What happened to Kris Richards?

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I liked his intensity, and thought he would be a good addition...
Did anyone notice his intensity started to fade? You no longer saw fire on the sidelines from him...

If he was good, guessing being in Dallas, with the control you never have.... can probably kill any fire.

Also... maybe he really wasn't all that... We may never know lol.

Hoping Mike M, has the balls to put his foot down... and not get into the "Cowboy Way."

I am hoping Jerry has the sense to step back....

Who knows...
 

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I think Marinelli and Richard were just unable to put it together. Then thrown in Ben Bloom also dragging the defensive staff down.

Richard might be a good coach somewhere else but he also shares blame in what happened last year, even if marinelli refused to change his scheme. I feel like our players were put in a position to fail.

I’m curious to see if players like Jaylon and Chido will improve with a better scheme where they are playing more to their strengths than trusting in a scheme that’s just “we do what we do”
 

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Turns out his many fans might have been completely clueless re his actual abilities. Which is shocking, because everyone loved him, and I can’t imagine everyone being wrong like that.
Just like Garrett fans. I noticed you erased your sig.......
 

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Turns out his many fans might have been completely clueless re his actual abilities. Which is shocking, because everyone loved him, and I can’t imagine everyone being wrong like that.

We know he is a good DB coach but he failed as a DC last year. It won't happen for a long time but I do think he will get a shot as a HC some day. A lot of times teams replace a cerebral guy with a firebreather (and vice versa), at some point I do think Richards will get his shot no matter what kind of trainwreck last season was. He is still only 40 years old and we don't really know what the story was around the defensive disconnect last year.

EDIT, yes I was one of his fans.
 

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I think Marinelli and Richard were just unable to put it together. Then thrown in Ben Bloom also dragging the defensive staff down.

I get the sense Ben Bloom was a symptom and not the disease. At some point people above Richard and Marinelli needed someone above them to settle the differences and it sounds like Garrett and the Front Office didn't do it.
 

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We know he is a good DB coach but he failed as a DC last year. It won't happen for a long time but I do think he will get a shot as a HC some day. A lot of times teams replace a cerebral guy with a firebreather (and vice versa), at some point I do think Richards will get his shot no matter what kind of trainwreck last season was. He is still only 40 years old and we don't really know what the story was around the defensive disconnect last year.

EDIT, yes I was one of his fans.

He wasn’t the DC last season.

He should have been.

BTW, pass D 10th. Scoring 8th.

He wasn’t the problem.
 

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I get the sense Ben Bloom was a symptom and not the disease. At some point people above Richard and Marinelli needed someone above them to settle the differences and it sounds like Garrett and the Front Office didn't do it.
That’s fair! I think Richard can be a good coach under the right circumstances. I feel as a whole, the coaching staff’s game plans or how they wanted each position to play within the scheme just weren’t cohesive.

IMO they tried to solve a weakness in our run scheme by making other areas of our defense weaker. Idk that’s just what I felt I saw last year.
 

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That’s fair! I think Richard can be a good coach under the right circumstances. I feel as a whole, the coaching staff’s game plans or how they wanted each position to play within the scheme just weren’t cohesive.

IMO they tried to solve a weakness in our run scheme by making other areas of our defense weaker. Idk that’s just what I felt I saw last year.

@xwalker has done some great breakdowns on how teams copied the Rams attack from the playoff loss and for whatever reason Dallas didn't make the right adjustments to it. It seemed like Richard and Marinelli were completely out of sync, which makes me think it will be a while before we really hear what the real problem was.
 

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He wasn't good.. I mean we had young CBs that were suppose to develop and they didn't. Now we are most likely going to dump Awuzie and Lewis in the future because of his inability to get something from them.
 

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@xwalker has done some great breakdowns on how teams copied the Rams attack from the playoff loss and for whatever reason Dallas didn't make the right adjustments to it. It seemed like Richard and Marinelli were completely out of sync, which makes me think it will be a while before we really hear what the real problem was.
Yeah I try to keep an eye out for his breakdowns, I like em especially just for looking at scheme things. Obviously things change when you’re going 100 mph, but to be able to see the formations and where a player is supposed to go and how the plays are supposed to work is very nice.
 

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Thought he was supposed to be the next head coach and savior to the secondary.

That was according to this ridiculous fanbase who were living in the moment during a few solid defensive games in 2018 until the defense began to crumble late that season.
 

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The irony is that Marinelli was offered a job about 5 minutes after he left Dallas.
Meanwhile, the "Creator of L.O.B." hasn't received much outside of washing jockstraps
at USC. Go figure... lol
He was never the force behind the Legion of Boom.
 

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Garrett happened!
Garrett's hands off approach to the D happened.

Having a coach like Marinelli only doing "rushmen" and Richard doing the back half was not a good set up.
 

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The drool fest over Richard became so intense after the great defensive performance against New Orleans in 2018 that many fans wanted Garrett fired and Richard take over so he wouldn’t leave the following year. By late last season fans couldn’t wait to get rid of Richard. The love affair was officially over. :laugh:
 
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