randy932;1377544 said:
Right off the top of my head:
1) Hiring Garrett before Wade was announced as HC.
Which is rapidly becoming standard practice in the NFL these days, an argument made recently by Tennessee Titans head coach Jeff Fisher...
Obviously, if Jerry's just going along with the trend du jour, he's not doing anything "wrong"... and what he's doing does NOT turn his head coach into a "puppet"... at least, if it does, then Bill Parcells was just Jerry's "puppet" too, because he took on a LOT of holdover assistant coaches when he came on board...
2) Wade getting a lowball offer.
As GM, it is well within Jerry's job description to negotiate the terms of the head coach's contract... as a businessman, it is in Jerry's basic nature to try to get himself a bargain...
Nothing "wrong" in that, either... certainly, there's nothing in that to suggest Wade Phillips is just Jerry's "puppet"...
You don't know that Jerry was behind that, and you certainly don't know that Wade wasn't entirely on board with that move... you just ASSUME this is Jerry throwing his weight around...
4) Sparano expressing some discomfort in being "demoted". Parcells would have never allowed that to become public.
Which proves that Wade Phillips is a bit different personality than Bill Parcells is... what it does NOT prove is that Wade is Jerry's "puppet"...
Indeed, it's illogical (bordering on asinine) to assume that Jerry would WANT Sparano's discomfort made public...
None of those is PROOF.
Individually, you can say each one is a little bit of evidence.
No, you can't... none of your bits of "evidence" come close-- either individually or collectively-- to "proving" your theory...
Unless, of course, you're willing to stomp on logic until it's unrecognizable... LOL...