The Worst hire in recent memory, and a big fat quitter

His father may have sounded dumb, but Wade is the real article. Responsible for what is almost universally accepted as the worst coaching decision in NFL history, Wade Phillips brings Dallas a resume of underachieving and blundering like no other. Dallas was dead set on getting a front man with "experience," passing on quality candidates like Mike singletary, and Ron Rivera. I must ask the question. What good is experience, when it is riddled with past failures and wrong turns?

Consider a very formidable Bills team of the late 90's. A season that started poorly but was saved one Sunday afternoon at Orchard park, when Doug Flutie mounted a furious comeback victory against the Jacksonville Jaguars. Flutie went on to lead the Bills steaming head first into the playoffs against the Titans. This upstart Bills team could have really done some damage too if not for the fact that Wade Phillips opted to bench his star quarterback in favor of Brad Johnson. Johnson started the last game of the regular season (an irrelevant match-up) and in Wades mind it seemed a good move to pull the QB that won all of the games, in favor of the QB that won a single meaningless game at the end of the season. Phillips buffoonery paved the way for the music city miracle, and a great Superbowl between the Titans and the Rams, but as for Brad Johnson his career ended much before the forty something year old Doug Fluties did. No one ever wanted to put Rob Johnson on a box of cereal, and for good reason.

Dallas hiring Wade Phillips is both stupid, and gutless. Trying to re-tread Phillips is as sissy a move as there is, and the reasoning behind it is even worse. Other than a lack of experience the Cowboys also claimed to be worried about Ron Rivera's unwillingness to use a 3-4 defense, which Dallas has been drafting for under Bill Parcells. Rivera runs the 4-3 which would entail one extra down lineman, and one less linebacker....WOW. Not exactly tearing down the statute of liberty and starting from scratch, especially since the Dallas defense was woefully inadequate down the stretch this season. How much weight should even be placed on a base defense in today's NFL? With all of the exotic formations that modern offenses present on first and second downs as well as third downs, how often does a defense actually get to line-up in its true base anyway?

All of this discussion wouldn't be necessary if Bill Parcells weren't a big fat quitter. There is no coach in NFL history who deserves less of his accolades than the "big tuna." Coach Parcells specializes in leaving NFL teams in a lurch, and almost never finishes the job, accept in New York where he had Bill Belichek to lean on. The fat tuna left the Patriots after a Superbowl loss, he then raided the Patriots as the Jets head coach and left them with unfinished business. After the jets Bill Parcells really put the screws to the Buccaneers, where he agreed in principle to the head man job, then backed out. The Buc's were coach less and forced to trade high end draft picks to the Raiders for coach John Gruden. This latest Dallas debacle is just the same old, same old for Parcells. Improve a team a little bit, but if you can't turn it around over night, just throw your hands up and quit. Some people may tout Parcells a genius, but to me he's just an average coach with spectacular man boobs.