Hope no one gets juvenile on me for this, but why specifically was he so hated over everything else that was happening?
Your offense over the last 3 years has been about as good as any 3 year stretch since Aikman and Smith. Maybe a lot of Dak’s success was specifically what Linehan was doing, hiding his weaknesses. One could argue you didn’t have an NFL caliber TE this year, but as soon as you got Cooper you guys went on a tear. Garrett seemed to like him, going as far as to announce he expected him back prematurely. I’m not saying I’ve evaluated him as a great OC, but the only major faults I’ve noticed is an absence of QB scrambles when theyd be opportune, and maybe some vanilla playcalling that defenders have called out. But that doesn’t necessarily mean his offense hasn’t been working to some extent.
What if you bring in a revolutionary new guy and you can’t get anything going, the run game dies out and Prescott reverts to dink and dak? Appreciate it or not, you’ve won 32 games over the last 3 years and Linehan had a ton to do with that.