We all know who wears the pants in the relationship between Jerry Jones and Wade Phillips, and rightfully so. Jerry Jones owns the franchise. But Wade Phillips needs to OWN his team!
I am not asking him to take responsibility for what has happened over the past few weeks. He's done that. He's put responsibility for the Cowboys struggles in his hands alone. But let's be realistic, the coaches are not the only ones to blame for losing two games in a row. The players have looked uninspired and undetermined on the field.
But of course the players aren't going to see it this way. Their head coach is babying them and taking responsibility for their woes. Here's my advice to Wade Philips.
1. GET MAD: I'm not asking you to go Lou Pinella on your team, but damnit show some negative emotion on the sidelines when your team isn't playing well enough! There's a difference between bringing them down with negativity and giving them a spark.
2. OWN YOUR PRESS CONFERENCES: You sound as exciting as a bag of cement in your post game interviews. Were you predicted to win the Super Bowl? Yes! Is your team a huge dissapointment? Yes! Start acting like you care!
3. OWN YOUR LOCKERROOM: Clearly I have never been in a Dallas Cowyboys locker room, but your players are starting to chew on each other on the sidelines and i can only imagine that the same in true in the locker room. A talented roster can translate into arrogance in the locker room. I sure hope Phillips is keeping this in check.
Here's the bottom line. I am not asking Wade Phillips to change who he is. But he needs to start acting like cares...a little bit! Something has to change, and it has to be more than altering Friday night dinners by 15 minutes.
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Every place Wade has coached the same thing has eventually happened. He lets the inmates run the asylum and it all blows up in his face. He's a great d coordinator, but he just doesn't have the presence to put NFL players in their place. Maybe he should switch to college where the players don't think they have better job security than the coaching staff.
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Attention Sports Fans:
Hey guys, just wanted to extend everyone an invite to my house (923 e. Jefferson) this Saturday for an awesome day of tailgating, lawn games, and football watching. There’ll be games on multiple large-screen TVs starting at 11am and leading up to the big primetime match-up (No, not PSU/OSU, Notre Dame v. Washington!). I have a pretty big yard so all day we’ll have games going on (Bags, Australian Frisbee, Pong/Flip Cup, etc), and we’ll also grill plenty of meat. Feel free to bring friends/girlfriend/boyfriends/dogs (the yard is fenced in and my dog could use company). I’ll probably get a keg from John’s of something decent, let me know if anyone has any particular requests. Hope you guys can all make it!
P.S. Dave you don't have a blog I can post this on, but you're expected to make an appearance as well.
Wade's coaching style would fit with some teams, but definitely not Dallas. They need a strict disciplinarian type coach to control all the prima-donna personalities.
I knew he would eventually get walked all over, and now it's happening.
This team is in disarray and could be out of the playoff race by the time Romo comes back.
Wade did make a smart move this week taking over defensive playcalling. Just look at what happened today. Tampa had five trips into the red zone and only came away with 9 points. Their defense has so many holes so he obviously did something right.
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