On the Cowboys' Media: Fire the Bum!
by Rafael Vela on Nov 14, 2008 7:24 PM CST
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PrintI'm scanning the breathless and presumptuous headlines from the Metroplexians today and I'm chuckling:
"Improved Pass Rush Could Save Wade Phillips' Job"
"Tony Romo Now Only Hope for Not-So-Super Cowboys"
"Dallas Cowboys Nation Has Got Love for Bill Cowher"
Step back from the emotional churn of Redskins week, for just a minute if you can, and consider the dominant story lines in Dallas the past several years:
- 2002 -- Dave Campo has this team in a ditch. Fire him!
- 2003 -- Jerry Hires Bill. How long until the marriage goes sour and Bill is fired?
- 2004 -- Bill goes 6-10. How long before Jerry fires him?
- 2005 -- Bill hasn't made the playoffs yet. Should Jerry fire him?!
- 2006 -- T.O. is here. How long before Bill fires him or Jerry fires Bill?
- 2007 -- Wade is here, but so is Jason Garrett. Will Jerry fire Wade after one season, even if he wins a Super Bowl?
- 2008 -- Wade is gonna get fired after this year, even if he wins a Super Bowl! What? Wade isn't winning the Super Bowl? Fire him!
(Okay, they got 2002 right. But a .143 batting average is nothing to brag about.)
Keeping up with all this nuance and originality makes my head hurt. When has Jerry ever shown a quick hook? He axed Chan Gailey after two playoff years, but that was to keep Troy Aikman from tuning him out completely. Jerry gave Barry Switzer a longer tenure than anybody expected. He gave Dave Campo three full seasons. He's quirky, maybe even crazy, but he's not Al Davis Crazy. That's a category deserving its own copyright.
The Cowboys have never fired a head coach mid-season in 49 years. Jerry is in year 20 and he's never done this. The meme that "Wade Phillips might save his job for another week or two" is an insult to any serious fan's intelligence. It just ain't gonna happen.
And if Jerry were to hire Cowher, next year or at some other future date, I'm going to go out on a long, thin limb and predict this will be the story line:
2009 -- Jerry hires another Big Bill. How long until the marriage goes sour and Bill is fired?
Tom Coughlin once ripped the press, saying they write about football as if it were a soap opera because they understand soap operas better than football.
I think he was onto something.
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Soon to be batting .250
Your right. The media has yelled fire when there has been not even been smoke.
This year, barring a big time turn around there is good reason to think Wade will not last through another off season.
yeah man...
it’s weird. the star telegram seems to be the most bloodthirsty of all the cowboy media when it comes to getting coaches fired. then they immediately talk about how dumb it was to fire said coach. DMN can get pretty bad too. ESPN is just a cesspool of cowboy haters. but, i mean, isn’t something to be said for perserverance? the giants didn’t fire coughlin and it paid off. the colts didn’t fire dungy and it paid off. the steelers didn’t fire cowher and it paid off. we here very few articles about teams allowing coaches a chance to get it right. it’s reflexive journalism and it sucks like pickled eggs.
good post, rafael. i hate to mindlessly media bash, but this is on point.
"They need security in the world, Craig!"
I get your point Raf about the media
and never even read all that stuff (you have to as research, I suppose), but I have to say, if Dallas doesn’t make the playoffs this year—and that’s about 50-50 for me—I think he WILL be gone.
Whether Jerry pulls the trigger on Garrett, or brings in Cowher or someone experienced, I really think a huge setback like that would finish Phillips.
And, be justified, for me. I blame the players as much as the coach, etc., but in sports you can’t fire the whole team, and the buck stops at the top.
You’re right about what the storyline will be if Cowher comes, that’s for sure!
tuna helper,
The Star-Telegram is the most bloodthirsty for two reasons:
1. It’s Randy Galloway’s address, and the underlings there are nothing if not Galloway acolytes. He’s got the big money so everybody thinks they can cash in copying his schtick. At least they’re not copying his writing style, or un-style.
2. When you’re the smaller paper in the market, you have to howl louder to get attention.
3. And can I add that I wrote the same exact line regarding Jerry meeting Cowher that Jen Engel did today, only I was tongue-in-cheek, and did it a month ago, after the Rams loss.
Damn, Jen, can’t you at least stay within a week of the blogs?
The Star-Telegram is the most bloodthirsty for two reasons:
1. It’s Randy Galloway’s address, and the underlings there are nothing if not Galloway acolytes. He’s got the big money so everybody thinks they can cash in copying his schtick. At least they’re not copying his writing style, or un-style.
2. When you’re the smaller paper in the market, you have to howl louder to get attention.
3. And can I add that I wrote the same exact line regarding Jerry meeting Cowher that Jen Engel did today, only I was tongue-in-cheek, and did it a month ago, after the Rams loss.
Sorry Raf, I have a short attention span but I like to have fun with it.
You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.
Dorothy Parker
yeah...
i think that makes sense rafeal…they certainly seem to follow galloway’s lead….and the DMN certainly seems like the big kid on the block. i can remember reading it when i went to visit family. that thing is huge. it seemed to rival the L.A. Times as far as all the crap they put in it. some of it, i admit, was very good. i still have the headline from the emmitt rushing title game vs. seattle.
i just wonder what’s the DMN’s MO then? if the star-telegram is trying to get attention, is the DMN trying to shout them down by being equally annoying? i mean, nobody is bad as galloway and salty balls of hate, but cowlishaw and JJT can get right up to the edge. they seem to be homers when we win and harsh when we lose. the star-telegram is always harsh. i’d be interested to get your thoughts on the abilene and san antonio papers as well.
as far as the blogs go, i don’t doubt it. i can think of many scenarios were grizz has had something and it totally escaped the MSM. they still haven’t figured this whole thing out yet and too many of them are quick to dismiss bloggers as “pajama-wearing losers.” There’s a rivalry there. just like between print and TV reporters. Now, they’ve said since they can’t beat us, they want to join us and everybody and their mama has a blog: cowlishaw, JJT, galloway, hate, etc.
Good response though. ’preciate it man.
Just once I’d like for us to win a ring so I can play this song to all our naysayers.
Compliments of Ween.
"They need security in the world, Craig!"
by Tuna Helper on Nov 15, 2008 11:56 AM CST up reply actions
Rafael knows my theory,
most sportswriters are not sportwriters at all. in fact, they dont enter the business with any intention of being a sportswriter, thats just the only gig they could get.
I don’t know about that, having once been a sports writer. What I found was that covering games at some point become very tedious, especially when the games themselves don’t offer anything unique from any other games. It’s much more interesting to write the columns, but you have to find something that grabs a reader’s attention. And nothing grabs attention like firing a coach, benching a player, revoking a coach’s playcalling duties, or the like. Face it, nobody reads columns about the top ten reasons we all follow the Dallas Cowboys.
What is problematic is when the team responds to pressure brought on by the media gabbing. Jerry could do a much better job putting an end to the rumors and such, but he’s not going to.
yeah...
being a sports writer is a good gig. i was a journalist once before and that’s something that you just don’t get thrown into. you have to work to get into it. particularly a beat like the cowboys. they’re not just giving that to any tom, dick and harry off the street. there hundreds of thousands of reporters who would love to have that job. getting that job can lead to all kinds of neat things like books, movie rights, ESPN gigs. Ask skip brainless…..
"They need security in the world, Craig!"
WP may very well be fired
But it won’t be until the offseason…Thats for sure!
And Rafael…You’re right,the media had WP getting fired….
Even with a Super Bowl victory!
I thought the Silly season was over
But with our cowboys….Silly season stretches on…and on….and on!
You'll never get in a traffic jam,while going the extra mile. -Roger staubach
That Is so true
The team seems to have a traveling circus type atmosphere..
and of course, King Jerry is the ultimate ringmaster!
You'll never get in a traffic jam,while going the extra mile. -Roger staubach
Wade is the "players coach"
There was a write up on Bob Lilly today in the Star Telegram.
Bob said
“Ernie Stautner was one tough man,” Lilly said. "If we had a bad game, he’d make us push the two-man sled — one guy pushing while Ernie stood on it … until we couldn’t walk.
“When one guy fell out, the next guy stepped in. This would last for 30 minutes, then Ernie would tell us, ’Maybe next week y’all will have better game.’ Trust me, we didn’t want many bad ones.”
Wade would NEVER do that. He slaps the players on the back and says may be next time, it was MY fault. Wade is a good guy, I like him and I think the players respect him. I like BP but I think he is too authoritive. NFL players these days are me types and need a coach that keeps them accountable. Unless the Cowboys make the playoffs I think he will be done, I’d bet money on it.
By the way, I was in contact with Ann Lilly yesterday before the article came out about his photography. He has a lot of really nice work. Check it out.
by torchindefenses on Nov 14, 2008 10:22 PM CST reply actions
Jerry Jones is the real problem
The owner needs to step aside and let the football coaches do what they do best. Coach. JJ is always needing to be in the spotlight and it puts unecessary pressure on the players. JJ isn’t going away until he dies, just like Al Davis. Who suffers? The players and us fans. Guess JJ does too because his dam# ego gets in the way.
by torchindefenses on Nov 14, 2008 10:25 PM CST reply actions
Does anyone really think Wade is coaching this team?
Jerry Jones is the coach of tthe Cowboys. WP is simply a figure head.
There is a market for griping about the Cowboys
I moved to the D/FW area 13 years ago, having been a Cowboys fan for many years prior to that. This was just after the Cowboys beat Pittsburgh in Super Bowl XXX, and already the local press was going to town about how the Cowboys were going to fall apart because Dallas lost so many free agents after that year. Galloway was with the Dallas Morning News then, and either he or LeBreton (Startle Gram) would engage in what seemed to be a weekly ritual of burying the Cowboys for some reason. The only good thing about Galloway moving to the Startle Gram was that I could throw one paper away and avoid both of them.
Jean-Jacques Taylor isn’t much better, always trying to write the “See, I told you so” articles even though he never told us so. He was one very critical of Bill Parcells, but he just recently wrote a story about how Wade and Jerry have destroyed the great team that Bill built. Cowlishaw usually seems more reasonable, but even he is engaging in the weekly “Shouldn’t we fire Wade now? How about now? Or now? Now!”
The Ticket is probably the worst of all. Fortunately, I’ve moved out of range and can’t pick up that station any longer.
Why does all of this negativity persist? Because there’s obviously a market for it. Go on the various boards and see how many fans would agree that firing Wade and elevating Jason Garrett is the right move, even though very, very few of teams have made this sort of in-season change and ever experience success thanks to that move.
It's the Times, not the Boys
It’s just the NFL today. The media overplays the firing of coaches in every city, but at the same time, we see owners firing coaches with unusual frequency these days. Just check in at the Rams, Raiders, and other teams who fuel these kind of reports. Even though it runs counter to certain organizations, the “environment” of quick firing/hiring is part of the current NFL. And that isn’t created by the media.
Here is yet another headline, albeit on the DMN blog:
If Tashard Choice can’t play, cut him loose
In other words, any rookie who can’t make immediate contributions should be CUT! There’s just no time for this b.s. called player development. That’s what college is for!
MSM is all about the drama and hype
That’s why I don’t go there first to get the Boys news anymore. I come to BTB for the real story. It’s a great BS filter.
T-New, shutting down WR's for Dallas since 2003
o82288,
Really? Jerry breaks down tape, sits with the coaches in meetings and creates the game plans?
Don’t think so.
dodger71rs,
Yeah, cut Tashard Choice. Of course, people were calling for Martellus Bennett to be cut during camp because of Hard Knocks. And bench Mike Jenkins forever for ole-ing that tackle in the Giants game.
And when you cut them, you can rip on Dallas for their horrible draft.
And then when other teams scoop them up and they play well, you can rip Dallas again for being stupid.
Lather, rinse, repeat as necessary.
To address an earlier point you made, I think another problem for sportswriting is the downsizing of newspaper staff and budget cuts.
You notice how no beat writer ever gets old at the Morning News? Look at their current bunch. All guys in their 20s, or early 30s. No institutional history.
Hires shortly out of college, because they’re cheaper.
Rafael-
I certainly wasn’t advocating that the Cowboys cut Choice. Tongue-in-cheek comment. . .
I think you are right about the downsizing. I think the DMN really misses Blackie Sherrod and Frank Luksa, even if both could be critical at times. If Luksa criticized the Cowboys, it was almost always on a point worth reading about. Right now, Cowlishaw and Taylor try to fill that type of senior role, and neither is good at it because both tend to contradict themselves from one week to the next. Both will say that Wade needs to be fired immediately, but if the Cowboys made a run and won the Super Bowl, both will say they were right all along that this team (and coach) had what it took to go all the way. Exactly what you said— lay chips on every spot on the roulette wheel.
Gosselin is better, I think, and I generally like to read Kevin Sherrington’s pieces as well. But the stuff they write just isn’t the stuff that sells newspapers.
Jerry does make a lot of calls
I would find it hard to believe that JJ doens’t break down tape. May be not to the extent of individual coaches but I would bet anything Jerry is rewatching every single play over and over. He is obsessed, like we all are. lol. Some things that he does are good things I admit. I’d like to know who’s idea it was to trade for Roy Williams. Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t KC Joyner mention that Roy Williams stats weren’t all that great. I remember a post by Rafael about this stating that it probably wouldn’t be a good idea depending on what we gave up because he wasn’t a burner to stretch the field. The first rounder hurts the most. Time will tell. What JJ says goes, Wade said it in a press conference this year. The control is ultimately with JJ, as with any owner but JJ has his hands IN it more than any other coach in the league who’s name isn’t Al.
by torchindefenses on Nov 15, 2008 1:01 AM CST up reply actions
Free market
Hey, you get what you pay for …
Stop the Madness - Enshrine Bob Hayes
"I played for the world's greatest professional sports team in history. Once a Dallas Cowboy, always a Dallas Cowboy." - Bob Hayes
by Raul Villaronga on Nov 15, 2008 10:14 AM CST up reply actions
As far as coaches
It all about production, sames as the players. If a coach has lots of talent on his team and the team regresses then his job is on the line, period. Softy or not, Wade’s continuity will depend on the next 7 games.
by torchindefenses on Nov 15, 2008 1:04 AM CST reply actions
Cowboys fell because they were overhyped
Does anyone else believe this? Did they get the cart ahead of the horse? They were told they were the best in the NFL all summer long. I think it went to their heads a bit. A team that struggles, loses and learns how to grit it out play as a team. This incarnation of the Cowboys is lost IMO. They need to be led into prosperity. By whom?
by torchindefenses on Nov 15, 2008 1:09 AM CST reply actions
Themselves
I agree with you. But at this point, I think everyone knows that the cart is squarely back where it belongs, behind the horse. Either they recognize this and pick themselves up off the ground(every last one of them), and take their prosperity back, or we can shift this discussion to whether or not we can get Cowher for next year.
"When it's third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every time." -Max McGee (I know he wasn't a Cowboy, but that's gotta be my favorite football quote)
Raf said:
o82288,
"Really? Jerry breaks down tape, sits with the coaches in meetings and creates the game plans?
Don’t think so"
You dont think so? I bet he sits in on almost every meeting. From jocks to socks.
Who was the one down on the field before the Rams gaming finally ruling Romo out? it was not WP
Who said this week he would welcome pacman back.. was not Wp
Who said the Cowboys would with out a doubt make the playoffs. Did not hear it from WP’s mouth.
I would like to know another owner that walks the sidelines durning a game. Face it Jerry is much closer to Al Davies then he is to Robert Kraft.
BinDinSc:
I have to wonder why BC would want to come to Dallas. After working with the Rooney’s for so long why would you subject yourself to Jerry.
Torchindefenses:
I might be wrong but in that same article or maybe another one Raf also said that trying to get Boldin from the Cards would also be a mistake.
082288:
A great feature here at BTB is the ability to reply directly to someone’s comment. That way you can carry on several different lines of dialogue without having to constantly scroll back and forth to see which comment or person you want to reply to.
by Brandon Worley on Nov 15, 2008 7:55 AM CST up reply actions
That's all speculation though
and I have never heard one former HC, not even Jimmy, say that those things happen – that Jones is coaching. IN fact I recently heard Johnson say that he and Jerry had a great GM/Coaching arrangement. It was off-field stuff that split them apart.
The fact that Jones acts as GM-spokemodel doesn’t mean that he’s the one deciding each issue.
Never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty and the pig loves it.
Well, it appears my theory on sportswriters is bunk.
But i go back to what dodger71 says about covering games and it becoming tedious. I just dont get this. there are unique aspects to each game, that can be broken down in a very interesting way. Just look at Rafael’s game breakdowns. they are very effective and good reading.
Why dont sportswriters do this? Isnt that what a sportswriter should do?
When i read what is posted on DMN, by “sportswriters” I just dont get it. Most of what they are writing is all on the drama side and not breakdowns on what teams are doing well or not and why.
if the purpose is merely to grab attention, it is hollow writing at best. I guess this is what sells, but reading what is written leads me to beleive some of these sportswriters dont really understand much of what they should be writing about.
Ideally, I think it should be a sportswriter’s job to break down each game and point out the most interesting part of it, not to invent drama and so forth. But not only does not that not sell as many newspapers, it probably isn’t what the editors are telling the cub and beat reporters to write.
There used to be a book published each year featuring the best sportswriting of that year. Most of the articles focused on athletes themselves and had little to do with individual games or team progress. Then ESPN started featuring sports reporters prominently, holding these guys out as the best of the best. And the “best of the best” were sarcastic, never positive, always looking for an angle. In other words, far more inclined to write a 17-week series of columns about why the head coach should be fired than to focus on what has actually happened in the games.
Personally, I love watching any sport, and I love to write. I thought that was the perfect match for a career. What got tedious for me was covering several games (high school and college) over the course of a weekend and doing everything I could to make each game stand out on its own. This was especially true of baseball and basketball, but it was still true of football. That was a bit thankless, given each reader’s general lack of attention span. But when a coach was fired, or a player was kicked off the team for some reason, or whatever, that got everyone’s attention, and those were the articles that people commented about to me. Naturally, I found myself waiting for that big story to break, rather than to focus all of my attention on writing even better descriptions of what happened during these games. (Of course, this was on a much smaller scale than the DMN, and I didn’t last long in that career…)
I don’t think the current state of sports journalism is the way it should be, but that’s what it has developed to become.
I am a positive person by nature...
And always seem to try to find the good in every situation, no matter how rough things get. I am forever an optimist, no matter what. My therapist says that I run from the truth, I say she’s being too negative.
It kills me sometimes to read and see all the negative press surrounding not only sports, but news in general. I refuse to watch the evening news because I don’t think I can sit through 30 minutes each day of nothing but murder, rape and violence in the same neverending circle over and over again.
The same goes for sportswriting. Before I became a contributor here at BTB, I was able to pick and choose which articles I read, now part of my job is to scour is to keep up not only with my team but everything else surrounding it as well. It’s a straight beat down sometimes. That’s why I choose to stick with fanblogs run by competent sports bloggers, who not only are a fan of the team but are able to see both sides of a story, not just the drama and are able to approach things without rose colored glasses on. These guys dedicate the time and energy to in-depth analysis and breakdowns of our favorite sports and teams.
It’s a travesty that the guys who get paid for sportswriting are the ones who seem to put hardly any time into what they write. If you take a look at most articles, half of it is quotes from players and coaches, with filler typed in by the “writer”. Hell I could bust out a column a day based on those templates standing on my head while Heather Graham taps out “Chattanooga Choo-Choo” on the balls of my feet with chicken legs. I challenge these writers to come up with original, well thought out analysis DAILY, and see what happens. Then tell them to do it for no pay while working full time.
That’s what I thought they’d say.
Drama queens.
mmmmm....
heather graham…sorry…lost my train of thought…lol….
"They need security in the world, Craig!"
by Tuna Helper on Nov 15, 2008 12:02 PM CST up reply actions
travesty?
I’m not sure I understand your comment about fanblogs not being biased. Um… you may want to re-think that and remove one of the several pairs of rose colored glasses you’re wearing.
I’m assuming you know that the Dallas Morning News’ circulation offline is probably 500 to 1,000 times larger than the equivalent number of visits this site gets. And their sports pages/blogs online are probably 50 to 100x larger. People pay to read the newspaper. Nobody pays to read what’s on a blog. Newspapers aren’t dying. Peoples’ interest in news and information isn’t dying, it’s growing. Newspapers’ business model is what’s dying. It’s an industry that’s just in transition.
Now… I love Rafael like a moderator of my favorite blog, but, you all realize, right, that he has done EXACTLY the same thing in writing this post as what you are all describing as behavior in writers that you loathe. He’s riled up the group using a tired topic that is 100% successful in getting your attention and encouraging your replies. He’s broken the tedium of no news and discussion of Xs and Os with a “story” that just takes a broad swipe at alternative views. To get fans of a team that use an alternate media/niche blog to communicate to speak out against voices in the mainstream traditional media is as easy as falling off a log.
touche...
Part of the reason we choose to turn to fanblogs is that is gives us a place to discuss our favorite teams with our fellow fans, and yes they are there with homerism attached. However, I prefer the blogs the can look at things with original, steady and as un-biased as possible articles that look at my favorite teams. I like to think that while I live and die with the Cowboys, I am still able to look at things from a neutral point of view while still rooting for my team. But your right, fanblogs as a name are biased to begin with.
I just get discouraged when I see journalist do nothing more than stir up drama and mis-quote players, trying their best for the glamorous stories that bring them more readers. But hey, that’s our society. For some reason we love drama and soap opera and love it even more when celebrities’ personal lives are thrown out in the open. We love doom and gloom and we love to see the mighty fall. So the DMN writers and other writers around the country are just doing their job: Selling papers by giving the public what they love to read about.
I guess my argument was against not just writers but my dislike for the whole picture and what society craves for entertainment. I don’t care who Tony Romo dates or where T.O. was on his day off or what these guys do for spare time (as long as its legal). But for some reason TMZ and sports has started to collide, and that type of writing has spilled over to mainstream news. I just don’t like it. But hey, the newspapers are meant for the everyday Joe, and they have to keep things simple for everyone.
by Brandon Worley on Nov 15, 2008 3:38 PM CST up reply actions
I was talking about this the other day
Nowhere else in American life does this stuff happen, not even in politics – constant microanalysis of every possible/potential problem, issue or shortcoming. Constant 24/7 assessments. Immediate calls for a man to lose his employment. Personal attacks on players, owners, coaches, GMs (like how two people get along off the job, or critiquing who is dating whom or how a man spends his free time).
Imagine if we turned the tables and naitonally broadcast every grammatical error Cowherd or Berman committed, insulted their wives, speculated whether there was off-camera tension with Trey Wingo? They’d never be able to stand up to it.
I hate the new confluence of E-TV and sports. In the end it’ll probably kill them both.
Never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty and the pig loves it.
Actually Dunk, Regarding Berman...
…there is this whiny, cussing tirade that made the rounds.
I’d hate to have worked on his staff.
BSPN would’ve fired/sue me ‘cuz I would’ve body slammed the idiot if he disrespected me like that.
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wow...
i thought Berman was like the biggest wuss/nice guy in the world. Obviously he’s not.
Yeah. I would’ve had to give him the people’s elbow and the rock bottom on that one.
"They need security in the world, Craig!"
by Tuna Helper on Nov 15, 2008 12:13 PM CST up reply actions
why work for JJ?
Hmm, that a good question. How about, he is absolutely committed to winning. He takes care of the people who work for him, sometimes to a fault. He will go out and sign talent based on the recommendations of his key people. He is optimistic and positive.
BTW, he is not even in the same zip code as Al Davis. the “JJ is another Al Davis” thing is simply another tired mantra of many media types. As has been stated before, it GRABS ATTENTION. Whether or not it has basis in fact is irrelevant.
The only similarity, he is an owner who as a GM is actively involved in some of the key decisions in the organization.
jarhead
"He will go out and sign talent based on the recommendations of his key people. "
Do you really think BP wanted TO on the team? BP would not even call TO by his name.
It does not sound like WP wants pacman back. If the league reinstates him JJ will bring him back
Do you think JG or WP said lets go out and trade for RW2?
Sure, but he's the GM.
That’s his job, to sign guys to the roster. Listen to the coaches-then overrule them if he thinks it’s right.
Sometimes you have to just forget he’s the owner and not think of him as one.
It’s not like Mark Cuban sticking his nose in all the time. He’s just an owner/jerk.
Jerry’s an owner/GM, like it or not.
He is the coaches’ boss.
I agree
ppl tend to harp on him being the owner and doing it but they never mention when they state the things that they don’t like that it is the GM doing it…He is doing his job and he isn’t close at all to being al davis…that dude is nuts and Jerry is trying to do things the right way..building through the draft with some FA’s sprinkled in. He has made great deals and him and Stephen have been magical at getting us under the cap as well as having the extra money for Romo’s new long term WR. And about Wade… I think the players aren’t responding as well as we would hope because Wade doesn’t hold them accountable..I’m all for a player’s coach but I don’t think anyone thinks that Dungy doesn’t hold his guys accountable while being a players coach…Wade will never bench someone for taking a play off or even say hey u f’d up..he babies them and that is what i don’t like..you can be a player’s coach while still enforcing rules
by nicholas.rodriguez on Nov 15, 2008 9:29 PM CST up reply actions
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