Rank Dallas Cowboy coaches from worst to best

[links18]

#1. LANDRY
#2 Johnson
#3 Parcells
#4 Chan
#5 Wade Phillips (a Yes Man and a Coach)

This looks about right......

 

[xwalker]

Here's my list:

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

What's yours?

How many Super Bowls did the Cowboys win under each?

Jimmy - 2 in 5 years but the 3rd was won with the talent and discipline that he created.

Landry - 2 in 29 years

Switzer - 1 but does it really count? Aikman, Emmitt, Irvin, etc.. basically coached themselves.

Parcells and Garrett - The roster and/or cap got better while they were in charge. Also, they managed to keep Jerry from making a Joey Galloway or Roy Williams trade. Garrett inherited Leonard Davis, Gurode, Marion Barber, Roy Williams, Columbo, etc.. and had to muddle through massive dead-money on the cap when they were cut.

Wade Phillips and Campo - Basically the same person.

Chan Gailey - Probably a decent coach but alienated Aikman, Irvin, etc.. with an offense that didn't fit them.

1. Jimmy
2. Landry
3. Parcells
4. Garrett
5. Gailey
6. Switzer
7. Campo
8. Wade Phillips

 

[visionary]

You could also argue that "legit NFL QB" has cost Garrett games as well. Actually that's not argument its a fact at this point.

Yeah , this makes a lot of sense
Garrett's offense actually needed Mark Sanchez or Brandon Weedon to make it flourish

 

[Coy]

That's right. I'd forgotten about the WC season where we lost the division to PHI and then dropped a game I thought we should have won to SEA. That season was a bit of a mixed back, but he definitely did have the two playoff seasons.

Because many of these guys had short tenures, I'm not sure how much can fairly be banked on their winning percentages. Parcels, for example, had no QB for two of his seasons. Wade inherited a very good roster, but couldn't sustain it. Campo's years were a train wreck, but we were crippled then by old players and bad contracts and had as little talent as I can ever remember seeing.

Jimmy and Tom are obviously in a class of their own. Campo's pretty obviously at the bottom of the barrel. I put Garrett above Wade mostly because he did a better job with the exact same players and because I like his personnel changes where I did not like Wade's.

Parcels and Garrett are much closer. Parcels got a bad team to the playoffs his first year on the back of a good defense. He had a good team in 2006 with a great young QB, but we weren't really able to accomplish much more under Parcels at that point than we have under Garrett. At least not enough to be a night-and-day difference. I didn't like the move to the 3-4 under Bill, and I didn't like the TO signing. The W-L record was the same as Garrett's, and he left under a cloud as far as I'm concerned when he quit late enough in the offseason that it left us with very few legitimate candidates for the job. Personally, I think Garrett's done about the same as Parcels did (34-32 with 0 playoff wins) v. Garrett's 28-26 so far with no playoff qualifying. I think both coaches are good coaches who struggled similarly under fairly similar circumstances.

Parcells would have a much better record than Garrett if he were coching this team for the last 4 years with the exact same players and injuries. Do you think we lose this past sunday vs the Packers with Parcells?, how about the Lions game? think about all the failed game managment moments under Garrett, Parcells does't lose those games.
Now imagine Garrett with Quincy/Bledsoe or Testaverde as his QB's or Hambrick and terry Glenn as his RB and WR combo.

 

[VThokie7]

Please don't compare coaching records in todays NFL with free agency to the early Landry years it is embarrasing to all Cowboys fans.

Garrett's posse has no limits in defending him.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

How many Super Bowls did the Cowboys win under each?

Jimmy - 2 in 5 years but the 3rd was won with the talent and discipline that he created.

Landry - 2 in 29 years

Switzer - 1 but does it really count? Aikman, Emmitt, Irvin, etc.. basically coached themselves.

Parcells and Garrett - The roster and/or cap got better while they were in charge. Also, they managed to keep Jerry from making a Joey Galloway or Roy Williams trade. Garrett inherited Leonard Davis, Gurode, Marion Barber, Roy Williams, Columbo, etc.. and had to muddle through massive dead-money on the cap when they were cut.

Wade Phillips and Campo - Basically the same person.

Chan Gailey - Probably a decent coach but alienated Aikman, Irvin, etc.. with an offense that didn't fit them.

1. Jimmy
2. Landry
3. Parcells
4. Garrett
5. Gailey
6. Switzer
7. Campo
8. Wade Phillips

I love this kind of so-called reasoning.

So explain how the worst coach in Cowboys history with a roster full of bums went 11-5 and won a much tougher NFCE than this one, plus the first playoff game in over a decade, when Garrett with supposedly much better talent can't even muster a winning record or win a much easier division?

It doesn't add up.

Or, let me guess... All those guys were great in 2009 but they suddenly couldn't play the next year, right? Exactly when Garrett inherited them.

How convenient.

 

[DallasEast]

1. Tom Landry
2. Jimmy Johnson
3. Bill Parcells
4. Barry Switzer
5. Chan Gailey
6. Wade Phillips
7. Jason Garrett
8. Pants on the ground. Pants on the ground. Looking like a fool with your pants on the ground.

 

[links18]

I love this kind of so-called reasoning.

So explain how the worst coach in Cowboys history with a roster full of bums went 11-5 and won a much tougher NFCE than this one, plus the first playoff game in over a decade, when Garrett with supposedly much better talent can't even muster a winning record or win a much easier division?

It doesn't add up.

Or, let me guess... All those guys were great in 2009 but they suddenly couldn't play the next year, right? Exactly when Garrett inherited them.

How convenient.

The team was 1-7 when Garrett took over and he led them to 6-10 or something like that creating all the hoopla about Garrett changing the culture, etc. I think its a mistake to view the Wade years as purely his team. Garrett was as much a part of that era as Wade, when his offense posted 6 and then 3 points to end each of Wade's last two seasons. Wade gets can after he lost the team by the mid way point of the next year, Garrett gets promoted and catches lightning in a bottle for half a year, but its been 8-8 mediocrity ever since.

 

[Beast_from_East]

Garrett's posse has no limits in defending him.

Garrett should be working the concession stand, not pretending he is an NFL head coach

The fact that he is even mentioned in the same breath as Landry, Jimmy, and Parcells is laughable.

Those guys could take a piss and that puddle of piss would know more about football than Garrett ever will.

 

[xwalker]

Parcells would have a much better record than Garrett if he were coching this team for the last 4 years with the exact same players and injuries. Do you think we lose this past sunday vs the Packers with Parcells?, how about the Lions game? think about all the failed game managment moments under Garrett, Parcells does't lose those games.
Now imagine Garrett with Quincy/Bledsoe or Testaverde as his QB's or Hambrick and terry Glenn as his RB and WR combo.

Parcells had some game-day issues also. He would stubbornly stay with a base defense in what should be a nickel situation. He admitted that he should have started Romo sooner.

 

[Coy]

Parcells had some game-day issues also. He would stubbornly stay with a base defense in what should be a nickel situation. He admitted that he should have started Romo sooner.

I'm not saying he was perfect but comparing him to Garrett is ridicolous.

 

[Soth]

I don't get the Switzer hate. We did win a SB with him. Sure, the team was stacked, but that does not guarantee a SB win. At least he did not mess it up.

 

[Fmart322]

Please don't compare coaching records in todays NFL with free agency to the early Landry years it is embarrasing to all Cowboys fans.

I was thinking the same thing. How anyone could Landry anyplace but #1 is crazy. Landry built, won and maintained over his 29 years as coach. He also did it like a gentleman, with class and dignity. Something this team hasn't seen since. He had 1 flaw, he thought his players were as smart as him.

 

[KB1122]

Landry basically invented modern football and had 20 consecutive winning seasons. Johnson was an outstanding coach, but not a particularly different or innovative coach.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

Yeah , this makes a lot of sense
Garrett's offense actually needed Mark Sanchez or Brandon Weedon to make it flourish

What does this mean lol? You think Romo is the same caliber of QB as Weeden and Sanchez?