Campo’s lucky to have a job. We have the worst coaches in football.
Damn!

Please Mike Shanahan or Chin save us.

Maybe b/c they feel they don’t have to make it official yet. Anyone at this point stepping in is going to be more or less Wade’s puppet as DC. So why rush to fill the spot.

I agree with Raf ( I think you said this) that we should be pushing for another set of eyes/another LB or DB coach that could help out if that is what they are going w/ Campo.

They might be looking at the staff, even though it’s not listed this way, as:
Jason Garrett – Offensive Head Coach
Wade Phillips – Defensive Head Coach

all aim and no bullets

I think it’s a good idea to groom a young protégé so when the handoff from Phillips to Garrett happens then there is already someone promising in house who wouldn’t change the schemes too much. Keep things consistant

He coached the Bengals, but who could hold that against them

I’m not picking on you specifically, but this just seems like a good place to ask a question to all.

Why is the tought process narrowed to: a 3-4 experienced coach can only excel at coaching 3-4 defenses, same for a 4-3. Even slight variations with the same base defense are considered an eliminating factor for a coach. Where are the innovators? Who was the originator of the 3-4 and the 4-3? The Tampa two? It’s the innovators who create the paradigm shifts in the game and dominate the league for years.

If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you always got.

To quote Gunny Highway, “Improvise, adapt, overcome!”

Wade Phillips himself said the main difference is that in one…………there are 4 down lineman and in the other there are 3.

Didn’t we see a variation of the 46 defense this year?

Arent we often in a 4-2-5 in Nickel?

Didn’t Belichek the great 3-4 guru use a 4-3 to beat Oakland and win their first Super Bowl?

The missing link in our current Roster is the NT………..the great big one. Jay Ratliff is really more of a DT than a NT. Heck he is just a football player.

DE Ware DT Ratliff DT Spears DE Ellis rotation of Canty Bowen and Spencer
LB James LB Burnett LB Carpenter / rotation of players drafted………..

NOW I am not advocating a change to a 4-3. I actually think our defense is in good shape. We need an ILB and at least one good safety in the draft. A true NT would allow Rat to play DE in the 3-4.

But if Demarcus Ware hit the free market………….which he won’t………or Ratliff……….every team in the league would be interested………..regardless of scheme because they are both great football players. Could Haley have played OLB? Jimmy Johnson liked fast smaller LBs……….but he had some meat upfront. Heck his defenses were precursors to the Tampa 2………..Ellis moved to OLB after playing DE in a 4 man front for a decade.

Players change teams and move from a 3-4 to a 4-3. Obviously you have a model or mode you want for each position and a certain size…………but if you stuck to that Ferguson never would have manned a NT, nor Ratliff and Zach Thomas and Dat and Dexter never would have made it out of High school football programs…………..but they are pretty darn good.

I liked that Phillips was willing to mix it up with some 46 schemes last year. I thought the defense improved. The BOYS made some bonehead plays on both sides of the ball to give up too many close games. Arizona, Pittsburgh and Baltimore just to name a few. That last Philly game was just pathetic.

I actually think Wade is a good DC……….just not sure he is HC material……….he seems to fit the nice guys finish last mold to a tee. I sure do agree with your assesment that the D has missed Woodson and still does. What a difference maker he was………….and looking around the league the Safety position seems to be much more important on winning teams than I ever would have thought.

Cowher is very much overrated as a HC, LeBeau is the reason the Steelers were good during Cowher’s watch.