During his weekly interview with on 96.7 FM/1310 AM The Ticket [KTCK-AM], Fox analyst and former Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman spoke about the anticipated eventual split between the Cowboys and head coach Jason Garrett.

What needs to change at The Star for the Cowboys to turn this around?

Aikman: I think there needs to be one voice. I don’t think that players should be hearing from anyone other than one person and I don’t think the public should be hearing anything other than from one person and that should be the head coach.

…

There are some teams out there that really want to win. I mean, everybody wants to win, right? But some teams will do anything they can and they don’t even know where to begin. There is more than one way to win. I understand that and I appreciate that. But in Dallas, the way we did it, the only way It has been done under the Jones ownership has been with the head coach that everyone answered to. There was no question in the locker room who was determining our future and that was Jimmy Johnson.

Now they can argue over who picked the players and who did this — they being Jimmy and Jerry. But for the players we were isolated from all of that. The only person we answered to was Jimmy and we know the success that we went on to have. I believe Jimmy drafted those players. He assembled those rosters and those were really talented teams. All that changed then and that is one of the reasons why Jimmy left.

We were told as players every year around the Pro Bowl by Jimmy Johnson, because there were guys that inevitably would be left off the Pro Bowl list and they would be disappointed, and Jimmy didn’t want that disappointment affecting us as we were getting ready to go into the playoffs.

He’d say, 'As long as we win there will be enough credit for everyone.’ And I believe that and the players believed that. Michael Irvin, myself, and Emmitt Smith, Darren Woodson and Daryl Johnston and Charles Haley, all of us, we lived by that. We all sacrificed. I know offensively I did, sacrifice, for the betterment of the team. But the two guys who were preaching that they couldn’t do it. As a result, after winning back-to-back Super Bowls, our head coach is gone and Jerry wanted more credit is what it ultimately came down to.

Since that time — yeah, another Super Bowl was won, we can discuss all that as to why that happened, but there has been a long drought of not a lot of success.

Why wouldn’t you go back to what worked?

That’s the part that’s frustrating for me. The fans deserve a lot. They pay a lot of money to go to the game. They pay a lot of money for jerseys. They deserve the best opportunity to see their team win each and every Sunday and I don’t know that they’re always getting that.

More Troy Aikman interviews from the season

More Cowboys