Bill Callahan Will Also Be Dallas Cowboys' Offensive Coordinator

i think a new face was needed to shake things up but i also think Callahan did a good enough job here to be considered for the role

Peter King believes that Garrett will still call the plays, despite Callahan’s new title.

Garrett is still going to call the plays in Big D.

The staff that was in place did not do a good job from top to bottom. The time for pointing fingers is done, now its time for new voices and different outlooks.

i would have taken callahan, but there appeares to be a reason he wasn’t offered the job. If he won’t even be realy calling the plays, peter king believes so, then apparently no ne wants him calling plays. i guess dallas lured him with the OC title. sparano has been a head coach, and he is a parcels guy. have to give it time. i have no idea what we are getting into here, i know the phin fans are saying it will be boring, but i realy don’t know.

But I didn’t feel like Callahan wanted to stick around. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Jets considered him for the OC position, but maybe he’s had enough of the crazy atmosphere or maybe he just felt disrespected that he wasn’t offered a promotion sooner. Whatever the case may be, the dropoff isn’t significant from Callahan to Sparano. I wish Bill nothing but the best in Dallas.

Callahan is the better option. A lot of people like to point as Nebraska as a failure in which he went 27-22 with his tenure. He didn’t have any big names there. The only talent that really come from there is N. Suh. Suh plays defense not offense. I am not aware of any great offensive players he had while at Nebraska. Nebraska was on a downward spiral anyways due to lack of talent recruitment. He did the best he could with talent he did have.

As for the Raiders, he was the first rookie head coach to take a team to a Super Bowl in the 2002-2003 season. He did it with the same Raiders players that beat us but fell to the Patriots in the game that produced the tuck rule in 2001-2002 season. Callahan was the O.C. in that season. The only reason Callahan got fired from the Raiders is because Rich Gannon got hurt and Al Davis, who was known for firing coaches after losing seasons. Davis got rid of him after a injury plague 4-12 season.

My point is that Callahan coaching methods is a proven winner. He favors a west coast style offense than ground and pound. Rex favors ground and pound.
It maybe the reason Callahan did not get hired. The F.O. do not trust Sanchez at all to convert to an all out west coast offense. That’s why they hired Sparano. Which I do not agree with because I just seen one year of him being an actual O.C.

As much some of wanted Callahan. The fact is that Sanchez is the reason the team cleaned house with the coaches. F.O. do not want to admit that they was wrong in drafting Sanchez. He was not ready mentally. Sanchez is not the player they thought they had drafted. The F.O. realized that this season. He came out too early. He also only started 1 year at USC.

I wanted us to pick J. Freeman back then and we should have. Pete Carroll warned everyone about Sanchez but the F.O. office didn’t listen. I guess Carroll and I were right about Sanchez entering the draft. Anyone else?

The reason Sanchez has better numbers is because the talent he has around him.
Even though we have a RT that cost us majority of the problems this season, we have a better OL than TB. Even with Hunter our line is better.

The yardage do count because the more completions and less inaccurate throws mean more yardage in turn mean a better chance of scoring. I’ll rather take a better completion percentage. It mean better accuracy. Therefore, better chances of players around him making plays. Freeman do not have playmakers around him and he still 8th in the league in completion %. Look at Stafford in his third year. His completion % is 63.5 and only have 1 maybe 2 true playmakers around him. If Freeman were on our team. He probably would be one of the top QBs right now. TB lost all their games due to poor defense and no true playmakers on offense.

Being a good QB means you have to put the ball where receivers can catch them.

Stafford has 16 INT, Sanchez has 18, and Freeman has 22. Interceptions is something every QB has to deal with. Its about the more throws. The better the chance you going to be picked off. Most of Sanchez interceptions could have been avoided with simple reads. Whats so bad about Sanchez interceptions is that he was staring down one player the whole time.

Example, Alex Smith has a 61.3 completion percentage. SF is looking like the 2009 version of us. The reason they won so many games than we did in 2009 is because they play in a weak division. Smith also been in the league for 6 years. When teams adjust to SF next year. Their offense going to tank if Smith is the QB.

Sanchez is another example of a QB being masked by talent around him. Actually, he is a bust just like Smith. No one wants to accept it as face value. The F.O. made a mistake in 2009 and is too ashame to admit it.

Callahan > Sparano
but
Callahan < Sparano + Haley
There is also something to be said for changing faces in this kind of situation (bad team chemistry, shaken confidence).