
Stephen Gagliardino
Assistant Director of Video
Biography
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 filming each game and practice, then editing it for players and coaches to review. In his current position, Gagliardino helps with the various department processes that provide coaches, scouts and players with video content necessary in weekly game prep, self-evaluation and talent acquisition.
Today, the video department manages HD content on various video networks, allowing the players and coaches to watch film anywhere on their iPads, laptops and other mobile devices. Over the years, Gagliardino has helped with the transition through three major format and software upgrades to NFL video - analog tape to digital tape, digital tape to non-linear SD and network SD to full HD.
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 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 graduated with a bachelor's degree in communications from the University of Delaware.