I love Jason Witten one of he best to ever wear the star but, this team needs to distance themselves as much as possible from the former regime.
If Witten is actually worth his salt in that capacity let him earn with someone else who thinks he's worthy of the investment rather than having it gifted to him through the old country club Dallas Cowboy channels.
Maybe he ends up being a great coach. Hell, maybe in 5 years he's ready to take McCarthy's job but he's got to earn it in the real world. Not in Jerry's cozy bubble.
It's the one issue that I have with the Cowboys possibly keeping Moore on board. I don't have anything against Moore other than the fact that he's a remnant of a coaching staff and system that ultimately failed here. The new voices and direction have to be new. This group of players have gotten far too comfortable over the past few seasons and it's shown in their effort (or lack thereof). There needs to be a little tension in that locker room and I don't want any comfortable security blankets with ANY voice in the room when they take the field in OTAs, TC, or season.
People have opined that we've overrated our talent on this team. I say bull****. It's a cop out for the former coaching staff. This team has all the talent needed to compete in the post season. You gonna tell me that Tennessee has more talent than Dallas? Houston? Minnesota? Seattle? The reason that those teams are playign next week and our fate was sealed two weeks ago has nothing to do with talent. It has to do with coaching and heart. Unfortunately, our coaching had no ability to instill any heart. It was a rah, rah, you're playing for the greatest franchise ever, rah, rah bull**** calling card that was based in rhetoric instead of reality.
I hope MM's first message to this team is that this tea, has too much tradition and too much history to give a half assed effort. This team has been irrelevant for far too long and it ends today.
Garrett would have built up a highlight reel of past greats and Super Bowl wins and tell the team that they are part of that tradition (when nothing could be farther from the truth).
I want MM to walk in the room and just put up the numbers 1995. That's the last time that this team was relevant and it changes today. Either buy in give it EVERYTHING you have or get the f*** out.