Yakuza Rich
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I'm not giving up on the season by any shot, but I'm looking ahead if the situation arises where Jerry fires Wade.
I'm clearly off the Garrett bandwagon for two reasons. He's not a top notch O-Coordinator at this point and I think he's regressed from 2007.
I think out of all of the big name coaches, Shanny is probably the most motivated of the bunch...going to training camps around the league and keeping up with the game and clearly preparing to be a HC in 2010. Cowher I think would be the best fit scheme wise.
But, I don't think either of them are as good of a fit as the coach I have in mind.
If we were to sign Cowher or Shanny, it would likely be a 4-year deal worth a lot of money and the general point would be that by year 4 we would be in the Super Bowl.
That creates a lot of hype, hooplah and hysteria which the team hasn't handled well over the past 10 years. In fact, we've done just about everything to not be controversial this year, but the puppets and ho's at that place in Bristol still grasp for any controversial story they can find and you've still got guys like Steve Dennis, Randy Galloway, Mac and the Hack Engel who act completely unprofessional with name calling and other things hacks tend to do.
It's not to say that the media has hurt this season, but it's to say that if we give them the chance to be ridiculous and become a distraction, they'll surely take advantage of it.
And while I respect Cowher and Shanny's work (I think Shanny may still be the greatest gameplanner in the game, period)...those big name coaches tend to love the spotlight and tend to like to talk a lot to the media where everything will get dissected and twisted and taken out of context and it just doesn't help matters any.
Plus, with Shanny we're looking at a guy who is a WCO coach, who uses smaller and mobile O-Linemen and likes the 4-3 scheme. Even if we get him to stick with the 3-4, we still need a D-Coordinator for this. That's a tall order in front of him to accomplish in 4 years.
So, we need a coach that can keep some continuity on both sides of the ball, probably somebody who is a bit on the fiery side since that seems to work best for us, and somebody who can bring in a coordinator on the other side of the ball to keep things rolling.
My pick?
Ron Rivera
He's the current D-Coordinator for the Chargers as he took over the position mid-season last year after they fired Ted Cotrell and turned the defense around enough to be a major factor in getting them to the playoffs. This year his defense has been injured, particularly losing NT Jamal Williams for the season, and he's steadily turned it into a very solid defense.
In Chicago he lit up the league until the Bears thought they were too good to keep him around (the Bears are notorious for paying coaches low $$$ and he wanted a raise) and ever since then the Bears defense has been terrible.
So, we get a guy that can run the 3-4 and if we decide to go to the 4-3 down the road, he can run that as well. He's also a fiery guy who seems pretty low key with the media, so we'll get that guy that can light into players who consistently make dumb mistakes and keep things more quiet on the media front. Plus, he doesn't have any HC experience so the media can't dwell on his HC past like they constantly do with Wade, but there will be no great expectations of the Cowboys to do much. Last I checked most of the fans want us to 'lay low in the weeds and surprise teams' over being the preseason favorites and have everybody gunning for us.
With that, Rivera could bring in Robb Chudzinski who is the current Tight Ends coach for the Chargers. Chudzinski was the O-Coordinator for the Browns for 2 seasons ('07-'08) and while that doesn't sound like much, he turned the Browns into an explosive offense in his first season which is something they hadn't had since the Shottenheimer days and haven't had since. The offense fell of the earth the next season, but I blame most of that on Derrick Anderson being completely inaccurate and Braylon Edwards couldn't stop droppin the ball. Even still, I think he deserved much more than what he got from Cleveland as making that offense explosive in 2007 is a great accomplishment and far more of an accomplishment that what Garrett has done with our offense so far which has fare more talent than the Browns have, even in 2007.
Rivera also has experience in the NFC East having coached the linebackers for Philly and with his experience as D-Coordinator for the Bears, that means he has experience in the NFC North...a division we play on the schedule in 2010. And I think having experience in the AFC helps as well.
Lastly, Rivera would meet the Rooney Rule so we could get him coaching right away if we chose to hire him instead of drawing things out for a long time like we did with Wade.
Hopefully at the very least Jerry gives him serious consideration.
YAKUZA
I'm clearly off the Garrett bandwagon for two reasons. He's not a top notch O-Coordinator at this point and I think he's regressed from 2007.
I think out of all of the big name coaches, Shanny is probably the most motivated of the bunch...going to training camps around the league and keeping up with the game and clearly preparing to be a HC in 2010. Cowher I think would be the best fit scheme wise.
But, I don't think either of them are as good of a fit as the coach I have in mind.
If we were to sign Cowher or Shanny, it would likely be a 4-year deal worth a lot of money and the general point would be that by year 4 we would be in the Super Bowl.
That creates a lot of hype, hooplah and hysteria which the team hasn't handled well over the past 10 years. In fact, we've done just about everything to not be controversial this year, but the puppets and ho's at that place in Bristol still grasp for any controversial story they can find and you've still got guys like Steve Dennis, Randy Galloway, Mac and the Hack Engel who act completely unprofessional with name calling and other things hacks tend to do.
It's not to say that the media has hurt this season, but it's to say that if we give them the chance to be ridiculous and become a distraction, they'll surely take advantage of it.
And while I respect Cowher and Shanny's work (I think Shanny may still be the greatest gameplanner in the game, period)...those big name coaches tend to love the spotlight and tend to like to talk a lot to the media where everything will get dissected and twisted and taken out of context and it just doesn't help matters any.
Plus, with Shanny we're looking at a guy who is a WCO coach, who uses smaller and mobile O-Linemen and likes the 4-3 scheme. Even if we get him to stick with the 3-4, we still need a D-Coordinator for this. That's a tall order in front of him to accomplish in 4 years.
So, we need a coach that can keep some continuity on both sides of the ball, probably somebody who is a bit on the fiery side since that seems to work best for us, and somebody who can bring in a coordinator on the other side of the ball to keep things rolling.
My pick?
Ron Rivera
He's the current D-Coordinator for the Chargers as he took over the position mid-season last year after they fired Ted Cotrell and turned the defense around enough to be a major factor in getting them to the playoffs. This year his defense has been injured, particularly losing NT Jamal Williams for the season, and he's steadily turned it into a very solid defense.
In Chicago he lit up the league until the Bears thought they were too good to keep him around (the Bears are notorious for paying coaches low $$$ and he wanted a raise) and ever since then the Bears defense has been terrible.
So, we get a guy that can run the 3-4 and if we decide to go to the 4-3 down the road, he can run that as well. He's also a fiery guy who seems pretty low key with the media, so we'll get that guy that can light into players who consistently make dumb mistakes and keep things more quiet on the media front. Plus, he doesn't have any HC experience so the media can't dwell on his HC past like they constantly do with Wade, but there will be no great expectations of the Cowboys to do much. Last I checked most of the fans want us to 'lay low in the weeds and surprise teams' over being the preseason favorites and have everybody gunning for us.
With that, Rivera could bring in Robb Chudzinski who is the current Tight Ends coach for the Chargers. Chudzinski was the O-Coordinator for the Browns for 2 seasons ('07-'08) and while that doesn't sound like much, he turned the Browns into an explosive offense in his first season which is something they hadn't had since the Shottenheimer days and haven't had since. The offense fell of the earth the next season, but I blame most of that on Derrick Anderson being completely inaccurate and Braylon Edwards couldn't stop droppin the ball. Even still, I think he deserved much more than what he got from Cleveland as making that offense explosive in 2007 is a great accomplishment and far more of an accomplishment that what Garrett has done with our offense so far which has fare more talent than the Browns have, even in 2007.
Rivera also has experience in the NFC East having coached the linebackers for Philly and with his experience as D-Coordinator for the Bears, that means he has experience in the NFC North...a division we play on the schedule in 2010. And I think having experience in the AFC helps as well.
Lastly, Rivera would meet the Rooney Rule so we could get him coaching right away if we chose to hire him instead of drawing things out for a long time like we did with Wade.
Hopefully at the very least Jerry gives him serious consideration.
YAKUZA
