Of course it's not all Switzers fault. But Switzer was handed a great team that had just won two Superbowls in a row and in a few years turned it into a bad team.
He coached the team he had to a Super Bowl championship. Johnson didn’t do so well when he tried again. Switzer was always smart enough to know that “it’s not the X’s and O’s but the Johnys and Joes”. Even though I think that sold him a little short. He was a great coach.
Again though that was a dumb thing to say
That really wasn’t on Barry though. Remember he came in around the same time as the cap and the Cowboys weren’t in good shape for the cap. Then they did the absolute worst thing you can do in a capped league and deferred a bunch of salary (sure you get to keep some stars today, but you’ve mortgaged the future). Then everybody got old. Star teams unwind, it’s a natural part of sports, when the GM doesn’t know what he’s doing they unwind faster.
I think if Jimmy Johnson would have stayed with the Cowboys, they would have surely won another Superbowl, maybe two. Jerry Jones and Jimmy Johnson’s egos were both too big to coexist, running the same team. It would be very interesting to see how that Cowboys team would do against the better teams today. I think they would definitely win against Seattle. Erik Williams, Larry Allen, and Nate Newton would eat that Seahawks pass rush for lunch.(maybe literally in Erik William’s case lol)