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Has A Head Coach Every Been Fired After A Win?


Let's not consider last games of the season, because I'm sure there are plenty of coaches that get fired in such a fashion.

I've never been so frustrated by a win in my life. This is the NFL, where you play a 16 game season, and each win is important. It's been my motto to not let a "bad win" sink in too much, because there are close losses against superior teams that I rarely consider moral victories. Either you win in this league or you lose.

Then there was the game yesterday, against one of the worst teams in the NFL. Dallas was clearly the superior team, and should have rammed it down the Chief's throats, but they simply couldn't get out of their own way. Each mistake was a microcosm in itself, like Crayton's fumble(s), 5 off-sides calls in one series, bad routes, broken pass coverage, a phantom helmet-to-helmet personal foul (that just can't warrant a fine from the league). But add them all together, and you have a team in serious disarray. It wasn't the clueless, heartless team that put on their pads only to get pounded by the Eagles in the last game of last year's season, but it was a team that had next to no focus and showed a hideous lack of attention to detail. And detail starts with coaching and attention to detail. Plain and simple, we have a terrible head coach and an offensive coordinator that thinks he's smarter than everyone else. We play down to our competition and that's completely inexcusible.

Off-sides penalties?? In the pros? Not on a hard-count?? When does that happen??

It looks like this year is going to be another ho-hum Cowboys season, and as a life-long fan I've fooled myself time and time again to think THIS team could be the one to win it all. After all, any team can win on any given Sunday (not to give props to one of the worst movies in history), but how many times have I told myself, "This team will NEVER win anything with Jerry Jones as General Manager."? The day Jerry fired Jimmy Johnson, I told my friend, "The Cowboys will never win the Super Bowl again.". I'm glad I was wrong once. But I find that statement to be the wisest, most prognosticating statement I've probably ever made (sigh).

I love this team, I love the tradition (or what it once was), and I still love the blue star and the tradition of greatness that I grew up with as a child. But Jerry's incompetence as a GM is finally starting to emotionally divorce me from this team, and that makes me very upset. Maybe he'll finally make the call at the end of the season and step down as GM. Maybe Bill Cowher and his amazing underbite will step in and lead this team back to prominence. But after so many years of Jerry's overriding ego, I doubt it will happen.

- Lord Humungus (formerly GhostofGaryHogeboom).

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