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This is what I think. Zim could probably do a nice job in the right situation, but Dallas isn't a great fit for him just because of the circus both in terms of ownership and media attention that comes with that gig. I'm not sure how good a HC Zimmer might actually be. I wouldn't expect him to necessarily be a great one. But his players will play hard and they'll play sound defense. That's at least half the battle.
It is. I know we're not going to see eye:eye on JG, but I like Zimmer, too. I really think the HC gig in Dallas is one of the hardest in the league, if not *the* hardest. One of the things I don't like about Jerry is the way he runs his ship puts a ton of pressure on the HC that other organizations don't have to deal with. To the extent I'm *not* sold on Garrett, it has to do with me not loving his offense and thinking he's only a solid coach, at best, on game days. It's the stuff he does the rest of the year that makes him such a good fit for us. And I"m hoping he gets better with experience at the stuff coaches usually actually do get better with as they gain experience.
Zimmer's a guy I like because he's got history with the team, and because he's a good guy. He's not a guy I'd be excited by. I have a hard time getting excited by new HC prospects in any given offseason. I don't like retreads, and I don't think young coordinators or college coaches have the gravitas to get enough rope to even hang themselves in this environment. That leaves the options I like as the guy we've already got, or guys like Holmgren or Fisher who have skins and experience and who might not actually be washed up when they're available. (Andy Reid would have fallen into this category, too, but, you know, Eagles, yuck).
There just aren't that many options for this job that I think, going in, have realistic chances to be successful. I tried to get behind Wade when he was trotted out, but that was a hard one to buy. Parcels....Giants, yuck. He ended up winning me over, because he was both good, and funny. But I never loved it. We've got a guy now who's young, smart, organized, home grown, represents the organization and the team well. Handles the Joneses. Handles the media. He just can't get us over 500. If he can't ever do that, I agree, he has to go.
But I think he's got a good chance to do that. I think we've been handicapped in terms of cap and picks and the age of the roster he inherited in 2010, and, the last two season, a spat of injuries at the same position groups. These are the things that rightly get coaches fired, and they should in JGs case, too, but I'd like to see him get as fair a shake as possible. Because I think the guy we replace him with more likely than not will be deficient in some areas essential for this job, too. It's an awfully tall order to fill, and the guys that can fill it already have jobs or, if they don't, they certainly don't grow on trees. If you think you found one growing on a tree, you make sure you're wrong about him before you let him go. In this case, better a year too late than a year too soon.
I know I'm in the minority in feeling this way around here right now. But it's really not because I can't see the issues. It's because I think doing better is going to be a lot harder than people think.
