Gil Brandt, an innovator in the football world while with the Dallas Cowboys, has died at the age of 91, the team announced Thursday.
’ vice president of player personnel from the team’s inception in 1960-88. Along with team president Tex Schramm, he formulated rosters that led the Cowboys to five Super Bowl appearances, 13 division titles along with 20 consecutive winning seasons. Brandt helped formulate the National Scouting Combine, introduced the use of computers to rank players and held up the NFL draft for nearly eight hours in 1964, when there was no time limit on making picks.
“The HBCUs were major [for] the Cowboys back in the day,” Walls said. “I had a lot of company there. I had a lot of support from guys like Mike Hegman, guys like Too Tall Jones and the great Bob Hayes. These are the kind of guys that Gil Brandt was out there looking for and when they were scouting for it, he wasn’t just up there just picking a few things out of the air.”Brandt took chances on players like quarterback Roger Staubach, who was drafted in 1964.
“He was a pioneer in the scouting industry,” said Hall of Fame NFL executive Bill Polian, a friend of Brandt. “He used computers, used psychology testing and he used a so-called black box, which was an unyielding bulky forerunner of the visual light tests and reaction test that we do today.”Jerry Jones, Cowboys legends react to death of Gil Brandt: ‘A visionary and innovator’
The icy relationship subsided with Brandt getting inducted into the Cowboys’ Ring of Honor in 2018. It was Jones’ way of helping push Brandt’s name into the minds of Hall of Fame voters. Brandt was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame the next year.
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