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DougO

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  1. I think the Cowboys are better off without Mike, and it was always a 50/50 thing with Jerry hiring McCarthy back. If he had agreed to a couple of years at a similar deal he'd still be there. Mike should have taken it, but he thought way to much of his desirability to other teams looking for head coaches. He seems to have forgotten the league wasn't exactly begging Mike to be their head coach before he joined the Cowboys. He was off in his re-tread think-tank trying to learn modern football. At this point, though it would have been nice to hit a home run hire somehow, I think the Cowboys are better off going with Schottenheimer and some new blood on the staff, as underwhelming as it may seem. It is probably a small step in the right direction. I'm interested in seeing the terms of Shott's deal. I wouldn't bet on it being 5 years or at much better than average salary for a head coach. Probably has maybe three years to prove something that wouldn't be that tough for the Cowboys to get out of.
  2. Well, yeah, that's the only way I would have considered hiring him for another tour, only a short extension. The Witten stuff was just blogger fluff, nothing to it. I'm sure he would be welcome as an entry-level assistant, but I don't see any reality behind making that a requirement. I'm sure that wouldn't even have been a stumbling point for Mike. He wasn't going to be named head coach in waiting by any means. Don't believe all the crapola you read on the internets.
  3. Shilo might do a bit better as a safety, except he probably tackles like his old man. Seems like a classic Cowboys second round pick right now.
  4. Buffalo center Connor McGovern was tabbed as a replacement for the Pro Bowl games. So chalk up one more pro bowl player drafted by Jerry, after they couldn't get much out of him for four years in Dallas.
  5. Mike has punted on getting a head coaching job this year and says he is focusing on the 2026 hiring cycle. Seems likely that he wasn't drawing as much enthusiasm as he had though, which isn't really surprising. Maybe another sub-NFL pro league? It appears obvious that he made the wrong choice in not taking a short term deal to return to Dallas.
  6. I may have miscounted by one or two, but by this source I count 14 head coaches that were calling the plays going into 2024. Offensive coordinators called plays for 18 teams. It's not unusual. Whether it's a good idea or not is debatable. But some very good head coaches that are good at it seem to get their teams in the playoffs fairly regularly. For some teams the head coach is the real OC with a proxy up in the booth that they call the OC, which is basically what Schott is, and several others. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/41018846/nfl-playcallers-32-teams-mike-mcdaniel-sean-mcvay-nathaniel-hackett So if we want to find any room for hope in all that, my stance has been that Mike not calling plays next year may not be a bad thing, and we will find out if Brian is better at not only calling the plays, but with his own version of the scheme. Fans often bitched bout McCarthy's play calling. For me it was mostly how bland it was with not enough wrinkles to get receivers more open, give the qb better checkdown options, and open things up for the running game as well. Mike's game management wasn't great, either. Some new blood on the staff might bring a few ideas that Brian may be more open to using. We'll just have to see.
  7. The little know-it-all punk on the NFL app commercial. Also applies to punchable faces.
  8. Two home grown Texas quarterbacks starting in the Superbowl for foreign teams nobody in Texas wants to win.
  9. fecals vs the cheats. Fuck football. Shit is all rigged AF.
  10. Maybe a touch of Amari Cooper syndrome as well.
  11. Because Bills gonna Bill.
  12. So, hiring Kellen Moore would have brought Barkley, AJ, their OL and DL and young stars with him? Dang! Why didn't I see it?
  13. Joe Brady told the Saints "no thanks." His agent probably told Jerry the same thing, so he punted.
  14. I don't think Sewerani is a particularly great coach, but he has a GM that knows how to build a team. It would be nice to have at least one of those things.
  15. The league is littered with hot-shot young assistants that failed as head coaches in a fairly short time. We won't know for a few years which from this crop of wunderkind geniuses Jerry should have hired. Then everybody will bitch about the guy he passed up, ignoring the majority that end up being JAG assistants again.
  16. I think the Witten thing was way overblown, just something like the Deion bullshit, a familiar name to get a buzz going. He might show up as an assistant to the assistant deal at some point, like some former Cowboys players have, and see how it goes from there. I think he still has a kid in school that he probably wants to coach. Either way, I think it's such a minor thing for people to just yap about.
  17. I really don't like the Shottenheimer hiring much, but I don't see any big reason for all the meltdowns here. Mike is no big loss. He was never going to outcoach a good coach in a big game with equal or better talent. He hit his absolute ceiling. Now at least the Cowboys will have a shakeup in the staff, and that was badly needed. It's a shame the old OC is now the HC, but at least he's not the OC. Perhaps the new OC hire will add some more dimensions to the offense. That's about as optimistic as I can get. I'm hoping for some good hires, not expecting a magical resurgence that leads the Cowboys to the Superbowl. But at least there is some change, and the Cowboys needed change. It may be shitty change for the worse, but something needed to happen. The other options were not overwhelming, either. It was pretty much "choose the form of your destructor" and we just go rid of the fucking Marshallow Man. Draft some badasses and let it all roll and see what happens.
  18. He won't be doing clock management. He'll be running the defense. He has some decent cred there.
  19. Eberflus has a better resume than Schott. He sucked as a head coach, but he won't be head coach. It's not a horrible hire. Keeping Zimmer probably would have been better.
  20. I don't feel good about this at all. But I don't feel any worse than I did when McCarthy was hired. Same shit, different era.
  21. And his name is Schottenheimer, yet after 25 years coaching in the league no other dipshit GM ever thought of him as head coaching material before.
  22. Well there is a pretty decent RB from Boise State, so they can get that pipeline going again.
  23. I'm good with that. There is already an opening for TE coach.
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