Remember that overall coaching record is skewed by that 1-15 record his first year when he went total re-build.
I realize that record counts, but the way he rebuilt that Dallas team in such a short time was incredible. Some luck too, with Aikman there for the picking, but still...
People also forget not only did he revolutionize the drafting, but also the whole speed on defense thing. Defenses did not have those smaller speed guys till Jimmy came around.
Also, he did TRY to quit- he gave us another year when he didn't want to. His mother died in 1998 and it really affected him, made him want to live and not work all the time. I really liked him and still do; I appreciate his shortcomings as our coach, and will acknowledge that his best wasn't good enough for Miami. He also got Marino when Marino's legs no longer worked and couldn't make it work with him. Poor timing with that as well.
Probably his dumbest decision was to practice the team in 1999 in full pads, hard contact after the Seattle win which put the team on dead legs to go to Jacksonville. That game was a wreck, but I also think the team quit that day after Marino's first INT.
He is also not the guy his persona became- he is way more human and funny than the monster he was portrayed as.
