Football Resume

[Ranching]

I disagree just a bit. Barry Switzer was sadly unqualified to ever be an NFL coach. Even Dave Campo was a poor selection to ever Head Coach the Dallas Cowboys. Give me @jday or @Sarge any day over knuckleheads like that to be HC. We have posters here that are amazingly knowledgeable of the NFL game.

But as you say... even if I'm wrong, as a fan I'm allowed to think like that...

@jday would have the longest play book and speeches in the NFL. Lol

 

[Trouty]

All day long

JC, my brotha!!

 

[TellerMorrow34]

I think every coach in the NFL has forgotten more about football than most or all in this forum.

Imo, the very definition of not knowing much is to actually not realize how little we know vs an NFL coach....and even think we know more than them overall.

Question calls...and even be correct about it sometimes?
Sure. Absolutely.
But know more about coaching the game? Highly doubtful.
But as fans, we ARE allowed to think that

Exactly. The people on this forum wouldn't make it a week as the coach of any NFL team. The vast amount of football that we don't know, or even begin to understand, is lost on some of these people who want to believe they're actually better from their couch, then people who've been putting in the work day in and day out for 20 or 30 years.

If coaching NFL football was as easy as some of the wannabe's on this forum try and make it out to be then any of them would be able to go out right now and get a coaching job somewhere and succeed at a high level at it.

It's a joke how ignorant fan bases are sometimes.

 

[Biggems]

I played CP in HS, college, and the NFL......I was all-state, all-American, and will soon be in the HOF (at least I hope)....

BTW, CP = couch potato

 

[jday]

I disagree just a bit. Barry Switzer was sadly unqualified to ever be an NFL coach. Even Dave Campo was a poor selection to ever Head Coach the Dallas Cowboys. Give me @jday or @Sarge any day over knuckleheads like that to be HC. We have posters here that are amazingly knowledgeable of the NFL game.

But as you say... even if I'm wrong, as a fan I'm allowed to think like that...

I'm flattered, but I think I may be two or three layers into the onion that is football...and football is a big many-layered onion. The coaches you mentioned, knowledge wasn't the problem. If I recall correctly, leadership skills and/or mismanagement of contracts given and/or the addition of cap to begin with and/or poor drafting and/or players getting old played a big part in those coaches downfall and was also partially responsible for poor returns in the early going of Garrett's career as hc.

 

[The Fonz]

There are a lot of very good posters on the CZ. I was wondering, what kind of resumes we had around here. Me, I'm pretty savvy in HS ball in Texas, since I've been involved in it since 1975. When it comes to the NFL, I'm just a fan. Some of you guys seem pretty knowledgeable and some seem to be full of BS. Lol, at the end of the day it's all pretty amusing.​

Never underestimate BS my friend .BS is the glue that holding our species together.If you take the BS from human all societies will collapse

 

[Melonfeud]

@jday would have the longest play book and speeches in the NFL. Lol

Hilarious!

My school didn't have a football program, I was to aggressive ( sloppy) for basket ball and would foul- out, was a real killer on the wrestling mat though(I would wear my wrestling shoes out squirrel hunting and hang 4-5 off my belt and they would drip blood on that right shoe,well I wouldn't wash it off and before a match I would point that blood out to my opponent " you see that?,,, it ain't mine",,, I usually stuck those guys in about 15 seconds flat) was the varsity track teams miler for four years,never found time for high school baseball

 

[daschoo]

Being Scottish soccer is my sport. Played since I was old enough to walk, played for the school teams and for local youth teams till I was 16. Spent my weekends and evenings playing in the park with friends till we discovered beer. Played five a side a couple of times a week for years but these days only get to play seven a side most Monday nights.
Celtic were my first love, some of my earliest memories involve watching them with my dad. In my early twenties I had a season ticket and followed them across Scotland as well as to Germany and Spain. Went through around a five year spell I never missed a game whether it be in the flesh or on TV, no mean feat when you've got work and a girlfriend to fit round a 60 odd game season. The girlfriend is now a wife and in a few years I hope it'll be a 3 generation trip to see Celtic.

Have always been interested in other sports and got really into the NFL in general and Dallas specifically in my late twenties. Self taught from a combination of this forum, Madden and watching games. Fall quite a bit short knowledge wise compared to a lot on here but hey I know enough to enjoy it so I'm happy with that.

 

[Melonfeud]

My football resume pretty much ended when I was darned near knocked out by a kid that was our age{I think} but was much larger than everyone else, he had at least 50-70 lbs on most of the other guys. Was pretty good at basketball and decent at baseball and have always been a decent athlete otherwise. Years later I got into a an adult flag football league that included some former Sooners including Charles Thompson, Jamelle Holloway and Kelly Greg{who was extremely quick for a 300lber}. Also Wes Welker came out and played in a few games who was a really cool guy and quick as a cat, saw Welker return a punt 80 yards and not one person laid a finger on him

So maybe you would disagree on @mrtxstar bash of Barry Switzer, like I disagree? Kripes! He even said @Sarge would've been a better coach than Switzer,,, uh-ah! @Sarge would be good at giving you the ' green weenie' if you made his ' turd-list'/ ' pissed him off' ,,, not franchise coach material!,,, go to war with?,,,ya,no doubt.

 

[BigStar]

I'm somewhere around Al Played in HS, etc.

 

[BigStar]

There are a lot of very good posters on the CZ. I was wondering, what kind of resumes we had around here. Me, I'm pretty savvy in HS ball in Texas, since I've been involved in it since 1975. When it comes to the NFL, I'm just a fan. Some of you guys seem pretty knowledgeable and some seem to be full of BS. Lol, at the end of the day it's all pretty amusing.​

What kind of offense/defensive scheme did you prefer over the course of 42 yrs? I could see the 5-2 being your staple on D early on and evolving (just an ex., etc.)? Trick/run gimmick O, standard run heavy, spread? Would be cool to know cuz I know in parts of TX, some Texans take HS football as superior to the NFL in terms of importance of their "favorite team" winning so know you guys are in a hybrid HS/College level of competition and investment into the programs, etc.

 

[Ranching]

What kind of offense/defensive scheme did you prefer over the course of 30 yrs? I could see the 5-2 being your staple on D early on and evolving (just an ex., etc.)? Trick/run gimmick O, standard run heavy, spread? Would be cool to know cuz I know in parts of TX, some Texans take HS football as superior to the NFL in terms of importance of their "favorite team" winning so know you guys are in a hybrid HS/College level of competition and investment into the programs, etc.

You are right about defense. I run a 50 front, been blessed with some great nose guards and OLBs. Out of my 14 all state players, 12 were on defense. I had 3 different players with 20 sack seasons. Offensively, I was a Power I guy until 2005, that year i put in the Utah formation, basically a run heavy spread, shotgun package with two RBs. That was my second year as head coach and we won our first varsity championship. We were state ranked the next two years with that offense. As teams caught on we started to air it out more, had one special pass heavy team in 2010. Our QB was named Texas player of the week during that year, threw 6 tds and ran for 3 more in one game. We scored 65 games and had close to 800 yards that game and almost lost. We drove 80 yards in under a minute to win it with 7 seconds left. 65 to 58, beers tasted great that night especially after the *** chewing I gave my defensive staff. Lol

 

[Ranching]

@BigStar
This is one of my two top noseguards, three year starter. Squatted over 600 and benched almost 500 during his junior year off season. Notice, he is sitting on the QB. I love this pic, had it as my screen saver for years.https://lh3.***BROKEN***/-O5jWuP-Yew2Gu7iEI-odCX_QRwBI8TF5E_gCqnoHvm0Z57XF9s0VxFLwFaDX4OQNJKsH2cwNp8Nhk7KgUi-GGvpWAoP7K8RRCd4-ySdcL8nNS7UKEkWmfFbZCYjz9mfhcny3xrQXE1T1jbuXGNqk2OZjpyjeWZe6VRyl_VPKD4Tbvj2cKYNOIcAfJevpN8ZCrouAxLSuaixSzvH54q-1mex6lQ0BkRsuctLGZRC8_gFHhP91Ozv7O83JdcooW5NavEnTghoWdZoQykMd9O8At3w5QidmElgjciiETuj09uVYc2pJO_CzMbAJHpcYunSs9t2Q9k_dzvX4XXk59OUq-pAKSQmmhKaFFNMJ5olFaHLg3KVss06DicNVe8eACkL0_6MV_oyg4Do2kcK4-SYaAaCIvlzTcpb5GzkqdGUhfpb0Ol9XYOvqMsXfpCXAmdh6WcLrBRbja1ejlvbcX6ctyWh8JsHnSxDCbOx5jhxujGM5cKIk1k333gk_peu3dtpVCyO570eEQDkYs6pl5Zh6Pcf8_pNZ21Bgne2CBL_RiKj0Cguwth-Wh9qb_kIarLgLudepsNvq4ouzHeRV3CcXv_YAzED_KT7rLIqD66WTepfvkpAew7c=w533-h470-no

 

[BigStar]

You are right defense. I run a 50 front, been blessed with some great nose guards and OLBs. Out of my 14 all state players, 12 were on defense. I had 3 different players with 20 sack seasons. Offensively, I was a Power I guy until 2005, that year i put in the Utah formation, basically a run heavy spread, shotgun package with two RBs. That was my second year as head coach and we won our first varsity championship. We were state ranked the next two years with that offense. As teams caught on we started to air it out more, had one special pass heavy team in 2010. Our QB was named Texas player of the week during that year, threw 6 tds and ran for 3 more in one game. We scored 65 games and had close to 800 yards that game and almost lost. We drove 80 yards in under a minute to win it with 7 seconds left. 65 to 58, beers tasted great that night especially after the *** chewing I gave my defensive staff. Lol

Shoot Coach you got my blood running just reading that! The first thing that came to mind after reading was how flexible you are with your offense scheme. I esp like how you threw a pass heavy year at them with the kid dominating liked that @ the same time (9 TDs is just crazy) after realizing your success with the shotgun run heavy (we hated those types of teams, we always had trouble with creative run heavy schemes like that; "wish they would just man up (us); sore loser talk" With your D and the success (12 all state) don't fix what aint broken there.

I can see your D coaches enjoying the win but obv feeling they were a culprit in the shootout. 800 yards to lose would crush a team (just guessing; our team and comp wasn't anywhere near that level but Dematha HS was). Our team ran the 50 front w/athletic ends as well and this was late 90s/early 2000s so seems like a common HS scheme due to the run heavy nature in that level of comp but we never had a player ever sniff anything like 20 sacks and believe double digits wasn't common either so that surprised me. I think that's more of the talent/comp difference as this is a Basketball city, etc. 14 All state in TX is very impressive and see why they stuck with ya; damn impressive. Very cool insight Coach.

 

[DFWJC]

@jday would have the longest play book and speeches in the NFL. Lol

 

[BigStar]

@BigStar
This is one of my two top noseguards, three year starter. Squatted over 600 and benched almost 500 during his junior year off season. Notice, he is sitting on the QB. I love this pic, had it as my screen saver for years.https://lh3.***BROKEN***/-O5jWuP-Yew2Gu7iEI-odCX_QRwBI8TF5E_gCqnoHvm0Z57XF9s0VxFLwFaDX4OQNJKsH2cwNp8Nhk7KgUi-GGvpWAoP7K8RRCd4-ySdcL8nNS7UKEkWmfFbZCYjz9mfhcny3xrQXE1T1jbuXGNqk2OZjpyjeWZe6VRyl_VPKD4Tbvj2cKYNOIcAfJevpN8ZCrouAxLSuaixSzvH54q-1mex6lQ0BkRsuctLGZRC8_gFHhP91Ozv7O83JdcooW5NavEnTghoWdZoQykMd9O8At3w5QidmElgjciiETuj09uVYc2pJO_CzMbAJHpcYunSs9t2Q9k_dzvX4XXk59OUq-pAKSQmmhKaFFNMJ5olFaHLg3KVss06DicNVe8eACkL0_6MV_oyg4Do2kcK4-SYaAaCIvlzTcpb5GzkqdGUhfpb0Ol9XYOvqMsXfpCXAmdh6WcLrBRbja1ejlvbcX6ctyWh8JsHnSxDCbOx5jhxujGM5cKIk1k333gk_peu3dtpVCyO570eEQDkYs6pl5Zh6Pcf8_pNZ21Bgne2CBL_RiKj0Cguwth-Wh9qb_kIarLgLudepsNvq4ouzHeRV3CcXv_YAzED_KT7rLIqD66WTepfvkpAew7c=w533-h470-no

And 66 is such a NG number; perfect summary of their attitudes. That kid is no kid...jeebus. I'd smirk too under my clipboard as a HC seeing one of my players setting the tone like that. Very boss; our sideline would erupt.

 

[DFWJC]

@BigStar
This is one of my two top noseguards, three year starter. Squatted over 600 and benched almost 500 during his junior year off season. Notice, he is sitting on the QB. I love this pic, had it as my screen saver for years.https://lh3.***BROKEN***/-O5jWuP-Yew2Gu7iEI-odCX_QRwBI8TF5E_gCqnoHvm0Z57XF9s0VxFLwFaDX4OQNJKsH2cwNp8Nhk7KgUi-GGvpWAoP7K8RRCd4-ySdcL8nNS7UKEkWmfFbZCYjz9mfhcny3xrQXE1T1jbuXGNqk2OZjpyjeWZe6VRyl_VPKD4Tbvj2cKYNOIcAfJevpN8ZCrouAxLSuaixSzvH54q-1mex6lQ0BkRsuctLGZRC8_gFHhP91Ozv7O83JdcooW5NavEnTghoWdZoQykMd9O8At3w5QidmElgjciiETuj09uVYc2pJO_CzMbAJHpcYunSs9t2Q9k_dzvX4XXk59OUq-pAKSQmmhKaFFNMJ5olFaHLg3KVss06DicNVe8eACkL0_6MV_oyg4Do2kcK4-SYaAaCIvlzTcpb5GzkqdGUhfpb0Ol9XYOvqMsXfpCXAmdh6WcLrBRbja1ejlvbcX6ctyWh8JsHnSxDCbOx5jhxujGM5cKIk1k333gk_peu3dtpVCyO570eEQDkYs6pl5Zh6Pcf8_pNZ21Bgne2CBL_RiKj0Cguwth-Wh9qb_kIarLgLudepsNvq4ouzHeRV3CcXv_YAzED_KT7rLIqD66WTepfvkpAew7c=w533-h470-no

Looks like Trouty's tag photo

 

[DFWJC]

So maybe you would disagree on @mrtxstar bash of Barry Switzer, like I disagree? Kripes! He even said @Sarge would've been a better coach than Switzer,,, uh-ah! @Sarge would be good at giving you the ' green weenie' if you made his ' turd-list'/ ' pissed him off' ,,, not franchise coach material!,,, go to war with?,,,ya,no doubt.

Yeah.
Barry Switzer is a Hall of Fame college coach.
When he takes a leak, he gets rid of more football knowledge than most of these guys ever had
No offense directly at Sarge, but we are talking light years difference....and Im not even a specific Switzer fan.

Really, same with Campo. Dude has been coaching in the NFL--the highest level in the world for football--forever. Maybe not head coach , CEO material, but you could never question is knowledge of the game.

 

[Ranching]

And 66 is such a NG number; perfect summary of their attitudes. That kid is no kid...jeebus. I'd smirk too under my clipboard as a HC seeing one of my player setting the tone like that. Very boss; our sideline would erupt.

Hes now making 10k a month in the oil field. He is still as strong as an ox. Didn't play college cause his dad lost his sight and he felt he had to support his family. Good kid.

 

[Ranching]

Shoot Coach you got my blood running just reading that! The first thing that came to mind after reading was how flexible you are with your offense scheme. I esp like how you threw a pass heavy year at them with the kid dominating liked that @ the same time (9 TDs is just crazy) after realizing your success with the shotgun run heavy (we hated those types of teams, we always had trouble with creative run heavy schemes like that; "wish they would just man up (us); sore loser talk"

I can see your D coaches enjoying the win but obv feeling they were a culprit in the shootout. 800 yards to lose would crush a team (just guessing; our team and comp wasn't anywhere near that level but Dematha HS was). Our team ran the 50 front w/athletic ends as well and this was late 90s/early 2000s so seems like a common HS scheme due to the run heavy nature in that level of comp but we never had a player ever sniff anything like 20 sacks and believe double digits wasn't common either so that surprised me. I think that's more of the talent/comp difference as this is a Basketball city, etc. 14 All state in TX is very impressive and see why they stuck with ya; damn impressive.

I made may name as a DC, when I became a head coach i ran both sides of the ball for a couple of years and then slowly gave my coordinators more authority. One year we allowed our 50th point of the year during our tenth game, the following year we went to a 6a school and won our first game 51-50. I reassigned my DC after that game and put in my 50 front and moved number 66 from OL to nose guard and didn't look back the next three years. Lol, great memories. I'm gonna miss this stuff. Salud!