cowboyed;2539700 said:
Ok, but you are either ignorant of the fact or conveniently left out that Jones had a very short time line from Miami to hire Garrett and that Wade Phillips was on board with this. In fact Wade was on board with Garrett being assistant head coach.
If this were an issue Wade would never have agreed to become head coach then. Wade agreed, good grief! We already have learned that Wade is a hands off head coach even on the defensive side. Sad to state that Wade had to be strongly urged by Jerry to get more involved in his very own coaching specialty when our defense was heading south game after game.
Ironically Jerry's involvement motivated Wade to take a more active role on defense and overall it worked!
Taking things a little personally this morning, aren't we?
"Ignorant?" Nothing you have stated proved what I said was wrong.
According to you, "Wade Phillips was on board with this". If true (and I'm not stating that you are wrong), Jerry Jones had already made his choice for head coach (Phillips)
before the head coach interview/search process had ended and
before Jones had hired Garrett as the team's offensive coordinator. Therefore, the whole head coaching selection process would have been, by definition, an elaborate fiction for everyone else.
Jerry Jones should have avoided the pretense, cut the so-called "exhaustively thorough" new head coach search short, hired Phillips first, allowed Phillips (i.e. the newly established head coach) to further continue the ruse that he
himself was making a head coaching-like decision such as establishing his own staff and hired Jason Garrett within that tiny window of opportunity since Phillips WOULD HAVE PICKED him as his offensive coordinator anyway, correct?
Please.
You want to talk about facts? Let's talk facts.
Fact: Jason Garrett was an assistant coach candidate for offensive coordinator. He wasn't THE only assistant coach candidate for the job.
Fact: Jerry Jones, the
general manager, coveted Garrett's services initially.
Fact: Wade Phillips, a prospective BUT not yet HIRED head coach at that time, was asked BY Jones whether Phillips AGREED with HIS decision on securing Garrett.
Fact: Phillips, who was not yet named the head coach, agreed with what his future employer was doing before he had the top job himself.
NONE of these facts dismisses my opinion. Jerry Jones hired Jason Garrett. Jason Garrett wasn't the only coaching candidate for the job. However, he was the coach whom Jones wanted most. In fact, Jones wanted Garrett to eventually become the successor of his next head coach
whom he hadn't even hired yet. I ask you, in your opinion from what you have observed yourself,
"Is that the norm for hiring assistant coaches in the NFL OR
is it the norm for how Jerry Jones runs this franchise"?
The general manager hired an
assistant coach before hiring his head coach when there were still available coaches
other than necessarily Jason Garrett for his soon-to-be head coach to choose from. In my opinion, head coaches are more effective when they have hand-picked their own staffs. Wade Phillips wasn't given that opportunity to do it himself in regards to his offensive coordinator.
While I have already freely admitted that Phillips can make poor assistant coach selections (e.g. Stewart), it doesn't preclude the chance that he, as the head coach, could have selected a (good) offensive coordinator that he was more familiar instead of having to agree or disagree with whom the general manager had previously decided upon. It is not
ignorant to acknowledge the more common assistant coach/hiring practice within the NFL as the basis of my
opinion.
