After doing some research, I found this article very interesting. It mentions quite possibly why Jon Kitna was released? I don't know if this is true or if anyone else has heard this or not, but here it is...
Comes to Surprising Conclusion on QB Coach: Report
- Updated Jan 11, 2020 at 5:56pm
GettyCowboys HC Mike McCarthy
New
Dallas Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy is expected to take a hands-on approach with the offense, and that rendered Jon Kitna obsolete.
Per
ESPN’s Ed Werder, the Cowboys are parting ways with Kitna, the team’s quarterbacks coach this season, as McCarthy continues to oust holdover members from the previous regime.
A former NFL QB who twice played for Dallas (2009-2011; 2013), Kitna joined the organization following a 2018 one-and-done head-coaching stint at Brophy College Preparatory, an all-boys high school in Phoenix. He took over for Kellen Moore following the latter’s promotion to offensive coordinator last January.
Working in tandem with — and reportedly at times in opposition to — Moore, Kitna was key in helping produce a breakout year for Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott, who threw for a career-high 4,902 passing yards, one shy of tying the team’s all-time single-season record held by Tony Romo.
The Cowboys spawned the league’s top offense in yards per game (431.5) and the second-best passing attack (296.6 YPG), due in large part to the creative mind of Moore and easily digestible instruction of Kitna.
“You want to have a Barry Bonds mindset, which is he broke the record for home runs in a season,” Kitna said in November,
per USA Today. “He also broke the records for walks in a season. That meant they weren’t throwing him pitches to hit. But when he hit, he hit it out of the park.
“That’s what we want to have as a quarterback: the discipline to say, ‘That’s not my pitch. Let’s check it down.’ But when it presents itself: Let’s let it rip.”
Kitna, technically still under contract, is the latest domino to fall after Dallas fired Jason Garrett and tabbed McCarthy as his successor. The former Green Bay Packers’ Super Bowl-winning coach has moved swiftly in stocking the cupboard as he sees fit.
https://heavy.com/sports/2020/01/cowboys-fire-jon-kitna-qb-coach/
Does the
underlined and in bold at the middle of this article explain why Kitna was let go? Was there rift between Kitna and Kellen Moore or am I misreading that phrase?
