2023 Cowboys Coaching Staff Thread

[Cujo]

Pretty uninspiring.

 

[boozeman]

All in all, you can just look at the staff changes and they are not insightful. It is basically running it back with the lower level coffee fetchers being promoted mainly because they are cheap and willing to do what may become a one year job if things go south.

That is a big risk with one of the youngest rosters in the league.

 

[p1_]

Pretty uninspiring.

Same.

 

[Simpleton]

All in all, you can just look at the staff changes and they are not insightful. It is basically running it back with the lower level coffee fetchers being promoted mainly because they are cheap and willing to do what may become a one year job if things go south.

That is a big risk with one of the youngest rosters in the league.

This is true, although if we're more or less the same team as last year we only need marginal offensive improvement to be a top (or the top) contender in the NFC.

 

[p1_]

This is true, although if we're more or less the same team as last year we only need marginal offensive improvement to be a top (or the top) contender in the NFC.

Apparently we also had a pretty large staff on the whole, where they want to pare back in places. Staff in the mid to upper 20’s in headcount.

 

[bbgun]

This is true, although if we're more or less the same team as last year we only need marginal offensive improvement to be a top (or the top) contender in the NFC.

Not sure I'd be blase about this. Of all the major sports, coaching has the most impact in football. In '95, we had a battle-tested veteran team that could overcome a non-entity like Switzer. We don't have the same personnel today.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

This is true, although if we're more or less the same team as last year we only need marginal offensive improvement to be a top (or the top) contender in the NFC.

Yep, and that might come from one good WR and a RB who can run for more than a max of four yards anymore.

I doubt one RB coach has ever made much of a difference in any NFL W/L record.

 

[Simpleton]

Not sure I'd be blase about this. Of all the major sports, coaching has the most impact in football. In '95, we had a battle-tested veteran team that could overcome a non-entity like Switzer. We don't have the same personnel today.

We lost a couple of position coaches whose contracts ran out that we didn't try to retain, along with an OC/play-caller that everybody at least disliked or outright hated, it's not that big a deal.

I'm supposed to be worried over losing Skip Peete and Leon Lett?

They could've done better replacing them obviously but it's not like they were big losses in the first place. Edwards was the only one who was somewhat of a surprise.

 

[Cowboysrock55]

We lost a couple of position coaches whose contracts ran out that we didn't try to retain, along with an OC/play-caller that everybody at least disliked or outright hated, it's not that big a deal.

I'm supposed to be worried over losing Skip Peete and Leon Lett?

They could've done better replacing them obviously but it's not like they were big losses in the first place. Edwards was the only one who was somewhat of a surprise.

The promotions are not inspiring but I also recognize that sometimes guys earn those promotions. That's how some guys at least break into the coaching ranks. My hope is that is the case here and they aren't just being cheap. I don't care much about RBs coach. But QB coach and things like that are pretty important positions.

 

[Simpleton]

The promotions are not inspiring but I also recognize that sometimes guys earn those promotions. That's how some guys at least break into the coaching ranks. My hope is that is the case here and they aren't just being cheap. I don't care much about RBs coach. But QB coach and things like that are pretty important positions.

Yea, pretty surprising they didn't bring McAdoo back as QB coach.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

The promotions are not inspiring but I also recognize that sometimes guys earn those promotions. That's how some guys at least break into the coaching ranks. My hope is that is the case here and they aren't just being cheap. I don't care much about RBs coach. But QB coach and things like that are pretty important positions.

There's some here on Schottenheimer... sounds like he might be the quasi-QB coach himself.

Also, I think even if a coach is slightly "lesser" of a coach, it's more important that the staff is all on the same page.

 

[p1_]

Not sure I'd be blase about this. Of all the major sports, coaching has the most impact in football. In '95, we had a battle-tested veteran team that could overcome a non-entity like Switzer. We don't have the same personnel today.

We haven’t had the personnel in close to 30 years.

 

[p1_]

We lost a couple of position coaches whose contracts ran out that we didn't try to retain, along with an OC/play-caller that everybody at least disliked or outright hated, it's not that big a deal.

I'm supposed to be worried over losing Skip Peete and Leon Lett?

They could've done better replacing them obviously but it's not like they were big losses in the first place. Edwards was the only one who was somewhat of a surprise.

Has he landed?

 

[Cotton]

There's some here on Schottenheimer... sounds like he might be the quasi-QB coach himself.

Also, I think even if a coach is slightly "lesser" of a coach, it's more important that the staff is all on the same page.

Every time I hear him called Shotty, I think shawty. Cause, that's what it sounds like and stuff.

 

[p1_]

Every time I hear him called Shotty, I think shawty. Cause, that's what it sounds like and stuff.

It sounds slightly

 

[mcnuttz]

Every time I hear him called Shotty, I think shawty. Cause, that's what it sounds like and stuff.

We shall all sip bacardi when it's his birthday, because I dgaf.

 

[Cowboysrock55]

There's some here on Schottenheimer... sounds like he might be the quasi-QB coach himself.

Also, I think even if a coach is slightly "lesser" of a coach, it's more important that the staff is all on the same page.

I agree with that. You could have an all star coaching staff but if they are not on the same page or have guys wanting to do different things you end up with a worse end result. People can make fun all they want but your position coaches need to know what the coordinator wants and needs from each position and to execute that. The guys who were promoted or hired presumably know McCarthy and the types of plays he wants to run well. So they can coach their positions specific to that offense. Ultimately there is no question now we have one guy leading the ship on offense and one guy leading the ship on defense. If those are the right guys everything else will fall into place. I think most of us agree that Quinn is the right guy on defense. Now McCarthy is that one guy on offense that is going to lead things. No power struggle or mismatched ideas. The offense will be what McCarthy wants and the defense will be what Quinn wants.

If it fails, you'll now know the guy who is at fault and needs gone.

 

[boozeman]

 

[boozeman]

 

[Simpleton]

I actually really appreciate this.

I think the true key to cutting edge offense as it stands in today's NFL is having a multi-faceted, layered running game that mixes and intertwines both Gap and Zone concepts, with an OL/running game that is completely synced up and precise with its angles and adjustments on the fly. Then you have to build out those concepts into the passing game to where the OL movement when you're running play-action/misdirection passes is indistinguishable from the OL's movement on actual running plays.

You need talent obviously but if you exclude teams that have transcendent QB's (Mahomes and potentially Burrow basically) the vast majority of the best offenses in the league are built off this sort of construct (Eagles last year, Rams, Packers and 49ers over the last few years).

That is the sort of offense we need to be running.