'Discipline' in Dallas: Will Cowboys Have Jimmy-Like 'Fear' of Zimmer? FISH PODCAST
FRISCO - At the risk of putting too fine a point on it, we can sort of categorize the varied "styles'' of a coach.
There is "The Professor.'' There is "The Uncle.'' There is "The Buddy.'' And there is "The Drill Sergeant.''
The very finest coaches, of course, can embody all of the traits of all of those personalities; Dallas Cowboys legend Jimmy Johnson, for instance, could be all of those things at different times.
But "The Drill Sergeant''? That's the one his own players remember, and Johnson, as he revealed during his recent induction into the Ring of Honor, knows it.
Let's remember Jimmy's speech, delivered with Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith and Michael Irvin positioned behind him, smiling knowingly as the Hall of Fame coach said, “At times, you thought I was a tyrant. An a-hole!''
He was. All of that. But he was so much more.
In the Fish Podcast and the Fish Report, we make a similar case for the true and full style of new defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer.
Is there a way to fix silliness and sloppiness and fundamental foibles that result in penalties - for a long time under Dallas head coach Mike McCarthy a Cowboys albatross?
We dig into Zimmer’s track record to demonstrate the answer … and the value of Cowboys players being steered toward discipline by feeling inspired by a “fear of failure.”
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