Rumor: Lincoln Riley "Very High" on the radar of Jerry and Stephen Jones

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Jerry will bully that guy like no other. 36 year old college coach with 3 years experience. Classic Jerry move. Rumors are that Meyer wants too much control. I mean why do that with one of the best college coaches ever and a guy that wins big every stop? Better to hire another yes man that has little experience and no desire to help on the defensive side of the ball.

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Whyjerry said:
Jerry will bully that guy like no other. 36 year old college coach with 3 years experience. Classic Jerry move. Rumors are that Meyer wants too much control. I mean why do that with one of the best college coaches ever and a guy that wins big every stop? Better to hire another yes man that has little experience and no desire to help on the defensive side of the ball.

Nothing will change.
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That's exactly what I mean. We will know whats going to be what with this hire, possibly even beforehand if a coordinator is hired first.

I'm done if he pulls this, and I don't want to be, but I cant keep this up. It's not healthy, and I'm not trying to be funny.
 
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Whyjerry said:
Jerry will bully that guy like no other. 36 year old college coach with 3 years experience. Classic Jerry move. Rumors are that Meyer wants too much control. I mean why do that with one of the best college coaches ever and a guy that wins big every stop? Better to hire another yes man that has little experience and no desire to help on the defensive side of the ball.

Nothing will change.
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So true. Jerry really is the problem.
 
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Whyjerry said:
Jerry will bully that guy like no other. 36 year old college coach with 3 years experience. Classic Jerry move. Rumors are that Meyer wants too much control. I mean why do that with one of the best college coaches ever and a guy that wins big every stop? Better to hire another yes man that has little experience and no desire to help on the defensive side of the ball.

Nothing will change.
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Agreed. Best hope it's someone else for this obvious reason.
 
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His lack of ANY NFL experience scares the heck out of me and quite frankly he's just another Steve Spurrier or Chip Kelly IMO. Just me but I think Jerry tried cool that perception a bit the lack of NFL success college coaches have had. So I'm not sure this isn't blown out proportion a bit. In other words, Jerry probably like/loves a lot of coaches but that doesn't mean he see them as a coach for the Cowboys.
 
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Lincoln Riley will be a hot item as a potential NFL head coach in the days to come. If the Dallas FO wants to secure him, they'll likely have to be decisive about it. The Cowboys organization is slow as molasses about making decisions. Do that with him and he'll likely end up elsewhere.

On the downside, he's exactly the type of college transitional candidate that they'd try to hand pick his assistants for him, whereas, a successful NFL coaching candidate wouldn't allow it. Hopefully, he'd make certain to resist their attempts to do so, if he knows what's good for him.
 
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Bullflop said:
Riley will surely be in demand as a potential NFL head coach in the days to come. If Dallas wants to secure him, they'd better not drag their feet about it. The Cowboys organization is slow as molasses when it comes to making decisions -- do that with him and he'll end up elsewhere. He's the type that they might try to hand pick his help for him, whereas, a successful NFL coaching candidate wouldn't allow it. Hopefully, he'd resist their attempts to do so, if he knows what's good for him.
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LLLOOOLLL, get it in writing.
 
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Being a very successful college coach requires different skills than being an NFL head coach - recruiting at the top of the list. No real recruiting in the NFL, drafting is the key. If Riley misses on a recruited high school player, he has 89 other guys to make up for it. But miss on an NFL draftee and you've blown about a quarter of your opportunity, since your top 4 players are about as far down as you can go and get a really good shot at having a quality player. The Bradys of the NFL are rare.

Doesn't mean Riley can't do it, after all he sees top college players in action "up close and personal" so he could pick from who he knows the first couple of years, after that he'd be at the mercy of his scouting department.

Much as I loved Jimmy as a head coach, Riley won't get a ton of high draft picks and a ton of free agents like Jimmy did, since he left so early we'll never know if Jimmy could have had the Landry-like or Belichick-like continued success, from his Dolphin days it would indicate he wouldn't, but again, he left Miami so soon we'll never know that, either....
 
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Pants said:
love him, a young talented team may rally around a new, innovative coach (my fav choice for next year's HC)
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Yeah but the idea that the coach has no authority is a bigger issue than XO.

No coach can work that way.
 

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Totally agree Jerry will bully Riley. Meyer intimates Jerry because he's an older alpha and Jerry cant bully him. If Riley is hired, I wonder if the few assistants Jerry allows him to hire are OU college guys? Look for Kellen Moore to be retained. Maybe Richard is promoted to DC. Get ready boys, it ain't going to be pretty.
 
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