Staubach was named the 1971 Bert Bell Player of the Year and the 1971 Super Bowl MVP. He led the NFL in touchdowns thrown in 1973, yards per attempt in 19 and quarterback rating in 1971, 1973, 19. Staubach gets the edge over Aikman for being the main offensive weapon for the Cowboys who made it to four Super Bowls in the 1970s, winning two. Roger Staubach is the greatest quarterback in Cowboys history, sorry Troy Aikman. Got the point after winning a couple of Super Bowls, almost to the point of, 'I've accomplished what I want to accomplish.' Sometimes you lose sight of what you can do because of what you've already done.This one was easier than you might think. 'I've never been anywhere more than five years. 'Sometimes I'm kind of like a gypsy,' Johnson said. Not only is Johnson past the question of credit, he doesn't think much about 'what ifs' either. Not only did we win Super Bowls, but we were able to put together the team of the '90s.' ARLINGTON, TX - DECEMBER 30: Former Dallas Cowboys head coach Jimmy Johnson is inducted into the Dallas Cowboys Ring of Honor at halftime against the Detroit Lions at AT&T Stadium on Decemin Arlington, Texas.īecause of that, the split left many, including Johnson's players, wondering what might have been had he stayed. We took over the worst football team in the NFL. This was something that paid dividends for me the rest of my life. 'I don't think anybody can ever imagine what this means to me,' said Johnson, who won the 1987 college national championship at Miami. Now Johnson's name will be inside AT&T Stadium along with Landry, who led the Cowboys to two Super Bowl titles in the 1970s and is fifth on the career list with 250 regular-season victories.

The 80-year-old Johnson, a Texas native, has been a Fox studio analyst the past two decades and was enshrined in Canton, Ohio, in 2020, three years after Jones. But Miami never got past the divisional round. But critics never stopped suggesting the 1995 title was with Johnson's players, and the Cowboys haven't even reached an NFC championship game since that season.Īfter two years away, Johnson returned with the Miami Dolphins in 1996 and led them to the playoffs the last three of his four seasons. Those Cowboys were headlined by 'The Triplets' - quarterback Troy Aikman, running back Emmitt Smith and receiver Michael Irvin, all three Hall of Famers themselves.īarry Switzer did it two years after the split of Jones and Johnson, who were teammates at Arkansas in the early 1960s.

ARLINGTON, TEXAS - DECEMBER 30: Former head coach Jimmy Johnson (C) jokes around with former players Michael Irvin (L) and Emmitt Smith (R) during the Dallas Cowboys Ring of Honor ceremony at halftime in the game between the Detroit Lions and the Dallas Cowboys at AT&T Stadium on Decemin Arlington, Texas. Others would suggest Johnson's take is revisionist history since he was incensed 30 years ago over suggestions from Jones, also the team's general manager, that any one of 500 coaches could have won a title with the Dallas roster. I don't ever recall us having a difference of opinion.' When I say working together, we talked every single day. 'The two of us, working together, made history. 'I think we're past who gets credit,' Johnson said. The Cowboys went from 1-15 in 1989 - the year Jones bought the Cowboys and hired Johnson after firing the only coach Dallas ever had in Landry - to the first back-to-back Super Bowl titles in franchise history to cap the 1992 and '93 seasons. One of the theories behind the abrupt end of Johnson's tenure in 1994 was a tussle over who should get credit for the dramatic turnaround in Dallas.

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