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Archer: Underwhelming hires show Cowboys right to stay with Jason Garrett
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Underwhelming hires show Cowboys right to stay with Jason Garrett
9:34 PM ET
Unofficially, the Tennessee Titans ended the open season on head coaching vacancies when they promoted Mike Mularkey from interim coach to the full-time gig. And how completely unspectacular is that hire after his stints with the Buffalo Bills and Jacksonville Jaguars?
But just to recap, here is how the coaching dominoes fell:
Miami Dolphins -- Adam Gase
Cleveland Browns -- Hue Jackson
New York Giants -- Ben McAdoo
San Francisco 49ers -- Chip Kelly
Tampa Bay Buccaneers -- Dirk Koetter
Tennessee Titans -- Mike Mularkey
Philadelphia Eagles -- Doug Pederson
For all of those who wanted the Dallas Cowboys to make a change at head coach, who would you want among that group over Jason Garrett?
http://espn.go.com/blog/dallas-cowb...-why-cowboys-right-to-stay-with-jason-garrett
9:34 PM ET
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Unofficially, the Tennessee Titans ended the open season on head coaching vacancies when they promoted Mike Mularkey from interim coach to the full-time gig. And how completely unspectacular is that hire after his stints with the Buffalo Bills and Jacksonville Jaguars?
But just to recap, here is how the coaching dominoes fell:
Miami Dolphins -- Adam Gase
Cleveland Browns -- Hue Jackson
New York Giants -- Ben McAdoo
San Francisco 49ers -- Chip Kelly
Tampa Bay Buccaneers -- Dirk Koetter
Tennessee Titans -- Mike Mularkey
Philadelphia Eagles -- Doug Pederson
For all of those who wanted the Dallas Cowboys to make a change at head coach, who would you want among that group over Jason Garrett?
http://espn.go.com/blog/dallas-cowb...-why-cowboys-right-to-stay-with-jason-garrett
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Not all of them.
Not to defer the question posed by Archer, but some of these hires are really mystifying.
Two teams fired coaches that had been to Super Bowls to retain their offensive coordinator for continuity's sake alone. One team hires the inexperienced crony of a man they felt not good enough two years ago, despite multiple division titles and a Super Bowl appearance.
If I am a Titan fan, I am seriously questioning what on earth team management is doing by retaining Mularkey.
Only the Gase and Jackson hires are remotely interesting to me. Kelly needed to sit back for a year and re-evaluate how he conducts business.
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Garrett was an offensive coordinator for two years, and has been a failed head coach. He hasn't done anything. He runs a vanilla offense and doesn't create a lot of confidence.
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personally I don't have lots of faith in garrett but those other coaches that were hired by those teams don't inspire confidence either.
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Not going in for Archer's attempt to polish a ****, but I do get a bit of reassurance from the fact that I'm unimpressed by either of the in-division hires of Pederson or McAdoo.
But I think his article conveniently glosses over the fact that two accomplished, Super Bowl winning coaches were also available and I think that either Coughlin or Shanahan would do a better job over the guy the Cowboys elected to keep.
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. Once again, in some strange, convoluted argument that I didn't really delve into but simply presumed from the headline, Garrett succeeds because others apparently fail more.
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Gase has far more coaching experience than Garrett had in 2010 and if you look at it from the perspective of different places he has coached...he's got more experience than Garrett now. He actually turned around a terrible offense and a QB that is 32 years old and turned his career around (tougher to do when players are older since they take longer to learn at an older age). I think he may end up being Mike McCoy, but he's a more interesting hire than Garrett is as a head coach right now.
Jackson has far more coaching experience, turned around offenses and never got a chance at Oakland. I would be far more interested in Jackson as a HC than Garrett at this point.
Koetter has had success most everywhere he has gone and turned Jameis Winston into a 4,000 yard passer.
Pederson is basically an Andy Reid clone. The question is how close of a clone he is.
The only thing that keeps me from wanting Garrett gone is the 2014 season and that from 2010 to 2014 he handled the media well (which I think is a part of being the HC for the Cowboys).
The 2014 team was talented, but flawed. I thought it was a great litmus test for Garrett and he passed with flying colors.
I would not expect a playoff team with Romo out for 12 games, but I would expect a record better than 1-11 and that basic understanding of what you need to do to win games when you're undermanned at the QB position. I also think he changed how he handled the media by trying to scold players like Hardy and relaying that message to the media instead of just ignoring non-football related questions. He seemed to regain that ability to handle the media towards the end of the season, but I was disappointed how he handled things early on this year.
While I like Archer's work a lot and this is his opinion, I think he has to remember that nobody was exactly raving about Mike McCarthy when he went to the Packers. I think people were lukewarm on Mike Tomlin in Pittsburgh and Sean Payton was known as 'the guy that had playcalling duties taken away from him by Jim Fassel.'
More often than not, the best coaches arrive with little fanfare to these teams and those that do arrive with a lot of fanfare often disappoint.
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So Archer thinks these guys are underwhelming then throws out Shanny, McDaniels and Haley as possible replacements? What a head scratcher. The final two were HC failures.
It's also interesting that these guys are underwhelming without even having the benefit of a season under their belt but fails to point out the recent night and day changes by guys like Arians and Zimmer. And just because a team like the Eagles hires a scrub with a ton of question marks, that doesn't have to be the path we take (although we probably will when "comfort" with the GM is the #1 priority in the coaching search).
It's also interesting that these guys are underwhelming without even having the benefit of a season under their belt but fails to point out the recent night and day changes by guys like Arians and Zimmer. And just because a team like the Eagles hires a scrub with a ton of question marks, that doesn't have to be the path we take (although we probably will when "comfort" with the GM is the #1 priority in the coaching search).
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Like what? I wouldn't want any of those scrubs
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They've all coached in this league and college etc, Pederson might be the most green however. JG was a QB coach for 1 season for a lousy QB, and then OC here.
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Yeah pretty sad that this is what the organization has become...
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Archer has, for the most part, always followed the company line. But he is going into full PR mode this offseason.