Wade Phillips has the best team in the NFC and he's still doomed.
Unless he wins the Super Bowl, Phillips is fried.
Even if he wins the Super Bowl Phillips might be deep fried.
Jerry Jones isn't known for his kindness to coaches or tolerance of losses. Poor Wade Phillips has his successor standing behind him on the sidelines waiting to seize the throne.
Prince in waiting Jason Garrett, the chose one, the next Big Cowboy.
Its just a matter of time.
When Wade drops his first big NFC East game expect him to get that look of despair that Sal Tessio had in the Godfather when he realized it was his last car ride.
Wade's easy going but to be coach-cuckolded by Jerry Jones has to make a man miserable. It has to be tense – sitting on dynamite and knowing Terrell Owens might smile and start smoking.
Wade "Son of Bum" Phillips is done in Dallas. Its just a matter of when.
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Wouldn't it be nice to be a head coach under an owner who not only seemingly dislikes you but makes all the personnel decisions himself?
To have a defensive coordinator who has coached longer then you and wants your job?
Welcome to Lane Kiffins world. Lane's World.
Its not just the hair styles and the New York roots, no Al Davis and Phil Spector have both been acting erratically of late.
Davis didn't shoot anyone, of course, but it seems he might be killing his team with love. Misplaced free agent love
They have the promise of a young quarterback and rookie running back but don't expect Lane to last long enough to enjoy it.
Al Davis was steamed when Kiffin sought some college football coaching jobs. Al is old. Al is impatient. Al wants to win now. Al wants Art back.
But expect Lane's end to come sometime during the season and Rob Ryan to weasel in as interim coach then cling to the job desperately.
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When your offensive line is a wreck, your quarterback is old and fragile and your defense filled with high priced busts, it's not a happy head coaching world.
So what do you do?
If it's a country song you go get good and drunk. But in the NFL you fire your assistants.
That's what desperate Scott Linehan did in St Louis.
The St Louis Rams are in a rebuilding process. It is not going to be short process.
The team might be sold and moved west.
The rumor is Eddie Debartolo is seeking to resurrect the Los Angles Rams. "Resurrect the Rams" T-shirts are actually being sold by Fred Dryer on Hollywood Boulevard right now.
Hey, he needs the work. Its been a long dry season for Dryer since Hunter was shot down.
Expect Marc Bulger to go down also, and for the season to disintegrate around Scott Linehan.
Lights out for Linehan but is it lights out for the St Louis Rams?
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A high priced bust at the all-important quarterback position is a young coach killer.
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Raider Card Addict about 1 year ago
Highly impossible, but wouldn't it be a kick, to have Shanahan get fired, Kiffin get fired, and Kiffin got placed in Denver?
That, and that's gotta be a typo. There's no way, even in Al's derangement, that Art Shell is coming back to coach. There's a better chance of Shanahan coaching us again.
I know Chicago's gotta be on life support. There's no reason for the Bears not to seek another QB. Rex doesn't have it, and same goes for Orton.
Heck, if they sign Culpepper, there's an improvement.
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Dan Boone about 1 year ago
Big Art's like the Freddy Kruger of Oakland Street.....just when ye think he's dead...here's another unwanted sequel...
Its Rob Ryan, who might be a good coach, who is the next coach but until he gets the ring of power Ryan will be a destabilizing element against Kiffin...
But who knows what dwells and dances in Davis deranged head during the dire ours of his long, touchdownless night...but he hears dat superbowl raven banging, banging at his raider door saying nevermore..nevermore
And I like Al, he was great for the game and a footballl genius, but he does seem a bit unbalanced of late...
as Zevon kinda sang...
Al never knew what hit him
He used to be so wild and free
Time treats everybody like a fool
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Ron Burgandy about 1 year ago
Dan Snyder certainly has a win now attitude but he does have patience with coaches he likes.See schottenheimer going 8-8 and getting fired after their relationship soured,and then see Spurrier's final 5-11 year in 2003 were Snyder actually called spurrier up to get him to stay but thankfully spurrier new he couldnt work in the NFL.
the skins would need to be 4-12 or worse for zorn to get fired and even then they were still a team that underachieved under gibbs/saunders horrible hybrid offense.So while the media ignorantly thinks the skins offense is a bunch lacking talent.It will simply be a job of coaching the current group of talent zorn has.
Zorn is working with a good group at OL and with Randy Thomas and Jon Jansen coming back,the guys who played last season at RG&RT become great depth.RB is loaded with Portis and Betts. Zorn is smartly moving Moss back to the flanker position as Saunders liked him at split end. Moss had his best years playing the flanker spot in NY and DC.
The raw talent the skins have at WR and TE is ridiculous,and zorns offensive cupboard is stacked.
All Zorn needs to do is coach,and pray that jason campbell catches on to his west coast offense like Campbell did in the WC offense he played in at Auburn during his senior season.
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BabyTate about 1 year ago
Art Shell is a great man. This Kiffin kid better produce.
Bum Phillips, Jr. will no doubt be terminated. He is a good man like his Father and deserves better than being sentenced to Dallas.
Jim Zorn knows more about football than Dan Snyder ever will. Snyder is the one that needs to go.
Marvin Lewis will go, he doesn't have the personality to save himself.
Shanahan is still a hall monitor.
Jet coaches come and go. Has anyone noticed?
ST Louis has had their 10 minutes of fame.
Matt Millen was good at stopping the run. That doesn't mean you can run a business.
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Rohit Banerjee about 1 year ago
I agree with Ron, there is no way Dan Snyder fires Zorn short of a 2-14 season and like ten late losses where the skins could have pulled it out but lost late.
Snyder, contrary to what people think, has actually matured a lot, note: his last couple of coaches have left of their own accord not because he fired them. This is an underachieving skins team because...yes i am going to say it...GIBBS WAS A COWARD OF A COACH. Props to his keeping the team together after the Sean Taylor tragedy and inspiring the team...but as someone watching the games...it bothers you that the coach would never give Campbell a chance to succeed unless there was just all kinds of pressure...that was when campbell would get his chances.
GO SKINS 7-9 at worst...9-7 at best
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