![]() ![]() ![]() After that, he lost four games in the next four years, going 12-0 in 1987 to win the National Championship. In his five years as the head coach at the University of Miami, Johnson went 52-9 with his first season, 1984, being his worst at 8-5. With this new regime in Dallas, they were taking over one of the least talented teams in the NFL and they went 1-15 in year one because of it, but it was a major move during that season that laid the ground work for the 1990s dynasty that followed. We keep seeing this with some of the best teams of this salary cap era, the best teams give a ton of control to their head coach as he’s the guy who needs to make it happen on Sundays, so he should be involved in the decisions so he can acquire the chess pieces that he wants for his systems. Jones was the owner, president and general manager, while Johnson was the head coach and in charge of player personnel. Then soon after that, Jones got rid of longtime general manager Tex Schramm and he and Johnson took control of all football matters. Soon after buying the team, he fired Cowboys’ legend Tom Landry, who was the only coach in Cowboys’ history at that time, and Jones hired his old Arkansas football teammate, Jimmy Johnson. This 1995 Cowboys team’s story begins on February 25, 1989, when Jerry Jones bought the Cowboys from H.R. A romantic understanding sees it primarily in terms of immediate appearance.” The romantic aspect of the game is that beauty that the movie Concussion even acknowledged in Bennett Omalu’s speech at the end of the movie, while the classical aspect is everything underneath that beauty, all the work that goes in behind the scene to orchestrate that Sunday afternoon beauty. In a way, football reminds me of chapter six in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance where Robert Pirsig explains the difference between classical and romantic understandings of the world: “A classical understanding sees the world primarily as underlying form itself. It’s a beautiful game of chess with athletic freaks as the pieces on the board and it plays to our analytical mind, while also playing to the beauty of the sport. It’s entrepreneurial in nature because ‘solutions to specific problems’ is what entrepreneurship is about at its core.” It’s why Bill Walsh became such a popular thought leader in the business world because, more so than anyone who came before or after him, he brought this business-like problem solving ability to the NFL and he was able to communicate his philosophies in books so others could learn from him. Brown read Brown’s book Smart Football and in the notes I rook while reading the book, underneath that quote, I wrote: “This is a big reason why I, and many other people, love analyzing the game of football so much. “New ideas in football tend to arise as potential solutions to specific problems.” – Chris B.
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