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Lockout may affect next Cowboys coach
Work stoppage would seem to favor Garrett.
By Tom Orsborn
torsborn@express-news.net
Published: 12:00 a.m., Tuesday, December 28, 2010
IRVING — Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said Monday his list of candidates for the club's head coaching job is fewer than the 10 prospects he interviewed after Bill Parcells retired following the 2006 season.
“I doubt we will have that kind of extensive interviewing,” Jones said.
Speaking at an impromptu news conference, Jones didn't offer any names. But he did acknowledge he plans on speaking to wide receivers coach Ray Sherman and another candidate to satisfy the league's Rooney Rule, which mandates that clubs must interview minority candidates for head coaching jobs.
The list of available coaches includes two Super Bowl winners: Bill Cowher and Jon Gruden. Asked about them, Jones pointed out that no coach has won Super Bowls with two franchises.
“That's long odds, and is worth noting,” he said.
Jones doesn't have a timetable for naming a coach, but he did make it clear the labor negotiations could be a factor in who he selects.
If an agreement between the union and the owners isn't reached, there could be a lockout when the collective bargaining agreement expires on March 4. A lockout seemingly would favor interim coach Jason Garrett because he's already made headway implementing a system, and a new coach would have less time to do that if there's a lockout.
Garrett, who is also the offensive coordinator, became the interim coach after Jones fired Wade Phillips following a 1-7 start. The Cowboys are 4-3 under Garrett with the three losses, including ones to league powers New Orleans and Philadelphia, coming by a combined seven points.
Garrett, whose $3.5 million annual salary makes him the league's highest-paid assistant coach, said his thoughts are solely on preparing Dallas (5-10) for Sunday's season finale at Philadelphia (10-4).
Jones hired Phillips early in 2007 after interviewing a list of candidates that included Mike Singletary, Tony Sparano and Norv Turner.
Noting that Singletary was fired Sunday by San Francisco and that Sparano (Miami) and Turner (San Diego) could be on the hot seat after failing to get their teams in the playoffs, Jones joked, “I was real proud of the group we interviewed, but they're falling like flies, or at least are in trouble.”
Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/default/article/Lockout-may-affect-next-coach-923323.php#ixzz19PQcqK5V
Work stoppage would seem to favor Garrett.
By Tom Orsborn
torsborn@express-news.net
Published: 12:00 a.m., Tuesday, December 28, 2010
IRVING — Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said Monday his list of candidates for the club's head coaching job is fewer than the 10 prospects he interviewed after Bill Parcells retired following the 2006 season.
“I doubt we will have that kind of extensive interviewing,” Jones said.
Speaking at an impromptu news conference, Jones didn't offer any names. But he did acknowledge he plans on speaking to wide receivers coach Ray Sherman and another candidate to satisfy the league's Rooney Rule, which mandates that clubs must interview minority candidates for head coaching jobs.
The list of available coaches includes two Super Bowl winners: Bill Cowher and Jon Gruden. Asked about them, Jones pointed out that no coach has won Super Bowls with two franchises.
“That's long odds, and is worth noting,” he said.
Jones doesn't have a timetable for naming a coach, but he did make it clear the labor negotiations could be a factor in who he selects.
If an agreement between the union and the owners isn't reached, there could be a lockout when the collective bargaining agreement expires on March 4. A lockout seemingly would favor interim coach Jason Garrett because he's already made headway implementing a system, and a new coach would have less time to do that if there's a lockout.
Garrett, who is also the offensive coordinator, became the interim coach after Jones fired Wade Phillips following a 1-7 start. The Cowboys are 4-3 under Garrett with the three losses, including ones to league powers New Orleans and Philadelphia, coming by a combined seven points.
Garrett, whose $3.5 million annual salary makes him the league's highest-paid assistant coach, said his thoughts are solely on preparing Dallas (5-10) for Sunday's season finale at Philadelphia (10-4).
Jones hired Phillips early in 2007 after interviewing a list of candidates that included Mike Singletary, Tony Sparano and Norv Turner.
Noting that Singletary was fired Sunday by San Francisco and that Sparano (Miami) and Turner (San Diego) could be on the hot seat after failing to get their teams in the playoffs, Jones joked, “I was real proud of the group we interviewed, but they're falling like flies, or at least are in trouble.”
Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/default/article/Lockout-may-affect-next-coach-923323.php#ixzz19PQcqK5V