Insight to "Jerry's Meddling"

[windward]

Want Campo? That's fine too. But it also does not mean he is a great hire.

The bottom line is if he's hired here I'll accept it like I accept all our hires. After the next head coaching switch the truth will come out anyway, whether or not Campo was Jerry's forced hire or Wade's insistence.

It could also be a collaborative decision.

 

[lewpac]

Quality depth...

The "problem" in Dallas is HEART & DESIRE!!!

Home field advantage, having to play against two teams you beat handily in the regular season...........what more do you want???!!!??!!

If you can't pull THAT off, the "problem" isn't the Owner/GM who bought and paid for the talent. He's done all he can do. He put the players and the coaches between the lines and said "have at it". Clearly, he did his part. Something happened between December 1st and the playoffs that went sour. Probably the team getting too snooty and comfortable, and thinking that "home field" was enough to have the Giants just roll over and go away.
WRONG!!

I'm not even sure if it was Wade and the coaching!!!! IMO, it was the players!!! Dropped balls. Stupid penalties. Bad QB play, etc, etc, etc........
Everything that could've went wrong ON THE FIELD, DID go wrong.

But don't blame Jerry Jones for giving this team EVERY possible chance to succeed. THAT, my friends, was bought and paid for in spades. Execution was the problem, and will continue to be the problem until further notice......

 

[CF74]

The "problem" in Dallas is HEART & DESIRE!!!

Home field advantage, having to play against two teams you beat handily in the regular season...........what more do you want???!!!??!!

If you can't pull THAT off, the "problem" isn't the Owner/GM who bought and paid for the talent. He's done all he can do. He put the players and the coaches between the lines and said "have at it". Clearly, he did his part. Something happened between December 1st and the playoffs that went sour. Probably the team getting too snooty and comfortable, and thinking that "home field" was enough to have the Giants just roll over and go away.
WRONG!!

I'm not even sure if it was Wade and the coaching!!!! IMO, it was the players!!! Dropped balls. Stupid penalties. Bad QB play, etc, etc, etc........
Everything that could've went wrong ON THE FIELD, DID go wrong.

But don't blame Jerry Jones for giving this team EVERY possible chance to succeed. THAT, my friends, was bought and paid for in spades. Execution was the problem, and will continue to be the problem until further notice......

No it was a lack of quality depth. We had two banged up receivers wasting roster space out there and a #3 receiver that had the dropsies. Our defense all but shut the gnats down in the 2nd half, we just couldn't score. Barber ran out of gas and Julius hasn't had any since we played NE. Then the o-line faded but when do you yank O-Linemen in the middle of a play off game for fresh back ups? It's never been done. Maybe we should be the 1st team to try it...

 

[lewpac]

You just made my point............

Receivers with the "dropsies" and "Barber ran out of gas"..............

That, dear fellow, is a matter of HEART and DESIRE!!!!!

Plus, Romo who all year, either scrambled out of trouble or threw the ball away............taking sack after sack for 10+ yards or more..........***????

The team that lost to the Giants, in what may be in the top five of ALL TIME CHOKE'S, was no less the personell and talent that beat them by double digits twice in the regular season.............once on the road!!!! AND..........Terry Glenn to boot!!!!!

Sorry. Excuse all you want. This debacle isn't a matter of "depth", "veterans", or "experience". It's not a matter of coaching, Owner or GM either. It's a classic case of 45 guys in a locker room, who got so full of themselves that they mistakenly thought that other teams were just going to be "so intimidated" and roll over for the almighty Cowboys, "at home for the playoffs".

Hopefully, it's a lesson learned. This team could very well go 16-0 next year in the regular season. But, after 40 years of being a Cowboy fan...I, for one, will not again "believe" until I see the Ring again.

This ain't your Daddy's Dallas Cowboys. The "REAL" Dallas Cowboys would NEVER have home field, against two teams they dismantled already in the regular season, and go "one and done". No way. Not in my lifetime.........

 

[ROMOSAPIEN9]

Sorry. Excuse all you want. This debacle isn't a matter of "depth", "veterans", or "experience". It's not a matter of coaching, Owner or GM either. It's a classic case of 45 guys in a locker room, who got so full of themselves that they mistakenly thought that other teams were just going to be "so intimidated" and roll over for the almighty Cowboys, "at home for the playoffs".

+1

Co-sign

 

[CF74]

You just made my point............

Receivers with the "dropsies" and "Barber ran out of gas"..............

That, dear fellow, is a matter of HEART and DESIRE!!!!!

Plus, Romo who all year, either scrambled out of trouble or threw the ball away............taking sack after sack for 10+ yards or more..........***????


Terry Glenn to boot!!!!!

This ain't your Daddy's Dallas Cowboys. The "REAL" Dallas Cowboys would NEVER have home field, against two teams they dismantled already in the regular season, and go "one and done". No way. Not in my lifetime.........

No it just solidified mine. Where were the starters? Crayton was practically out there by himself and Barber was trying to do it all without relief. We needed one more healthy WR and a RB that could get past his shadow and it wasn't there.

Romo got the ball in play when he could and they were being dropped.

Terry Glenn is a gimp, we fooled nobody.

And you're right about it not being my daddy's Cowboys of the 60's and 70's, they didn't play 16 games back then....

Depth!!! We need quality depth....:horse:

 

[CrazyCowboy]

We just don't know for sure.....

 

[DallasCowpoke]

Welcome to the forum, Dave Campo. Glad to see you're doing well in the offseason. One thing you forgot to mention when you were telling us about your padded resume as secondary coach (and conveniently leaving off your jobs as DC or HC) - pass rush. In three of the years you mentioned (1992-1994), the Cowboys had Charles Haley as a defensive end. I'm sure you are well aware with your second-to-none coaching resume that a great pass rush makes any secondary look good.

It's a really odd argument to be penalizing, or downplaying a coach's competence, because he had great players at his disposal, and then USED them.

 

[cowboyed]

Well, the problem I have with this whole idea is that you don't hire coaches for a HC that is not yet hired. Two, GMs have no business hiring coaching staffs. They can hire a HC but that is where it should stop. The HC should have say over who is hired for his coaching staff IMO. That's just how it needs to work if your going to have success. At least, that's how I see it.

A GM should defer to a head coaches choices, but a GM indeed is very much involved in the hiring process. Also a GM can suggest an assistant to a head coach and that head coach could consider it and be very much on board. Such is the case on the hiring of Houck, Wade actually initiated contacting him, and Campo could very well be a joint interviewing decision.

Then toss in what the state of the current market for highly experienced secondary coaches is currently and also consider a good number of them are under contract. We do not know what is going on behind the scenes. We are not NFL insiders or professionals. I am sure things will become clearer after the preemptive fretting among fans and the local sports media.