[QUOTE=Prof Meyer;30951]Have you ever seen a better example of a coaching mismatch than Tom Coughlin vs Wade Phillips last night?
The Cowboys have speed and talent, but they have a terrible head coach.
I would guess that Jerry Jones don't want to hire a head coach that will tell him to back off and shut up. He wants a "yes man" and that's exactly what Phillips is.
Just my two cents.
Prof Meyer[/QUOTE]
You got it. Jerry Jones functions as the owner and general manager of his team. To put the intelligence of this move in perspective, the only other teams in the NFL who have the owners functioning also has GMs are the Oakland Raiders and Cincinnati Bengals. NFL owners are, as a whole, quite simply, not qualified to make football decisions. Hire people smarter than yourself for a particular job, and have enough sense to get out of the way. Makes you wonder how those owners got all that money in the first place. But I gotta give him some credit, as he has put up a fairly decent record over the years, his teams have just done horribly in the playoffs. Since Jimmy Johnson's teams left, the Cowboys are exactly .500 since 1997.
Which team's owners have had enough sense the last few years to get out of the way and let their head coaches also function as general managers and make the football decisions? Yep, you guessed it, the New England Patriots and the Philadelphia Eagles. Mike Shanahan is doing the same thing this year for the Washington Redskins.
