Worst Cowboys HC since we won a championship?

basel90 · May 24, 2020

rnr_honeybadger said:
I can’t really blame Campo, he was put in a no win situation at a time when the Cowboys were in cap hell. Garrett hands down the worst - basically wasted talent trying to prop up a guy who was pretending to be a headcoach

Switzer was in a no win situation as Jerry basically took over many things . Yet Switzer at least won a Sb . Campo and Garrett and gailey then Philips stand out for doing nothing .

Rayman70 · May 24, 2020

rnr_honeybadger said:
I can’t really blame Campo, he was put in a no win situation at a time when the Cowboys were in cap hell. Garrett hands down the worst - basically wasted talent trying to prop up a guy who was pretending to be a headcoach

Dave Campo was a moron as a HC. He wasn't an alpha male. If you lack that as a HC...the ability to get the players to run thru a wall for you, your beat. Doesn't matter about talent if the players don't respect you. Fair or unfair, its the way it works. Parcels had a bare cupboard when he came in. But the players respected him at least and he got results. Garrett wasn't respected by the team. His message got old, and he settled for mediocrity. Mike M. brings instant cred.

Rayman70 · May 24, 2020

rnr_honeybadger said:
I can’t really blame Campo, he was put in a no win situation at a time when the Cowboys were in cap hell. Garrett hands down the worst - basically wasted talent trying to prop up a guy who was pretending to be a headcoach

Campo was a blithering idiot as a HC. He was a much better positional coach...he should have stayed as such.

charron · May 24, 2020

The worst was campo

Rayman70 · May 24, 2020

charron said:
The worst was campo

in my mind, there's zero debate. Its him. Biggest blowhard ever. Never seen a HC that had no clue what he was doing like him since.

rnr_honeybadger · May 24, 2020

basel90 said:
Switzer was in a no win situation as Jerry basically took over many things . Yet Switzer at least won a Sb . Campo and Garrett and gailey then Philips stand out for doing nothing .

Switzer has talent he inherited from Jimmy and that team was good enough to throw into drive and stay out of the way. Even then if Jimmy had stayed that team would have won 4 SBs. Campo by the time he took over the talent was depleted. Also look at the stellar drafting at that time, Dwayne Goodrich?

Buzzbait · May 24, 2020

kskboys said:
Garrett was horrific. Yes, part of it was that he wasn't ready and was saddled w/ a horrific GM, but he was still terrible even w/ that under consideration.

Garrett not only sucked, but he sucked for ten years! A bad coach for 2, 3, 4 years is one thing, but a bad coach for 10 freaking years makes it all the worse!

Rayman70 · May 24, 2020

I'm convinced if Campo had the same team Jimmy Johnson had, he would find a way to only win 5 games.

joshjwp · May 24, 2020

blueblood70 said:
im sorry but calling all of them worst is wrong..putting all the coaches in order from good to bad would be beter and to all the garett hayters hes like what 2nd all time on the win list, I klnow hes no parcells or Jimmy landry etc etc
by far Campo was the wrost with Gaily a close second but Switzer just what he didn in college and hada a SB ring regardless of the sitaion he took over takes him off the list as well..

Truth be told in the All-time DC history we have less coahes then many teams and only have truly two that were BAD, is a positive not negative..

my list in order of best to last

Landry
Jimmy
parcells
Garett
Switzer
Phillips
Gaily
Campo

that all the coaches we've had since 1960 is crazy

I rank them just like this.

rnr_honeybadger · May 24, 2020

Rayman70 said:
I'm convinced if Campo had the same team Jimmy Johnson had, he would find a way to only win 5 games.

Hard to tell, I don’t think Campo was a great HC and I doubt he would have been successful, that being said he was hired to take over a team in decline so hard to beat him over what really is Jerry’s fault

Rayman70 · May 24, 2020

rnr_honeybadger said:
Hard to tell, I don’t think Campo was a great HC and I doubt he would have been successful, that being said he was hired to take over a team in decline so hard to beat him over what really is Jerry’s fault

well, it was no doubt on Jerry too. But Dave Campo just couldn't lead men. That was his biggest flaw. The man that hired him bares the most blame.

rnr_honeybadger · May 24, 2020

Rayman70 said:
well, it was no doubt on Jerry too. But Dave Campo just couldn't lead men. That was his biggest flaw. The man that hired him bares the most blame.

I agree and anyone who talked to him for 5 minutes would know that Campo was no leader

Rayman70 · May 24, 2020

rnr_honeybadger said:
I agree and anyone who talked to him for 5 minutes would know that Campo was no leader

bingo. Jerry wanted a puppet and Campo was the perfect fit. He likely knew what he was getting...a yes man. A guy to tell Jerry his farts smelled like flowers and he was GOLD. lol...then when things quickly went south, Jerry axed him and Dave took the fall. lmao.

Captain-Crash · May 24, 2020

Garrett

Silly · May 24, 2020

it would have to be garrett based ON THE AMOUNT OF time that jerry gave him to right the ship. He could only build an 8 & 8 franchise.

ghst187 · May 24, 2020

I think probably Campo had no business being a HC but he also had zero talent.
No one did less with more than JG.
Phillips also had the squads to win a championship but didn’t get close.

GimmeTheBall! · May 24, 2020

Diehardblues said:
While we’ve had one constant leading Cowboys Football since our last championship , we’ve had 6 different HC’s unable to take us back to a Super Bowl or even a championship appearance .

How would you rank them during this time frame.

Here’s my order of worst Cowboys HC during this stretch:
Campo
Switzer
Phillips
Gailey
Garrett
Parcells

Not sure how we could place anyone but Campo with the 3 straight 5-11 seasons on the bottom. And Switzer left a mess of the dynasty Jimmy built. Wade left a mess of the team Bill had built. Gailey could possibly be ranked 2nd above Garrett as he probably did as much as anyone with what he had left . Jerry even admits cut him loose too soon.

The reason I rank Garrett that high is based on his record , division titles and playoff wins which the latter two are more than the rest combined. Despite his coaching flaws and dysfunctional situation he helped steer our franchise in a better direction and has helped influence this roster in a greater position to contend.

One of the best measurement of coaching despite records is have you left the team in a better position than when you took over. There’s only 3 HC in Jerry’s era which meet that criteria. Jimmy, Bill and Jason.

Campo/wade years were the worst, skivvies prankzter!

TWOK11 · May 24, 2020

The answer is clearly Dave Campo. Anyone who says it’s Garrett is succumbing to recency bias and blind hatred.

Big_D · May 24, 2020

Battle of the basement for Garrett. It’s actually fitting. It’s a tie. lol they both sucked. Trying to figure out who tops who in the crappiest of coaching ability!! That’s quite a legacy! Congrats to both of them!

Big_D · May 24, 2020

What’s funny is Campo been coaching for 30 years before becoming HC. Multiple championships, players loved him and on some ridiculous planet Garrett’s better. No value at all in an actual resume and coaching experience, No comparison whatsoever to their rosters or overall talent. You don’t even have to accomplish anything ever. lol 13 years of pure garbage based on nepotism. A no confidence, zero balls football team with yet another monumental collapse 10 years in. But Garrett’s a true leader. lol there’s no bar at all here. It’s pretty sad.

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