Continuity? or Best Fit for Circumstances?

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CaptainMorgan;3025789 said:
We should have been all over Lane Kiffin.However the fact is Jerry runs this team. Does it matter what coach we hire if he is the final authority?If a pet player can bypass the coach whats the point?I think Jerry Jones the owner is the best in the biz but sadly his fingerprints are on every aspect of the team good and bad.
Couldn't have said it better myself. Jerry is, in fact, the Head Coach. He doesn't call plays, but Wade has no say-so in the Offense, and I doubt Garrett has any thing to say about the D. And neither one of them has anything to say about who plays or sits or gets discliplined. The perfect formula for losing...
 

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Future;3026223 said:
I think if you hire a coach, he should get at least 3 years because you won't win championships without continuity. But he has to be the right guy to get it done.

Bill Cowher would solve both for Dallas :D

why then did it take Cowher 10 years between SB's and who he beat in that SB why Holmgren

Cowher will solve nothing here

don't think he will ever solve it again not in Carolina not enuf years left

it will take him 3-5 years to get the 3-4 going
 

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The problem with a young coach is that you're not quite sure what you're getting....McDaniels or Zorn, Mangini or Singletary...Jimmy Johnson or Steve Spurrier....

Garrett is not a unknown quanitity - Dallas is ranked 9 in total offense

while you know what you're getting with a Holmgren, Shanahan, Gruden, or Cowher.

yea another Wade :bang2:
 

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Continuity is a misnomer in today's NFL and if Jones is looking for that, it is a fruitless effort.

Unless he can scrape up the next Belichick and get out of the way of running the day to day operations, he's wasting his time.

When a coach like Jeff Fisher is the "elder statesman" of the NFL coaching fraternity, that just speaks to how the NFL is a business, both for players and coaches. You can see that in the space of less than a year, he's supposedly on the outs in Tennessee and even appears to be sabotaging his way out of town by putting on Peyton Manning jerseys joking that he "wants to be a winner".

Just hire the best coach and get out of the way, Mister Jones. Don't worry about concepts or whether or not "continuity" will be served, because chances are it won't be.

Regardless, I think continuity was simply a convenient term to allow him to face a little less heat for keeping Phillips after last season's collapse. If continuity was important, he would have taken steps to ensure he didn't tear down what it took Bill Parcells four years to build.
 

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Here's the best strategy:
The recent trend is to hire a young up-and-comer. Jerry likes to out-do everyone. Therefore, we should hire the youngest coach ever. Scour the NFL coordinator coaching ranks for a promising coach in the 28-30 year old range and hire him. We can have continuity for the next 35-40 years!
 

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Iago33;3026554 said:
Here's the best strategy:
The recent trend is to hire a young up-and-comer. Jerry likes to out-do everyone. Therefore, we should hire the youngest coach ever. Scour the NFL coordinator coaching ranks for a promising coach in the 28-30 year old range and hire him. We can have continuity for the next 35-40 years!

:D Our next HC will be 17 years old.
 

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Bleu Star;3026555 said:
:D Our next HC will be 17 years old.
Since Garrett is in the family portrait and McDaniels is enjoying unexpected success, I have no doubt in my mind who will be the head coach next year.
 

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The only kind of coach who Jerry will allow to be a true head coach (i.e., free of Jerry meddling, undermining, micromanaging), is a head coach who already has an established history of obvious success that demands respect -- even from Jerry.

The problem is that this particular kind of coach is likely to be past his prime by the time he starts over in Dallas.

And yet the other kind of head coach, the one who will be forced to endure Jerry's meddling, undermining, micromanaging - won't have much of a chance to succeed, because of Jerry's meddling, undermining, micromanaging.

I think the Cowboys' best chance of success occurs under the aging established coach who keeps Jerry in check.

Dallas just isn't the right situation for the up and coming head coach with loads of potential but marginal experience. Jerry would stay in this coach's way, constantly flubbing up the whole deal.
 
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