As sorry and pathetic as this past season played out, I’ll give Phillips and Garrett one more year to right things. If they don’t, then we know for an absolute fact that we need to move on. And then I’ll gleefully jump on the Holmgren 2010 bandwagon.

As stated plenty of times before Jerry Jones has never been one to fire a coach on a whim, whether that is the right idea or not.

Tell that to the ghost of Tom Landry….Or Jimmy Johnson….HeHeHe
Jerry will do it if he thinks its in the best interest of the club……I’m undecided whether another coaching change or another OC will necessarily help with Tony Romo’s maturity.

we’ll get more of the same. Jerry will talk the team up, Wade will downplay, but in the end we’ll either barely make the playoffs, or not at all. This team has already left it’s mark, and it’s pretty low on the post. I’m a Cowboy fan and will watch all I can, but 8&8 seems likely to me. Hey, that makes 10-6 seem like a SB year. Low expectations will make any win seem great, but in the big games, we’ll fold quicker than a hiker’s tent.

I’m happy to see Norv having some success. He won without LT and SM. Wow.

As part of the deal to buy the Cowboys, Jerry had to fire Tom Landry. Bum Wright would not sale the team unless the person buying would agree to fire Landry. And that is a fact. I’m not saying that Jerry wouldn’t of fired him anyways but firing Landry was a part of the deal. Bum hated Landry and wanted him gone.

But Jerry did fire Chan Gailey on a whim.

that way Jerry wouldnt catch all the heat from the folks in Dallas. But Jerry maned up and said he would do it himself, which led to the whole golf course incident.

In the book “Boys will be Boys”. And like you that had me scratching my head. So i started emailing Randy Galloway about it and asking all kinds of questions and he confirmed everything.

You really turned around the Cowboys franchise in the early 1990s, and to do it you had to shake up the status quo, including firing the longtime coach, Tom Landry. To this day we hear complaints from longtime Dallasites about that. If you could do things over, would you have handled that differently?

 
Yes. I understand the criticism; I actually understood it then. I didn’t have a sense of how significant the emotional attachment was to Coach Landry, and to some degree [Cowboys President and General Manager]Tex Schramm, but especially to Landry and the franchise. He had actually transcended the franchise. I actually had very prominent consulting people—not one but two firms, Hill & Knowlton, out of Washington D.C., and one firm from Dallas—that were advising me all during this time. And they advised me in many ways to do it the way I did it. Bum Bright—the individual I bought the team from—offered, to his credit, to make all these changes and to sell the Cowboys to me with no one here, a clean slate. But I was advised, and I concurred with it, that everybody knew the reason the changes were coming was because of me, so I should be a man and directly do it myself, as far as Coach Landry’s and Tex Schramm’s situations—in other words, do it face to face.

As a matter of fact Jerry was saying it was his IDEA and Bum offered to do it for him….so he wouldn’t look so bad. But Jerry was man enough to do it himself

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What will happen if…the cowboys make the playoffs and

A: The cowboys win a playoff game atleast one but because the D was stellar and the O barely got by? Would we still let wade go? Would JG be a defn goner?

B: reverse happens.. the O is stellar and is the reason we got to the playoffs and won in the playoffs and the D played a bend but dont break type of game. Would JG be automatically HC then? and wade defn gone?

C: we win the superbowl because of Scenario A would then wade be guranntee to stay and JG gone.

D: we win the superbowl because of Scenario B would wade defn be good and JG defn be headcoach

E: no matter what coaches will be changed?

you guys get what im trying to get at??

But that Philly game was unforgivable. I would love to see Shanahan take over. I think he would get more respect than Wade gets from the players. I like the thought of Shanahan the coach w/o Shanahan the GM. If we could get Dom Capers to coach the defense, it seems like we’d have a solid chance.

I don’t if I can take another year like the one we just had.

AND go winless in December? At least Wade won ONE game. Shanahan didn’t have HIS players ready to play either. He wasn’t fire for NO reason. Why would we want to go from this to THAT? Change for the sake of change is ridiculous.

what’s best for the team, period. If he really thought firing Wade now, would be better for the Cowboys, Wade would be gone yesterday. I happen to agree with Jerry that continuity is the best thing, at least continuity with the HC and OC. I’m in favor of changing the DC as well as ST coach.

I don’t think Shanahan would do any better than Wade and I don’t think Holmgren did that much for Seattle.

The Cowboys players know that they have a good coach and a good advocate in Wade. The players have played this game most all of their lives and they play for pride as well as the money. They want to win as much as anyone.

I expect Jerry to package an established player or two in a trade for a couple of early round draft picks in this next draft. He will use those picks to beef us up on the OL, Safety and DL. You can expect 15-20 new faces on the ’09 team, and with luck, we will get more players like Tashard Choice and Orlando Scandrick for our mid round picks.

Finally, we know the strategy that opposing DCs are using agaiinst us. Jam TO at the line and throw the kitchen sink at Romo. I expect Red Jesus to learn his lessons and come roaring back next year with Felix, Choice and Barber to help take some heat off of Romo. Hopefully we will have a defense that won’t let us get in a hole.

Cowboys go 11-5 next year.

I am fine with that. Wade another year to work with guys, plus a few upgrade. Jason G. with another year under his belt, with film to study on 4 of the top 5 D’s.

We win 10+ games. If we are healthy look for more..

Roy, TO, Austin, Bennett, and Witten with the off-season to click with Romo, I am excited already. We are going to be good next year.+

Jason G. better spend a month this off-season discussing protections for Romo with Houck.

Something worse than getting upset about losing and not getting a new coach is starting to set in with the fans, APATHY. For the first time ever, I’m feeling like Romo. If they win, OK. If they don’t, OK. The passion for caring is going away. I hope Jerry sees that. (Because apathy = less money being spent on the Cowboys.)

is our record against teams in the playoffs. We won 2 (Giants and Eagles). And lost 5 (NYG, Phi, Ari, Pit, and Balt). Unless and until we get that to .500, I really question our Superbowl ability.