A few names in the National Football League are among the short list of legends. One of the names on that list is Jimmy Johnson. Jimmy Johnson coached the Cowboys from 1989-1993, leading the team to two Super Bowl Championships in that time. He went on to coach the Miami Dolphins before giving up coaching to become an analyst on television.

Because of his history, Johnson has earned the right to speak on all things Cowboys, so everyone listened when he recently spoke about the Cowboys’ new head coach, Jason Garrett. Garrett played under Johnson, so he knows him fairly well. According to the Dallas Morning News, Johnson said of Garrett, “He’s very intelligent; he’s got a passion for the game; I like what he’s doing; he put in some pad practices last year. I think that helped and from my understanding, he’s going to be in pads more in training camp, which I think will help him. It was the same thing we did for our Super Bowls. If you practice in sweats, you get sloppy, you get bad habits. I was always a stickler that I wanted our guys in pads.”

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