On what Bill Callahan's role will be as offensive coordinator:
Gosselin : I think the offensive coordinator title is just a perk. This guy was brought in to fix the offensive line. I absolutely love this hire because Bill Callahan’s background is as a college offensive line coach at Wisconsin, a college football factory for linemen. He knows in college, you have to turn your entire roster over in five years. You’ve got to get young guys on the field and ready to play quickly. This franchise has long needed that. They’ve hung with the older guys too long. For David Arkin to go 16 games as an inactive this last season was inexcusable. This guy will get a David Arkin on the field. You can draft a guard in the first two or three rounds of this draft, and the guy will start. Callahan will get young guys ready to play, and I think the Cowboys will be better off for it.
Moore : This is where the Cowboys really got into problems cap wise, because they weren’t doing this on the offensive line where they could hold the cost down. So they would have to go and overpay in free agency to get guys and pay Leonard Davis and Marc Colombo more in the final two years of their contract than what their performance was. So this created a whole lot of cap issues for them. [Hiring Callahan] is one way to address them.
Gosselin : In a cap world, you can’t sink money into guards and centers. You have to be able to turn the position over every two or three years. When a guy becomes a Pro Bowl center, you let him move on. They should’ve let Gurode move one a couple years earlier. You have to develop interior blockers, and the money goes to the tackles. Bill Callahan can develop the interior guys and they can have a better turnover ratio there.
Gosselin : I think the offensive coordinator title is just a perk. This guy was brought in to fix the offensive line. I absolutely love this hire because Bill Callahan’s background is as a college offensive line coach at Wisconsin, a college football factory for linemen. He knows in college, you have to turn your entire roster over in five years. You’ve got to get young guys on the field and ready to play quickly. This franchise has long needed that. They’ve hung with the older guys too long. For David Arkin to go 16 games as an inactive this last season was inexcusable. This guy will get a David Arkin on the field. You can draft a guard in the first two or three rounds of this draft, and the guy will start. Callahan will get young guys ready to play, and I think the Cowboys will be better off for it.
Moore : This is where the Cowboys really got into problems cap wise, because they weren’t doing this on the offensive line where they could hold the cost down. So they would have to go and overpay in free agency to get guys and pay Leonard Davis and Marc Colombo more in the final two years of their contract than what their performance was. So this created a whole lot of cap issues for them. [Hiring Callahan] is one way to address them.
Gosselin : In a cap world, you can’t sink money into guards and centers. You have to be able to turn the position over every two or three years. When a guy becomes a Pro Bowl center, you let him move on. They should’ve let Gurode move one a couple years earlier. You have to develop interior blockers, and the money goes to the tackles. Bill Callahan can develop the interior guys and they can have a better turnover ratio there.
