Irks me the way he sticks to regular season W/L record though.
Like this?
I also felt good about my 34–22 record with the Cowboys. It’s not tremendous, but it’s still pretty good. That’s still the tiniest of a fraction of a percent ahead of Tom Landry, the all-time winningest coach in the history of the franchise. People don’t want to hear that, but it’s a fact.
I HATED this about him and it's why the guy was such a loser.
He is such a stout apples-to-oranges type of person. All he ever sees is that one similarity and from there he interprets it in a way that makes those things out to be the exact same thing when they are not.
Like here he points out how his winning percentage is right there with Landry's -- basically suggesting that he wins at the same rate as the man who is viewed as a legend. Therefore, he should have been awarded more time since he was achieving the same amount of success as Landry. But what the dummy always fails to see are the very important details that make up those situations, and that's what makes them so vastly different.
Landry was a visionary. He changed the game. He came in at a time when the modern game was just starting to come together. He took his teams on the cusp of winning NFL championships, then took them to the cusp of winning a SB.....and then he finally did win it twice.
His teams became what everyone in the league strove to be, and through his work and vision, the Cowboys became the model franchise of the league.
Wade Phillips was NONE of those things and he did not accomplish any of those milestones. So that is why no one pays his record with the Cowboys any mind regardless of how similar it may be to Landry's from solely a percentage standpoint.
Sadly, Wade is the only person who doesn't understand this.