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RIP Gil Brandt (Dallas Cowboys)


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10 minutes ago, NewEra said:

Sad.  Still listened to him on Sirius. His content was lacking in todays nfl but I always listened with an open mind and much respect.

 

RIP legend 

I had not heard him since last year, not listened to the Sirius channel as much recently but I liked his wisdom and honestly his kindness....he new the game was competitive but everyone is a human.  He always knew peoples hometowns which was sort of annoying but also impressive when he would throw out some other town you never heard of without looking it up.

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4 hours ago, Mark Vader said:

RIP, Sir.

 

Is he in the Hall of Fame?

 

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GIL BRANDT

Class of 2019

 

https://apnews.com/article/dallas-cowboys-gil-brandt-obituary-270891c7967fe5dba9f4a2912d9b01e3

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DALLAS (AP) — Gil Brandt, overshadowed by coach Tom Landry and general manager Tex Schramm as part of the trio that built the Dallas Cowboys into “America’s Team” in the 1970s, has died. He was 91.

The Pro Football Hall of Fame said Brandt died Thursday morning. No cause of death was given, but Brandt had been in declining health in recent years.

Brandt was the player personnel director alongside the stoic, fedora-wearing Landry and media-savvy Schramm, but had to wait almost 30 years longer to get into the Hall of Fame.

By the time Brandt was enshrined as a contributor, it was as much for his ability to remain involved in the NFL by adapting to the social media age as for the innovation the Cowboys brought to the draft process with computers in the early 1960s.

 

 

 

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At one point even as recent as let’s say 10 years ago, he would predict the draft. Meaning very few of the guys he identified would not get drafted. He was part of the science of drafting .. even as it’s still unpredictable. Years ago the misses were big and the process was a wildly  underwhelming. 
 

He was an innovator and had a huge impact. “Is what it amounts to”.. a previous poster nailed his classic phrase. 

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