Jimmy Johnson inducted into the Hall of Fame

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February 25th, 1989

Jerry Jones: Nice to meet you Mr.Landry. You’re fired.

Tom Landry: That’s fine. But just know I’ve already drafted Troy Aikman

Jerry: We don’t want Troy.

Landry: Deal with it.

 

[bbgun]

"It never occurred to us to draft this Aikman fellow. Thank you, Tom!"

 

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Good Lord. Any team that needed a QB was gonna take Aikman #1. It's not like Landry clued them in to an obscure prospect.

Magazine from September 1988...Tom Landry was a known blabbermouth.

 

[L.T. Fan]

Jones had some say so about Aikman being the #1 pick because Johnson wanted Walsh. Landry already had his eye on Aikman before he was fired. If it was left totally to Johnson , Walsh would have been the Quarterback for Dallas.


From Wikipedia.

As a senior, Aikman won the 1988 Davey O'Brien Award as the nation's top quarterback, a first for UCLA.[7] He was a Consensus All-American, the UPI West Coast Player of the Year, the Washington DC Club QB of the Year, a finalist for the 1988 AFCA "Coaches Choice" Player of the year award, and finished third in voting for the 1988 Heisman Trophy. UCLA matched the victory total from the previous season under Aikman, going 10–2 and losing only to USC and Washington State. The 1988 season culminated with a 17–3 Bruins victory over the Arkansas Razorbacks in the 1989 Cotton Bowl Classic, which was played in Dallas.[7] The Dallas media spent most of the Cotton Bowl Classic week promoting Aikman as the "next quarterback of the Cowboys," and much was made of Cowboys head coach Tom Landry watching Aikman practice during the Bruins' workouts at Texas Stadium. Aikman finished his career as the number

 

[jsmith6919]

From Wikipedia.

As a senior, Aikman won the 1988 Davey O'Brien Award as the nation's top quarterback, a first for UCLA.[7] He was a Consensus All-American, the UPI West Coast Player of the Year, the Washington DC Club QB of the Year, a finalist for the 1988 AFCA "Coaches Choice" Player of the year award, and finished third in voting for the 1988 Heisman Trophy. UCLA matched the victory total from the previous season under Aikman, going 10–2 and losing only to USC and Washington State. The 1988 season culminated with a 17–3 Bruins victory over the Arkansas Razorbacks in the 1989 Cotton Bowl Classic, which was played in Dallas.[7] The Dallas media spent most of the Cotton Bowl Classic week promoting Aikman as the "next quarterback of the Cowboys," and much was made of Cowboys head coach Tom Landry watching Aikman practice during the Bruins' workouts at Texas Stadium. Aikman finished his career as the number two career passing

What do you think you're proving with this?

 

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@L.T. Fan

You don’t lie. Straight from Aikman.....

 

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@L.T. Fan

Not knowing he was going to get fired, Do you think Landry purposely tanked the 1988 season to draft Aikman?

Per the Los Angeles Times (not as reputable as the New York Post @mschmidt64 ), “--Aikman is avoiding the fate of most NFL top picks, who, because of the inverted nature of the draft, usually go to one of the league’s worst teams. It’s only because the Cowboys had an off year last season that they finished low enough to draft Aikman.”

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[L.T. Fan]

@L.T. Fan

Not knowing he was going to get fired, Do you think Landry purposely tanked the 1988 season to draft Aikman?

Per the Los Angeles Times (not as reputable as the New York Post @mschmidt64 ), “--Aikman is avoiding the fate of most NFL top picks, who, because of the inverted nature of the draft, usually go to one of the league’s worst teams. It’s only because the Cowboys had an off year last season that they finished low enough to draft Aikman.”

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lLandry didn’t have to tank the season. The Cowboys were a miserable team that year with little hope of getting better as long as Bum Bright was owner.

 

[jsmith6919]

lLandry didn’t have to tank the season. The Cowboys were a miserable team that year with little hope of getting better as long as Bum Bright was owner.

So how did Landry get to make the draft pick after he fired? I very much want to here this story, Hos

 

[L.T. Fan]

What do you think you're proving with this?

What I have said. Aikman wasn’t a epiphany by Johnson. He was already on Landry’s radar and would have been a Cowboy had Johnson and Jones never entered the picture.

 

[jsmith6919]

What I have said. Aikman wasn’t a epiphany by Johnson. He was already on Landry’s radar and would have been a Cowboy had Johnson and Jones never entered the picture.

Aikman was the consensus number one pick by EVERYBODY


fucking retard

 

[yimyammer]

 

[L.T. Fan]

Aikman was the consensus number one pick by EVERYBODY


fucking retard

All the more reason that Johnson wasn’t the savior. How could you give credit to Johnson as being the golden boy if everyone wanted Aikman. You are proving my point that Johnson wasn’t the franchise salvation by identifying what Landry had already tagged as the next Quarterback.

 

[yimyammer]

 

[jsmith6919]

All the more reason that Johnson wasn’t the savior. How could you give credit to Johnson as being the golden boy if everyone wanted Aikman. You are proving my point that Johnson wasn’t the franchise salvation by identifying what Landry had already tagged as the next Quarterback.

 

[L.T. Fan]

This is today. Aikman had a different story when they first met Johnson and said it took him several years to get over it. His feelings today doesn’t revise established history.

 

[bbgun]

How could you give credit to Johnson as being the golden boy if everyone wanted Aikman.

Because he drafted a shitload of other players not named Aikman. Yes, he was lucky that a franchise QB fell into his lap, but one player does not a team make.

 

[jsmith6919]

This is today. Aikman had a different story when they first met Johnson and said it took him several years to get over it. His feelings today doesn’t revise established history.

Bro, please have yo kids do an Alzheimer's wellness check on you...I'm worried for you

 

[Cowboysrock55]

Because he drafted a shitload of other players not named Aikman. Yes, he was lucky that a franchise QB fell into his lap, but one player does not a team make.

LT doesn't even like Aikman. Couldn't hold Romo's jock or something.

 

[L.T. Fan]

Because he drafted a shitload of other players not named Aikman. Yes, he was lucky that a franchise QB fell into his lap, but one player does not a team make.

Other players are not what I have been discussing. I said Johnson deserves a lot of credit for the successes of the franchise. He simply isn’t the one that first wanted Aikman as a Cowboy.