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catmandoo
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posted 12-30-2008 10:43 AM
No changes in players or coachs just a different mind set.
After seeing Super Bowl hopes fizzle into a 9-7 season that wasn’t good enough to make the playoffs, team owner Jerry Jones has vowed to bring back Phillips, and Phillips vowed Monday to do things differently.
“We know things must improve. The only way is to change things,” Phillips said. “To get to the standard we want, I don’t see any other way.”
This was Phillips’ second season in Dallas and his second straight devastating finish.
The Cowboys went 13-3 last year and owned the No. 1 seed in the NFC, only to lose their first playoff game; the fact it was at home a week after Tony Romo, some teammates and their significant others went to a resort in Mexico only made it worse. This time, Dallas overcame injuries and infighting to have a chance to make the playoffs by winning the finale, only to come out emotionless and error-prone in a 44-6 loss to Philadelphia.
“You can’t say, ‘Well, OK, everything’s going to be all right,’ because it’s not going to be all right if you do the same thing and I’m talking about myself,” Phillips said. “I have to look at myself from how I deal with things, from how we have training camp, how we have practices, whatever.”
Phillips said he and Jones already “talked man to man” about what went wrong and what needs to be done about it. All he’s decided so far is that he needs a plan; he’s only started putting it together. However, he expects both coordinators and all the star players to return.
The big change Phillips seems to be talking about is getting tough, a la previous Dallas coaches Bill Parcells and Jimmy Johnson. That would be quite a change for a 61-year-old man whose reputation as a players’ coach has been forged over 32 seasons in the NFL.
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Crop9698
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posted 12-30-2008 12:59 PM
TO needs to go, he is a cancer, has been on every team he has played on.
Romo needs to go, too many stupid mistakes, never win big game with him.
Phillips needs to go, no backbone, no authority or respect. What do you think Jimmy Johnson or Landry would have done if Aikman or Staubach sent the punt team off the field after they told them to go in?(even though Romo was right, hence Phillips having no backbone to go for it) Phillips looked like a whipped pup!
Been a Cowboy fan all my life but I don't see any changes unless all of or part of these three leave. ![[Mad]](mad.gif)
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uncSUCKS
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posted 12-30-2008 01:04 PM
Call me crazy, but the problem I see with the cowboys is Jerry Jones. He has created all of the problems.
What organization, business or military unit has its leader tell everyone he has an open door policy and that they dont need to talk to their boss first? I see now why Bill Parcells left.
Sunday's game against the Eagles just reaffirmed my thoughts when romo ignored the coach and went for it on fourth and one.
There is no leadership in dallas and no matter what talent they get they will never win until they fix it from the top.
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Trey Ball
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posted 12-30-2008 01:50 PM
I've been a Cowboys fan all of my life as well and I don't see Romo being the problem at all.
Russ hit the biggest problem on the head. Jerry Jones is a great owner, but he needs to be just that an owner. He is not a GM. He needs to hire someone to be a GM and let them be a GM and keep his nose out of the day to day operations. Same goes for his son, Stephen Jones. Get him out of the Cowboys. Until he does that Dallas will continue to be mediocre.
Back to Romo. Any normal QB would have been sacked over 60 times this year. Romo ran for his life the entire season because of the Cowboys failure to pick up the blitz. Those blitzes usually came right over Cory Proctor who was playing for the injured Kyle Kosier, the best and most underrated offensive lineman on the Cowboys. Flozell was also a problem. He can't get out of his stance quick enough and the rush from the ends was fierce.
Give Romo some time in the pocket and some wideouts who would actually run a route and he will be fine IMO.
[ 12-30-2008, 01:51 PM: Message edited by: Trey Ball ]
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Wife's Mad. Told me we never talk anymore. And just last nite while watching super bowl told her 2 or 3 times to get me a coke and popcorn. Also told her not to forget to take out trash in the morning. Ain't that something. Also told me I was too indecisive. Can't figure out what to do about that. One nice thing I guess. She called me a pro crastinator. Don't know what a crastinator is but I guess I'm a good one for her to call me a pro. Gonna wait til tomorrow to look that up though. I love her but somrtimes can't help but thinking I should have told uncle Junior to keep his coon hound pup and stevens double barrel and also his youngest daughter.
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m hamilton
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posted 12-30-2008 09:17 PM
Jones is to the Cowboys what Brown is to the Bengals!
I can't stand either one of them!
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LouisvilleCat
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posted 12-30-2008 10:07 PM
I have to agree that the problem is Jones. If he would have kept his hands off the team, Jimmy Johnson may still be coaching.
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BlueCollarMan
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posted 12-31-2008 08:59 AM
I don't think that it is possible for Jones to successfully remove himself as GM. The guy can't even keep himself from interfering with the coach!
He would sell the team before demoting himself in anyway.
Fred
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