Archer: Underwhelming hires show Cowboys right to stay with Jason Garrett

[Vinnie2u]

Seems like he approves the practice of settling. Just cause I can't Pull a Super Model won't deter me from trying. .500 team.

 

[Wheeltax]

Man I could not believe the Titans went with Mularkey. It's almost like the Yorks going with Tomsula last year.

 

[JW82]

Lol. So we would be limited to the guys selected? Why exactly is that?

Underwhelming hires show Cowboys right to stay with Jason Garrett

9:34 PM ET

• Todd Archer
• ESPN Staff Writer

IRVING, Texas -- At some point this week the Philadelphia Eagles are expected to name Doug Pederson as their new head coach.


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

 

[Frosty]

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).

Must of been a slow news day for Archer... worthless article not sure why he wrote it other then trying to provoke online fans..... Must a be CZ regular

 

[DenCWBY]

I think all the "great" NFL minds said the same thing about Ron Rivera and Bruce Arians. I figure 2 or 3 of the new coaches on this list will easily supersede our Win/Loss results in the next few years since coaching isn't our only long term problem.

 

[TwoCentPlain]

...Add: no great coach is going to come here and be saddled with this GM.

Bill Parcells was just here a while ago and had no problem working with Jerry. Either you conveniently forgot that or your anti-Jerry agenda blinded you from reality.

Jerry has helped assemble a talented team the past years. Name a coach who wouldn't want to have Smith, Collins, Fredbeard, and Martin as an OL? Name a coach who wouldn't want to add WRs like Dez, Williams, and Beasley to that OL? Or TEs like Witten, Escobar and Hanna to go along? Or a DL with Hardy, Gregory, Lawrence, and Crawford? Or LBs like Lee, McClain, Hitchens? Or CBs like Claiborne, Carr, Jones, Scandrick? And a kicker like Dan Bailey? Oh, and a QB like Romo. Yeah, no 'great' coach wants to come here and be 'saddled' with that while making $6M+. Seriously?

The talent to win is there. Don't pin it on Jerry the GM. Look more toward the players and the coaches. And sometimes it is hard to recover when your QB and WR go down weak 1 and 2.

 

[RS12]

Bill Parcells was just here a while ago and had no problem working with Jerry. Either you conveniently forgot that or your anti-Jerry agenda blinded you from reality.

Jerry has helped assemble a talented team the past years. Name a coach who wouldn't want to have Smith, Collins, Fredbeard, and Martin as an OL? Name a coach who wouldn't want to add WRs like Dez, Williams, and Beasley to that OL? Or TEs like Witten, Escobar and Hanna to go along? Or a DL with Hardy, Gregory, Lawrence, and Crawford? Or LBs like Lee, McClain, Hitchens? Or CBs like Claiborne, Carr, Jones, Scandrick? And a kicker like Dan Bailey? Oh, and a QB like Romo. Yeah, no 'great' coach wants to come here and be 'saddled' with that while making $6M+. Seriously?

The talent to win is there. Don't pin it on Jerry the GM. Look more toward the players and the coaches. And sometimes it is hard to recover when your QB and WR go down weak 1 and 2.

You conveniently forgot Jerry hired him long enough to get a monument to himself built. Jerry has been underwhelming himself as a GM which his lengthy record proves. No sale on what your selling.

 

[TwoCentPlain]

I think all the "great" NFL minds said the same thing about Ron Rivera and Bruce Arians. I figure 2 or 3 of the new coaches on this list will easily supersede our Win/Loss results in the next few years since coaching isn't our only long term problem.

Speaking of Rivera and Arians. Had they lost versus Seattle and GB respectively, they would have looked like utter fools. Rivera came close to blowing a 31-0 lead. Seattle recovers that onside kick and Carolina loses that game in my opinion. And Arians looked quite high-schoolish the last few minutes in regulation against GB. I thought I was watching shades of Garrett.

 

[windward]

Speaking of Rivera and Arians. Had they lost versus Seattle and GB respectively, they would have looked like utter fools. Rivera came close to blowing a 31-0 lead. Seattle recovers that onside kick and Carolina loses that game in my opinion. And Arians looked quite high-schoolish the last few minutes in regulation against GB. I thought I was watching shades of Garrett.

The blitz on the Hail Mary was excessively risky in my view.

 

[PAINFROMUKRAINE]

Archer is really hurting his own credibility with this article. The Dallas Media is just clueless or they are just Jerry's Pawns. Garrett is a bottom feeder and he is trying to justify Garrett not getting fired.Another low point for Dallas Cowboy Fans. Sad state of affairs. The Philly or New York Media would be attacking Jerry's state of mind with daily articles of why Garrett is not in the Unemployment Office collecting benefits.

 

[TwoCentPlain]

The blitz on the Hail Mary was excessively risky in my view.

So was the incomplete pass on 2nd down stopping the clock and saving GB 40 seconds.

 

[DenCWBY]

Speaking of Rivera and Arians. Had they lost versus Seattle and GB respectively, they would have looked like utter fools. Rivera came close to blowing a 31-0 lead. Seattle recovers that onside kick and Carolina loses that game in my opinion. And Arians looked quite high-schoolish the last few minutes in regulation against GB. I thought I was watching shades of Garrett.

Get it. At least they are there.

 

[NinePointOh]

Lol. So we would be limited to the guys selected? Why exactly is that?

Of course not, but none of these other teams were limited to just those guys, either. Those are the guys they thought were the best attainable options on the market, given the choice of everyone available. If there was an obvious star candidate out there that we could have had, who was it and why didn't he get hired by any of the 7 teams that needed a head coach?

 

[JW82]

Well you would think the head coaching job of the Dallas Cowboys would open you up to a pretty broad range of candidates.

 

[elcowboi]

Any of these coaches would be better than Garrett. Hell, my 7th grade football coach deserves a shot...

 

[DallasDW00ds0n]

So we shouldn't upgrade because, look, everyone else seemingly did not? This does not prove it is impossible to upgrade at coaching

 

[GoCowboysGo]

 

[NinePointOh]

Well you would think the head coaching job of the Dallas Cowboys would open you up to a pretty broad range of candidates.

Like who? It's not like there weren't other big market or high-prestige teams that were looking to hire. Are we really under the impression that great coaches just avoid other job openings and wilfully remain unemployed in the hopes that the Cowboys job will open up some day? I know we're all big Cowboy fans, but that doesn't mean every good candidate is. What exactly are the names on this broad list of candidates you think we could have landed, which would have been a large enough improvement to warrant sacrificing continuity, yet which all these other teams either didn't want or couldn't get?

 

[JW82]

Like who? It's not like there weren't other big market or high-prestige teams that were looking to hire. Are we really under the impression that great coaches just avoid other job openings and wilfully remain unemployed in the hopes that the Cowboys job will open up some day? I know we're all big Cowboy fans, but that doesn't mean every good candidate is. What exactly are the names on this broad list of candidates you think we could have landed, which would have been a large enough improvement to warrant sacrificing continuity, yet which all these other teams either didn't want or couldn't get?

David Shaw
Josh Mcdaniels
Throw big money at Jim Harbaugh
Sean Payton probably could have been had

 

[BigStar]

Yeah. Because those 8 guys were the only coaches you could choose from.

False equivalency stomped