So you liked our CBs playing 10 yards off and then being taught to react to the WR and not the ball. I think Campo is one of the worst coaches we ever had.
Dave Campo won only 3 fewer games than Garrett each of his 3 seasons on teams that were far less talented than the team Garrett inherited. Garrett inherited a team that won 11 games and a playoff game a year prior to him taking over. Dave Campo didn't inherit a Tony Romo, Demarcus Ware, Jason Witten, Sean Lee and a Dez Bryant. Campo started off behind the 8 ball in 2000 with a declining team and an aging Troy Aikman who only had one season left. Campo was also left with no #1 draft picks the next 2 years because of the Joey Galloway deal.
Does anyone honestly believe Garrett could even win 8 games with Anthony Wright, Quincy Carter, Chad Huchinson and Clint Stoerner at QB? I rank Garrett behind Campo due to the talent he inherited compared to the lack of talent Campo was stuck with and because the Cowboys won a championship while Campo was the Cowboys DC. Campo was far more qualified to be an NFL HC than Garrett. Campo started his coaching career in 1971 and had 29 years of coaching experience before taking over as the Cowboys HC in 2000.
That really was frustrating (Soft Coverage 10 yards off, etc. DBs not playing ball) but didn't see any talented corners showing this trait. Deion/K.Smith pressed all the time.
Yet the defense was still respectable ranking 13th for points and 18th for yards allowed. And we had terrible corners.
Definitely speaking more to Campo's propensity to adapt to the talent given to him. Good point.
Its really hard comparing the 02 defense and 13 defense and be able to say one is better than the other talent wise. Maybe they overachieved but that defense was respectable for all 3 years. I know its a different game today, but if we got that kind of production this year we easily would have been 11-5. Top players on that defense were Glover, Ellis, Coakley, Ngyuen, and Woodson. The later two missed a lot of games that season.
I'll take 24 wins over 15 in a 3 year span. It's not because I'm in favor in mediocrity, but between these two win totals, I'll take the one with more wins every time.
Comparing teams from different coaching tenures makes no sense. Things change from season to season and if records are a clear indication of what you are, like what some post on here, then 8-8 is an average team and a 5-11 is a bad team.
You are either a playoff team or you are not....................the difference between 5 wins or 8 wins...............really means jack at the end of the day.
The bottom line is Dave Campo and Jason Garrett are the only 2 head coaches in the history of this franchise to never take their team to the playoffs...........everybody else did, except these two guys............that is fact, nothing to debate.
Now as to which guy sucked the most..............I think any rational person would agree that Garrett has had more talent on the roster to work with than what Campo had.
I don't think that anyone could argue that Dave Campo couldn't have gotten us 8-8 records with this talent.
Thats sad