Rank Dallas Cowboy coaches from worst to best

[WPBCowboysFan]

Are we talking entire career?

1. Parcells
2. Jimmy
3. Landry

This is nuts.

Landry went to 5 Super Bowls and how many championships games? 20 consecutive winning seasons. A great innovator. Etc . . . . . . . . . . .

Jimmy was a flop in Miami.

Parcells better than Landry? In what way?

 

[khiladi]

People are rating Phillips way too high and Gailey too low. Too much revisionist history with Phillips as a result of Garrett sucking badly. Phillips was a joke.

Phillips was never FULL head coach. Garrett had at least 50% and team was drafting for him in mind. He never had full control to begin with. Solari and Dan Reeves would have been here.

 

[Little Jr]

1. Landry
2. Jimmy
3. BP
4. Wade
5. Barry
6. Chan
7. Campo
8. JG

 

[Tabascocat]

1. Landry
2. Jimmy
3. BP
4. Wade
5. Barry
6. Chan
7. Campo
8. JG

See post #4

 

[Common Sense]

1. Tie - Landry and Jimmy. Too many apples and oranges to make a valid distinction.
3. Parcells. Left too soon, worked miracles with a Lacewell/Jones/Campo roster and culture.
4. Switzer. If only because of the Super Bowl win.
5. Tie - Gailey and Wade. I don't know who was better and at this point don't really care.
7. Tie - Campo and Garrett. The only two Cowboys coaches to never make the playoffs.

 

[ScipioCowboy]

True although he was a guy who with eight minutes to go and down 16 thought it best to pick the PAT as it would be easier to score three times than two 8 point TDs, we ended up losing by two points.

He also punted with under two minutes to go and only two timeouts left against the Giants thinking it better than going for it on 4th down.

Still, his teams had nothing and fought hard just about every game.

If you could combine the offense today with the defense from the Campo years, you'd have a 12-4 team, in my opinion.

 

[Everlastingxxx]

1 - Jimmy (Accomplished more in less time)
2 - Landry (Created America’s Team)
3 - Parcells (Gave Cowboy fans hope again)

The rest of these sucked

4 - Garrett (Failed in putting together a defense)
5 - Wade (Had a lineup that should have won a Super Bowl)
6 - Campo (Did the best he could with Ramen Noodles)
7 - Chan (Did nothing)
8 - Switzer (Winning only 1 SB was a failure with that HOF lineup)

 

[links18]

Phillips was never FULL head coach. Garrett had at least 50% and team was drafting for him in mind. He never had full control to begin with. Solari and Dan Reeves would have been here.

All true, but just more evidence of his weakness. Let's not forget the Camp Cupcake culture. Was Garrett responsible for a good chunk of that? Sure, but Phillips was yet another symbol of the Jerry regime, if only in his neutering.

 

[PA Cowboy Fan]

Landry
Johnson
Switzer
Parcells
Phillips
Gailey
Campo
Garrett

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

If you could combine the offense today with the defense from the Campo years, you'd have a 12-4 team, in my opinion.

hell just give this team that team's heart and they are at least 10-4 right now.

 

[khiladi]

All true, but just more evidence of his weakness. Let's not forget the Camp Cupcake culture. Was Garrett responsible for a good chunk of that? Sure, but Phillips was yet another symbol of the Jerry regime, if only in his neutering.

That has been Wade's ultimate weakness as far as I know, but then you have Buffalo where he went against management in relation to the QB and was fired. He's a sharp mind coaching-wise and Dan Reeves said he's one of the best personnel guys he's ever worked with, I just think he's one of those guys never given a fair shake. Dalls is definitely not for him though as long as Jerry is in charge with he circu.

 

[Beast_from_East]

Hmmmm.
Time will tell with JG.
After his first 3 years here he has won more than Jimmy and Tom did in their first 3.

Ill get able to get a better feel for where JG goes on the list after he coaches here another few years.

HAAAAAAAAAAA...........coaches here a few more years..................LOL

Your boy is going to be lucky to be coaching Div 3 Western Omaha after all the games he has botched.

 

[Beast_from_East]

Only two Cowboys head coaches haven't taken their teams to the playoffs. Campo and JG.

Exactly.................anybody ranking Opie and his 500 tour above anybody else that went to the playoffs is a joke list........................Opie and Campo are tied for last place based on actual performance of their teams.

I actually give the nod to Campo because he just didnt have any talent to work with, but he at least understood basic game management..................something Garrett is an abject failure at.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Campo was a different kind of clueless. A real football guy who didn't do squat.

10. Jason Garrett
9. Chan Gailey
8. Wade Phillips
7. Idgit
6. AbeBeta
5. Big Dog Cowboy
4. Khiladi
3. Bill Parcells
2. Barry Switzer (just because he DID win a Super Bowl against all odds but with JJ's team)
1a. Tom Landry
1. Jimmy Johnson

YEs YES YES!!!

 

[BigMac6]

Considering their entire career:

1. Tom Landry
2. Bill Parcells
3. Jimmy Johnson
4. Wade Phillips
5. Barry Switzer
6. Chan Gailey
7. .....I'm done...... I'm collapsing

 

[Idgit]

Considering their entire career:

1. Tom Landry
2. Bill Parcells
3. Jimmy Johnson
4. Wade Phillips
5. Barry Switzer
6. Chan Gailey
7. .....I'm done...... I'm collapsing

I'd wager the point of the thread was to consider their time in Dallas, only. Zooming out only makes the Parcels decision an easy one, but when you look at his time in Dallas alone, it's more interesting.

 

[visionary]

if you factor in the facts that

1) he had a top 10 if not top 5 QB already in place along with a HOF pass rusher and potential HOF TE,
2) his overall win loss record,
3) the all time dallas cowboy franchise worst and all time NFL worst records his team has set over the last 3 years,

you have to acknowledge that Garrett is possibly the worst HC in cowboys history.

campo would be the only one who even holds a candle to him but even he did not achieve the depths this Garrett coached team has sunk to

the biggest reason new coaches struggle is because they dont have a good QB. garrett not only had a very very good QB but already had been working with his for several years before he became HC. it does not get any better than that.

he has failed in an epic manner that even average coaches would not be able to do

 

[BigMac6]

I'd wager the point of the thread was to consider their time in Dallas, only. Zooming out only makes the Parcels decision an easy one, but when you look at his time in Dallas alone, it's more interesting.

Good point. In the case of considering his Dallas tenure only, I would switch position 2 and 3.

 

[tantrix1969]

Landry
Jimmy
Big Tuna

Wade
Chan
Barry
Campo
Garrett

 

[Idgit]

Good point. In the case of considering his Dallas tenure only, I would switch position 2 and 3.

In Dallas only, the Parcels/Wade/Garrett question is more interesting. Parcels' record 34-32 is not impressive. At the same time, you have to just ignore his famous 'you are what your record says you are' proclamation and give him credit for building up the roster he inherited. Wade had a better record than all of them, yet his team disintegrated around him. Garrett's done about what Parcels did, only with a QB in place and less room to operate in terms of picks and cap space. As for Parcels playoff season, that happened courtesy of Zimmer's #1 ranked defense.

Perhaps irrelevantly, I'd actually be curios to see what Garrett might have done with a guy like Zimmer helping out on the other side of the ball.