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Anyone else hear this today? Troy was very direct, pointed and a little exasperated at Jerry today

A synopsis of the key point: Troy said he has been around and part of the organization for 20 years. Besides Jimmy and to some extent Parcells, no coach has ever help players accountable. Then when you take the last 20 years the Owner/GM has never held anyone accountable, mostly players. Troy said he has owned businesses and if someone is getting paid and doesn't do their job, they are gone. He said he doesn't get why Jerry pays people millions and they can not do their jobs correctly, yet they are not held accountable.

Good for Troy. Maybe if more high profile people who have been close to the team were to be truthful instead of being friends of Jerry or Jason, it would help matters.
 

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I disagree. Garrett has not been afraid to cut players. I could go thru the list of players like Gurode (the guy didn't even play for Garrett as HC before he cut him), Ware, Choice, Austin, Mitchell, Dixon, etc.

Sure, we've had hard times with players like Bruce Carter that we kept around. But that's always going to happen because we have a salary cap. You have to try and give some players multiple chances because the benefits of keeping them and turning them into a productive player outweigh the benefits of cutting them outright. That's why you keep a player like Carter around and he ends up becoming a productive player in 2014. Or you try and keep a player like Free around...who hasn't been great, but has been a quality starter for the most part since we forced him to take the pay cut.

Per usual, Troy doesn't know what he's talking about there.

Where there is a lack of accountability is in the front office. Jerry and Stephen pay lip service to front office accountability, but never actually do anything. And I'd like to see Troy actually say that Garrett is not being held accountable. Something tells me he will never say that because he is friends with Garrett.

On the flip side, if Jerry fires Garrett...people will complain that he goes thru coaches all of the time. If he fires a guy like Jerome Henderson, people will say that he didn't allow Garrett to have the coaches he wanted and Garrett was just a puppet.

Can't win for losing.







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I disagree. Garrett has not been afraid to cut players. I could go thru the list of players like Gurode (the guy didn't even play for Garrett as HC before he cut him), Ware, Choice, Austin, Mitchell, Dixon, etc.

Sure, we've had hard times with players like Bruce Carter that we kept around. But that's always going to happen because we have a salary cap. You have to try and give some players multiple chances because the benefits of keeping them and turning them into a productive player outweigh the benefits of cutting them outright. That's why you keep a player like Carter around and he ends up becoming a productive player in 2014. Or you try and keep a player like Free around...who hasn't been great, but has been a quality starter for the most part since we forced him to take the pay cut.

Per usual, Troy doesn't know what he's talking about there.

Where there is a lack of accountability is in the front office. Jerry and Stephen pay lip service to front office accountability, but never actually do anything. And I'd like to see Troy actually say that Garrett is not being held accountable. Something tells me he will never say that because he is friends with Garrett.

On the flip side, if Jerry fires Garrett...people will complain that he goes thru coaches all of the time. If he fires a guy like Jerome Henderson, people will say that he didn't allow Garrett to have the coaches he wanted and Garrett was just a puppet.

Can't win for losing.







YR

I don't disagree but I will say Dallas should take the approach Jimmy did when he and Jerry 1st got to Dallas which is find out who is playing for a paycheck and who is playing to win football games. Guys really need to be sat down and told this is how things are going to be done and if not then show them out the door. This means you are on time to meeting and practice, you are putting in the work in Dallas not out of town on your own, and it means there will be no 2 or 4 game suspensions to start the season. Rules in the NFL and what should be in place in Dallas are not that difficult to understand and abide by. It is ridicules to start a season and having players missing the 1/3 of the season and then have to listen to how they need time to get into game shape. Dallas has an offseason ahead of them and they need to find out who is serious about winning and who is looking for the paycheck
 

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I disagree. Garrett has not been afraid to cut players. I could go thru the list of players like Gurode (the guy didn't even play for Garrett as HC before he cut him), Ware, Choice, Austin, Mitchell, Dixon, etc.

Sure, we've had hard times with players like Bruce Carter that we kept around. But that's always going to happen because we have a salary cap. You have to try and give some players multiple chances because the benefits of keeping them and turning them into a productive player outweigh the benefits of cutting them outright. That's why you keep a player like Carter around and he ends up becoming a productive player in 2014. Or you try and keep a player like Free around...who hasn't been great, but has been a quality starter for the most part since we forced him to take the pay cut.

Per usual, Troy doesn't know what he's talking about there.

Where there is a lack of accountability is in the front office. Jerry and Stephen pay lip service to front office accountability, but never actually do anything. And I'd like to see Troy actually say that Garrett is not being held accountable. Something tells me he will never say that because he is friends with Garrett.

On the flip side, if Jerry fires Garrett...people will complain that he goes thru coaches all of the time. If he fires a guy like Jerome Henderson, people will say that he didn't allow Garrett to have the coaches he wanted and Garrett was just a puppet.

Can't win for losing.







YR

There is a lot I agree with here regarding Garrett and Jerry needing accountability..and I think he semi-hinted, without throwing his friend under the bus, that maybe JG needed to be held some(I agree that he has a hard time criticizing him). But as far as players I think Aikman sees and maybe hears more than you and I think and he probably gets fed a lot of info we aren't privy to. I believe this year, more than any lately, there were some real issues when it comes to players. One example is the Hardy deal. Hardy goes off on the sideline, knocks a clipboard out of a coaches hands and yet JG doesn't approach him on sidelines, other players do. Then JG says he talked to him and Jerry has a sit down with him. But who knows what goes on in those sit downs. From what some players have hinted at the locker room was young and didn't take their jobs as seriously this year. We had guys like Randle as people we were supposed to rely on the start the year. I like the ideas Doomsday has above. I think what JG does now is get rid of players that obviously don't hit the team hard to make a statement but I don't truly believe it scares anyone because Jerry is making those calls.

Where Aikman did throw JG under the bus a little more was on subject of QBs. He said Cassel wasn't a big time starter at any point in his young career...high school, college..never started a game..yet in NE he steps in for Brady and wins games...is a Pro Bowler in KC...yet he can't win a few games for us.

Overall I agree with a lot but I believe there was some underlying issues with players this year and think that Troy was hinting at accountability for the whole organization and that when he mentioned players he was really saying Jerry just hasn't done a good job having people in place who can run a tight ship.
 

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I disagree. Garrett has not been afraid to cut players. I could go thru the list of players like Gurode (the guy didn't even play for Garrett as HC before he cut him), Ware, Choice, Austin, Mitchell, Dixon, etc.

Sure, we've had hard times with players like Bruce Carter that we kept around. But that's always going to happen because we have a salary cap. You have to try and give some players multiple chances because the benefits of keeping them and turning them into a productive player outweigh the benefits of cutting them outright. That's why you keep a player like Carter around and he ends up becoming a productive player in 2014. Or you try and keep a player like Free around...who hasn't been great, but has been a quality starter for the most part since we forced him to take the pay cut.

Per usual, Troy doesn't know what he's talking about there.

Where there is a lack of accountability is in the front office. Jerry and Stephen pay lip service to front office accountability, but never actually do anything. And I'd like to see Troy actually say that Garrett is not being held accountable. Something tells me he will never say that because he is friends with Garrett.

On the flip side, if Jerry fires Garrett...people will complain that he goes thru coaches all of the time. If he fires a guy like Jerome Henderson, people will say that he didn't allow Garrett to have the coaches he wanted and Garrett was just a puppet.

Can't win for losing.

This post isnt even worthy of a response? Troy doesnt know what he is talking about? Garrett cut players? Wow!!!





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There is a lot I agree with here regarding Garrett and Jerry needing accountability..and I think he semi-hinted, without throwing his friend under the bus, that maybe JG needed to be held some(I agree that he has a hard time criticizing him). But as far as players I think Aikman sees and maybe hears more than you and I think and he probably gets fed a lot of info we aren't privy to. I believe this year, more than any lately, there were some real issues when it comes to players. One example is the Hardy deal. Hardy goes off on the sideline, knocks a clipboard out of a coaches hands and yet JG doesn't approach him on sidelines, other players do. Then JG says he talked to him and Jerry has a sit down with him. But who knows what goes on in those sit downs. From what some players have hinted at the locker room was young and didn't take their jobs as seriously this year. We had guys like Randle as people we were supposed to rely on the start the year. I like the ideas Doomsday has above. I think what JG does now is get rid of players that obviously don't hit the team hard to make a statement but I don't truly believe it scares anyone because Jerry is making those calls.

Where Aikman did throw JG under the bus a little more was on subject of QBs. He said Cassel wasn't a big time starter at any point in his young career...high school, college..never started a game..yet in NE he steps in for Brady and wins games...is a Pro Bowler in KC...yet he can't win a few games for us.

Overall I agree with a lot but I believe there was some underlying issues with players this year and think that Troy was hinting at accountability for the whole organization and that when he mentioned players he was really saying Jerry just hasn't done a good job having people in place who can run a tight ship.

Garrett doesnt sign or cut any players what so ever. Jerry and Stephen decide that. No one goes until Jerry says he's gone. In Garretts defense, I dont think he even wanted a guy like the Kraken, but he was forced upon him. A lot of guys should have been cut loooong ago, like that fool RB that steals underwear. If anything, players are NOT let go quickly enough. So whether someone thinks its Garrett or Jones, the guy doing the cutting or not cutting is a fool. And in my book thats Jerry. Sorry, I would love to hag on Garrett some more, but he simply doesnt have those powers here. Now he may run into his bosses office and beg to cut someone, but we have seen quite clearly that Jones does what he wants regardless.
 

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There is a lot I agree with here regarding Garrett and Jerry needing accountability..and I think he semi-hinted, without throwing his friend under the bus, that maybe JG needed to be held some(I agree that he has a hard time criticizing him). But as far as players I think Aikman sees and maybe hears more than you and I think and he probably gets fed a lot of info we aren't privy to. I believe this year, more than any lately, there were some real issues when it comes to players. One example is the Hardy deal. Hardy goes off on the sideline, knocks a clipboard out of a coaches hands and yet JG doesn't approach him on sidelines, other players do. Then JG says he talked to him and Jerry has a sit down with him. But who knows what goes on in those sit downs. From what some players have hinted at the locker room was young and didn't take their jobs as seriously this year. We had guys like Randle as people we were supposed to rely on the start the year. I like the ideas Doomsday has above. I think what JG does now is get rid of players that obviously don't hit the team hard to make a statement but I don't truly believe it scares anyone because Jerry is making those calls.

Where Aikman did throw JG under the bus a little more was on subject of QBs. He said Cassel wasn't a big time starter at any point in his young career...high school, college..never started a game..yet in NE he steps in for Brady and wins games...is a Pro Bowler in KC...yet he can't win a few games for us.

Overall I agree with a lot but I believe there was some underlying issues with players this year and think that Troy was hinting at accountability for the whole organization and that when he mentioned players he was really saying Jerry just hasn't done a good job having people in place who can run a tight ship.

Weeden said it all when he hammered on the Cowboys and Jones. He basically said that he played EXACTLY the way that the coaches wanted him to play. It was obvious anyway. He was coached to play scared. Dont screw up and go to the check down it is not wide open. That is coaching. That is being coached horribly. Christ he even looked scared when he was out there.

Then he goes to Houston where he doesnt know the offense and the guy is throwing for 300 yards, 3 TD's, running it in, jumping up and down, smiling and winning games to the playoffs.

Its all coaching. Garrett is a clown. He is a scared little punk that needs to get out of football. Guys coach scared because they dont know what to do. He doesnt have a clue.
 

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That's probably one of the biggest problems with the Cowboys, the GM runs the team with his heart, not his head. Also because we have a part time GM (which is both good and bad) that has no fear of EVER being fired by the owner. No a good business recipe for success!

I fear this team is doomed to suffer through mediocrity until Jerry is in that BIG Owner's Box in the sky!!!
 

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Weeden said it all when he hammered on the Cowboys and Jones. He basically said that he played EXACTLY the way that the coaches wanted him to play. It was obvious anyway. He was coached to play scared. Dont screw up and go to the check down it is not wide open. That is coaching. That is being coached horribly. Christ he even looked scared when he was out there.

Then he goes to Houston where he doesnt know the offense and the guy is throwing for 300 yards, 3 TD's, running it in, jumping up and down, smiling and winning games to the playoffs.

Its all coaching. Garrett is a clown. He is a scared little punk that needs to get out of football. Guys coach scared because they dont know what to do. He doesnt have a clue.

I've said it before...but the quick on your feet, gutsy, go for it attitude needed out of a coach in the heat of the battle on gameday....is NOT who Garrett is. Garrett is a front office type. Methodical, principled, measured, overthinking, etc....
 

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I don't disagree but I will say Dallas should take the approach Jimmy did when he and Jerry 1st got to Dallas which is find out who is playing for a paycheck and who is playing to win football games. Guys really need to be sat down and told this is how things are going to be done and if not then show them out the door. This means you are on time to meeting and practice, you are putting in the work in Dallas not out of town on your own, and it means there will be no 2 or 4 game suspensions to start the season. Rules in the NFL and what should be in place in Dallas are not that difficult to understand and abide by. It is ridicules to start a season and having players missing the 1/3 of the season and then have to listen to how they need time to get into game shape. Dallas has an offseason ahead of them and they need to find out who is serious about winning and who is looking for the paycheck

Easier said than done. Jimmy didn't have to worry about a salary cap when he was here. He did in Miami and wasn't the same coach. I think if he had his druthers, he would have gotten rid of Marino. Marino's status would make it very difficult, but his cap hit made it impossible. And that's why he stuck with him.

The problem with this organization is that they are terrible at learning from its mistakes. Mistakes are going to happen. I'm sure Bill Belichick wishes he never drafted a player with rumored gang ties like Aaron Hernandez. But, I bet will learn from that and specifically check to see if a player has any rumored gang ties and if so, he will steer clear of him.

That's really what accountability is about. It's not about firing people after making a mistake. It's about when a mistake is made, now the person should be accountable for not making that mistake again. The Cowboys organization struggles with this all of the time and that's why we tend to lose games in the same freaking fashion every year.

Garrett kept making the mistake of throwing the ball way too often and didn't learn. Then when he would get skewered for losing a game because we threw the ball too much....he would do the exact opposite and run the ball too much and never learned from that pattern of mistakes.

It was the same thing when Parcells was here and we continued to try and go cheap on a placekicker. Didn't make a difference if these kickers COULD NOT MAKE PAT'S, we just kept going with the same lousy kickers and the same lousy placeholder.

The same with personnel decisions, training and conditioning (how many hamstring pulls did we need before we changed up the training?), the malcontent players, going after 'cover corners' who can't tackle and going cheap on safeties, etc.

I can understand making the wrong decision, but I can't forgive not learning from that wrong decision and continuing to make the wrong decisions.





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Easier said than done. Jimmy didn't have to worry about a salary cap when he was here. He did in Miami and wasn't the same coach. I think if he had his druthers, he would have gotten rid of Marino. Marino's status would make it very difficult, but his cap hit made it impossible. And that's why he stuck with him.

The problem with this organization is that they are terrible at learning from its mistakes. Mistakes are going to happen. I'm sure Bill Belichick wishes he never drafted a player with rumored gang ties like Aaron Hernandez. But, I bet will learn from that and specifically check to see if a player has any rumored gang ties and if so, he will steer clear of him.

That's really what accountability is about. It's not about firing people after making a mistake. It's about when a mistake is made, now the person should be accountable for not making that mistake again. The Cowboys organization struggles with this all of the time and that's why we tend to lose games in the same freaking fashion every year.

Garrett kept making the mistake of throwing the ball way too often and didn't learn. Then when he would get skewered for losing a game because we threw the ball too much....he would do the exact opposite and run the ball too much and never learned from that pattern of mistakes.

It was the same thing when Parcells was here and we continued to try and go cheap on a placekicker. Didn't make a difference if these kickers COULD NOT MAKE PAT'S, we just kept going with the same lousy kickers and the same lousy placeholder.

The same with personnel decisions, training and conditioning (how many hamstring pulls did we need before we changed up the training?), the malcontent players, going after 'cover corners' who can't tackle and going cheap on safeties, etc.

I can understand making the wrong decision, but I can't forgive not learning from that wrong decision and continuing to make the wrong decisions.





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I did not say it would be easy but sometimes doing what needs to be done is not easy. I’m not saying you make a clean sweep but on players like Carr and others who are FA yes you can move them out, guys who do not hold big contract you can move them out.
As for Garrett? Last season I was told he was just standing on the sidelines and it was all Linehan but now it is Jason? Frankly I think an argument could have been made that we ran too much especially in the redzone, using bunch formation instead of spreading the defense out and using things like the naked bootleg to put pressure on the opposing defense and instead we settle for FG.
 

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As for Garrett? Last season I was told he was just standing on the sidelines and it was all Linehan but now it is Jason? Frankly I think an argument could have been made that we ran too much especially in the redzone, using bunch formation instead of spreading the defense out and using things like the naked bootleg to put pressure on the opposing defense and instead we settle for FG.

I'm talking about over the past 20 years. We are an organization that fails to learn from mistakes until it is too late. Even under Parcells we had that problem.

It's been since 2003 since we paid for and had quality safeties. That's 13 seasons of football. Just one in the long line of mistakes that we take forever to learn from and never make that mistake, again.






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I'm talking about over the past 20 years. We are an organization that fails to learn from mistakes until it is too late. Even under Parcells we had that problem.

It's been since 2003 since we paid for and had quality safeties. That's 13 seasons of football. Just one in the long line of mistakes that we take forever to learn from and never make that mistake, again.






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I get that Dallas did go out and draft players like Church and Wilcox and I can say I'm not satisfied with their play and would like to see Dallas upgrade what I was talking about it getting problem guys out of here and not adding more. I will take a less talented player who gives everything he has got over a more talented player who is in this for himself and his own money. hell we had less talent on defense last season yet managed to create turnovers, this group barely were able to get any turnovers. I'm one who tends to believe that overall team chemistry makes for a stronger team than 1 individual regardless of his talent. I think Cowboys need to look at guys who are willing to do what it takes to win and who want to be part of this team. Again that means acting like men on and off the field, it means being in Dallas working together as a team not 1 or 2 guys wanting to work out on their own out of state and it means guys who can't do that and are getting suspended before the season even starts needs to be given their walking papers.
 

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I get that Dallas did go out and draft players like Church and Wilcox and I can say I'm not satisfied with their play and would like to see Dallas upgrade what I was talking about it getting problem guys out of here and not adding more. I will take a less talented player who gives everything he has got over a more talented player who is in this for himself and his own money. hell we had less talent on defense last season yet managed to create turnovers, this group barely were able to get any turnovers. I'm one who tends to believe that overall team chemistry makes for a stronger team than 1 individual regardless of his talent. I think Cowboys need to look at guys who are willing to do what it takes to win and who want to be part of this team. Again that means acting like men on and off the field, it means being in Dallas working together as a team not 1 or 2 guys wanting to work out on their own out of state and it means guys who can't do that and are getting suspended before the season even starts needs to be given their walking papers.

Sounds like you are talking about RKG's. Well you can see quite clearly that we have plenty of guys on this team that are NOT RKG's. Clearly Garrett doesnt hold much sway here when it comes to personnel.
 

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I get that Dallas did go out and draft players like Church and Wilcox and I can say I'm not satisfied with their play and would like to see Dallas upgrade what I was talking about it getting problem guys out of here and not adding more. I will take a less talented player who gives everything he has got over a more talented player who is in this for himself and his own money. hell we had less talent on defense last season yet managed to create turnovers, this group barely were able to get any turnovers. I'm one who tends to believe that overall team chemistry makes for a stronger team than 1 individual regardless of his talent. I think Cowboys need to look at guys who are willing to do what it takes to win and who want to be part of this team. Again that means acting like men on and off the field, it means being in Dallas working together as a team not 1 or 2 guys wanting to work out on their own out of state and it means guys who can't do that and are getting suspended before the season even starts needs to be given their walking papers.

We didn't even draft Church. He was a UDFA.

And the Cowboys have one of the highest, if not the highest rate of voluntary workouts because Jerry pays out well for workout bonuses. Working out on their own is not a problem for the Cowboys and hasn't been a problem for a long time.

I would rather see this organization become entirely better at learning from their mistakes and bad decisions than just start cutting players that don't always mind their p's and q's and are deemed to be in it for the money.





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We didn't even draft Church. He was a UDFA.

And the Cowboys have one of the highest, if not the highest rate of voluntary workouts because Jerry pays out well for workout bonuses. Working out on their own is not a problem for the Cowboys and hasn't been a problem for a long time.

I would rather see this organization become entirely better at learning from their mistakes and bad decisions than just start cutting players that don't always mind their p's and q's and are deemed to be in it for the money.





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True but players need to be held accountable, their action we had 1 suspension heading into 2014 we had 2 in 2015 enough of that BS. Getting Hardy was a mistake, the guys misses the 1st 4 games along with McClain. I expect guys here who want to win and can stay out of trouble. Part of that no doubt on the organization in getting guys knowing they will be suspended. We can dump this all on Jerry and Garrett that is fine but players also need to be called out. they are paid damn good money and frankly I don't think they should get some free pass as if none of this is on them.
 

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True but players need to be held accountable, their action we had 1 suspension heading into 2014 we had 2 in 2015 enough of that BS. Getting Hardy was a mistake, the guys misses the 1st 4 games along with McClain. I expect guys here who want to win and can stay out of trouble. Part of that no doubt on the organization in getting guys knowing they will be suspended. We can dump this all on Jerry and Garrett that is fine but players also need to be called out. they are paid damn good money and frankly I don't think they should get some free pass as if none of this is on them.

Orlando Scandrick was supposed to be suspended for 4-games in 2014. He got very lucky as the NFL changed the rule after they suspended him.

So, let's say Scandrick did get suspended...should we have cut bait with him as well?

I don't think Hardy was a mistake at all. He was our best D-Lineman on the year. They knew perfectly well that he was likely going to be suspended when they signed him and they basically signed him on a pay-for-play deal.

Every situation is different. McClain was a legitimately troubled player that we gave a 2nd chance to and after we sign him, the *then* gets suspended.

That's a different situation than Hardy who the Panthers never had a problem with outside of his arrest (which was later completely expunged from his record). Even the players and coached begged Jerry Richardson to not cut him.

Scandrick has never been a problem in Dallas, so if he was suspended, it was still a stupid move on his part, but he had built up collateral with the organization and with his cap number...it was prohibitive to cut him.

And in the end, who are you going to call out for this 2015 team when it was clear that we went 4-12 because of the QB situation? Are you going to call out Romo because he got injured? Weeden was held accountable and cut. Cassel was held accountable and benched? Should we hold Dez accountable for breaking his foot and coming back 6 weeks earlier than expected?

I'd rather have this organization figure out things like this isn't 1995 anymore and corners that can't tackle don't work well in this league and you need quality safeties and a quality MIKE back to play good defense in this game. Or that we shouldn't rely on Sean Lee because odds are that he's going to get re-injured. Or that we should blitz more than once if a full moon or two stop drafting TE's in the 2nd round. Or that the offensive playbook should be diversified a bit or that Jerome Henderson has never shown anything as a DB coach.






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I disagree. Garrett has not been afraid to cut players. I could go thru the list of players like Gurode (the guy didn't even play for Garrett as HC before he cut him), Ware, Choice, Austin, Mitchell, Dixon, etc.

Sure, we've had hard times with players like Bruce Carter that we kept around. But that's always going to happen because we have a salary cap. You have to try and give some players multiple chances because the benefits of keeping them and turning them into a productive player outweigh the benefits of cutting them outright. That's why you keep a player like Carter around and he ends up becoming a productive player in 2014. Or you try and keep a player like Free around...who hasn't been great, but has been a quality starter for the most part since we forced him to take the pay cut.

Per usual, Troy doesn't know what he's talking about there.

Where there is a lack of accountability is in the front office. Jerry and Stephen pay lip service to front office accountability, but never actually do anything. And I'd like to see Troy actually say that Garrett is not being held accountable. Something tells me he will never say that because he is friends with Garrett.

On the flip side, if Jerry fires Garrett...people will complain that he goes thru coaches all of the time. If he fires a guy like Jerome Henderson, people will say that he didn't allow Garrett to have the coaches he wanted and Garrett was just a puppet.

Can't win for losing.







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Jerry has given Garrett 6 plus years including next year, I doubt if anyone would say that Jerry runs through coaches after him. You're reaching.

The accountability Troy is talking about is the kind thaf Jimmy and Bruce Arians use, call players out in front of the team and/or to the media. Players hate to get embarrased in front of their peers and to the world, it motivates them to play harder and be more focused. Both Jimmy and Bruce changed cultures for tbeir franchises using this technique.
 

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Jerry has given Garrett 6 plus years including next year, I doubt if anyone would say that Jerry runs through coaches after him. You're reaching.

Puh-leeze.

They will always talk about Jerry running thru coaches. That's what they do.


The accountability Troy is talking about is the kind thaf Jimmy and Bruce Arians use, call players out in front of the team and/or to the media. Players hate to get embarrased in front of their peers and to the world, it motivates them to play harder and be more focused. Both Jimmy and Bruce changed cultures for tbeir franchises using this technique.

Chip Kelly used that accountability as well. And where did it get him?

The players were thanking their lucky stars that he was fired because he was never accountable himself.




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Puh-leeze.

They will always talk about Jerry running thru coaches. That's what they do.




Chip Kelly used that accountability as well. And where did it get him?

The players were thanking their lucky stars that he was fired because he was never accountable himself.




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Garrett is the most tenured coach in the division and in tne NFL he's the 7th most tenured, I think that he's had enough time and everyone would agree with that and if they don't then they have an agenda.
 
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