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Cowboys owner Jones offers nonsensical reasons for firing Rex's brother
By JUSTIN TERRANOVA
NY POST
Posted: 1:03 PM, January 10, 2013
The Ryan that probably deserved to keep his job got fired because Jerry Jones was not paying attention to his own team’s games, and that’s if you believe what the Cowboys owner had to say.
In snippets of an interview released by KTVT-TV in Dallas, Jones pointed to two early-season losses as the reason for firing defensive coordinator Rob Ryan — the brother of Jets head coach Rex Ryan. Those losses came in Week 2 against the Seahawks, where Dallas lost 27-3, and 34-18 defeat to Chicago in Week 4.
"It's not hard for me to go to those games and say what can we do to improve when we played Seattle and when we played Chicago, and I liked the way we played in subsequent games and I know we didn't have the talent level on the field that we had when we played Seattle and Chicago," Jones said, according to ESPN.com.
"It's not hard for me to go back there and say, 'OK, we had all of our players out there we had our talent level there.’ That's what we've been saying we didn't have. Now let's evaluate that. When we had all of our talent level, we've got to be able to beat Chicago at home and we've got to be able to go to Seattle and win that game there.”
Let’s start dissecting how little sense this line of logic makes:
A: In both those loses they were missing NT Jay Ratliff, who is among the best in the game. LB Anthony Spencer joined Ratliff on the sidelines for the Bears game.
B: In those two games where the Cowboys gave up 61 points, the Bears scored two defensive touchdowns and the Seahawks scored one on special teams. Also, QB Tony Romo threw five picks against the Bears. I’ll have to check with Elias, but not many teams win when their quarterbacks do that.
C: The Bears and Seahawks were a combined 21-11. Chicago was playing its best football of the year at that time and the number of teams that won in Seattle this year is the same number of players that were voted into the Hall of Fame on Wednesday: zero.
D: Isn’t all this reasons to fire your head coach, as well? Why is Rob Ryan, and not Jason Garrett, to blame for the Cowboys losing those games? Ryan would have been let go if Garrett was fired, but that's not the point.
The Cowboys did make improving an atrocious secondary a priority this offseason with the signing of Brandon Carr and the drafting of Morris Claiborne in the first round. But they were without five starters for most of the season, according to the report, and star LB DeMarcus Ware played the final two games with significant elbow and shoulder injuries.
The Cowboys finished 19th in total defense and for the second straight season missed out on the playoffs thanks to division-deciding losses to end the season (Giants in 2011, Redskins in 2012)
“I thought we could play better before the injuries, and so I factored that in. It wasn't like we had a lot of injuries out here when we played Chicago. It wasn't like we had a lot of injuries when we played Seattle. I didn't like the way we played there,” Jones said.
Some Cowboys defenders were outraged when they heard of the firing, which came when Ryan was on vacation.
"It was a privilege to play under Coach Rob Ryan! One of the greatest. Sad day. I'm hurting right now," DT Jason Hatcher wrote on Twitter.
“Not Happy Right Now!” cornberack Sterling Moore wrote.
There is the possibility Jones was being less than truthful and the real reason he fired Ryan was because the media paid too much attention to the fiery defensive coordinator, and not enough to the owner. The laid back Garrett offers no problems there. Still, that’s pure speculation on my part.
But if that’s the case it means Rob got fired because his owner craves attention and Rex kept his job with the Jets because his owner, Woody Johnson, craves any attention for the team.
By JUSTIN TERRANOVA
NY POST
Posted: 1:03 PM, January 10, 2013
The Ryan that probably deserved to keep his job got fired because Jerry Jones was not paying attention to his own team’s games, and that’s if you believe what the Cowboys owner had to say.
In snippets of an interview released by KTVT-TV in Dallas, Jones pointed to two early-season losses as the reason for firing defensive coordinator Rob Ryan — the brother of Jets head coach Rex Ryan. Those losses came in Week 2 against the Seahawks, where Dallas lost 27-3, and 34-18 defeat to Chicago in Week 4.
"It's not hard for me to go to those games and say what can we do to improve when we played Seattle and when we played Chicago, and I liked the way we played in subsequent games and I know we didn't have the talent level on the field that we had when we played Seattle and Chicago," Jones said, according to ESPN.com.
"It's not hard for me to go back there and say, 'OK, we had all of our players out there we had our talent level there.’ That's what we've been saying we didn't have. Now let's evaluate that. When we had all of our talent level, we've got to be able to beat Chicago at home and we've got to be able to go to Seattle and win that game there.”
Let’s start dissecting how little sense this line of logic makes:
A: In both those loses they were missing NT Jay Ratliff, who is among the best in the game. LB Anthony Spencer joined Ratliff on the sidelines for the Bears game.
B: In those two games where the Cowboys gave up 61 points, the Bears scored two defensive touchdowns and the Seahawks scored one on special teams. Also, QB Tony Romo threw five picks against the Bears. I’ll have to check with Elias, but not many teams win when their quarterbacks do that.
C: The Bears and Seahawks were a combined 21-11. Chicago was playing its best football of the year at that time and the number of teams that won in Seattle this year is the same number of players that were voted into the Hall of Fame on Wednesday: zero.
D: Isn’t all this reasons to fire your head coach, as well? Why is Rob Ryan, and not Jason Garrett, to blame for the Cowboys losing those games? Ryan would have been let go if Garrett was fired, but that's not the point.
The Cowboys did make improving an atrocious secondary a priority this offseason with the signing of Brandon Carr and the drafting of Morris Claiborne in the first round. But they were without five starters for most of the season, according to the report, and star LB DeMarcus Ware played the final two games with significant elbow and shoulder injuries.
The Cowboys finished 19th in total defense and for the second straight season missed out on the playoffs thanks to division-deciding losses to end the season (Giants in 2011, Redskins in 2012)
“I thought we could play better before the injuries, and so I factored that in. It wasn't like we had a lot of injuries out here when we played Chicago. It wasn't like we had a lot of injuries when we played Seattle. I didn't like the way we played there,” Jones said.
Some Cowboys defenders were outraged when they heard of the firing, which came when Ryan was on vacation.
"It was a privilege to play under Coach Rob Ryan! One of the greatest. Sad day. I'm hurting right now," DT Jason Hatcher wrote on Twitter.
“Not Happy Right Now!” cornberack Sterling Moore wrote.
There is the possibility Jones was being less than truthful and the real reason he fired Ryan was because the media paid too much attention to the fiery defensive coordinator, and not enough to the owner. The laid back Garrett offers no problems there. Still, that’s pure speculation on my part.
But if that’s the case it means Rob got fired because his owner craves attention and Rex kept his job with the Jets because his owner, Woody Johnson, craves any attention for the team.
