Wade Phillips 2-and-Done in Dallas?

As Wade Phillips prepares to open his second training camp as the Dallas Cowboys' head coach, Dallas Morning News columnist Jean-Jacques Taylor has an unpleasant message for him: It will be your last. Taylor says of Phillips:

He'll either take this team loaded with talent and win the Super Bowl and ride off into the sunset afterward. Or the Cowboys will fall short of their goal, and Jerry Jones will give him a golden parachute to leave so he can promote Jason Garrett.

Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is obviously enamored with offensive coordinator Jason Garrett and obviously envisions Garrett as a future Cowboys head coach, but I'm not so sure that Jones wants to get rid of Phillips that quickly. Jones basically wants two things out of a head coach:

1. Win more games than you lose.
2. Let me call most of the shots.

Phillips qualifies on both counts, and as long as he keeps qualifying on both counts, I don't see Jones pressuring him into leaving. But it says a lot about the Cowboys that Phillips enters the 2008 season with at least one local columnist saying that whatever he does, he's out of a job in seven months.

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

7-09-2008 @ 8:33AM

L2jr said...

Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl XLIII Champions...

7-09-2008 @ 10:04AM

Tim Burns said...

Jean-Jacques Taylor is a moron and a hack. Ever since Roy Williams called him out for being a back-stabber and a puzzy in an open letter posted in the locker room, and the Cowboys didn't punish him, JJT has had nothing but negative b/s to write about the Cowboys. He may be right on this one, but if he is, it was pure dumb luck. If you throw enough poop on the wall, some of it's bound to stick.

7-09-2008 @ 11:49AM

That Son Of A Bum...Phillips. Anything less than a Super Bowl XLIII Championship will be considered a failure.

7-10-2008 @ 12:22AM

George B Vieto said...

There is always one jouranlist who likes to cry wolf. Wade Phillips will stay as Dallas Cowboys head coach as long as the Cowboys win football games and Super Bowls. Jason Garrett will get his shot at head coaching America's Team in a later date not after this season.