Proposal: Jim Mora decides to come out of retirement
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Bill Cowher, Tony Dungy, Jon Gruden, Mike Holmgren, Brian Billick, and Mike Shanahan.CowboyFan74;3020454 said:
That's 6. Add Garrett who I still don't apologize for wanting. That's 7.
Jimmy Johnson in a miracle Billy Martin-like return. That's 8.
Current NFL Coaches I'd rather have include Jeff Fischer, Andy Reid, Tom Coughlin, and Bill Belicheck. That's 12.
I am not a Mora fan.
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links18;3020535 said:You mean after the 44-6 end to LAST season?
It could be worse..... BARELY.
Bears flatten Cowboys, hand them worst defeat
11/18/1985
By GARY MYERS / The Dallas Morning News
It was not a pretty sight, not by any means – Cowboys splattered across Texas Stadium, ravaged to a degree never experienced in the team's 26-year history.
Unlike the pre-season game against Chicago, which was highlighted by six fights and $6,000 in fines, the Cowboys did not retaliate.
"There isn't any question we took an old-fashioned whupping," Cowboys coach Tom Landry said. "They just whipped us."
For starters, Sunday's 44-0 loss to the Bears was the most lopsided in Cowboys' history. It was only their third shutout – the first at Texas Stadium – and broke a string of 218 games in which the Cowboys have scored. The Cowboys (7-4) dropped to second place in the NFC East, a half-game behind New York, which plays at Washington Monday night. Chicago (11-0) clinched the NFC Central and is five games away from the first 16-0 regular season in NFL history.
"The Bears basically destroyed us," Dennis Thurman said.
"I hurt, I think everybody on this team is hurting," Bill Bates said."My pride is hurt."
It was certainly a sweet return for Bears' coach Mike Ditka, who became just the second former Landry assistant to beat him in 11 games. Without quarterback Jim McMahon, the Bears relied on running back Walter Payton, who rushed for 132 yards and went over 1,000 yards for an NFL-record ninth time, and their vicious defense. "They say we haven't played anybody," Chicago linebacker Otis Wilson said. "I guess you could say we still haven't."
It would be hard for the Cowboys to argue after the way they played Sunday. Even their fans turned on them by cheering for the Bears late in the game.
The Cowboys reacted like they didn't watch any films of the Bears defense last week. Wilson, who found no one objecting to his strolls through the Dallas backfield, removed Cowboys quarterback Danny White from the game twice, first when White was momentarily knocked out and the second time for good in the third quarter when he suffered a jammed neck.
Wilson also forced Gary Hogeboom into an interception that Mike Richardson returned 36 yards for a touchdown, which effectively ended the game in the second quarter.
"I wanted to get (White) out of the ballgame," Wilson said. "I wanted to hurt him. Well, not hurt him, but to beat Dallas you have to get Danny White and Tony Dorsett out of the ballgame."
Dorsett stuck around but was limited to 12 carries for 44 yards because the Cowboys offense provided that savage Chicago defense with two early touchdowns and a 17-0 lead.
"It's hard to say what went wrong," Dorsett said. "We didn't play. But you have to give some credit to them, they put a lot of pressure on. They are 11-0 and very deserving.
"They came in our backyard talking a lot of noise, and if that's not enough to make you play your best, I don't know what is. I'm embarrassed. They talked about what they wanted to do, and we let them do it. We stunk the place up. People said they haven't played anybody. I guess we are nobody, too."
Dorsett, who exploded after the Cowboys lost to Buffalo last year, was under control. But perhaps the shock has not yet set in. "Never in my career as a football player has something like this happened. If I dreamed this, I would say it is a nightmare," he said. "To experience it, I don't know how to describe this shellacking except to say it was a royal beating. This game went around the United States of America. They call us America's team. Well, we showed them."
So, what happened? The Cowboys scored less than 14 points for the third straight game for the first time since 1960 and had only 12 first downs and 171 yards offense, a pitiful 31 in the second half. Their deepest penetration was the Chicago 38. But to make matters even worse for themselves – and easier for the Bears – turnovers resulted in or set up four of Chicago's five touchdowns.
The game degenerated quickly for the Cowboys after some early success moving the ball. Chicago's Maury Buford got a questionable spot on a punt at the Cowboys two late in the first period. On first down, Landry called a pass play. White was looking for tight end Doug Cosbie – he was knocked out in the second period and did not come back – but left defensive end Dan Hampton ran over tackle Jim Cooper and tipped White's pass high in the air. White was seven yards deep in the end zone.
The Bears other end, Richard Dent, settled under the ball at the one and took it in for a touchdown. A chancy call by Landry with a disastrous result. "I don't ever second-guess myself," Landry said. "If you do that, you go crazy. If the play was executed, it would have worked."
White got knocked out for the first time midway through the second quarter on a play that would haunt the Cowboys all day. The Bears play the "46' defense, which bunches 10 men close to the line. Outside linebackers Wilson and Wilber Marshall often line up on the same side. The Cowboys just had a terrible time figuring out which one to block. "They were bringing a lot of people," Cooper said. "To play them, you have to be really sharp and make the right play at the right time."
Wilson and Marshall would blitz, but only one of them would get picked up. Cooper said the films showed either Wilson or Marshall would cover the back coming out and the other would blitz. He was surprised they both blitzed. The Cowboys tried to adjust by keeping a back in or using a wide receiver in motion to cut down the blitz, but it didn't work.
Hogeboom replaced White. On Hogeboom's second play, Wilson came through untouched from the left side and Dent provided pressure from the right. Hogeboom threw in the direction of Mike Renfro, but the ball went right to Richardson, who scored easily. Renfro was adjusting his route, reading the play differently than Hogeboom.
Hogeboom set up the Bears' next score on the first play after Richardson's touchdown. Trying to make something happen, he tried to hit Tony Hill 50 yards downfield. The ball was overthrown and intercepted by Leslie Frazier. He returned it 33 yards, allowing the Bears to begin at the Cowboys 48.
Steve Fuller, efficient replacing McMahon, found fullback Matt Suhey for 35 yards – he was three steps behind linebacker Jeff Rohrer – to help get the Bears to the two. In came William (The Refrigerator) Perry. The Cowboys became the first team to stop him when safety Dextor Clinkscale stuffed him after a 1-yard gain. But on the next play, Fuller went over the top with 2:58 left in the half for a 24-0 lead.
White came back to start the second half, but was gone again when Wilson sacked him on the Cowboys second possession. "The key to their offense is Dorsett, White and Cosbie," safety Gery Fencik said. "We eliminated a lot of their key people."
The Bears made it 27-0 on Kevin Butler's 46-yard field goal. On a third down play, the Bears got penalized for illegal use of hands when Perry attempted to remove Payton from a pile of players and throw him in the end zone. Payton's 35-yard run set up a 22-yard field goal by Butler andhis 34-yard run preceded Calvin Thomas' 16-yard run. Another Hogeboom interception set up Dennis Gentry's 16-yard touchdown run with 2:38 left to complete the devastation.
"You have to forget this," Dorsett said. "We have to get it out of our system. If we don't forget it, our season could collapse right here."
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:laugh2: I meant since they kept him to start the season out to let him finish. I can't think of any good that firing him now would do. We would lose our DC and HC, and to be honest I don't think Garrett is up for being a HC.links18;3020535 said:You mean after the 44-6 end to LAST season?
May as well let him finish then fire him.
