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Garrett is really running the offense

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And who knows how much Jerry Jones was involved there too.

Didn’t Garrett always call plays in Dallas ?

He has put Dak in some pretty good situations. Once they acquired Cooper Dak's numbers went up at the end of last season. However; this season drops is what killed Dallas all year. So it will be interesting to see what he can do with Coach E.

All you naysayers and
@SEC
bashers...this is all you should need to read: When Lil Nicky jumped to
@NFL
.. the 1st OC he called was...LINEHAN who was with the Miami Dolphins in 2005 under Nick Saban, then was hired as head coach by the St. Louis Rams on January 19, 2006.

The more I look At his resume the less I have Any idea how good this guy is.

Teams have had some great season under him.

Teams have had some stinkers.
He’s had great QB play? But Culpepper had a great first year, Tony Romo has a whole career without him. Bulger also had good stats, and while he had his best year under Linehan, it was also the only year he played 16 games.

Is there anything wrong with leaning on HOF WRs like Moss, Holt/Bruce and Calvin Johnson?

No. The most impressive year has to be 2004c when Culpepper threw for 4700 yards and 4000 of them were to people not named Randy.

Still that was 2004.

Another excerpt:

"This is a remarkably in-depth and informative answer and captures Meyer's embrace of the spread. Chris Brown tells a similar story:


Meyer bounced around as an assistant coach, finally as receivers coach at Notre Dame under the schematically brilliant but instinctively cro-magnon Bob Davie. Meyer has recalled losing to Nebraska in 2001, and being struck when, after they lost, he found one of his best players, David Givens, crying at his locker because he was unable to help his team win: he hadn't touched the ball the entire game. He swore to run an offense that got his playmakers the ball. While at Notre Dame, he began meeting with his intellectual mentor (his actual mentors were guys like Lou Holtz), Scott Linehan. (Yes, that Scott Linehan.) He was hired as Head Coach of Bowling Green, and decided that -- in years that just happened to be the rather formative ones for the spread -- he would have his staff learn at the masters' feet.



So, eschewing typical coaching visit hotspots like Ohio State, Michigan, Florida, and the like, Meyer directed his staff to make a Midwest pilgrimage to learn from the likes of: John L. Smith and Scott Linehan at Louisville; Joe Tiller and Jim Chaney (now St. Louis Rams) at Purdue; Randy Walker and Kevin Wilson (now at Oklahoma) at Northwestern; and, of course, with Rich Rod at West Virginia. What all these guys had in common was they were one-back or spread coaches, they had the ability to run the ball (though Meyer focused more on passing with a team like Purdue), and they had an organized, conceptual way of thinking about football."

I think it shows that if he has the weapons in place to succeed then he will do just that.

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I think it shows that if he has the weapons in place to succeed then he will do just that.

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That's not true during his tenure with the Cowboys. He had prime Dak, Zeke, Cooper & Dez. They regressed in redzone efficiency under him.

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Through 15 games, the Cowboys rank next-to-last in red zone touchdown percentage, scoring a TD only on a woeful 44.19% of their red zone visits. The only other teams failing to score a touchdown in fewer than half or their red zone appearances are San Francisco, the Jets, Jacksonville, and the Giants-all teams who failed to make the playoffs this season.

But truth be told, it’s not just scoring from inside the opponents’ 20:

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Putting up fewer than 20 points per game won’t get it done very often, and almost certainly not in the playoffs against the best teams in the league. And no team has ever won a game without scoring anything.

Not surprisingly, offensive coordinator Scott Linehan once again finds himself drawing the ire of Cowboys fans, after his unit failed to notch any points at all against Indianapolis, in a game that could have secured the division crown.

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