Of course. There are coaches out there I like better, but not a ton of them, and not many of those are guys I think would work well with Jerry, which is a huge issue in Dallas.
With a few notable exceptions, I almost never switch positions on any coach based off of gameday play calls. For one, fans massively overweight the importance of what happens on gameday, and for whatever reason don't every consider that the communication is networked across the entire staff for both offense and defense. There are a lot of smart people on every team in position to give input on game plans and play calls.
For yesterday's game...a lot of people are pretty worked up about the play of Chaz Green and about the staff not giving him more support. I expect as the week goes on here, we're going to get more info about how much help he was actually given. Both in terms of extra blockers, and in terms of what they were trying to do getting the ball out faster and in rolling or running away from that left edge pressure. It's pretty obvious they didn't just ignore the issue on the left side. I do think they were also concerned with Cooper over there, given that he stalled two drives with holding calls and was getting beaten at times himself. There were probably limits to what they felt they could do over there with personnel (note, Frederick, too, took some responsibility for blowing protections after the game. That was just him covering for a teammate, but there's more to what the team was supposed to do to adjust to that pressure than we know right now).
What yesterday reinforced for me that I do hold the staff responsible for was two things. Primarily, it ticks me off that we went into the season with a gaping hole at backup MIKE and nobody saw it in camp. Jaylon cannot play and should not be active. I don't know how that fact was hidden throughout the preseason, and I don't understand why they didn't address the problem before the Rams exposed it. Somebody blew it, and that goes from the position coach on up.
The other thing I wasn't happy about with the coaching yesterday was they kept Dak in down three scores with 5 minutes to play and with him needing to throw every down and under a blindside assault. We're lucky he didn't get hurt, and there was no chance of winning that game given that we couldn't protect the passer and couldn't stop their offense.
That said, I also don't think the sky is falling in Dallas just because we're 5-4. It sucks, but 10-6 does probably get us a WC berth. As bad as we looked yesterday, we looked just that good against a better team the week before. And I have no doubt we win that game yesterday with Lee and Smith in the lineup. If they're not out long, I still like this team as a WC contender until Elliott gets back. And after that, who knows.
