NBC: Wade Phillips says Jerry Jones was “good to me”

[jobberone]

Wade Phillips says Jerry Jones was “good to me”
Posted by Charean Williams on September 29, 2017, 4:34 PM EDT

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Rams defensive coordinator Wade Phillips will face the Cowboys for the first time since Jerry Jones fired him midway through the 2010 season.

“The good thing about Texas is there’s no taxes,” Phillips said, via Alden Gonzalez of ESPN. “But they still charge you that California tax when you go to Texas, so I don’t understand that deal. That’s another story. Yeah, we spent some good years there. I enjoyed being there, worked hard for three and a half years there, and it was a big part of my life at the time. It still is. I have fond memories.”

Jones hired Phillips as head coach in 2007 after hiring Jason Garrett as an assistant coach. Phillips went 34-22 in Dallas, twice leading the Cowboys to the playoffs, and earning a contract extension after the 2009 season. But Jones fired Phillips and replaced him with Garrett after the team’s 1-7 start in 2010.

Phillips detailed his time in Dallas in his book, “Son of Bum: Lessons My Dad Taught Me About Football And Life,” and insists Jones was “good to me.”

“Most of the teams in the league, it didn’t end well with me,” Phillips said. “If I had a vendetta against any team that fired me, I’d have about a quarter of the league.”

Phillips was a head coach or interim head coach for six teams in his career. He got his start in the NFL in 1976, coaching the linebackers for his father, Bum Phillips, with the Houston Oilers.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2017/09/29/wade-phillips-says-jerry-jones-was-good-to-me/

 

[jobberone]

Great coach esp DC but more importantly a great human being. Love this guy.

 

[TheDuke]

I see Wade Phillips. I think cupcakes.

 

[TheCoolFan]

Not buying it! Get ready for the Wade Phillips Revenge Game on Sunday

 

[Zman5]

reporter: "Wade, how was Jerry when you were at Dallas?"
Wade: "Jerry's a good man. He was good to me."

reporter: "How about Jason?"
Wade: <long pause> "Uhhhh. He has nice red hair."

 

[Vinnie2u]

Checks never bounced.

 

[jobberone]

Not buying it! Get ready for the Wade Phillips Revenge Game on Sunday

He's going to make our offense work for every down. You can count of this very nice guy bringing his A game. Nice doesn't mean pansy.

 

[haleyrules]

Ha! Sure. he made a top DC and HC ..so he could control and steal the limelight.

 

[haleyrules]

reporter: "Wade, how was Jerry when you were at Dallas?"
Wade: "Jerry's a good man. He was good to me."

reporter: "How about Jason?"
Wade: <long pause> "Uhhhh. He has nice red hair."

Ha! Jason...Well, I still haven't been able to extract his ***** from my backside!!!!

 

[Idgit]

I like Wade, but I didn't want to see him hired, and I was happy when he left. He's sort of the mirror-opposite of Garrett. Very good coordinator, tons of experience with Xs and Os, but his teams were disorganized and lacked direction. Drafts under him were complete crapshoots because he abdicated responsibility for that side of the business. It was a nice change from Parcells in 2007, but then it couldn't hold together over time because he was excellent with particulars but wasn't an organized leader. Which is why the entire team quit on him at the end.

He does always say nice things about Jerry, though. Not so much about Jason Garrett. Which always surprises me since Garrett was put in place explicitly to be the next HC from day one, and everybody knew it. And there was no denying Wade's team fell apart behind him when he was finally fired.

 

[Outlaw Heroes]

Wade was weak here as a head coach. It was an era of disappointments and squeezing progressively worse results out of a super talented and well-coached team he inherited from Parcells.

But he always was and remains a great DC.

And all indications are that he's a class act and a genuinely good human being. It's hard for me not to like the guy.

 

[Aven8]

Not buying it! Get ready for the Wade Phillips Revenge Game on Sunday

Never heard one player, coach, or acquaintance ever say anything bad about Jerry. Now revenge on JG on Sunday?? You bet!!

 

[haleyrules]

I like Wade, but I didn't want to see him hired, and I was happy when he left. He's sort of the mirror-opposite of Garrett. Very good coordinator, tons of experience with Xs and Os, but his teams were disorganized and lacked direction. Drafts under him were complete crapshoots because he abdicated responsibility for that side of the business. It was a nice change from Parcells in 2007, but then it couldn't hold together over time because he was excellent with particulars but wasn't an organized leader. Which is why the entire team quit on him at the end.

He does always say nice things about Jerry, though. Not so much about Jason Garrett. Which always surprises me since Garrett was put in place explicitly to be the next HC from day one, and everybody knew it. And there was no denying Wade's team fell apart behind him when he was finally fired.

. Yes, Wade has a SB ring to show for his ...ah shortcomings. Jason, well he does have a very brown nose...

 

[haleyrules]

Never heard one player, coach, or acquaintance ever say anything bad about Jerry. Now revenge on JG on Sunday?? You bet!!

Ha!! Why would they..he grossly overpaid them and basically runs a health club for under achieving football people. I would love him too. Camp Cupcake!!

 

[calico]

jerry was good to him.

garret on the other hand...







RIP MCA

 

[Idgit]

. Yes, Wade has a SB ring to show for his ...ah shortcomings. Jason, well he does have a very brown nose...

Wade's a really good coordinator. And he's a moderately successful head coach. We're not the only team in the league to fire him from a HC gig, though.

No matter how you look at it, Wade inherited a winning team and left a losing one. Jason inherited a losing team and built a winning one.

 

[SDCowboy]

I wish he was still here, as our DC.

 

[Risen Star]

Uh, yeah. He hired you as head coach when you had no business being one.

Going from Parcells to Wade was such a turn in the wrong direction. It showed the owner still didn't learn anything.

 

[bayeslife]

Really sucks that the timing of his hire was as a head coach and not a d coordinator. Of course after his disaster here everyone else gets him as a coordinator.

 

[Super_Kazuya]

Wade's a really good coordinator. And he's a moderately successful head coach. We're not the only team in the league to fire him from a HC gig, though.

No matter how you look at it, Wade inherited a winning team and left a losing one. Jason inherited a losing team and built a winning one.

He inherited a 9-7 team that hadn't won a playoff game in forever so you are really stretching that fact about as far as it can be stretched... or however far one single regular season game can be stretched.