Dan Reeves and the Cowboys, together again?

Where if Garrett ends up as HC next year, Reeves becomes his OC, and if not, then he either replaces Garrett as OC or starts looking for coordinator work somewhere else again, with his name brought back to NFL relevence from a year with the Cowboys.

That he wants to take Vick with him, where ever he goes. And that’s another HUGE distraction this team doesn’t need.

As for him as a consultant, minus the Vick speculation, I honestly don’t know too much about him besides he was the coach of the Falcons in the Super Bowl.

Enlighten me.

Hopefully he is being brought in to instill some much needed discipline on this team. If this is true, it’s a definite step in the right direction.

Adding Tom-Landry Disciples to a franchise gone Tila Tequila can only help. Dan Reeves has forgotten more about football than the likes of Brian Stewart could acknowledge to know. His boots fit in Texas, and Reeves would provide a level of credibility and discipline that this organization sorely lacks. Dan would be an ideal consultant… a link to the past, a true football man; and hopefully, he could help eliminate this Romo-Gone-Wild attitude that has permeated the organization over the last two years.

we’ll be running the wildcat for the entire game….

Having Reeves on board will be a huge asset.
I hope this happens

What if Jerry is really trying to change by bringing in someone to help out with the GM side of the house ala Parcells in Miami?

seems about right. He’s not going to be d-coordinator. We already have an offensive coaching group. It doesnt appear that talent evaluation is whats lacking in the organization right now. About the only thing left is general coaching philosophy. And he’s got strong ties to Wade.

A sounding board seems about right.

I have a hypothetical situation based off a rumor that the fins may not resign Channing Crowder. I do not know if he is the same type of ILB as Brady James or if he could play the position that Zach had. Raf do you think he would be a good fit for this team?

sorry here is the link to his stats.

http://www.nfl.com/players/channingcrowder/profile?id=CRO702055

Another 60-something year old geriatric who cannot identify with younger players. I’m sure that’s what the young players on this team want to see. More people who look like Jerry trolling the sidelines during camp and practice spouting off about a value system that long ago went by the wayside. I’ll bet the young African American players are the most happy of the bunch and really welcome this.

Yeah…good.

I like Reeves as a man. He seems to have great morals. Love the fact that he played for the Cowboys. But I don’t see any value in this decision. He hasn’t coached in 5 years. That’s a long time to be out of talent evaluation. He’s 61, and his name isn’t Parcells. Players wouldn’t give him the respect. I don’t get it. This is like shining a turd, fire Wade and flush it.

Jerry Jones is killing Dallas…. again. It didn’t take long but he has finally put this team into such a down spin that unless he has some kind of epiphany we’re back to the late ninties Cowboys. Great. Hemophiliac is back. T.O. is such a devisive cancer and now has a reality show, Michael Irvin with a reality show that will put a player in training camp. What next? No wonder they call Dallas “the Circus”. Just shut up and play some ball.

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WTF is happening to my team ? Maybe we can bring in Phil Jackson i heard he was retiring from basketball this year. Mike Ditka used to play for the cowboys and actually won a superbowl once maybe he can come in and whisper in wades ear for a couple million bucks? This is dumbfounding.

I think he is keeping Wade around to fine tune the defense. B Stewart is gone and we don’t have anyone in the organization right now that can do the defense better than Wade. Wade is basically the DC with the title of Head Coach.

Reeves will help in several ways.
1) More of an authority figure than Wade
2) Should push more for quality team players than the TO / Pacman types
3) Has connections all over the NFL
4) Restores accountibility

Seriously folks, those of you blinded by Owens’ career statistics, doesn’t the following make you think he might really be as big as problem as others say:

“VH1 announced Monday that the series takes place in the offseason, and T.O.’s best friends and publicists — Monique Jackson and Kita Williams — will help him re-examine his personal life. The two will work as "matchmakers and therapists” for Owens."

I view this annoucement akin to Jason Taylor competing on Dancing with Stars. Both men have one foot out the door of the NFL, and are more concerned about “making a business decision” than the game and their team. You would think that after the season he had just experienced, the normal reaction would be to lower your profile, no? But then again, I base that opinion on a normal reaction.

As for Reeves, I like and respect him a great deal. But, adding him as a consultant will just compound the confusion at Valley Ranch. You already have a coaching staff that has difficulty controlling the locker room. Now you throw another former head coach in the mix, and the signal sent to the players is what? That if Wade screws up, the interim has already been hired? How about Jason Garrett? Does this enhance or undermine his authority as the offensive coordinator? I believe it is the latter. More chaos and confusion is in the offing because no one person is firmly in charge of this team.

And I haven’t even mentioned the insanity of Michael Irvin picking a training camp player. Has this organization learned anything from the disastrous 2008 season? Apparently not. What is the common link among Owens, Reeves and Irvin? You guessed it, our Owner/GM. Yes, the DNA is still corrupt, and the genetic mutations are getting uglier by the day.

..in business we joke sometimes about consultants and their roles.

A couple of deprecating definitions of a consultant, both having something to do with time for some reason;

a) A consultant is someone who takes your watch and tells you what time it is and charges lots of money.
b) A consultant is someone who can tell you how to build a clock, but can’t tell you what time it is and charges lots of money.

My guess is, Reeves is more likely to fit the first joke more than the second one. A consultant can serve as a dispassionate professional who can look at your organization from arms length and offer advice about where to change, focus, eliminate, etc. The trick is to pick a professional who knows what they’re talking about (Reeves has the experience) and what, if any, of his suggestions to implement.

During the 2008 season, the beleguered special teams coach gets help from position coaches to make the unit play better. Obviously, it didn’t work and the st coach was fired. Now, we are doing the same thing with hiring a consultant to help the beleguered head coach make his team play better. Anyone care to take a bet on whether it will work the second time around?

No wonder I play pool and throw darts more than ever. My favorite hobby is turning into a nightmare and I’m praying for the silver lining. I just want my effin team back.

Honestly, I have been 50/50 on keeping TO the past couple of weeks. I know he’s a game-breaker but I honestly feel he is on his decline. (I’m not going to get into my counter-argument that Jason Garrett should have lined him up in the slot and put him in motion a lot more which he should… that’s been discussed more than enough on here)
He’s simply not as good as he used to be. He’s still an awesome player, but not as good. He’s more of a liability than anything between his outspoken personality to media and coaches, his perceived negative effect on Romo’s decision making and want for the ball, and now this stupid TV show?? GET REAL.

My argument has been “Whatever the big-wigs in Valley Ranch decide, I’m all for it, because they are in the locker-room and meetings and I am not.” Now, after hearing about this reality TV show, I really don’t think TO is more of an asset than a liability. After last season, we should have learned to GET AWAY from distractions, not bring on more.

How could he think this is a good idea for the team. If he really wanted to win, he wouldn’t do this. Read between the lines.

Is he really that physically gifted? Wow!!

Summer 2005: Hawkins signs a four-year contract with a $144,000 bonus after the Packers draft him in the fifth round, even though he hasn’t played traditional football in more than two years.

I pray.

Can we get some good news this off season?

I can not understand why everyone is in such an uproar? So-called fans of today really upset me. Everyone talks about how much they love the team but can’t stand them anymore because of _______…..(insert whatever gripe here). While I will say I was disappointed by this past season, it is not the end of the world. It’s not like we are back to the 1-15 days. We have a very solid team that will only get better.
It’s amazing that Wade has only been here 2 seasons and everyone acts as though we should automatically be in the Super Bowl or playoffs. His first year was unexpected, this season was a return to reality, next should be a much needed step forward. If people would stop buying into all the negative media coverage and look at things realistically they would see that this team isn’t that bad off. They could be like the Lions.
So if your really a fan then support the team, not just when things are going good, but when things are going bad as well. If you say your a life long fan and have supported the team through thick and thin but you can’t anymore because of the petty nonsense that has been overblown by today’s media, then you are no “true fan” at all….

the media had nothing to do with Jerry Jones agreeing to the Michael Irvin reality show, or Owens conducting a nationwide self-psychoanalysis. We are frustrated because our team has not won a playoff game in 12 years and we are not content to just have a “very solid team.” We are frustrated because not only has our team failed to win a playoff game in 12 years, they have managed to make themselves in a national laughingstock. Look at Steelers fans for crying out loud. Who couldn’t get excited about rooting for practically nameless players, a star-less team, but a TEAM, that doesn’t just try to win games, but wants to beat you into submission, littering the field with Ravens bodies in the AFC championship game. That’s football. You want us to be content to support a team that is better known for its off-field exploits? No thank you. The Cowboys are overhyped, overexposed, and most definitely overrated. Give me Blaine Nye, Dave Manders and John Niland who agreed to pay a fine if any one of them ever talked to a reporter. Give me Bob Lilly launching a football helmet 70 yards after losing Super Bowl V. Give me Randy White who, after battling with Russ Grimm in the trenches for 4 quarters, would sooner kill him than invite him over to his house after the game to watch movies. Give me Roger Staubach who embedded a ping pong paddle in a wall because he couldn’t stand losing to Danny White in ping pong, who verbally sparred with the Rams bench in a 1975 regular season loss promising, in an uncharacteristic manner, that the Cowboys would beat them again in the playoffs, and backed up his big talk with a 37-7 win.

does NOTHING for me by coming back..

what need does he fill….
what does he do, this man you seek………????!?!!?

really, i am all for all kinds of consultants and such if they fulfill a need but really…..

We have the on field talent, they just need to be coached…

And Wade can’t or won’t do that, weather he is incapable or weather Jerry won’t let him, i don’t know.. but right now there are a host of holly horrors out there of PROVEN head coaches… are they guarantees? NO… but man not acting now is wrong.. our talent window is really only open for a few years, last year being one of them, and it will take a new coach a year or two to get settled.. so not doing it now could be the end of us for a while…

i am certain we will not be able to sign (keep) a few players because we have given some so much, and i am sure our draft picks are running thinner than normal, because of giving up so much.. and i am sure we are going to miss out on players because they either leave or don’t even consider us in free agency because of the circus that we are… players used to want to play for the Cowboys, now i doubt we can say that is the case as much…
we are poised right now talent wise to win for a few years.. but that window will close and close hard without a coach…. a real coach brings respectability, credibility, etc… and players will want to stay, they will want to come here to play…

but I don’t STRONGLY feel he has to be the coach. We saw glimpes of a great D, but it was inconsistent. I think our D will be nasty next year if we get another big NT, a young SS, and solve the other ILB spot if Zach isn’t back.

I also think and hope that Garrett can do great things. Just run felix, choice, and barber all day. More playactions to Witten and our new rapper Bennett.

I really think Jerry is the problem here, but that isn’t changing, so I don’t feel strongly about too many coaching aspects as much as I should, b/c Jerry’s having way too much fun as GM/Owner.

What can we understand from the news this week? As I have speculated in previous posts (emphasis on "speculate"), I believe the Dallas front office was leaking to the press about Stephen Jones attempting to persuade his father to release Terrell Owens. I believe this was done to both send a message, positive and negative, to Owens that he was on thin ice with the coaching staff and front office, communicated by “bad cop” Stephen, but that Jerry was willing to ride out the critics and retain Owens—playing the role of “good cop”. The end result is—Owens will play for the Cowboys in 2009. You need no further proof than his VH-1 Reality Show. There is no way he would pull this stunt if he truly thought his status with the team was in jeopardy.

As for any further changes to the coaching staff, the answer to that is now an emphatic no, confirmed by the announcement of the Michael Irvin reality show. There is no way a new, serious head coach determined to impose law and order in the locker room would tolerate such nonsense. This is classic Jerry the gambler, doubling down, all the while trying to milk every bit of media exposure to enhance the value of his team so he can nail down the permanent debt financing needed for the stadium not covered by tax receipts. Jerry has probably deluded himself to thinking his team is closer to the 13-3 2007 version than the 9-7 and sinking fast 2008 version. The Dan Reeves annoucement is probably nothing more than a fig leaf designed to temporarily deceive longstanding Cowboy fans and prospective luxury box lessors that serious changes are coming.

What if this isn’t a hoax by Jerry but a serious attempt at bringing in someone to help with all the things people say jerry is horrible at? If Jerry handles the business side of things and keeps the team in the limelight and building revenue and lets Reeves handle the football side of the house how can this be bad? It would be him trying to do something to turn things around which everyones is harping for. He may not be firing Wade, but he is at least trying to bring in an authoritative figure who could have an input on who stays who goes and who plays….
It’s too early in the game for all the speculation. For some odd reason Mr. “I Love the Camera” Jones is being very quiet and discreet about his plans and direction. That in itself represents change even though minimal….

Lot of good it did them.

This move just seems all-around humdrum to me. The upside is maybe he could be a positive influence with the type of players Jerry signs in the future.

Finding petty ways to take shots at the team and rile up readers.

stuff like –
Linebacker apologizes for getting arrested
Tim MacMahon
click on link – reveal this:
The linebacker is Seattle’s Leroy Hill, not Dallas’ Anthony Spencer

I’m not even talking about JJT whom I don’t have a complaint about. Between Clarence Hill and McMahon, you’d have to think the disrespect these two show (McMahon also took a shot at Jessica Simpson in the DMN Blog) will eliminate any inside info they might get. I have a hard time imagining Romo talking openly with either of those guys.

If these reporters can’t talk to the stars or players gag up around them, I’d think they’d be out of a job

here he mentions that he was interviewing to be San Fran’s OC and that he might to do hands on coaching

Bob McNair , owner of the Texans hired Reeves, to be a consultant in Dom Capers last year as coach…..

and he helped with Kubiak getting the job…he also allowed Kubiak to make the call on keeping Carr or not…they also cut alot of dead weight..high draft choices..FA busts…

Because Marv Levy was unavailable.

Hiring coordinators instead of letting the head coach do it. Interfering because he cannot help himself.

This is prototypical Jerry. He is, sadly, Cowboys fans’ worst enemy. He wants to win so badly that he has this GM-Turret’s Syndrome that manifests itself in these wild reflexive acts of incoherent behavior. He cannot help but interfere to the point of team-implosion.

Instead of firing Jed Clampett, he hires Mr. Drysdale to watch over him?

Ridiculous. The team is becoming a laughing stock, if it wasn’t already.