moving this post from one group to this one where the question actually is so i can fully answer it w/o trying to pick a fight that i'm sure is to ensue cause i said something stupid to someone and they must chastise me for it. (cue in summer or super)
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bumford asked me what i thought of cowher for our coach - my reply:
i don't like him as our coach. i think it took him 15 years to win a superbowl so i'm not real sure why people would translate that to instant success here, at least to the point where we'd wait a year in what i view "limbo" to get a younger version of what we have now.
he seems to be a good guy and a good coach, but my own preference would be fisher. the argument is then "well has he even won one?" and that's true. i do think fisher is young and still "hungry" in ways i don't feel parcells is or cowher would be here. could i wait a year for fisher?
i could get through that better than a cowher hunt, sure.
but in the end, neither are a lock or guarantee to WANT to coach here or not get a better offer from another team. so i'm not a big fan of the waiting game when the "coach selection" is supposed to be better.
one of my arguments has been that it's hard to find good coaches who will want to coach for 1 year and the crowd who argues otherwise points out 1 year coaches left and right saying "it's how it works!!!" simply because it suits their argument at the time.
great, so if that's how it works, then you can't be sure "next year" will be any better because again, it's a year by year thing (when talking to the crowd trying to herd arguments their way vs. just trying to understand the landscape) yes, i think we *all* try to herd arguments are way but sometimes it just gets far beyond the realm of reason to me (like my saying parcells is a bad influence to the team so i also said he's a bad person - that was just ignorant. i think he's apathetic, not hungry, and lost - none of which make him a bad person but all of which are a bad influence to the team but summer couldn't get that point, i said parcells was bad also).
so to your question of naming names - i'm on the side that feels a young and hungry coach is the answer. fisher is the logical choice here and if we could be sure to get him next year, i could survive a year of parcells holding down the fort. but we're not and it simply can't be sure.
cowher i just don't want. i think he's make us more competitive than we are now, yes. and maybe that would pull the team together and i'm unjustly putting cowher and parcells in the same light. quite possible but simply how i feel about it today.
i'd look at rex ryan - he's my "dark horse" and i fully understand and realize he's a gamble and not many have come knocking down his door and maybe there's good reason for that. but i'd like to look more closely at him to understand why and what the good, bad and ugly he could bring to the table would be. so i'd want to go young. if i must provide a "valid name" then i say fisher and damn it, we have to wait a year to even have a shot.
not a lock, but a shot. since it's not a lock i'm not a fan of waiting vs. wanting to go look for and take a chance on a payton here in dallas.
hope that helps answer your question w/o the angst and agony currently in much of these debates - apologies again for my misfire.
