It has to be the coaching

[jnday]

He will not. He is building a fighting force of extraordinary magnitude. He is forging this team in the spirit of their ancestors. He deserves our gratitude.

It is a process.

It is a process of good days stacked on good days and good games stacked on each other. Sure recipe for building a winner don't you think? I can't understand how Callahan escapes any heat either. Maybe he is a process himself.

 

[StarBoyz83]

I was flipping my Ticket games one day & darn if Terrance Newman didn't get a pick 6 & score for the Bengals.

Newman has been one of the best cbs in the league since he left!

 

[wileedog]

A freaking men.

How many coaches does this group of players get to kill before we admit that maybe they aren't that good

As Erod said in another thread, "So what is wrong with the coaches of the 49ers, Falcons, Texans, Commanders, Giants, Packers, Bengals, Steelers, and Ravens?" Did those guys suddenly forget how to coach? Are they 'non-professional NFL managers'? The search for the easy answer and the easy scapegoat is...easy. The actual issues are usually more complicated.

The difference, of course, being that most of those coaches actually won something before, unlike our intern in training.

 

[RS12]

It has to be the coaching

Yep, that is part of it.

 

[BoysFan4ever]

Newman has been one of the best cbs in the league since he left!

I actually thought he had retired. Duh!

 

[BoysFan4ever]

you are right...and whether we hate the NYG or not, they are a first class organization. And there is no way they will come out and fire Coughlin. In private, they may say hey Tom its time for you to step aside...but they will never humiliate him by actually publicly firing him.

I think their owner is cow dung but I admire Coughlin.

 

[ConstantReboot]

Coaching has always been a problem in Dallas. The reason for that is that there is no continuity. Every 3-4 years we change coaches. Not only do we change coaches, we select coaches that Jerry is pleased with and not that they are good coaches minus Parcells. Garrett falls under that bracket as a coach that Jerry is comfortable with but doesn't really know how to coach. Jerry likes those types of coaches because he can control them. Garrett will probably be a good coach someday somewhere else and I have my doubts. But he won't be successful in Dallas.

 

[BoysFan4ever]

Coaching has always been a problem in Dallas. The reason for that is that there is no continuity. Every 3-4 years we change coaches. Not only do we change coaches, we select coaches that Jerry is pleased with and not that they are good coaches minus Parcells. Garrett falls under that bracket as a coach that Jerry is comfortable with but doesn't really know how to coach. Jerry likes those types of coaches because he can control them. Garrett will probably be a good coach someday somewhere else and I have my doubts. But he won't be successful in Dallas.

I think it'd be slim pickings for Jason to get another head coaching gig if he is fired here.

 

[Ratmatt]

Dallas isn't consistently good enouigh up front,on either side of the ball,to win big in this league.They lack some talent and depth on both sides.

 

[Blackspider214]

At what point do you maybe look at the talent on this team and say it's overrated?

 

[cml750]

The team was unmotivated Sunday. That is on the head coach. So far this season, it has taken a player speech (Hatcher's) to get the most out of this team. Garrett has layed an egg in the motivational department. I had hoped he would do a better job of this after giving up play calling but the early returns are not good. If we go .500 again, we need a new HC who can motivate the team and get the most out of the players.

 

[Alexander]

The team was unmotivated Sunday. That is on the head coach. So far this season, it has taken a player speech (Hatcher's) to get the most out of this team. Garrett has layed an egg in the motivational department. I had hoped he would do a better job of this after giving up play calling but the early returns are not good. If we go .500 again, we need a new HC who can motivate the team and get the most out of the players.

It was not really a case of not being "motivated". Preparation and being focused on exploiting weaknesses in the opponent and disguising your own means a lot more in the grand scheme of things.

McCoy had a real decisive plan on how to attack the Cowboys defense. No amount of rah rah would have been able to counter that.

If anything was a problem in the motivational department it was the sense that the team was feeling a bit full of themselves after the Rams game, got a lead and then basically let up thinking the opponent would just roll over.

 

[Broges74]

It's always the coaching.

I say we keep rotating in fresh coaches and stockpiling cornerbacks until something sticks.

Ahh, the Detroit WR draft strategy! I'm in!

 

[Risen Star]

It was not really a case of not being "motivated". Preparation and being focused on exploiting weaknesses in the opponent and disguising your own means a lot more in the grand scheme of things.

McCoy had a real decisive plan on how to attack the Cowboys defense. No amount of rah rah would have been able to counter that.

If anything was a problem in the motivational department it was the sense that the team was feeling a bit full of themselves after the Rams game, got a lead and then basically let up thinking the opponent would just roll over.

Brandon Carr, before laughing his way to the bank, made the comment that a loss like that really brings the team back down to Earth.

Eh, why did you ever leave the Earth? A win over the Rams at home to go 2-1? These players are that stupid?

I think it's a cop out. This team isn't good enough to win consistently.

 

[ufcrules1]

Brandon Carr, before laughing his way to the bank, made the comment that a loss like that really brings the team back down to Earth.

Eh, why did you ever leave the Earth? A win over the Rams at home to go 2-1? These players are that stupid?

That was a dumb comment he made. Exactly, why would you ever leave earth in the first place? Because you beat the lowly Rams? Give me a break. With that said, Carr is one of my favorite players on the team. Dumb comment but terrific player.

 

[SultanOfSix]

Rams game, got a lead and then basically let up thinking the opponent would just roll over.

Which is the complete opposite of what Garrett was promoting in previous years: the "Bellicheat" model of putting the pedal to the medal, or the knife to the throat, or whatever phrase or idiom on can come up with to signify "burying" an opponent was all talk and no show.

 

[Alexander]

Eh, why did you ever leave the Earth? A win over the Rams at home to go 2-1? These players are that stupid?

Yes, but they are led to that realm of idiocy by the overly optimistic owner and a complicit staff that allows the culture to continue to exist.

When the excuses are no longer tolerated and the coach can get the players to shut out the pathetic ramblings of the ultimate decision makers, perhaps things might change.

It would take a personality way bigger than Jason Garrett to ever make that happen.

 

[Seven]

This team is like an oval rolling down a hill.


New coach. New scheme. New players for said scheme. That didn't work........New coach. New scheme. Uh-oh.

New coach. New philosophy. Same culture. Hmmmm.....New coach. Same philosophy. Same Ceo/Owner/GM/ Grand pooh-bah/ Final decision maker and a plethora of athletes for last years and the year before scheme/philosophy. All new coaches..............that ought to do it. Same CEO/Owner/GM/Grand Pooh-bah/Final Decision maker. Mr. '**********'.

"Any one of 500 coaches.........." J. Jones.

 

[dallasdave]

Tale of 2 halves. The 1st half the Cowboys played like a well coached team with talent. The 2nd half they played like a bunch of guys who had no desire to play and were never coached.