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Part I of a five part series detailing different aspects of the Cowboys coaching situation. Part I looks at the idea of coaching from a teacher's perspective and identifies potential weak links in the Cowboys coaching staff.
So here's a pretty embarrassing secret. I'm not draft guy. At all. It's probably my least favorite part of the offseason. I'll nominally follow coverage, I have my pet cats and I certainly have opinions on draft strategy, but the truth is I just don't pay that much attention to college football, and don't have the time to go to deep into learning about potential draftees. For better and worse, the draft is just not my thing.
Which is an issue this time of year, because there's not much going on besides the draft. It's too early to start speculating about next season, and last season has been rehashed to death. So what's a blogger to blog? It's a conundrum. Thankfully, as with most things, twitter held the answer. Earlier this week a conversation broke out on twitter about coaching...and since then I've had coaching on the brain. So over the next week I'll be examining five different aspects of our coaching staff, both looking back at last year and looking ahead to this season. We'll start with what I think is the most important part of coaching; teaching and developing players
1. You Can't be Afraid to Coach:
The twitter conversation that I mentioned above centered around an interesting question; "What position group do we least trust our coaching staff to develop?" This is a topic that I love. I'm a big believer that Jason Garrett's biggest strength as a coach is his teaching, and that the idea of teaching and development is the central part of his coaching philosophy. He's built a coaching staff full of teachers. The recently departed Bill Callahan was one of the preeminent O-line coaches, not because of his schemes but because of his ability to teach his unit, and it appears that his successor, Frank Pollack, is cut from the same cloth. Recent hire Mike Pope made quite an impression with his unusual teaching tight ends. Matt Eberflus, Rod Marinelli, Derek Dooley; the coaching roster is full of guys who may not be wizards when it comes to scheme but have a great reputation for developing talent.
On twitter two potential weak links were identified, QB coach Wade Wilson and secondary coach Jerome Henderson. Jerome Henderson arrived in Dallas in 2012, the same year as Morris Claiborne and Brandon Carr. To say that neither developed under his watch is not an untruth. In fact, it could be argued that both regressed. Here are Carr and Claiborne's coverage grades from 2012 to 2014 according to PFF:
link/http://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2015/4/10/8382541/checking-out-the-cowboys-coaches-part-i
So here's a pretty embarrassing secret. I'm not draft guy. At all. It's probably my least favorite part of the offseason. I'll nominally follow coverage, I have my pet cats and I certainly have opinions on draft strategy, but the truth is I just don't pay that much attention to college football, and don't have the time to go to deep into learning about potential draftees. For better and worse, the draft is just not my thing.
Which is an issue this time of year, because there's not much going on besides the draft. It's too early to start speculating about next season, and last season has been rehashed to death. So what's a blogger to blog? It's a conundrum. Thankfully, as with most things, twitter held the answer. Earlier this week a conversation broke out on twitter about coaching...and since then I've had coaching on the brain. So over the next week I'll be examining five different aspects of our coaching staff, both looking back at last year and looking ahead to this season. We'll start with what I think is the most important part of coaching; teaching and developing players
1. You Can't be Afraid to Coach:
The twitter conversation that I mentioned above centered around an interesting question; "What position group do we least trust our coaching staff to develop?" This is a topic that I love. I'm a big believer that Jason Garrett's biggest strength as a coach is his teaching, and that the idea of teaching and development is the central part of his coaching philosophy. He's built a coaching staff full of teachers. The recently departed Bill Callahan was one of the preeminent O-line coaches, not because of his schemes but because of his ability to teach his unit, and it appears that his successor, Frank Pollack, is cut from the same cloth. Recent hire Mike Pope made quite an impression with his unusual teaching tight ends. Matt Eberflus, Rod Marinelli, Derek Dooley; the coaching roster is full of guys who may not be wizards when it comes to scheme but have a great reputation for developing talent.
On twitter two potential weak links were identified, QB coach Wade Wilson and secondary coach Jerome Henderson. Jerome Henderson arrived in Dallas in 2012, the same year as Morris Claiborne and Brandon Carr. To say that neither developed under his watch is not an untruth. In fact, it could be argued that both regressed. Here are Carr and Claiborne's coverage grades from 2012 to 2014 according to PFF:
link/http://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2015/4/10/8382541/checking-out-the-cowboys-coaches-part-i