Here's my issue with this statement by Breer. It doesn't make a ton of sense.
I get continuity................... when you are talking about a situation where you have something performing well and want to continue that in the future. In other words, if we had a consistent high performing offense and the OC just decided to retire or take a HC job. Continuity, in that situation, has value.
But that's not the situation here. The offense was mediocre for much of the year. Very inconsistent from game to game. After the season, you decided to part ways with your OC because what you have on offense just isn't good enough. Why in the world is "continuity" a positive here? The reason you fired the OC was because you wanted change.
I get what you're saying, here, Syd but I think you're (possibly) misconstruing the TYPE of continuity that they are trying to achieve. Let me explain what I THINK the difference may be.
When you say continuity you are equating that with continuity in scheme or philosophy (correct me if I'm wrong but that's how I interpreted your post).
I think the continuity that the Cowboys are trying to achieve (right or wrong) is in the staff itself. The theory, itself, may sound asinine but no one really knows what is going to happen with this staff going forward. Garrett was a lock for an extension just a short 8 or 9 days ago. That hasn't happened (yet). Jones may have come down from the high of the Seattle win and taken a step back to re-evaluate where this team is, where Garrett is, where we may be going forward. To bring in someone new for a (possible) one year trial only to blow the whole thing up 365 days from now may loom large in the decision (again, whether that's right or wrong is another discussion).
As to Moore, I have no idea what offensive concepts he would bring to the table and neither does anyone else on this board. One thing I'm pretty certain of is that it won't be the same type of game plan that Scott Linehan called around here. If it was, then canning SL would have been an exercise in futility. My theory is that the rumor of Moore being more involved in the Giants game plan actually opened the eyes of some on staff and in the front office that this kid might be even better than we actually originally thought. There's no doubt that the offense looked "different".
I don't know how true the story is but, I've heard (more than once) that as a high school student that Moore would scour ebay for pro football play books and study them religiously. That's a true student of the game. He also ran one of the most successful (and tough to decipher, defensively) college offenses in NCAA history. Even knowing that I'm not going to claim that I know Moore would be successful. My clairvoyance regarding that matter is going to be on par with everybody else' who doesn't truly know the kid......with 20/20 hindsight.
Honestly, I think the biggest knock on the kid (at least from this fan base) is the fact that he currently IS on the staff. I think a lot of people are projecting a foregone bias against him for any number of reasons (they hate Dak and he was the QB coach or they hate Linehan and Moore was Scott's "boy", etc.). In all fairness, that's just not really...well...fair. People around here (and the entire league for that matter) are looking for the next Sean McVay. Let's go back to when McVay was hired. NO ONE on this board (or hardly anywhere else, league-wide) were singing the praises of the Rams front office for hiring Sean McVay. NO ONE. How dynamic was Washington's offense with Sean on staff? Why were they not the offensive juggernaut that the Rams are? They couldn't even beat the Cowboys, right? Was he held back by a philosophy held by his head coach? It wasn't until he was given his own space that everyone around the league and their t.v. sets that people started to realize "this guy is pretty damned good".
Which brings us back to Moore. We don't know how good or bad this kid would be at OC. For anyone to claim you know is filling the entire atmosphere with un-needed bull****. I'm not advocating for Moore to be the OC (for the record). I'm also not going to be quick to pan the move, should it happen. The fact is, no one knows how well he'll do, what philosophies he'll instill in the offense, or whether he's in over his head until he gets the opportunity. From a logical standpoint, if this is indeed a prove it year for this entire staff, there may not be a better time to find out.
It's an interesting time for sure.
