erod
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Playing the fools again, we are.
Here we sit, waiting for something to happen, the other shoe to drop, a head to roll, a beacon to appear. Redundancy and yuck are the aftertaste of another season of teasingly mediocre football. Give us something, anything, to chew on.
The questions rattle on. Will Garrett stay, who'll be the offensive coordinator if he does, will Kiffin be let go, will Marinelli still stay, where's Norv, who's gonna call the plays? Who's staying and who's going? We've devoted oodles of bandwidth and thought process to the calculus of it all already.
Who we kiddin?
As it is, Jason Garrett casts a protective shield over everybody with a coaching title right now. First, because Jerry desperately wants "his" coach to work out. And perhaps more importantly, because Garrett has only one year left on his contract.
If you're going to keep Garrett with one-year remaining on his deal, why sign outside coaches to come in on extended contracts? Why would they even want to come if Garrett's head is on a do-or-die guillotine? To implement a new scheme now would be silly.
Jerry's set himself up well here financially.
Either his Chosen One will work out, be extended, and make Jerry look like the knew-it-all-along soothsayer he pines to be..... Or, Jerry shows up in January next year with hatchet in hand, and offs the entire coaching gaggle in one fell swoop, owing nary a coaching soul a buffalo nickel.
Jerry's hates paying coaches who aren't coaching for him anymore. Probably because he still pays so many players that have been relegated to the NFL Films archives. If there was an NFL coaching salary cap, Jerry would typically be over that one, too. This offers a chance to get to clear the books, if the inevitable result is to send Garrett packing next offseason.
I hate to admit it, but it makes sense. Either it all comes together beautifully, or the stage is set for an entirely new staff next year with no holdovers. Unheard of around here, and something we've been championing for our head coach for some time. Let him hire his own people.
Problem is, this only burdens Garrett even more. Coaches with cooties usually don't fare well in the NFL. If he can overcome this, then maybe he really is the longterm coach of the Dallas Cowboys after all. He's got cooties
That leaves us again in the precarious sister-kissing position of rooting for Jerry to be right. Let the lame-duck 2015 season begin.
Here we sit, waiting for something to happen, the other shoe to drop, a head to roll, a beacon to appear. Redundancy and yuck are the aftertaste of another season of teasingly mediocre football. Give us something, anything, to chew on.
The questions rattle on. Will Garrett stay, who'll be the offensive coordinator if he does, will Kiffin be let go, will Marinelli still stay, where's Norv, who's gonna call the plays? Who's staying and who's going? We've devoted oodles of bandwidth and thought process to the calculus of it all already.
Who we kiddin?
As it is, Jason Garrett casts a protective shield over everybody with a coaching title right now. First, because Jerry desperately wants "his" coach to work out. And perhaps more importantly, because Garrett has only one year left on his contract.
If you're going to keep Garrett with one-year remaining on his deal, why sign outside coaches to come in on extended contracts? Why would they even want to come if Garrett's head is on a do-or-die guillotine? To implement a new scheme now would be silly.
Jerry's set himself up well here financially.
Either his Chosen One will work out, be extended, and make Jerry look like the knew-it-all-along soothsayer he pines to be..... Or, Jerry shows up in January next year with hatchet in hand, and offs the entire coaching gaggle in one fell swoop, owing nary a coaching soul a buffalo nickel.
Jerry's hates paying coaches who aren't coaching for him anymore. Probably because he still pays so many players that have been relegated to the NFL Films archives. If there was an NFL coaching salary cap, Jerry would typically be over that one, too. This offers a chance to get to clear the books, if the inevitable result is to send Garrett packing next offseason.
I hate to admit it, but it makes sense. Either it all comes together beautifully, or the stage is set for an entirely new staff next year with no holdovers. Unheard of around here, and something we've been championing for our head coach for some time. Let him hire his own people.
Problem is, this only burdens Garrett even more. Coaches with cooties usually don't fare well in the NFL. If he can overcome this, then maybe he really is the longterm coach of the Dallas Cowboys after all. He's got cooties
That leaves us again in the precarious sister-kissing position of rooting for Jerry to be right. Let the lame-duck 2015 season begin.
