really interesting going through that building stage and the way they describe it in the video it's just like little pieces here and there that they had to, it wasn't just the talent on the field, I mean that's the most important is having talent on the field but then having guys who can manage it and they had all the right pieces, you had Jimmy Johnson already in place and we know what kind of head coach he was, I mean he was just one of those disciplinarian type coaches, he wasn't going to be the kind of coach that would get outcoached regularly, he knew his football and then you had Aikman who was the kind of leader you want on the field, I mean when I heard him in this interview here, they talk about how, or he talks about how he was real demanding of people and of the other players on the field and he said he was confrontational which I never really got, you got a little bit of that impression because you would see him yell at people sometimes on the field but you listen to him and he just sounds like a really kind of even keeled kind of guy and you just don't imagine him being a confrontational type but he did have a temper and he would confront guys and he would be very demanding of them and you need that kind of guy, you can't have somebody who's wishy washy and he even said it himself, he didn't want to be anybody's friend out on the field, it was all about production and that was kind of an interesting thing that he mentioned and he was so intent on seeing that his team win that he had put a lot of pressure on himself, I had no idea that the pressure was getting to him that much, I mean he would have thought in the first year going 1 in 15 that that was when he was going to feel the burden and the pressure, especially being the number one pick but he actually says it was the second year and so much so that he was even talking to his agent about getting traded, I had never heard that before so that was an interesting new little piece of information we got out of this video. So there's the next piece, you have Jimmy Johnson, you have a quarterback who's a real leader, actually all three of those guys, the triplets, Michael Irvin, Emmett Smith, they were all leaders and then you had Norv Turner come in and he becomes your offensive coordinator and he really helped to turn that team around as well so it was just this sort of gradual build up and sometimes we have the expectation, you have all this talent on the field or in basketball, on the court and you just expect instant results and it just doesn't happen, you've got to have the right leadership there as well and so this was a really neat video to watch and listen to. Listen to my answer, reply in voice, and join my spoken conversations at TubeTalkers
I think part of what makes a coach good is designing a scheme that takes advantage of the players strengths and abilities rather than trying to fit a players strengths and abilities into the coaches scheme.
I never liked Dallas, ever. But I have to respect Coach Johnson's resilience. It also sounds like Norv Turner was very intelligent to employ a Don Shula approach- exploit each player's strengths instead of trying to force each athlete into your 'system'.
They had a pretty decent tight end in Witten. Triplets my ass. What about the O line. That whole offense was a wrecking crew. The “triplets” get to much attention and the rest get not anywhere near enough.
Lmao are you drunk? Jason Witten came way, way after this era was over lol you can’t be serious. You meant to say tight end, Jay Novacek. You had to have meant that. The triplets get too much attention??…. yeah you’re right. 3 hall of famers, including the NFL’s all time leading rusher lol. You’re hilarious.
People like to use the o-line to discredit the Triplets, but none of them ever made a Pro Bowl prior to Irvin (the first who came) and were all part of the 1-15 team. They became a great line with multiple Pro Bowlers, but the success of the Triplets made them who they are.
I think the offense in general gets a little too much of the credit. The truth is, the DEFENSE Jimmy brought with him from Miami was just as vital to the 90's Cowboys success. The smaller, faster linebackers, overall team defensive speed, rotating the entire defensive line, etc.
I know some old timer Viking fans. There is no team on Earth in any sport they hate more than the Dallas Cowboys. A gut wrenching hate. Like the hate I once had for the Pittsburg Steelers. Now I'm getting mad so I better stop remembering those SuperBowl losses.
Football is simple. Coaches make it harder. Coaches have to KNOW what they have and build a scheme that works for you them. That’s how’ll find success.
It's crazy how fast they went from terrible to SB champs. Jimmy was right that the losing shit was over... he was just a bit too early on it! It just took a little more time, but not that much. 1-15, 7-9, 11-5, 13-3 and SB champs.
It turned out well for the Cowboys, but being drafted #1 overall to a very bad team probably took some years off the back end of Aikman's career. He took a lot of hits and had a lot of concussions early in his career, although in those days, players just shook them off and put themselves at serious risk of permanent brain injury. Hopefully it won't take years off the end of his life, but that 1-15 season was pretty brutal.
I never likes the Cowboys , I remember the first two seasons that Aikman played for them. He is lucky to still be alive. He literally got the hell kicked out of him. After surviving that mess he was able to prove how tough he was and be a leader to a future Dynasty. Aikman and Staubach were 2 of the toughest to have played.
I hate the cowboys but I have to respect Troy for his leadership and competitiveness. And the fact it ticked off Troy with the lackadaisical attitude of Switzerland after Johnson.
People forget how good Jimmy drafted and how poorly barry drafted. If Jimmy's able to continue building that monster who knows how far that team would have gone
I like Tony Romo, but Troy Aikman is well spoken, hes very approachable, he was a leader of men, but Troy had great arm & accuracy but Cowboys where a control the clock management ( Run team) Emmitt Smith .. Troy Aikman did care about STATS .. Winning was GOAL 1.) Great Athlete & with Great head on this shoulders & Troy & Tom Brady never get old listing too...
Jerry Jones bringing his college teammate to the Cowboys was the best thing he ever did. Jerry Jones getting rid of his college teammate was the death of the franchise.
It still took. 2 years to turn the ship around. The nfl doesn’t normally have the patience to build the team to what it turned into. But if Jimmy hung around, the boys would have been to more super bowls. Winning them? I don’t know.
I had a great argument that if Coach had stayed with team and Jerry not interfere we would have won 5 in a row. I know it was good because I'd pitch the thought to people who hated the Cowboys and they all had the same hmmmmmm response...
yep and that's what the Cowboys did simply the offense. Timing routes that Irvin did well and for Alvin Harper throw the ball deep and up and out fight the defender which he did so well. For Emmitt it was run inside and running the lead draw. They did that over and over teams couldn't stop it.
Hear say. We think they would have won more but you never know how close you are to injury. Yes, In a perfect world they would have done more of the same. It doesn't matter. It's just a sport not a war between nations and I credit sports for being some countries together in sports rather than war.
back in the day The Dallas Cowboy "triplets" was America's team. They started with nothing and went all the way. While I've never like the Cowboys, I've always respected them all the way back to the days of Tom Landry.
Troy Aikman If you look at his career stats, not very impressive, but you don't win 2 Bowl Games and 3 NFL Championships without being a leader and a winner. He made plays when he needed to make a play
Took him 3rd season to get his shit together was nobodies friend got mad at his players who did not do their jobs in practice and games just wanted to win this doesn't feel like that now or today. Must of been really nice potentially picking choosing a NFL team to play on with your agent also almost like a Right instead of a Privilege.
@@davidlee7092 Well, he conveniently left it out too. Aikman was a good QB. But let's be honest. Without a roster FESTOONED with future Hall of Famers, how good would he have been? I mean, top to bottom, the sheer array of talent was pretty obscene. If he can't admit he was quasi-carried by these people, I'll be happy to.
Name all of the hall of famers that blocked for him between 1992-1995. I bet you can't. Troy was THE leader of that team. Emmitt and Michael will tell you that. Troy is in the HOF because he was that leader and a great QB and very clutch in big games. He was going to be the #1 pick in '89 no matter what. He was that good and the whole league knew it.@@corneliuspraeda6452
You do realize that he was the MVP of their 1st SB, right? Dude was great in the biggest games. Plus, he was the leader of that team. They don't win those SBs without him.@@jeremykrause153
I bet bet Jerry Jones kicks himself every day for saying "any coach could've won a Super Bowl with this team". That's what sent Jimmy over the edge and it was the most bonehead statement ever made by any owner I'm sure Jerry would agree with that
Jerry Jones's actions are the worst act of hubris I've ever seen. You don't fix what isn't broke. Jimmy Johnson had built an absolute juggernaut. I'm a Niner fan but I think that third year would have been the same thing 3 years in a row.
Remember when Troy and Joe were caught on a hot mic complaining military jets were flying over NFL games during Trump saying that would never happen under Biden? And it happened a 100 times since? We do….. 😂
I heard Jimmy Johnson say his last team at Miami U could have beat the Cowboys..said the talent level was so bad..when people say a college team couldn't beat a pro team it just isn't true..there are players on Alabama and Georgia who don't even start there who become stars in the NFL..the NFL is a sorry product and league
In the mid 1970's, call-in fans on sports talk radio in Cleveland said OHIO State could have beaten the Cleveland Browns. The host, Pete Franklin (who knew sports), said this was pure nonsense.
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Troy was a great QB, but listening to him talk you really begin to understand how smart he is, and what a good solid person he is.
His accuracy was better than people remember. It's NOT his fault the GREATEST TEAM EVER ASSEMBLED happened to be in front of him.
He’s amazing!
@@JimmyJA53he also played well overall in those SBs!
Had Jimmy and Jerry worked out their differences, the Cowboys would have won two…three more superbowls.
Yeah, well... people forget Jimmy had his differences with Thad Foote too.
Both of them have way too big of an ego for that.
Did you mean to say if Jerry wasn’t a douche bag attention whore megalomaniac the Cowboys would have….?
You forgot Green Bay was strong around then I don’t think their beating them in 1996
Absolutely been saying that for years 👍
Loved the "This losing shit is over!" comment. Says everything about Johnson and what he brought to Dallas.
He ended up being wrong for that season, but that phrase sums up his era as Cowboy's coach perfectly. I was a cowboy fan as a kid in the 80s and it was a bummer that they sucked so bad. Seemed like they'd never be good again but Jimmy turned that all around.
@garybeltrand5802 Yep! We've missed that fire ever since. Parcells had it for a couple yrs. Until our GM is not the owner, we will be the Dallas Raiders.
@@garybeltrand5802Tom Landry’s Cowboys went to three straight NFC championship games in the 80’s… Won his last division title in 85… Going into the game vs the Giants in 86 they were 6-2 and in the game Danny White had his wrist broken and he and Landry’s Cowboys were never the same… Landry gets little credit but deserves so much… He had Irvin and was building the famous o line… So sad he didn’t get the chance to work with Aikman… Once White went down, he had no stability at QB… Aikman would’ve give him that.. For those that wanna say Jimmy didn’t get lucky and land in the perfect spot taking what Landry was building… How did he do with the Dolphins?!
I remember that 1-15 season. We beat Washington to end their perfect season that year. The NFC East is the most dominant division in football. Any of those teams would have more superbowl appearances if they weren't beat up so terribly by the rest of their own division by the end of the season.
@@eddarby469 Tom Landry’s last win was vs the Redskins and Jimmy Johnson’s first win was against the Redskins..
once you get to know the personalities - Troy - Irvin - Emmitt - Jimmy, you understand that you have a perfect storm of greatness that all came together at once.
Jimmy knew the importance of the trenches too. So much depth.
I didn't leave him out :) And i could also mention other players that were probably just as vital @@undergroundunlimited2282
An endless source of energy and spirit, a mechanically perfect perfectionist , and a quiet ball of thunder and lightning with immovable will. Jimmy harnessed that into something unbelievable and unmatched before or since.
It's almost like you don't understand their success came from their spending at all the other positions. You couldn't make team like that now.
@@MichaelMAuth All those key guys were drafted or traded for lol.
I LOVE this NFL announcing duo. By far my favorite. Even though Aikman ripped my heart out as a Bills fan in two straight Super Bowls, I very, very much admire him and always have. A real leader and man.
I watched almost every game Aikman played for the Cowboys. I have a mental picture of one particular play. Troy was waiting for his receiver to reach a certain point before he could throw a timing pass. A lineman was running full speed at Troy. Troy didn't flinch. He threw the pass a split second before the lineman speared him in the chin with the top of his helmet. It was a scary hit. Pass completed and Troy's chin got bandaged up and Cowboys won.
I remember in his rookie season, Troy threw a touchdown pass just as he was knocked out cold. He was an old-school tough guy. Today they'd tell him to throw the ball away. I think his willingness to hold the ball till the last second probably shortened his career by a few years, because he really took a beating.
yes sir ...tough guy , never seen him flinch in a pinch
That's a lot better than my memory of Mark Sanchez, I can still see the split second he rammed his face into into his lineman's ass and dropped the ball.
That play was in an NFL highlight VHS tape no ? Troy's poise was insane. Him completing a pass on 3rd down basically on his knees to Kevin Williams in the 94NFCCG was amazing.
Troy played when Quarterbacks didn't wear dresses.
A long time Cowboys fan since I was a kid growing up in Texas. I watched all of the Super Bowls the Cowboys played in. When Jimmy came along as the head coach he was the foundation of this team. There will never be triplets like Troy, Emmitt and Irvin. Every time Troy talks I listen. He is one of my favorite players. Its about time Jimmy is going into the Ring of Honor. The news brought tears of joy. I believe the 90s Cowboys were the best team ever. May we ride high in the saddle someday soon. All I got to say is How but them Cowboys? Go Cowboys. Americas team. DC4L
It’s easy to forget the trials and fears that people endure on the way to success. It was years of struggle to get to the top. Years.
"It sounds simple but most offensive coordinators don't go about it that way" is the best analysis in NFL history
Which is just absolutely crazy! Why would you not play to your players' strengths?! Instead so many OC's just wanna do what they wanna do, and try to force their players to conform to it. I think that was the biggest issue with Kellen Moore.
@@jaker9901 so in the end... it WAS a strength of those RB's. Had they tried it and those guys sucked at it, but they kept doing it anyway... THAT is what a lot of OC's do, simply because they want to force their system even though their players do not fit it.
Troy made a comment that illustrates something that is so often overlooked about those Dallas teams. Before Jimmy or Jerry ever came to town the Cowboys were already planning to draft Aikman. Michael was already there, Ken Norton Jr. was already there, half of the players that would make up the O Line were already there. Landry and Schramn may have lost a step from their peak but nobody gives them credit for recognizing a lot of the problems and laying a solid foundation to address those problems. Now here we are 28 years removed from the last Cowboys Lombardi Trophy and I think about not just how badly Coach Landry was wronged by Jerry Jones but how badly he was treated by the fans in his last two or three years when the team was going through hard times. I'd rather have 3 losing seasons following 20 years of winning seasons, 18 playoff seasons, 5 Super Bowl visits and 2 Super Bowl wins than 28 years of hope deferred mediocrity.
Very well said.
If you read Jeff Pearlman’s book one of the conditions for buying the team was that any new owner HAD to fire Landry, it was because of the old owners hatred of him. Not a JJ fan but least he did it in person
@@Jakemufcfan oh I know all about Bum Bright and what a D bag he was and what he thought of Landry. It's one of the reasons I swallowed what Jerry did because I knew a lot of it was down to Bum Bright. But even Jerry admits he botched Landry's dismissal from the team.
Interesting him admitting his weaknesses in addition to strengths and you can just see it because nobody threw the comback routes like that guy. I hated the cowboys but man that Aikman to Irvin come back route was crisp AF. Nobody could do it like them.
The one thing that Jimmy did very well was draft the right players to help Troy and the team. That Herschel Walker trade was the foundation to their 90's dynasty. Emmitt Smith gets drafted in that the next season and the Cowboys go 7-9 in 1990, 11-5, and then next season in 92, Jimmy sticks with Aikman and they went 13-3. Their final piece of the puzzle was getting Charles Haley from the 49ers for a pass rusher and the rest is history.
Troy was great in explaining this
Let's not forget Deion. I remember an interview with Jerry Jones in 1995 when they got him. He said "we don't need Deion to win the Super Bowl but we sure don't want him to be playing for the other team".
Jimmy knew a lot about the top college players because he was just out of college coaching. A few years later his knowledge of top college players was second hand. Draft suffered.
They had a lot of talent, Moose, Harper, Novacek, Newton, Williams on offense, Woodson, Norton, Lett, etc... on defense. So many great names on that team. Jimmy leaving was heart breaking and think they would have been the first team to threepeat if he stayed.
Norv Turner is still one of the best offers site coordinators iv ever seen, he was a terrible head coach but amazing OC.
11 million dollar contract..That was thru the roof back then. No rookie minimum back then either.
Can't tell you how much those successful cowboy years to me as I was always a cowboy fan and had just moved back to TX after20 yrs in the Bay area!
These two guys cover games so well together. Looking forward to searching and finding more interview/discussions.
They are an insane team
Troy was the most fun quarterback for me to watch. I've been a dallas fan since i've been An existence and I still believe that watching Troy equipment in the Cowboys was the most excited time to watch football. I still go back every year or two and youtube's those old games and watch them
Agree for the most part. Troy was the best Cowboy QB, then Staubach. But my all time fav is Tony Romo. Something about his game play just made me smile.
Roger was the most fun to watch!! That man was one of the toughest QB"s I've ever seen play. If you ever saw his throwing hand while he was still playing ,you would agree. If he broke a finger, he didn't miss time, he would tape it to the finger next to it and go out and throw strikes. His right hand had fingers all messed up but it never stopped him from playing football. I always said it was because he believed Landry would have benched him if he would have missed time. Laundry had a lot of players believe this, because he used that to get the best out of them.
He was awesome to watch play
I was at the Rams game in November 1990. What was exciting was that not only did they beat a good Rams team, but you could see and feel the team getting better. I did not know then that Troy was tired of it all, but he certainly made the right choice by sticking around !
Troy should be a GM or HC in the NFL. He's got it!
Or even better? Owner of the Dallas Cowboys. Wouldn't that be a hoot???
I understand where you're coming from,Troy definitely has the smarts, but nowadays he couldn't be effective with the prima donnas they've got suiting up. They'd whine on social media and to every sports talking head that would listen about how "abusive" and "toxic" he was.
Easily. He'd have to take a pay cut and I don't think he wants to leave TV.
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It's a treat to hear Aikman speak. One of the real good guys in sports.
Troy Aikmam is a great quarterback
We beat the Skins that year, it was like winning the Super Bowl that year! I am so happy you made it out alive, you were awesome and such a great athlete and QB!
I watched every play of every game that year. When they beat skins I thought something was about to happen to extend the game so that they would lose again. Lean times made the wins even sweeter.
The offensive and defensive lines were great!!!!
Early on they weren't. Troy was sacked 11 times in one game against the Eagles.
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Man, nobody remembers now, but it was touch & go for a minute between Troy Aikman & Steve Walsh as to who was going to be the Cowboys QB of the future. The 1 win they had in 1989 Walsh was the QB.
I think us fans remember it as touch and go. But I don't believe Jerry or Jimmy or any coach thought that way. They knew top talent.
Walsh was a very good college player, but his arm strength was way below average and nowhere near enough for the nfl caliber of players. That’s what did him in.
@@robertjayroe9900 Here's the worst part...Dallas would have had the #1 pick in the 1990 draft, but since they drafted Walsh in the supplemental draft they had to forego that pick. Who could they have had? Try Cortez Kennedy. Then again, they may have drafted Blair Thomas & then never drafted Emmitt Smith who probably becomes a Viking or Packer.
I remember when Terry Bradshaw said Walsh should be the long-term starter over Troy.
Demon is my favorite sports commentator. I like his voice. He’s probably second all-time to John Madden John Madden used to say Troy was the most accurate quarterback to ever played in the NFL.
There is such a winning formula to coaching that coaches hate to use that Troy is talking about above. Got people to do what they were best at. John Wooden at UCLA did the same thing which made him the winningest coach in college men's basketball.
Those team were loaded with talent at coaching. Wannstedt, Davis, Norv, Houck, Campo etc. Almost all of them got a shot at being at a HC in the NFL. Though they did not do well lol.
Troy was driven & the Cowboys could have won several more superbowls if Jerry had his head on straight.
I met Troy back then. I was at Bellagio in Vegas. We were down at restaurant for breakfast and he walks in and sits down a few tables over from me. I wanted to say hello to him but he just seemed to have the weight of world on his shoulders. I said, I think I will leave him in peace to have breakfast. As it turns out I saw him again in lobby. Such a quality guy. I told him he sat near me in restaurant and I thought about telling him I was huge cowboy fan. He smiled and said thank you. I’ve been able to meet Roger Staubach twice, Bob Lily, I was at Tony Dorset’s house making a leak repair on his roof one day. After I finished he sat in living room and just talked for 15 minutes. The next thing we knew there was knocking at his door. It was Murray w tv sports show. They wanted to know his comment on cowboys signing Herschel Walker for much bigger contract than he had. He was so angry. He deserved better than Dallas gave him that day. The next day I saw him at San Francisco Steakhouse with a beautiful blond girl. He was drunk and was all over her while sitting in lobby. It was obscene.
Take what you do best and do that. Forget about the other stuff. Wise words.
I love when they won the NFC Championship beat SF in SF, media ran late interviewing Troy, and Jimmy left Troy.
I've written offenses and that is what you do. I'm amazed at how many coaches can't do this while continue to have a job. Norv was a very good OC, but was an average HC.
I’m still pissed off about the way they treated Tom Landry
I love this!! Troy is awesome
TLDR: Norv Turner is the coach referenced in the title.
This what the Cowboys need now
They have a bunch of primadonnas now complaining on social media about "hard training camps". Forget it, only the guy with old-school mindse can right this ship. Oh, and Jerry should sell the Cowboys to someone who cares.
Troy was a stud . IMO, the best first overall pick ever.
Never understood why more coordinators don't do it that way. I understand having a system philosophy, but in the end, you have to work with what you've got.
Exactly, I give Norv Turner a lot of credit for the success in the '90s.
That was such a great point no one says the center went oh and 11 in their first year it's always the quarterback
This is great, never heard the bottom line scoop that determines a winner, or not! Dallas, ' my Cowboys" teetering
on the brink of "nothing lessning" in da NFL. To what they became several years after ward, is truly remarkable!
this a great film for ALL Cowboys fans!!!! Thumbs up!!!!
I really liked this video. I wasn't really much into football at this particular time when Aikman got drafted as the number one pick overall and that was the year that they went 1-15. So it was really the following year that I actually started paying more attention to football in general and following the Cowboys and they were a bit frustrating to watch I have to say. They did end up going 7-9 that year and I can remember a couple of those games and one in particular. I think it was against New Orleans and Bobby Hebert was the quarterback and I was like we can beat these guys because at this point they already have Aikman, Irvin, and Emmitt Smith and there was a lot of talk about how this is a promising team, they have a lot of potential, they got talent, and so on and so forth and so I was like yeah we can beat these guys and they got beat in that game. You could see sparks here and there and like they mentioned in the video, towards the end of the year they went on a little run and they won like four straight and things were starting to look up and of course after that it's just the history of what happened from that point on with the Cowboys. They go on and win like three straight Super Bowls and so it was really interesting going through that building stage and the way they describe it in the video it's just like little pieces here and there that they had to, it wasn't just the talent on the field, I mean that's the most important is having talent on the field but then having guys who can manage it and they had all the right pieces, you had Jimmy Johnson already in place and we know what kind of head coach he was, I mean he was just one of those disciplinarian type coaches, he wasn't going to be the kind of coach that would get outcoached regularly, he knew his football and then you had Aikman who was the kind of leader you want on the field, I mean when I heard him in this interview here, they talk about how, or he talks about how he was real demanding of people and of the other players on the field and he said he was confrontational which I never really got, you got a little bit of that impression because you would see him yell at people sometimes on the field but you listen to him and he just sounds like a really kind of even keeled kind of guy and you just don't imagine him being a confrontational type but he did have a temper and he would confront guys and he would be very demanding of them and you need that kind of guy, you can't have somebody who's wishy washy and he even said it himself, he didn't want to be anybody's friend out on the field, it was all about production and that was kind of an interesting thing that he mentioned and he was so intent on seeing that his team win that he had put a lot of pressure on himself, I had no idea that the pressure was getting to him that much, I mean he would have thought in the first year going 1 in 15 that that was when he was going to feel the burden and the pressure, especially being the number one pick but he actually says it was the second year and so much so that he was even talking to his agent about getting traded, I had never heard that before so that was an interesting new little piece of information we got out of this video. So there's the next piece, you have Jimmy Johnson, you have a quarterback who's a real leader, actually all three of those guys, the triplets, Michael Irvin, Emmett Smith, they were all leaders and then you had Norv Turner come in and he becomes your offensive coordinator and he really helped to turn that team around as well so it was just this sort of gradual build up and sometimes we have the expectation, you have all this talent on the field or in basketball, on the court and you just expect instant results and it just doesn't happen, you've got to have the right leadership there as well and so this was a really neat video to watch and listen to. Listen to my answer, reply in voice, and join my spoken conversations at TubeTalkers
Never heard Troy so candid before.
He really gave us lot of the great stories from his career
When I see these two together I always remember when Aikmen called Joe Buck “ partner “. Lmao
Dan Quinn knows how and when to change up assignments and game plans to get the best out of each player.
I think part of what makes a coach good is designing a scheme that takes advantage of the players strengths and abilities rather than trying to fit a players strengths and abilities into the coaches scheme.
I can only imagine what kind of coach Troy Aikman would be.
Troy looks like he could go out on the field today and throw for 250 yardswith a couple of TD’s.
haha, they always say the last thing that goes is the arm talent.
Norv put in a timing based passing offense. That changed everything.
I love Troy! Best QB!!
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Can’t slay the dragon every game but the Cowboys with Aikman won Super Bowls trying to
I never liked Dallas, ever.
But I have to respect Coach Johnson's resilience.
It also sounds like Norv Turner was very intelligent to employ a Don Shula approach- exploit each player's strengths instead of trying to force each athlete into your 'system'.
They had a pretty decent tight end in Witten. Triplets my ass. What about the O line. That whole offense was a wrecking crew. The “triplets” get to much attention and the rest get not anywhere near enough.
Lmao are you drunk? Jason Witten came way, way after this era was over lol you can’t be serious. You meant to say tight end, Jay Novacek. You had to have meant that. The triplets get too much attention??…. yeah you’re right. 3 hall of famers, including the NFL’s all time leading rusher lol. You’re hilarious.
People like to use the o-line to discredit the Triplets, but none of them ever made a Pro Bowl prior to Irvin (the first who came) and were all part of the 1-15 team. They became a great line with multiple Pro Bowlers, but the success of the Triplets made them who they are.
I think the offense in general gets a little too much of the credit. The truth is, the DEFENSE Jimmy brought with him from Miami was just as vital to the 90's Cowboys success. The smaller, faster linebackers, overall team defensive speed, rotating the entire defensive line, etc.
@@thegorn68yep the defence is as ranked better than the offence
He threw that out route about as well as anyone I have seen. You have to have a arm to throw that or the corner will jump it.
How does a young guy move from LA to Henrietta OK and keep his sanity? That is my greatest respect for Troy.
I think you have to thank the Vikings for the worst trade in NFL history. That more than anything helped the Cowboys with there success.
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I know some old timer Viking fans. There is no team on Earth in any sport they hate more than the Dallas Cowboys. A gut wrenching hate. Like the hate I once had for the Pittsburg Steelers. Now I'm getting mad so I better stop remembering those SuperBowl losses.
Troy Aikman was good when he Played.😀
Troy Aikman: A WARRIOR!!! Injuries slowed him, or he could have potentially been The G. O. A. T.!!!
Football is simple. Coaches make it harder. Coaches have to KNOW what they have and build a scheme that works for you them. That’s how’ll find success.
I thought the Hershel Walker trade with all those draft picks made them.
It's crazy how fast they went from terrible to SB champs. Jimmy was right that the losing shit was over... he was just a bit too early on it! It just took a little more time, but not that much. 1-15, 7-9, 11-5, 13-3 and SB champs.
It turned out well for the Cowboys, but being drafted #1 overall to a very bad team probably took some years off the back end of Aikman's career. He took a lot of hits and had a lot of concussions early in his career, although in those days, players just shook them off and put themselves at serious risk of permanent brain injury. Hopefully it won't take years off the end of his life, but that 1-15 season was pretty brutal.
I never likes the Cowboys , I remember the first two seasons that Aikman played for them. He is lucky to still be alive. He literally got the hell kicked out of him. After surviving that mess he was able to prove how tough he was and be a leader to a future Dynasty. Aikman and Staubach were 2 of the toughest to have played.
Hearing Troy swear surprised me. lol
Troy would curse like a drunken sailor in their practices and in their games.
Your class act Troy
I hate the cowboys but I have to respect Troy for his leadership and competitiveness. And the fact it ticked off Troy with the lackadaisical attitude of Switzerland after Johnson.
People forget how good Jimmy drafted and how poorly barry drafted. If Jimmy's able to continue building that monster who knows how far that team would have gone
You have to Taylor your offense or defense around the people you have
"Taylor"?
I like Tony Romo, but Troy Aikman is well spoken, hes very approachable, he was a leader of men, but Troy had great arm & accuracy but Cowboys where a control the clock management ( Run team) Emmitt Smith .. Troy Aikman did care about STATS .. Winning was GOAL 1.) Great Athlete & with Great head on this shoulders & Troy & Tom Brady never get old listing too...
Isnt this a replay of a show from years ago?
Does troy aikman age! 😮 dude still looking good
it also helped that that D was second to none. i wanted aikman to be traded to the 9ers.
Jerry Jones bringing his college teammate to the Cowboys was the best thing he ever did. Jerry Jones getting rid of his college teammate was the death of the franchise.
The Minnesota Vikings are the reason for the Cowboy's turnaround. The Cowboys can thank them for all the draft picks to build that team.
Jimmy engineered that trade.
It still took. 2 years to turn the ship around. The nfl doesn’t normally have the patience to build the team to what it turned into. But if Jimmy hung around, the boys would have been to more super bowls. Winning them? I don’t know.
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When was this interview?
I had a great argument that if Coach had stayed with team and Jerry not interfere we would have won 5 in a row. I know it was good because I'd pitch the thought to people who hated the Cowboys and they all had the same hmmmmmm response...
Norv Turner!
Norv Turner…… every QB coached by him turns it around.
yep and that's what the Cowboys did simply the offense. Timing routes that Irvin did well and for Alvin Harper throw the ball deep and up and out fight the defender which he did so well. For Emmitt it was run inside and running the lead draw. They did that over and over teams couldn't stop it.
Hear say. We think they would have won more but you never know how close you are to injury. Yes, In a perfect world they would have done more of the same. It doesn't matter. It's just a sport not a war between nations and I credit sports for being some countries together in sports rather than war.
Title says Troy Aikman but that tan says Troy Martinez.
The original "game-manager"
back in the day The Dallas Cowboy "triplets" was America's team. They started with nothing and went all the way. While I've never like the Cowboys, I've always respected them all the way back to the days of Tom Landry.
The best thing about that 1-15 season is the redskins were super bowl champions and we beat them for our only win.
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If you look at his career stats, not very impressive, but you don't win 2 Bowl Games and 3 NFL Championships without being a leader and a winner. He made plays when he needed to make a play
Buck can’t hide his bedroom eyes, anytime Troy talks.
why is jay-z talking football with Joe bucks????
Took him 3rd season to get his shit together was nobodies friend got mad at his players who did not do their jobs in practice and games just wanted to win this doesn't feel like that now or today. Must of been really nice potentially picking choosing a NFL team to play on with your agent also almost like a Right instead of a Privilege.
The Cowboys had little talent Aikman's first year. They only won 1 game. The year before, with Landry coaching, they won three games.
Troy doesn't mention that they only won one game, and it wasn't even Aikman at QB!!lol
Yeah he did. Well he said they went 1-15 but didn't say he wasn't under center.
@@davidlee7092 Well, he conveniently left it out too. Aikman was a good QB. But let's be honest. Without a roster FESTOONED with future Hall of Famers, how good would he have been? I mean, top to bottom, the sheer array of talent was pretty obscene.
If he can't admit he was quasi-carried by these people, I'll be happy to.
@@corneliuspraeda6452I don’t think Troy is a hall of famer. Good player but I think winning the three super bowls got him in.
Name all of the hall of famers that blocked for him between 1992-1995. I bet you can't. Troy was THE leader of that team. Emmitt and Michael will tell you that. Troy is in the HOF because he was that leader and a great QB and very clutch in big games. He was going to be the #1 pick in '89 no matter what. He was that good and the whole league knew it.@@corneliuspraeda6452
You do realize that he was the MVP of their 1st SB, right? Dude was great in the biggest games. Plus, he was the leader of that team. They don't win those SBs without him.@@jeremykrause153
If Jerry let Jimmy coach the team
If I had Luke Getsy's email address I would send this to him. IJS
I bet bet Jerry Jones kicks himself every day for saying "any coach could've won a Super Bowl with this team". That's what sent Jimmy over the edge and it was the most bonehead statement ever made by any owner
I'm sure Jerry would agree with that
Why is Troy in black face?
Hopefully Bryce young can reach out to Troy because he's gonna be 1 n 16 if things keep going like they are plus Bryce has not improved in 12 games
Jerry Jones's actions are the worst act of hubris I've ever seen. You don't fix what isn't broke. Jimmy Johnson had built an absolute juggernaut. I'm a Niner fan but I think that third year would have been the same thing 3 years in a row.
Troy Aikman needs to call Bryce Young.
Remember when Troy and Joe were caught on a hot mic complaining military jets were flying over NFL games during Trump saying that would never happen under Biden? And it happened a 100 times since? We do….. 😂
I heard Jimmy Johnson say his last team at Miami U could have beat the Cowboys..said the talent level was so bad..when people say a college team couldn't beat a pro team it just isn't true..there are players on Alabama and Georgia who don't even start there who become stars in the NFL..the NFL is a sorry product and league
In the mid 1970's, call-in fans on sports talk radio in Cleveland said OHIO State could have beaten the Cleveland Browns. The host, Pete Franklin (who knew sports), said this was pure nonsense.