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Taylor: Cowboys are NFL's most pathetic team; time to fire Wade
01:28 AM CST on Monday, November 8, 2010
COLUMN By JEAN-JACQUES TAYLOR / The Dallas Morning News
jjtaylor@dallasnews.com
Column by JEAN-JACQUES TAYLOR / The Dallas Morning News | jjtaylor@dallasnews.com
Jean-Jacques Taylor
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GREEN BAY , Wis. – One question remains: When will Jerry Jones reach rock bottom and fire Wade Phillips, putting the beleaguered coach out of his misery?
Frankly, keeping Phillips should be considered cruel and unusual punishment.
Consider this surreal scene: As Phillips exited his news conference after yet another embarrassing loss, he had to maneuver through a throng of reporters peppering Jones with questions about the head coach's future.
Jerry didn't want to talk about any aspect of Wade's future after the game, an indication he's getting closer to making a decision because he wants to make sure he doesn't say the wrong things.
Most of us figured rock bottom occurred when Jerry watched his team quit on Monday Night Football and the New York Giants embarrassed them two weeks ago.
Then we figured the combination of a 1-6 record – 0-4 at home – while getting blown out by Jacksonville would do the trick. Nope.
Now, we'll wait a day or two to see if Sunday night's debacle in front of yet another national television audience will be enough to get Wade removed.
As usual, the Cowboys were abject on offense, listless and disinterested on defense and awful on special teams.
The result: Green Bay 45, Dallas 7.
These Cowboys are now 1-7 and owners of a five-game losing streak. For a team with Super Bowl aspirations when the season began, surely that's enough to get Wade dismissed.
Perhaps Jerry would prefer to watch his team be annihilated in the media capital of the world next Sunday against the Giants before he makes a move.
Then the interim coach could start his tenure with a home game against Detroit.
"I've had some pretty hard days in Dallas, Texas," Jones said, "so if you're asking me if these are some of the hardest, I'm not ready to say this is some of the hardest days in Dallas, Texas, relative to my years with the Cowboys."
Whatever.
Each week, a zillion e-mails fill my inbox with folks wanting – begging – to know why Jerry won't fire Wade.
Let me reiterate Jones' philosophy for the zillionth time.
He doesn't believe interim coaches work, he doesn't want to pay a coach to do nothing next year because there's going to be a lockout, and he doesn't feel good about promoting any of his in-house candidates.
Asking Jerry to fire Wade, thus far, has been like complaining about taxes, rising gas prices or airline baggage fees – it does no good.
That's why fans must deal with it unless they choose to boycott games or come up with some other civilized protest. Perhaps an orderly demonstration at the club's Valley Ranch training complex will make a difference.
Who knows?
Jerry has proved time and time again that he can be stubborn. That said, anything that promotes change should be viewed as a positive.
The return to fundamentals in practice this week certainly didn't help.
The Cowboys have allowed 121 points in the last 12 quarters. Do you realize the defense started the Packers game with the same 11 players who started the opener?
Clearly, the players don't respond to Wade.
They like him. So what?
They don't honor him with their performance.
Not when Mike Jenkins and others lollygag on some plays. Not when Gerald Sensabaugh and Alan Ball argue in the end zone over who's at fault after giving up a third-quarter touchdown pass.
The Packers outgained the Cowboys 415 yards to 205, Aaron Rodgers threw three touchdown passes and finished with a passer rating of 131.5, and Green Bay scored touchdowns on special teams and defense.
"We looked like a bad football team," Phillips said. "We played poorly. It was poor coaching."
These Cowboys are the NFL's most pathetic team. Buffalo and Carolina have excuses for being sorry, the Cowboys' don't.
This team has underachieved more than any other in the franchise's 51-year history.
It's time to fire Wade.
Finally.
After all, this is as low as this franchise can go, isn't it?
01:28 AM CST on Monday, November 8, 2010
COLUMN By JEAN-JACQUES TAYLOR / The Dallas Morning News
jjtaylor@dallasnews.com
Column by JEAN-JACQUES TAYLOR / The Dallas Morning News | jjtaylor@dallasnews.com
Jean-Jacques Taylor
Archive | Bio | E-mail
GREEN BAY , Wis. – One question remains: When will Jerry Jones reach rock bottom and fire Wade Phillips, putting the beleaguered coach out of his misery?
Frankly, keeping Phillips should be considered cruel and unusual punishment.
Consider this surreal scene: As Phillips exited his news conference after yet another embarrassing loss, he had to maneuver through a throng of reporters peppering Jones with questions about the head coach's future.
Jerry didn't want to talk about any aspect of Wade's future after the game, an indication he's getting closer to making a decision because he wants to make sure he doesn't say the wrong things.
Most of us figured rock bottom occurred when Jerry watched his team quit on Monday Night Football and the New York Giants embarrassed them two weeks ago.
Then we figured the combination of a 1-6 record – 0-4 at home – while getting blown out by Jacksonville would do the trick. Nope.
Now, we'll wait a day or two to see if Sunday night's debacle in front of yet another national television audience will be enough to get Wade removed.
As usual, the Cowboys were abject on offense, listless and disinterested on defense and awful on special teams.
The result: Green Bay 45, Dallas 7.
These Cowboys are now 1-7 and owners of a five-game losing streak. For a team with Super Bowl aspirations when the season began, surely that's enough to get Wade dismissed.
Perhaps Jerry would prefer to watch his team be annihilated in the media capital of the world next Sunday against the Giants before he makes a move.
Then the interim coach could start his tenure with a home game against Detroit.
"I've had some pretty hard days in Dallas, Texas," Jones said, "so if you're asking me if these are some of the hardest, I'm not ready to say this is some of the hardest days in Dallas, Texas, relative to my years with the Cowboys."
Whatever.
Each week, a zillion e-mails fill my inbox with folks wanting – begging – to know why Jerry won't fire Wade.
Let me reiterate Jones' philosophy for the zillionth time.
He doesn't believe interim coaches work, he doesn't want to pay a coach to do nothing next year because there's going to be a lockout, and he doesn't feel good about promoting any of his in-house candidates.
Asking Jerry to fire Wade, thus far, has been like complaining about taxes, rising gas prices or airline baggage fees – it does no good.
That's why fans must deal with it unless they choose to boycott games or come up with some other civilized protest. Perhaps an orderly demonstration at the club's Valley Ranch training complex will make a difference.
Who knows?
Jerry has proved time and time again that he can be stubborn. That said, anything that promotes change should be viewed as a positive.
The return to fundamentals in practice this week certainly didn't help.
The Cowboys have allowed 121 points in the last 12 quarters. Do you realize the defense started the Packers game with the same 11 players who started the opener?
Clearly, the players don't respond to Wade.
They like him. So what?
They don't honor him with their performance.
Not when Mike Jenkins and others lollygag on some plays. Not when Gerald Sensabaugh and Alan Ball argue in the end zone over who's at fault after giving up a third-quarter touchdown pass.
The Packers outgained the Cowboys 415 yards to 205, Aaron Rodgers threw three touchdown passes and finished with a passer rating of 131.5, and Green Bay scored touchdowns on special teams and defense.
"We looked like a bad football team," Phillips said. "We played poorly. It was poor coaching."
These Cowboys are the NFL's most pathetic team. Buffalo and Carolina have excuses for being sorry, the Cowboys' don't.
This team has underachieved more than any other in the franchise's 51-year history.
It's time to fire Wade.
Finally.
After all, this is as low as this franchise can go, isn't it?
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