News: ESPN: Source: Callahan upset if Linehan is hired

[peplaw06]

Logic dictates that if the Cowboys are seriously considering replacing Callahan, then his original hiring can be considered a mistake. In addition, if Linehan is being considered, then it can also be presumed that Garrett would be more comfortable with him as the OC considering they are said to have a history.

If this is really Jerry's implied move and not Garrett's, then it has not appeared as such. This appears to be a Garrett move more than anything. As for Callahan being "vilified" by anything I posted, I see no such evidence.

Ummm... only if you accept that the Cowboys always act logically.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

Guys, this is all a ploy to get Callahan to quit so Jerry doesn't have to pay him while he isn't here. Garrett wants Callahan out and Linehan in because Garrett can have more control over the new hire who he has worked with in the past. If Jerry isn't going to let Garrett call the plays, he at least wants someone in their that he can control and have more input during games than he did with Callahan. This is nothing more that Garrett's attempt to get Callahan to leave.

Exactly.

And to WG's question... Maybe I'm not understanding you, but Fisher is asking how it could even be a choice between being demoted here on a possibly lame duck staff and getting a real OC job in Cleveland where he'd have more authority *and* most likely more security.

Which is why everyone I've heard from David Moore to Albert Breer expects Linehan to be calling the plays this year. It's going to work out to be better for both parties for Callahan to leave. Callahan is probably thinking that it kind of sucks for Jason to get bailed out like this, but in the end he'll probably go.

 

[Direwolf63]

Linehan would definitely be a Garrett hiring. If this happens, it means Jerry is giving Garrett every opportunity to earn a new contract. Jones wants Garrett to be as comfortable as possible. Then if the season is still a failure, Garrett will have no excuses as he walks out of Valley Ranch with his walking papers next year.

 

[links18]

Jones wants Garrett to be as comfortable as possible. .

So he didn't want that last year when he foisted Callahan calling plays on him?

 

[RJ_MacReady]

 

[Next Years Champ]

This is turning into a joke. Every off season is some internal drama like this...can this go into the thread regarding "Why are a laughingstock?" No one runs a team like this.

Yes they do.

Year before last the Ravens fired their OC and then won a SB.

And this was during the season as I recall.

Relax.

If you are so offended by this..stop following the team.

We don't need this sort of 'fan support'..

its not support..its just unprofessional opinion.

 

[Direwolf63]

So he didn't want that last year when he foisted Callahan calling plays on him?

Jerry Jones always thinks he knows better than everybody else. He "foisted" Callahan on Garrett because he wanted Garrett to be a "walk around" coach.

2014 is Garrett's last chance for a contract extension. And Jerry will give him every opportunity for that extension, even if it means he has to hire Garrett's guy. But Garrett has to succeed. If Garrett fails, it won't be because Garrett wasn't allowed to hire his guy. Jerry wants that excuse taken off the table if he has to get rid of him after next year.

It's all conjecture on my part, so take it for what's it's worth.

 

[coult44]

Can't the entire organization just get on air JJ and disappear forever...

 

[speedkilz88]

How has Callahan been a mistake? The O-line and our run game -- his main responsibility -- improved greatly last year. Yes, some of that could be talent, but Callahan was by all reports the main driver behind drafting Frederick. And Green Bay said our zone blocking was the best in the league last year. Garrett didn't even run a zone scheme, so you know that is Callahan.

We know that was Frank Pollack. Callahan even said so during the season that Pollack was coaching the OL with him having more OC/play calling duties.

 

[Zimmy Lives]

Ummm... only if you accept that the Cowboys always act logically.

They don't. I was referring to my logic.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

We know that was Frank Pollack. Callahan even said so during the season that Pollack was coaching the OL with him having more OC/play calling duties.

Yes, but he's part of the (ahem) process that Callahan started last year. Callahan is the only reason Pollack is here.

But just to be clear, I'm not some huge Bill Callahan fan. I think he's okay to pretty good. It's not like it would be a disaster if he left. But I do think he's done a pretty good job with the items he's been tasked with since he got here. It's not like he promoted himself to playcaller.

 

[Zimmy Lives]

Guys, this is all a ploy to get Callahan to quit so Jerry doesn't have to pay him while he isn't here. Garrett wants Callahan out and Linehan in because Garrett can have more control over the new hire who he has worked with in the past. If Jerry isn't going to let Garrett call the plays, he at least wants someone in their that he can control and have more input during games than he did with Callahan. This is nothing more that Garrett's attempt to get Callahan to leave.

Appears that way, doesn't it?

Kind of makes you wonder if anyone will want to coach for the Cowboys in the future. It seems like there is never a short supply and I don't understand why considering Jerry is in charge.

 

[waving monkey]

I need to explain how he is this years scapegoat? Do I need to explain the scapegoats the past 18 years under jj? Do I. Need to expaling the scapegoats the past 3 years under jj and jg?

yes

 

[Zordon]

I would imagine and I wouldn't blame him.
I could be wrong, but he just seems like an unhappy fella anyways.
Kind of an abrasive personality.
I don't know the guy personally, but he comes off that way to me.

Yeah I noticed the same. It's not a coincidence he leaves every job with turmoil.

 

[CowboysFaninHouston]

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If the Dallas Cowboys hire Scott Linehan as the playcaller, it would upset the current one, Bill Callahan. A source said Callahan would be opposed to a move and that he would contemplate his future with the Cowboys should it happen. Callahan, who is signed through the 2014 season, became the playcaller in 2013 when Cowboys owner/general manager Jerry Jones wanted to take those duties away from head coach Jason Garrett. When the source was asked would Callahan be happy with a potential change, the source said, "hell no.

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Callahan should just coach OL. when the play calling duties were taken away from him, and believe me they were (But Garrett likes to down play Hollywood stuff and act like billicheck) the offense played a lot better and had much better rhythm to it. If he wants to move on, I say don't let the door hit you in the back.

 

[Doomsay]

Yes they do.

Year before last the Ravens fired their OC and then won a SB.

And this was during the season as I recall.

Relax.

If you are so offended by this..stop following the team.

We don't need this sort of 'fan support'..

its not support..its just unprofessional opinion.

There are no teams in today's NFL that has a GM that admits he should have been fired ages ago, yet continues at the helm. There are no teams in today's NFL where a GM admits that his 4th year coach is still making poor game management mistakes, and is learning on the job yet that GM rationalizes keeping this project coach on staff for sunk cost reasons and the infinitesimally remote possibility that he might flourish somewhere else if let go.
There are no teams in today's NFL where a [1] GM declares that he doesn't want a walk around coach, then in the span of a single season [2] mandates that his coach be a walk-around coach by stripping him of his play calling abilities, [3] then seemingly restores the coach's calling rights mid season, by tries to hide the awkward role reversal by claiming that the coach is merely passing on other peoples' play calls to the QB, [3] then potentially inserts yet another offensive handler into the mix to fix what the HC was hired to do in the first place.

That is not on the same the same dysfunctional order of magnitude as simply replacing an OC during the season.

 

[Miller]

Yes they do.

Year before last the Ravens fired their OC and then won a SB.

And this was during the season as I recall.

Relax.

If you are so offended by this..stop following the team.

We don't need this sort of 'fan support'..

its not support..its just unprofessional opinion.

Back off. I've been a fan since 1975. Fandom doesn't mean sit and accept everything. That's being a shill.

Please stop trying to bring up rare examples that work. It's like the people who think Garrett is following the Landry timelime. Last season our HC got stripped of his duties. The new OC faired about the same except the running game improved when used. Now they want to bump him and get another guy who was dumped because his highly talented offense failed down the stretch. How is that the "continuity" people always refer to when talking about Garrett?

So excuse me for having an informed voice and seeing a pattern here. Telling people to stop following a team because they aren't happy with 17 years of "meh" is something you'd probably need to drop these days.

 

[Beast_from_East]

When you are used as a scapegoat it will tend to piss you off a little.

Ya think?

Worst job in the NFL is to be an assistant coach on Garrett's staff...............sooner or later, the finger gets pointed at you..............not surprising Callahan is pissed off about it, but he should have seen this coming after Ryan got rail roaded out of here last season. It was just a matter of time till it was his turn to fall on the sword for Garrett's incompetence.

 

[percyhoward]

let him go ... the lions offense was pretty good under Linehan ...

http://cowboyszone.com/threads/what-the-lions-did-better-than-us-in-2013.281949/

 

[RonSpringsdaman20]

duhhhhh….