The Wade Phillips as Head Coach Fraud in Dallas
Jean-Jacques Taylor in the Dallas Morning News has a pretty damn fine read this morning on the sham that is Jerry Jones pretending to pass off Wade Phillips as still being the head coach. The start of the piece:
"Jerry Jones should end the sham and just fire Wade Phillips, if that's what he wants to do. It would be considerably more palatable than listening to the Cowboys' owner tell us how committed he is to Phillips as his head coach, while he puts together a coaching staff that's clearly geared toward Jason Garrett.
Ridiculous. Jerry will vehemently deny this charge, as he should and as you would expect. So will Phillips and Garrett if asked. All of them will talk about the importance of team and how they're all on the same page. My advice: Don't listen to a single word of Jerry's rhetoric. Instead, simply examine his actions. They will tell you everything you need to know about this coaching situation that's doomed to failure."
And what are those actions? According to Taylor, a series of hires of assistants that are tied with Jason Garrett, not with Phillips. And there was the whole massive raise for Garrett to not take the Ravens job thing. At any rate, Taylor has a good point. I am not sure, at this point, why Jones is having Phillips continue as his alleged head coach.
