Does that mean we’re stuck with Garrett and Houck?

and wanted WP to take the coordinator job how could he have thought that was going to happen if he believed that JG was not going to the rams. How was that going to work? During that interview on WFAN on friday he said JG was like the no.3 option so how was Shanahan to HC and WP to DC going to work with JG, was he going to still be the OC?

my friend was arguing last night that he must be a terrible interview because a guy with his resume should’ve had a HC job a long time ago…

i think he was just waiting for the right situation….

this means that the Carrot bros. are staying
and Houck too
let’s hope they do insanely better in 09 than in 08
we’ll just have to wait and see

I imagine this played a major role in the decision.

Have you’all read Mickey Spagnola’s article on “bad chemistry” (DC.com)? It makes sense to me. However, aren’t mistakes and confusion part of “bad chemistry”? I can see both sides of the argument.

Jason Garrett is too smart to take the Rams job… the Princeton kid knows he has the keys to the most plum job in all of sports. Getting rid of Spanuolo is a double plus, if true. Still, Wade should be fired. It wouldn’t be sadistic, it would be deserved.

It was on Wade’s watch that players were allowed to go on Spring Break the week before the biggest game of their lives. It was on Wade’s watch that Tony Romo regressed into a turnover-prone celebrity quarterback. Phillips was given two years with one of the five best teams in football and doesn’t even have a playoff win to show for it. That was his rap coming in, and it proved true. Nothing will change if the likable Phillips is around for 2009.

It is time for change, and what better time as they move into Tex Stadium. Jason Garrett will bring long-term stability to the franchise. He can line up Capers and promote Sherman. This is great news… Brian-Stewart-Fired type great news.

that he has him picking up his dry cleaning during the offseason and bringing it to St. Louis for him. From STL, I hear RHG and the wife will be meeting Jim Johnson at the team hotel in AZ to iron his boxers and give him a perm and scalp massage before the championship game (he’s still backing up Troy).

as long as he emphasizes the run and stays ahead of other DC’s in play calling

…that before Chan Gailey was hired, everyone thought that it was a done deal that da King was gonna sign ex-UCLA HC Terry Donohue.

In fact, as reports have it, Donohue was flown in and spent the night at the Jones’ house.

As it turned out, Donohue left Dallas without signing a contract, and the “mystery sleeper candidate” Gailey was signed.

JG is not a lock to stay. The fact that he was even looking hard to leave gives the Jones boys some lattitude to say Adios!

I still believe Shanahan is in the cards for Dallas. It’s just a matter of maneuvering.

Who does? It’s just hilarious how ESPN and other sources were saying how Jason is likely going to be the next Rams head coach last night.

anyone watching this game? Any names in particular we should be keeping an eye on as prospects for the Boys?

He laid his cards down with the “T.O. or me” gambit and he got dinged by all his possible suitors. That means his leverage is gone to try to dictate to the Cowboys what they should do with T.O. unless he’s looking to make some kind of lateral move to an organization that almost certainly would pay him less money than would Dallas. So, he’s been dinged by all the teams he interviewed with and now he looks to try to sheepishly come back, possibly, with a team whose players aren’t exactly singing his praises and with a guy who he just publicly sold out in Owens?

Ouch.

Unless T.O. is leaving very shortly, and even if he does given others’ concerns with RHG’s schemes, it’s not a good day in the Princeton grad’s household. I would not want to be him right now.

Are you sure about that? He’s got $3 million reason to be comfortable. The owner knows him and wants him to stay. I believe JG will shine again next season after he makes adjustments to his gameplans.

if Garrett went to StL and won 10 or 11 games there that would be painful. More painful than Payton taking the Saints to the NFC Champ game.

As Raf will say, the players need to execute too.
The players need to take more responsibility for the complete disaster the 2nd half of the year than the coaches, IMO.
They are professionals and should be able to tune out all the distractions in the end. It’s a sign of their mental weakness that they can’t.

Philly has had huge “Distractions” the last 2 years (Reid’s family, benching McNabb, etc.), but has the type of players who use that to pull together instead of fall apart at the seams like the Boys did this year, offense and defense(last 2 games).

When your awesome receiver is shut down w/ double teams.
And, although I hate to use this one, with the amount of injuries we had-Austin, FJones, Barber, Romo out for 3 and not the same after, Kosier, Witten, Deon Anderson.

Great news as far as I’m concerned, now if the Cowboys cut T.O., I’ll consider this to be a great off season.

…but I just saw it today. This is from LeAnn Schreiber, the ESPN Ombudsman, talking about the big brouhaha.

“Why is this T.O./Romo/Witten thing even a story? … Do we not believe that in an NFL locker room, full of 53 passionate, aggressive, competitive men there are not disagreements and arguments? This happens in all 32 locker rooms, multiple times, every year. Especially after a tough loss. This is only a story because it’s T.O. and the Cowboys.”

just announced as Tampa Bay’s New HC. He was the DB coach a month ago and has no HC experience!!

OK, so here’s the kind of junk that runs through my head when I don’t have a team in the playoffs…

1) When Garrett was interviewing with other teams for HC, didn’t they pick his brain for his philosophies and tendencies? I mean in a war, if you got a chance to sit down with the opposing general and have him tell you what he would do in certain situations..wouldn’t that be helpful?

2) We had injuries and we sucked. The Patriots had injuries too, one of them was way more damaging than any we had..they still won 11 games? Easy schedule? Better system?

3) hut? where did that come from? hut one, hut two?…why say hut? why not corn or some other made up word like….raf raf one…raf two sorry Rafael. and hike? why say hike?

I have more worthless thoughts but it’s probably best I keep them to myself.

So do the Cowboys stay in house for a defensive coordinator, or do they hire from the outside? Or does Wade simply take over? What’s the best route?

…I hope you’re not a guy and I’m calling you beautiful…but…seems like Campo or maybe Reggie Herring would be the two best inside candidates. I’m sure others on here have better insight.

I think I’d prefer to go with someone from the outside…ideally, maybe a guy who was a very successful DC, then promoted to HC and found himself in over his head, and maybe eager to get back in the game where he knows he can excel. Like a Romeo Crennel.

Jim, just call me tyrant. I really like your choice of Romeo Crennel. Imagine Crennel and Wade brainstroming defense before a game, two 3-4 masters! I think it would help the team tremendously.

The tight end coach is also staying. Laugh if you want to but John Garrett would have definitely gone with him. And he did one hell of job last year with Witten and Bennett. I for one think he would have been a big loss.

i may be the only patient cowboy fan alive but…
i think it is important for us to be good every year and if we loose a solid future coach like JG then we will be blowing things up next year unless wade gets a few playoff wins. if we keep JG at least we have some continuity. honestly 9 and 7 aint too bad. the key is to stay in SB contention and drastic changes will not amount to that. right now even every BSPN analyst will admit that we are a solid contender for the title next year. we loose JG, we have a bad year next year, fire wade, and welcome back to 5 and 11. as long as the steelers loose this weekend the cowboys can still call themselves the best franchise of all time. why are we not concerned with that, afterall we do have more NFC championships than they AFC.

I’ll still watch them. I’ll still cheer for them. But every time “something else” happens, I’ll care that much less.

Headline… Princeton-schooled Garrett too smart to take the Rams job. Jason to stick with Jones for foreseeable future.

Go back to the story Werder reported about TO storming into JG’s office along with the rest of the WRs and complaining about Romo and Witten. As we all know, what really happened is that JG called each of the WRs in for a meeting to discuss any concerns they had about the offense.

If JG is Werder’s boy in the locker room, how then does Easy Ed get that story that wrong?

Doesn’t compute for me.

I watched the Cowboys-Falcons 1980 Divisional Playoff game tonight on ESPN2, which I highly recommend. Recall that the 1980 Cowboys were not only coached by Tom Landry, but Dan Reeves was his offensive coordinator (as he had been since the 1977 Super Bowl season) and Jim Myers, who had been coaching with Landry in Dallas since 1962, was the assistant head coach and offensive line coach. Dallas had scored 383 points in the regular season, were loaded with offensive talent (Tony Dorsett, Drew Pearson, Tony Hill, Butch Johnson, Billy Ju Dupree, Ron Springs, Preston Pearson et al), but Atlanta dominated the game up until the 4th quarter. Despite the impressive pedigrees of the Cowboys coaching staff, Drew Pearson said that the coaches were completely confused by the coverages run by the Falcon defense and thus the Cowboys were able to do nothing through the air. Tom Rafferty said that it took the Cowboy coaches 3 quarters until they finally figured out the Falcons defense. So, the Cowboys entered the 4th quarter having scored only 10 points and were down 24-10. Jerry Glanville, who was the Falcons defensive coordinator, told his defense to keep doing what they were doing, because he claimed that Landry never make adjustments to his offense during the game. Danny White recounted Landry’s calm at halftime, reiterating both the game plan and his confidence that the team could successfully execute it. Needless to say, they did, winning 30-27 on 2 late Danny White touchdown passes to Drew Pearson.

I bring this up because so many on this blog calling for Jason Garrett’s head rest their reasoning almost entirely on the loss to the Ravens. Recall Ed Reed and Ray Lewis (ignoring their obvious bias toward Garrett) playing the role of Jerry Glanville criticizing the Cowboy’s offense. Tony Romo and others cited for us the confusion in figuring out the Ravens defense, just as Tom Rafferty and Danny White. Yet, just as in 1980, the Cowboys, who had managed only 7 points the first 3 quarters, rallied to score 17 behind 2 Romo touchdown passes to bring Dallas back into the game. Arguably, if the Cowboys defense had held the Ravens as they did the Falcons in 1980 (with Ed Jones tiptoing on the line of scrimmage to avoid an offsides and stumbling right into a key 3rd down running play), Romo would have brought the Cowboys back again for the winning score.

If even the greatest coaches of all time can be challenged from time to time, why should it surprise us that Garrett may as well? And, such unthinking analysis overlooks the fact that the Cowboys did eventually figure out the Ravens defense and scored 17 4th quarter points. I, for one, am quite pleased that it appears Jason Garrett will return to the Cowboys next season.

Garrett’s schemes had Owens and Austin running wide open in the close-out game of Texas Stadium vs. Baltimore… but the Cowboys’ undrafted quarterback had another case of the yips and couldn’t hit the broad side of the barn. Tex just wants to win one more Super Bowl before setting off into the 75-degree Montecito sunset. Fire Brian Stewart, the most unqualified coordinator in the NFL, and get Tony Romo a sports psychologist.

east-west shrine game

1:02pm – ESPN Draft mini guru Todd McShay in the house. That should make for some very interesting information.

1:05pm – Penn State’s career reception leader Deon Butler will be in action. He’s not getting love in the wide receiver projections right now. Also, they’re talking about Bobby Ross. I forgot he coached the Georgia Tech national title team from 1990 before taking the Chargers to the Super Bowl. One of the few college to pro success stories (we’ll forget his time with the Lions).

Game Rules
Offense: No motion or shifting, 2 feet in for wide receivers, only 2 running backs
Defense: Only 4-3, no blitz, only man-to-man

1:11 – Tom Brandstater threw a nice little slant for the first down. ESPN projects him as the #17 QB. That throw and his next throw show some quality arm strength. We’ll see what kind of accuracy he has.

1:13 – Gartrell Johnson, CSU running back, with a big rush into East territory. He rushed for 285 yards in the New Mexico Bowl. McShay says he’s one of the fastest rising performers. He’s 5’10, 227. Definitely a baby bull type of player it looks like.

1:17 – How’s about a 285 pound fullback (5’11). Yes I’m talking about Jorvorskie Lane of Texas A&M. The announcers (McShay and Andre Ware) are ripping into him for being overweight. On that drive he got the ball on 3rd and goal form the 2 and 4th and goal from the 1 and couldn’t get it in.

1:22 – Wow. HORRIBLE call on a pass interference. The defender hit the receiver square just before the ball got to him. I really don’t see how that wasn’t pass interference. Anybody??? Hopefully Bobby Ross (the East coach) is unhappy with that call

A lot more info in the link

Garrett has one more chance. He doesn’t seem to want to stay here, and if he’s Werder’s source, he’s not content. TO isn’t happy with the offense, but he wants to be in Dallas and win in Dallas.

Rams fans revolting over thought of Garrett as HC

“As word spread Friday afternoon that Garrett was heading to St. Louis, the Rams’ ticket office was flooded with angry calls from fans about his possible selection,” Rams beat man Jim Thomas wrote.

Gee. That’s not exactly rolling out the red carpet.

Genius to unwanted possible cowardly Werder source in a year. Only thing that’s taken a beating like Garrett’s rep is the Dow Jones.

I don’t think that Long or Carriker is that talented..