I know a lot of people harp on the Marinelli thing and those who defend Broaddus say that everyone points to that and that he
did state it was hit gut feeling... and I understand that. However, what bugs me about it is twofold:
1. Broaddus has been wrong about a good bit of stuff and like I've already said, he states guesses like fact.
2. Secondly, it isn't like Marinelli going to Tampa was the logical conclusion to the ordeal. It was highly unlikely, IMO and his guess was grounded in extremely linear logic:
Marinelli and Lovie really like each other - and -
Marinelli wouldn't coach in Chicago without Lovie - and -
now Lovie is coach in Tampa - and -
Marinelli is in final year of contract in Dallas - so -
Marinelli will go coach in Tampa with Lovie.
It is elementary logic. Not much complex thought there, and frankly it was less than stellar deduction by Broaddus.
I wrote before the end of the season that I didn't see anyway that Marinelli would leave Dallas for Tampa based on a few things:
*Lovie already had a good friend at defensive coordinator in Leslie Frazier. I didn't see Lovie letting Frazier go after one year to hire Rod.
*Based on that, Marinelli would have to go in as a defensive line coach or some kind of special consultant, either of which would have been a demotion for him to take.
*Marinelli had talked about the mystique of coaching in Dallas and to leave the Cowboys to go coach in Tampa would be a difficult enough decision without even talking about a demotion, or even a lateral move. The Cowboys take care of their players and their coaches. The team is extremely high profile and frankly, is at the pinnacle of professional football along with a few other franchises.
*Rod has talked before about who you coach with and how important it is to him. Since he first came to Dallas, he has been talking about how much he enjoys coaching with Jason Garrett, who runs things tight and disciplined just like Marinelli likes. Rod knows he's with a really good coaching staff currently and it would make no sense for him to go to Tampa, even if he does admire Lovie. He admires Garrett and enjoys coaching with him.
So, even back before Marinelli made the decision to stay, it seemed pretty plain to me that something would have to go pretty wrong for Rod to want to go to Tampa instead of staying in Dallas. IOW, it was a longshot that he would leave Dallas.
So, Broaddus was taking what I considered to be a simplistic view of the situation and going against what common sense said would happen, and he was doing so with an arrogance that said he knew something that everyone else did not... which of course isn't true, and that was confirmed when there was absolutely no hesitation on Marinelli's part to resign in Dallas to stay under Garrett.
So Broaddus whiffed on that. He whiffed so bad that we are all talking about it months later. That's what happens when you take something with a slim chance of happening... you talk like you know it IS going to happen... and you convince a ton of people who don't know any better that the illogical is going to happen.
Is it any wonder that people like me, @
xwalker and others got a little tired of wading through post after post of fans saying things like, "Who are we going to get to be the defensive coordinator?" or "I think we should move back to a 3-4 defense now that Marinelli is leaving". These posts were happening, in large part, because of Broaddus. How do we know this? Because every time someone would try to talk to those posters and tell them that in all likelihood Marinelli was going to re-up with Dallas... they would point to Broaddus and say that he said Marinelli was as good as gone.
Maybe it isn't fair that so many give Bryan a hard time about missing on the Marinelli thing... but man, was it irritating.
Perhaps Broaddus will be more careful with low hanging fruit and his off the wall guesses.
