Those teams you listed all have good to great coaching. I am not saying we have as much talent as those teams...but we just saw what the 49ers did with "pretty good" talent....but EXCELLENT coaching. When you don't have elite talent....and you have average coaching at best....we will be what Dallas always is....average. The Jones boys are the biggest problem in Dallas in so many ways. But it is obvious that we are just playing out the string with McCarthy because they do not want to eat 3 years on his contract. He is out of his league with the top coaches in the NFL today. The Jones Boys are on RECORD saying there are 500 coaches that could coach the Dallas Cowboys....they meant it then...and they still feel that way today. If they TRULY wanted to win...they would hire a search firm to get a real head coach...and they would get out of the way and let a real head coach do what a real head coach is supposed to do. We hired Mike McCarthy off the couch. I don't think we truly grasp what that signifies. He then turns around and hires Mike Nolan off the couch! We are so hypnotized by the Silver and Blue....so mesmerized by the Star...many of us do not grasp how much tomfoolery those 2 moves alone represent! I don't encourage anyone to sit and think too long about the hiring of Mike McCarthy and Mike Nolan....because it is evidence that after running a NFL franchise for 25 years without Jimmy...the Jones Boys have learned next to NOTHING!!!
GREAT post. Totally agree with you.
Posters will respond with the Jones meddling and undermining ways as the answer to this as an attempt at saying every future head coach is a Jerry Puppet.
Well, I agree and disagree.
At THE VERY LEAST the coach accepting the HC position should have his own conditional requirements.
Like if he's an offensive minded coach, then it will be HIS offense. Not a pre determined coordinator that is inherited.
So, it's kind of a tier or level of Yes Man type who would agree to coach this team.
The current HC totally sold out all his credibility in order to support his retirement portfolio. He has zero authority/accountability to this team and is an embarrassment to the title of HC for the Cowboys.
I would like to think that there's some level of less Yes Man head coach out there that would be an improvement over the current version.
If the job truly is "just another paycheck" to any coaches who interview then nothing will ever change. IF, and it's a big IF, the coach was miraculously granted a reasonable level of autonomy and he wasn't just interested in collecting a check, then I think. "some" actual cultural change "may" take place.
Enough to lead to a championship?
Probably not because he'd probably leave or be fired after 4 yrs like Johnson and Parcells.
But again, AT LEAST try a new non sold out guy to replace the current model.
He is embarrassing.
jmo