Cowboys '81 secondary

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Better than 1980, but there were some unsettling tremors that year. For instance, they picked off David Woodley five times but he also passed for 400+ yards at Texas Stadium. Then they lose in gut-wrenching fashion to a mediocrity like Eric Hipple, while getting hammered by Joe Who? in Frisco.

Jimmy dumped Walls in 1989 after he was seen laughing it up after a devastating last-second loss in Arizona--a game in which rookie Aikman was knocked out cold.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPY-S2znJa8

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Better than 1980, but there were some unsettling tremors that year. For instance, they picked off David Woodley five times but he also passed for 400+ yards at Texas Stadium. Then they lose in gut-wrenching fashion to a mediocrity like Eric Hipple, while getting hammered by Joe Who? in Frisco.

Jimmy dumped Walls in 1989 after he was seen laughing it up after a devastating last-second loss in Arizona--a game in which rookie Aikman was knocked out cold.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPY-S2znJa8

That thing about Walls reminds me of the 92 Cowboys America's Game episode. Michael Irvin said that he would cry after defeats in his rookie year, and players would come up to him and say things like "It's OK, you get the check on Tuesday". Then, when Jimmy came the next year, Irvin ripped out a list of the paycheck collectors and handed it to him.

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Better than 1980, but there were some unsettling tremors that year. For instance, they picked off David Woodley five times but he also passed for 400+ yards at Texas Stadium. Then they lose in gut-wrenching fashion to a mediocrity like Eric Hipple, while getting hammered by Joe Who? in Frisco.

Jimmy dumped Walls in 1989 after he was seen laughing it up after a devastating last-second loss in Arizona--a game in which rookie Aikman was knocked out cold.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPY-S2znJa8

That thing about Walls reminds me of the 92 Cowboys America's Game episode. Michael Irvin said that he would cry after defeats in his rookie year, and players would come up to him and say things like "It's OK, you get the check on Tuesday". Then, when Jimmy came the next year, Irvin ripped out a list of the paycheck collectors and handed it to him.

That's another sad thing about Landry's final years in Big D, '88 in particular, not just the losing and what would end up happening on that late-February '89 day, but that there were players in the locker room with that attitude under his watch. Not that his legacy was 'ruined' by it - many historic greats go out on a dim note - but had Landry retired after, say, '83 or '85 at latest, I'm sure there'd be added luster to his career in hindsight.