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Troy Aikman: Blow Cowboys' core up if they don't win this season
MICHAEL AINSWORTH / Staff Photographer
Rebuilding team or playoff contender — which will the Cowboys be this season?
The leading passer in franchise history said he thinks it will be the latter. However, Hall of Fame quarterback Troy Aikman added that if there isn’t success this season, it might be time for the team to go in another direction.
“I just sense that this is kind of a watershed year for the Cowboys,” Aikman said Tuesday during a PricewaterhouseCoopers SMU Athletic Forum luncheon at the Hilton Anatole Hotel. “It’s a group that’s been together for a while, and I just don’t know that you can plan on keeping this core together, which they’ve been able to do.
“I just think this is an extremely important year. If they don’t do it this year, I think it’s going to be hard for them to move forward.”
Aikman, who played with Jason Garrett from 1993 to ’99, endorsed naming Garrett the team’s head coach last season. Up to this point, nothing has changed Aikman’s mind.
The Fox NFL analyst went in great depth about Garrett’s note-taking and studying as a player, comparing Garrett’s playing days to an internship for his time as a head coach.
But Aikman also said that Garrett might have “sold society short” by becoming a football coach, adding that Garrett is the one person he knows who could run for president.
“I don’t know a finer person than Jason Garrett,” he said. “I know a lot of other people that I would put in his class, but I wouldn’t put anybody ahead of him.”
MICHAEL AINSWORTH / Staff Photographer
Rebuilding team or playoff contender — which will the Cowboys be this season?
The leading passer in franchise history said he thinks it will be the latter. However, Hall of Fame quarterback Troy Aikman added that if there isn’t success this season, it might be time for the team to go in another direction.
“I just sense that this is kind of a watershed year for the Cowboys,” Aikman said Tuesday during a PricewaterhouseCoopers SMU Athletic Forum luncheon at the Hilton Anatole Hotel. “It’s a group that’s been together for a while, and I just don’t know that you can plan on keeping this core together, which they’ve been able to do.
“I just think this is an extremely important year. If they don’t do it this year, I think it’s going to be hard for them to move forward.”
Aikman, who played with Jason Garrett from 1993 to ’99, endorsed naming Garrett the team’s head coach last season. Up to this point, nothing has changed Aikman’s mind.
The Fox NFL analyst went in great depth about Garrett’s note-taking and studying as a player, comparing Garrett’s playing days to an internship for his time as a head coach.
But Aikman also said that Garrett might have “sold society short” by becoming a football coach, adding that Garrett is the one person he knows who could run for president.
“I don’t know a finer person than Jason Garrett,” he said. “I know a lot of other people that I would put in his class, but I wouldn’t put anybody ahead of him.”