NFL job openings: A long list, but no Dallas Cowboys
Mike Florio of profootballtalk.com and a regular contributor to Sporting News gives football fans precisely what is needed today: a roundup of who, where and why when it comes to all the NFL job openings.
In at least one case, though, there won't be a job opening despite the outcry -- and that's in Dallas. As Florio writes:
Financial considerations also could keep Cowboys coach Wade Phillips employed in Dallas. Why else would owner Jerry Jones stubbornly stick with a leader who can't and won't lead?
Florio isn't alone in how he sees the Cowboys. Columnist Jean-Jacques Taylor of the Dallas Morning News takes Jones to task too today.
As for the New York Jets, the opening for a head coach isn't the issue, Florio says:
In New York, a new stadium currently is raising concerns not as to expenses, but revenues. Specifically, the revenue that would be coming from the sale of Personal Seat Licenses. The Jets need to move them, and even the presence of Lord Favre wasn't enough to generate much interest in the much-hyped "Coach's Club" auction. But the Jets are having a hard time lining up a coach with the cachet to persuade Jets fans to plunk down big money in a bad economy. The problem could be the presence of General Manager Mike Tannenbaum.
-- Debbie Goffa
Photo: Jerry Jones at an October news conference. Credit: Larry W. Smith / EPA
