The Wade Phillips Bandwagon?

[Cover 2]

Wade is who is he, Landry was nothing like Jimmy Johnson. I think people get hung up on style over substance. For me I only care about him being able to get this group of players coming together as a team and winning games and competing for a championship. One thing all coaches have in common regardless if you openly chew players out or not and that is you either do the job of they will find someone else to do it.

That's true. Ultimately wins are the only thing I care about.

 

[Doomsday101]

I'm in the mud pushing this wagon. This team has figured out how to lead themselves with the help of some decent coaches and emerging team leaders like Brookings despite Wade's lack of leadership. The good thing about Wade is that he is not a prima donna by any stretch of the imagination so I don't see him interfering with the progress that the players have made without his help. We did it once before under Switzer, albeit with significantly more talent and depth, maybe lightening can strike twice.

Oh please, Wade has alot to do with this teams success and it is not the players running the show.

 

[Doomsay]

Oh please, Wade has alot to do with this teams success and it is not the players running the show.

I disagree, I think that Wade has about as little influence on a team that a HC could have. Getting rid of the behavioral trainwrecks that plagued the team over the past 2 years has far more to do with this team's success than anything Wade has done.

 

[Direwolf63]

Excellent.

Now we have an all out debate between Doomsday and Doomsay.

:laugh2:

 

[Doomsday101]

I disagree, I think that Wade has about as little influence on a team that a HC could have. Getting rid of the behavioral trainwrecks that plagued the team over the past 2 years has far more to do with this team's success than anything Wade has done.

Wade has not stayed in the NFL this long by letting players run the show. Yes some headcases were let go and Wade got some of his guys in. Players themselfs have said Wade is not as soft as people claim. If people don't like Wade fine but this non sense that he is just there or some token coach is total BS.

 

[adbutcher]

The bandwagon tries to pull out of the barn but that Wade is just too plain fat and heavy for the horses to pull.

These Cowboys are winning without much help from Wade. WP is a figure head.

During a game Wade's look is more blank than a Fargo winter landscape, blanker than Plaxico Burris' charity-appearances schedule on the night he shot hisself, blanker than Jerra's books-to-read schedule. Blanker than the Cowboys Cheerleaders' director's list on scholastic achievement. Well, you get the point.

 

[DallasCowboysRule!]

I've been critical of Wade but I'm beginning to think I was being unfair and too rash in the moment of last seasons problems. He's 28-12 here in Dallas which isn't half bad, the defense is playing well
and the offense has been great. It's hard not to be on the bandwagon.

 

[RainMan]

My attitude with Phillips is cautious optimism. He still has much, much more to prove than even Romo when it comes to showing he can take his team to a playoff victory, so I'm curious what will happen when that time of the year rolls around.

But, yeah, I think he's doing a nice job. He seems to be getting a better feel for the team's pulse and his defensive game plans have been wonderful. But he's a guy whose seat will remain hot until we enjoy a little playoff success.

 

[Lifetimeboyzfan]

Was on board since we hired him. It was the right move then, and it is the right move to keep him.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

no

I think the team is rallying around themselves in spite of Wade

although I believe his family atmosphere had something to do with it

 

[DallasFanSince86]

Never left.

 

[Hoofbite]

We are few and far between.

And don't have a lot of road left.

 

[Doomsay]

Players themselfs have said Wade is not as soft as people claim.

That's the big endorsement?

If people don't like Wade fine but this non sense that he is just there or some token coach is total BS.

He is a DC and a token head coach.

 

[Joe Realist]

Who is on it? Who is not? Why? Or why not?

I not getting carried away. We have to see how the year plays out. At 6-2, I'm not complaining though.

 

[cml750]

I will wait till after the Superbowl. Thinks look good now but I will wait to drink the kool-aid with my crow after the big game.

 

[Bleu Star]

Who is on it? Who is not? Why? Or why not?

Not. He doesn't win playoff games and I am not into supporting a coach that needs to see the writing on the wall before he exhibits a pulse. A person in the position reserved for motivators that has to be motivated? I'll pass.......

 

[theogt]

And don't have a lot of road left.

We shall see.

 

[lcharles]

This is a joke thread right??




Wade Phillips Bandwagon.



That makes me laugh. :laugh1: :laugh2:




Mods you need to ban Bum from posting on this board. :laugh2:

 

[CowboysPhan]

Personally I like Wade and I've always felt that he had the potential to lead us to the Promised Land. I know he doesn't exhibit the personality that we usually see from head coaches, and that he doesn't chew out players publicly or point the finger at players publicly, but I believe that is one reason players respect him and want to play well for him. I am a school teacher and my personality is somewhat like him, in that I'm not a harsh disciplinarian. Instead I show my kids more respect than other teachers do, but I set high standards for them and am relentless in demanding that they live up to them. Never raise my voice or get in their face. Yet I have fewer discipline problems than the other teachers, because the kids know I've got their backs. Early in my career I tried to be like the harsher teachers who seemed so successful, but the kids saw right through me and lost respect.
The point is that I think Wade's way works for him as well as other coaches' ways work for them. We don't need to expect him to be like other coaches. All we need to expect is results.
That brings me to my next point. When Jerry said he was keeping Wade after last season for "continuity" a lot of people on this board and elsewhere had a meltdown because they thought that meant "same methods/same results." In my mind, continuity meant that Jerry knew Wade was trying to build the team his way and that he needed more time to continue to do that. Obviously Jerry didn't extend his contract because he wanted to see if it looked promising. Now we're starting to see the results of Wade making the team over in his image. Eventually coaches get things in place the way they want them, then the success starts. Teams used to know this and give coaches at least 5 years to get it going. Ever since Jimmy came in and blew the curve, everyone expects a super bowl win in three or four years or the bum's out the door for the next flavor. Problem is, every time you switch coaches it's back to square one, bringing in his guys, teaching his philosophy, getting players to buy into it, etc. Takes time folks. Oh sure, you see an occasional quick starter like in Denver, but remember in Wade's first year he had us at 13-3 as well. Parcells first year we went 10-6 and the playoffs. The new change sometimes yields quick improvements, but then things backslide until the coach gets it all built his way. Here's where I'm going with this novel.
I think Wade should get an extension so he can continue to build his program. Teams that are patient with their coaches often reap great rewards down the road. (see Tom Landry).
I'm still driving that bandwagon.

 

[wileedog]

Wade has not stayed in the NFL this long by letting players run the show. .

Its not about players "running the show". I've said this many times over the past two years that Wade's style demands a team that can self-police itself. A team that has natural leaders and guys who are going to force accountability on themselves.

Last year with the personalities we had, when the team start started to splinter there wasn't a darn thing Wade could do about it. Because its not his style to be confrontational, nor to put players in their place. Even this year with things going well he couldn't have a simple sit down with Crayton to tell him the guy who just gained 250 yards was taking his job.

Then they got rid of the malcontents, Romo got a year older and more mature, Brooking showed up, and some of the guys already here like Rat and Wit and Choice could be more easily heard without all of the volume created by the guys who were kicked. All of sudden we have a very solid locker room after two years of dysfunction.

Sorry, not buying that Wade found motivational speaker skills one morning in his Christmas stocking. They changed the personalities on the team, Wade is just the beneficiary.