Even the team that went 13-3 with Wade was all Parcells and not Jerry. He is still trying to live off that success, but as EVERYBODY sees, he has turned that once competitive team into whatever you wanna call it today.

And, I will also note that I told football fans back in 1989, that the Cowboys were “the best 1-15″ team you were likely to see. There was some decent building blocks there, and they got Aikman with the first pick of the draft.

So, I would add a footnote that Tom Landry deserves at least some mention in providing some building blocks to those dominant early 90s teams.”

I would also note that Jimmie Johnson was saddled with an aging Dan Marino and a lot of other Don Shula guys. Johnson simply wanted to add balance to the Dolphins offense but Marino apparently had a hissy fit and cried about how Shula always let him do things his way, how dare you!?

Or Lennon and McCartney, lol

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Neither.

But more to the point, Jones would never have gotten a job in the NFL, while Johnson, coming out of the University of Miami, was going to get a head coaching job in the NFL, and he was going to succeed.

It’s pretty clear that once he left Dallas, the fire had gone out and his days as a top-rung coach were over.

-Johnson says to Jones: “it would be great if I could get a bunch of draft picks in this upcoming draft.”

-Jones: “Okay Jimmy. Hey Sandra! Can you get me Mike Lynn on the phone?”

Between that and the ensuing trades, Jones was very good at wheeling and dealing.

Jones is 1-??? In what 20 years

Herschel walker deal made it possible but I believe Johnson made the most of those picks. It pretty obvious that jerry drafts pretty bad

Despite Johnson’s lack of success with the Dolphins ask yourself this question.

If you owned a football team and had to hire one or the other would you hire Jones to be your GM or Johnson to be your coach.

Any moron can see that when Jimmy Johnson was there, he was the one really making all the drafting decisions for that team. Just because Jerry sat in the room also, doesn’t qualify him to be a General Manager also. Jimmy was the brains AND the coach of that organization.

I could see though, Jerry saying, “you want to draft X? Let me think about that.” Then, a few days later, going to Jimmy and saying, “we’re doing to draft X.”

Jimmy is 100% correct, he is the reason for the Cowboy’s superbowl trophies in the 90′s (Switzer rode his coattails,) not Jerry Jones. It’s no coincidence that they’ve only won one playoff game since the Jimmy/Barry era.