James William Johnson or more popularly known as Jimmy Johnson, is an NFL pundit and analyst and former football coach. Johnson has coached several teams at the collegiate level as well as the Miami Dolphins and Dallas Cowboys in the NFL. He is the first coach in history to win the college championships as well as the Super Bowl.
He is a two time Super Bowl winner with the Dallas Cowboys and a national champion with the Miami Hurricanes team. Jimmy Johnson started out his coaching career with Louisiana Tech University as an assistant coach. He got his first head coach job at the Oklahoma State University in 1979.
In 1989, Jimmy Johnson replaced Tom Landry as the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys. He coached them till 1993 and lifted the Super Bowl in consecutive occasions ( Super Bowl XXVII and XXVIII). He joined the Miami Dolphins in 1996 but was not as successful and left them in 1999.
Bill Belichick had an incredible impact on Jimmy Johnson
Jimmy Johnson and Bill Belichick are two of the most successful coaches in NFL history. Belichick has won the Super Bowl six times with the New England Patriots. Recently Jimmy Johnson revealed that his ideology resembles most of Bill Belichick’s. He also mentioned that Belichick always has it planned on what topic he wants to discuss.
“He always has an agenda,” Johnson said while in conversation with NFL.com. “He wants to talk about doing contracts, or he wants to talk about drafting players, evaluating talent, you name it. He always has it scheduled, as far as what he wants to talk about.”
Jimmy Johnson also has co-written a book ‘Swagger: Super Bowls, Brass Balls, and Footballs — A Memoir’, with sports columnist Dave Hyde. In that he has written the main inspiration to write the book came from such conversations with Bill Belichick. The different topics they talked about made him realise that he should pen down his thoughts.
“Originally, I didn’t care anything about doing a book,” Johnson said. “I did a book after the first Super Bowl, but my attorney, Nick Christin, said, ‘You’ve got so many people, coaches, general managers, owners, come down to the Keys to talk about evaluating talent and building a team.’ And then I speak to so many companies about the same thing — evaluating talent — and building a successful team. He said, “You need to write a book and talk about it.”
After leaving the Miami Dolphins, Jimmy Johnson decided to rejoin the Fox Sports (he had a brief stint with them after leaving the Dallas Cowboys) and be a part of the ‘Fox NFL Sunday‘ team. He is also a columnist on Foxsports.com. Johnson was inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), Broadcasting Hall of Fame in April 2019.