Smitty
DCC 4Life
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You can go ahead and put it down in pen that the next coach here will have certain posters saying how he sucks. It happens to every coach who passes through here, just like it happened to Sean Payton and Bill Parcells when they were here.Zimmer doesn't have that track record, but he's never been a head coach, much less head coach and defensive coordinator at the same time. Another coach may respect balance and bring discipline, but absurdly overvalue players with whom he is familiar in lieu of younger, more talented players (as an example). Every single coach has weaknesses, and the coach that replaces Garrett will have them, too. It'll take us about 6 games to get sick of them, too, but they won't disappear with the next guy.
The only real way to prevent it from losing control is to get a guy good enough -- like a Parcells, or a Harbaugh, someone with either enough skins or enough obvious talent -- that they can survive the trying times that come with this franchise, the times that they struggle more (and have people doubt them more) than they would elsewhere simply because it's Dallas and the circus.
I think I'm saying pretty much the same thing, though I might debate you on which coaches we agree should be replacements.And while I don't speak for Schmitty, I am certainly willing to take a chance on a coach, even if he hasn't proven himself as a head coach (though that would obviously be preferable). Garrett has been the very definition of average, unlike the guy who he replaced. I'd be happy to replace him with Saban. I would have taken O'Brien. I could be convinced that Shaw or maybe Wisenhunt have potential. But replace average with a hotshot coordinator, or Caldwell, Zimmer, Jay Gruden, or Lovie Smith just to do this again in three years? Meh.