Barry Switzer: Lucky his pal Jerry Jones let him coach the Dallas Cowboys

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Associated Press
National Football League News Wire

TIDBIT: Flashing his Super Bowl ring from 10 years ago, Barry Switzer admitted Thursday how lucky he was that his pal Jerry Jones let him coach the Dallas Cowboys.

"You heard him say anybody could win with the talent the Cowboys had," Switzer said. "He's damn right you could have."

The Cowboys haven't been back to the Super Bowl since his '95 team. They haven't won a playoff game since his '96 squad. They've only made the playoffs three times since then, although Bill Parcells is trying to change all that.
"His team isn't as talented as the one that I had," Switzer said Thursday at a luncheon for the Fort Worth Bowl. "He doesn't need to be graded by me or anybody else. He's got a tough job, and it's even tougher this week because of what happened last week. ...

"Bill knows what to do. Every coach that has been in this game knows what to do -- you go out and you work and do what you believe in and try to get better at doing that. That's the way a football player has to approach it, it's the way coaches have to approach it. Be a better player than when you were when you were on the field when you come off of it."