2015 SCHEDULE

ROBERT BLACKWELL
Video Director
FOOTBALL
PLAYER
PERSONNEL STAFF
Robert Blackwell is in his 35th year in the
Cowboys video department, and his 27th as the
team’s Director of Coaching Video. Blackwell is
responsible for acquisition and maintenance of the
club’s vast digital video library of NFL and college
games. He is also in charge of generating video and
stats scouting reports on upcoming opponents for the
coaching staff. Blackwell is responsible for the input of
Dallas Cowboys game video and its conversion to
iPads for coaches and players to review immediately
after games. Since 1988, Blackwell has served as the
STEPHEN GAGLIARDINO
Assistant Video Director
Dallas Cowboys representative at the NFL Draft.
A native of Garland, Texas (12/1/50), Blackwell
earned his degree in communications from Stephen
F. Austin State University, and later shot game films
for Southern Methodist University’s football and basketball
programs (1979-84).
He and wife Diana live in Coppell, Texas. They
have two children, Nate, who is the wide receivers
coach for Coppell High School, and Lora, who is a
sophomore at Stephen F. Austin State University and
is a member of the LadyJacks softball team.
PLAYERS 2014 SEASON
Stephen Gagliardino became the club’s assistant
video director in the spring of 2003 after spending
the 2002 season as the department’s graduate
assistant. He is responsible for shooting team practices
and games, as well as logging and digitizing
game files for the coaching staff.
Gagliardino joined the Cowboys after spending
the 2001-02 seasons in NFL Europe, where he handled
the coaching video for the Scottish Claymores.
He began his NFL career in 1995 as a ball boy with
SAM CROMLEY
Assistant Video Director
the Philadelphia Eagles when he was 16 years old,
working training camp and game days at Veterans
Stadium. He did that for four seasons before moving
over to the Eagles video department in 1999, where
he worked full time as an intern for three seasons
(1999-2001) while finishing college and working in
NFL Europe.
A native of Newark, Del., Gagliardino (11/10/78)
graduated with a bachelor’s degree in communications.
RECORDS
PLAYOFF
RECORDS
HISTORY
Sam Cromley enters his eighth season with the
Dallas Cowboys and fifth as one of the team’s assistant
video directors. His job duties include filming
team practices and games, as well as logging and
digitizing game films for the coaching staff. Cromley
originally joined the organization in 2008 as a video
51
assistant where he worked with both the Cowboys
and the former Dallas Desperados of the Arena
Football League where he was the team’s video
director for its final season.
He previously served as the assistant video coordinator
at Texas Christian University from 2004-07
SIDELINES