Re: Barry Switzer
Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2020 9:43 pm
Not just anyone can take over a team no matter how much talent they have, and no matter how capable both coordinators and all assistants are as well as upper management, and just automatically win a Super Bowl with that very team! Got to give Barry credit for '95 - not just GB for knocking off SF or Neil O himself, etc. Without going through each and every HC of every '95 NFL team, I'd like to think that most of them would not have been able to hoist a Lombardi if immediately placed in Barry's position starting the year prior! And that also goes for some of the HCs that led their teams to playoff berths that very year! Not just anyone can do it! Hell, remember Karl Malone and Gary Payton being added to Shaq & Kobe's Lakers yet they still didn't win-it-all...and with Phil Jackson still as their HC, mind you???? Yes, it ain't automatic no matter what!
That said, it looks pretty much like Barry's still going to be considered near if not at the 'bottom' of all-time SB-winning HCs. We'll simply never know how he would have done if he simply took over a bad NFL team and started them from scratch. In my opinion, had Jimmy Johnson stuck around Big D another three years, he likely at least wins two more in both '95 (as Barry himself did) and also in '96 (with all due serious respect to that Green Bay team); and maybe even gets it done in '94 to make it FIVE-STRAIGHT altogether! But who knows? Maybe (although I personally doubt it), his 'message' would have suddenly gotten old and, perhaps, a more laid-back Barry would have been the perfect shift-in-gears to keep the Dynasty going some more (sort-of like, say, Bob Lemon taking over for Billy Martin halfway into '78).
That said, it looks pretty much like Barry's still going to be considered near if not at the 'bottom' of all-time SB-winning HCs. We'll simply never know how he would have done if he simply took over a bad NFL team and started them from scratch. In my opinion, had Jimmy Johnson stuck around Big D another three years, he likely at least wins two more in both '95 (as Barry himself did) and also in '96 (with all due serious respect to that Green Bay team); and maybe even gets it done in '94 to make it FIVE-STRAIGHT altogether! But who knows? Maybe (although I personally doubt it), his 'message' would have suddenly gotten old and, perhaps, a more laid-back Barry would have been the perfect shift-in-gears to keep the Dynasty going some more (sort-of like, say, Bob Lemon taking over for Billy Martin halfway into '78).