It was only after Landry suggested that Tex plan some sort of orderly transition that Schramm, in 1986, hired Paul Hackett from the San Francisco 49ers to be the Cowboys' new offensive coordinator. Two seasons later, Hackett found his role being increasingly diminished. One memorable Tuesday, Landry was standing at his weekly news conference when he announced that, yes, he planned to stay around for as long as it took to rebuild the Cowboys. Schramm has never made a secret of what his plans had been. Change comes, Schramm knows now.
Nothing is forever.
In my time it was pro football, but 50 years from now, there may be something entirely different that is the No. 1 thing. You've got a different set of people growing up now that have been raised on technology. What I'm saying is, you can't sit back and think you've got the world by the tail, because that's what baseball thought. In that regard, Schramm worries that the NFL is not taking care of the details. When he was the loudest voice on the league's then-powerful competition committee, the group would meet days ahead of the annual regular NFL meetings.