Cowboys Interviewing Multiple Assistant Coaches

Bryan Cox and even Mangini join Ryan’s staff.

You win games off of points accumulated on the scoreboard not yardage accumulated per game but i forgot some people love how many yards Garretts offense accumulates and how little it scores right? So unless ahem i’m mistaken that’s how games are determined by how many points are put on the scoreboard.

it appears this gives credence that JG indeed has autonomy over his staff, since comments by jerry during the season would seem to suggest that he wasn’t too enamored by the performance of houck’s unit, thus in all probability houck lingers through JG’s mercy. on numerous occasions when the issue of the line’s performance was raised, jerry seemingly went out of the way to stress how much he pays houck, which i would interpret in “jerryeese” that he expected much more from houck’s unit than he got in return.

having said that, from a football standpoint i can’t say i’m thrilled about another year of houck. even being generous & giving him credit for free’s development, since houck took over from sparano, there has been a rather notable & dramatic dropoff in the play of gurode, davis, & colombo (flozell too up until his release). i could chalk some of this up to age on the oline, but the exact same type of deterioration took place during houck’s previous stint with the team.

the tony wise-coached line that was the class of the league in the early 90’s gradually became undisciplined & unmotivated during houck’s watch, characterized all too often by ill-timed penalties, failure to get a push in short yardage situations, & inability to pick up blitzes & stunts- sound familiar?

houck is a true legend in coaching circles, with his tenure with john robinson at SC & the the rams producing inarguable the best run blocking lines of their era. however, his immediate history in big d suggests that the biggest offseason addition to the oline would be houck’s departure.

Or is he still here because Jerry hates to admit he was wrong in bringing him back here, i don’t believe for one minute Jerry’s B.S. that Garret’s has full autonomy here he supposedly said the same thing with Parcells right?