Jerry Jones: There’s nobody I’d rather have than Monte Kiffin

[TNCowboy]

I honestly believe most of our D's problem is the coaching. The front 4 needs a lot of work but the back end is not that bad. I'm tired of getting rid of players because the coaching sucks.............

The game has passed Kiffin by, but coaching causes Bruce Carter to jog around and avoid contact?

 

[coult44]

People should feel sorry for us cowboys fans.

They do

 

[crazytown41]

Why didn't he have this same stubbornness when we had Sean freakin Payton? Unreal...

 

[Wolfpack]

15 crown and cokes will cause rainbows and unicorns to appear as well as make a historically bad defense seem like a good idea.

 

[Gaede]

Expected this to be an article from the onion

 

[CaptainMorgan]

This guy has got to be trolling us now

 

[ChooChoo73]

Maybe someone asked him who he thinks should call the offensive plays?

 

[KJJ]

What Jerry likes the best about Kiffin is they're of similar age so to take their minds off the defensive struggles they can have a drink and discuss the health of their prostate.

 

[17yearsandcounting]

 

[camelboy]

It's a long shot…but if Rex gets the sack this year…I would LOVE to bring him here as the DC…Always felt he is the better DC of the Ryan brothers...

one can only hope though

 

[SportsGuru80]

Jerry Jones needs to be committed.

Agreed, SMH!

 

[black label]

 

[Sarge]

It doesn't get any more pathetic than that statement. I have no faith in the future of this team whatsoever.

NONE.

 

[LucaBrasi]

Larry Lacewell approves this message.

 

[StylisticS]

He can say anything he wants in December. But if he finds his players cleaning out their locker rooms on December 29 and Kiffin finds himself still the DC of the Dallas Cowboys, then he is a senile old drunk.

 

[NumOneQB]

This guy has got to be trolling us now

Lmao !!

 

[VThokie7]

Jerry must be trolling. Either that or he is just hell bent on proving himself right.

 

[diehard2294]

What else could he say, I mean he fired Ryan because the defense didn't force turnovers and the scheme was to complicated. The team had a ton of injuries last year as well, so Jerry 's fix was to get a guy who had a good defensive system that was easy to play and certain players would flourish.

Now the defense is the worst in team history and Jerry looks like a (fill in the blank) so what could he say to make himself look better then to give Kiffin a vote of confidence.

Kiffin will be one and done and we will be back to the drawing board

Wade Phillips
Rob Ryan
Monte Kiffin

That's a darn good set of resumes, so is it the scheme or the players in it...

 

[Wheeltax]

Why is anyone surprised? The defense was bad last year even before injuries, and now it's the first year of putting those same players and their backups into a new defensive scheme. There's no pass rush, and that makes the rest of the defense ineffective.

Kiffin is a guy who knows his stuff, and players like playing for him - I wager he needs more than half a season to try and get this thing headed in the right direction. You throw him out and I doubt the next guy does much, if any, better.

Obviously in hindsight the better plan would have been to keep Ryan and let him work on churning the roster and implementing his system, but if the plan is to change to a 4-3 then it's going to take time for the transition and it's going to get worse before it gets better, especially with the shape of our cap situation.

 

[PoetTree]

You guys need to pay attention to what Jerry really said here...

He wasn't endorsing Kiffin for next season. He was saying, at this point in time, there is no one he'd rather have to get this thing fixed over the next 2-3 weeks to get them into the playoffs. He then goes on to qualify that by saying, "First of all, he knows what we’re doing better than anyone, and if there are adjustments to be made, he’s the right man for the job right now.” --and he's probably right. It's too late to have someone come in here and fix this defense in these final few weeks of the season, which is the explicit time-frame Jerry frames his comments in:“To fix what we’re doing, there’s nobody I’d rather have than him and Rod Marinelli, and where we are today to get this fixed over the next week, two weeks, three weeks,” Jones said.

Anyone who thinks Jerry is endorsing the idea Kiffin will be back next year is flat wrong. Jerry is just toeing the company line, offering his public support (because what a media storm it would be if he did anything else), and showing as much confidence as he can --which is the most empowering thing he can do at this point. But don't presume that Jones is happy with these results and that an axe won't fall in the off-season on somebody's neck. Especially if Jerry is serious about keeping Garrett, Kiffin is absolutely gonna be that guy...