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Aikman: Hypocrisy of Johnson, Jones unraveled '90s Cowboys
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By Nate Davis, USA TODAY
Updated 1d 2h ago
How many more Super Bowls might the 1990s Dallas Cowboys have won if owner Jerry Jones and head coach Jimmy Johnson had put their differences/egos aside?
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By Charles Krupa, AP
We'll never know, but Hall of Fame Cowboys QB Troy Aikman expressed disappointment in the duo during an interview on NFL Network's The Rich Eisen Podcast this week.
"The chemistry of it all began to change," Aikman reflected, thinking back to 1994. Dallas had just won its second consecutive Super Bowl, but Johnson and Jones were in a power struggle that led to Johnson's departure. Barry Switzer took over the club in '94, and the Cowboys won Super Bowl XXX under his watch a year later.
Yet Aikman, who was interviewed along with fellow Hall of Famers Emmitt Smith and Michael Irvin, hints that the Dallas dynasty left money on the table -- it remains just one of two teams to win three Super Bowls in a four-year stretch -- saying the team began to "slide" because Johnson and Jones couldn't get along.
Smith said the team's focus and commitment waned noticeably in 1994 even though the team reached the NFC Championship Game before losing to the San Francisco 49ers.
"The argument of Jimmy and Jerry -- that can go on forever. I mean they'll write books about that," said Aikman.
"When I point back to those years, the thing that Jimmy would always say to us ... 'If we achieve what we want to achieve as a team, there will be enough credit to go around for everybody. And the reason we won three Super Bowls -- Emmitt, myself, Michael, Daryl Johnston, Darren Woodson, Charles Haley, go through the whole list of guys -- everybody kind of just said, 'Hey, OK, we're gonna sacrifice a little individually.'
"But the guy telling us that and the owner of the club -- they couldn't do that. And that's the disappointing thing to me that that's what was preached to us, and yet the two guys who really ran the club, they couldn't unfortunately, you know, put their differences aside for the betterment of the team."
The Triplets reveal much more about their Cowboys past while mulling the team's future on The Rich Eisen Podcast, which re-airs on NFL Network this weekend.
Video here
http://content.usatoday.com/communit...1#.T7qlZFLDteB
By Nate Davis, USA TODAY
Updated 1d 2h ago
How many more Super Bowls might the 1990s Dallas Cowboys have won if owner Jerry Jones and head coach Jimmy Johnson had put their differences/egos aside?
CAPTION
By Charles Krupa, AP
We'll never know, but Hall of Fame Cowboys QB Troy Aikman expressed disappointment in the duo during an interview on NFL Network's The Rich Eisen Podcast this week.
"The chemistry of it all began to change," Aikman reflected, thinking back to 1994. Dallas had just won its second consecutive Super Bowl, but Johnson and Jones were in a power struggle that led to Johnson's departure. Barry Switzer took over the club in '94, and the Cowboys won Super Bowl XXX under his watch a year later.
Yet Aikman, who was interviewed along with fellow Hall of Famers Emmitt Smith and Michael Irvin, hints that the Dallas dynasty left money on the table -- it remains just one of two teams to win three Super Bowls in a four-year stretch -- saying the team began to "slide" because Johnson and Jones couldn't get along.
Smith said the team's focus and commitment waned noticeably in 1994 even though the team reached the NFC Championship Game before losing to the San Francisco 49ers.
"The argument of Jimmy and Jerry -- that can go on forever. I mean they'll write books about that," said Aikman.
"When I point back to those years, the thing that Jimmy would always say to us ... 'If we achieve what we want to achieve as a team, there will be enough credit to go around for everybody. And the reason we won three Super Bowls -- Emmitt, myself, Michael, Daryl Johnston, Darren Woodson, Charles Haley, go through the whole list of guys -- everybody kind of just said, 'Hey, OK, we're gonna sacrifice a little individually.'
"But the guy telling us that and the owner of the club -- they couldn't do that. And that's the disappointing thing to me that that's what was preached to us, and yet the two guys who really ran the club, they couldn't unfortunately, you know, put their differences aside for the betterment of the team."
The Triplets reveal much more about their Cowboys past while mulling the team's future on The Rich Eisen Podcast, which re-airs on NFL Network this weekend.
