Future;3023947 said:
Would he bring the 4-3 with him? Jerry and co. have spent a lot of time, effort, and money to get the personnel for a 3-4, I wonder if Fisher would bend there.
I think we have the players to run the 4-3, but I think we'd be committed to the 3-4 at this point.
We don't really run the 3-4 so much as we run a 5-2 with the amount of snaps that our OLBs are rushing the passer.
In my humblest of opinions, though, I feel as if Jeff Fisher is part of the changing of the guard in the NFL. The era of the 90s coaches is coming to a close...while I'm not sure Jason Garrett would make a great head coach because you never know hiring new guys, I would honestly feel much better with him as the head coach of the Cowboys than another aging, also-ran head coach. The only coach that I feel would be better for our situation that is "out" would be Tony Dungy because of his proven ability to put a dominant, winning product on the field with two sets of personnel in two separate locations, especially on the defensive side of the ball (save for the year the Colts went to the Super Bowl...their run defense was brutal that reg. season).
Guys like Fisher, Gruden, Holmgren, Cowher, Norv Turner, etc are done...the new era is beginning with coaches like Mike Tomlin, Jim Caldwell, Sean Payton, Ken Whisenhunt, even Todd Haley and yes...possibly Jason Garrett. Jerry messed up when he didn't make Garrett the head coach right off the bat. He can possibly right that wrong this off-season, and with help from Stephen Jones possibly give him a very strong draft next season to get him started.
Embrace the new era of football...imagine what people were thinking when guys like Lombardi, Landry, John Madden, and others were getting switched out in favor of other, newer faces. We're lucky enough to be living in a time where we will really be seeing some changes in the game of football at the professional level!