NFL Coaching Carousel...OF DEATH!! NFC East

Only in the Dead Zone of Sports that is February could Wade Phillips be the topic hammered into the frontal cortexes of sports fans ad nauseum. Wade Phillips and John Amaechi. That, sports fans, is what you've got going on in the second week of February.

So, being there's not a whole lot else to talk about, I think it's a good time to take stock of the comings and potential future goings of NFL coaches. We start today with the NFC East.

NFC EAST
The Cowboys' month long conclave has culminated in the anti-climactic selection of Chargers defensive coordinator Wade Phillips. On the strength of the strong performance of the Bolts defense he coordinated this year, and a 29-19 record in his tenure with the Bills at the turn of this century, Wade Phillips has proven the exception to the Wannstedt Rule, the rule that says no man shall get a THIRD chance to succeed as an NFL head coach.

Phillips has a three year contract, but he'll probably be gone if he doesn't get to the Super Bowl next year. He is a placeholder until Jason Garrett's skull fully hardens and he is ready to use his big, throbbing, Princeton brain to lead the Cowboys back to glory.

So, being that Wade Phillips probably has one season at best as the Cowboys head honcho, I think he has to seize the opportunity to do what we've all been waiting 20 years for him to do, which is to start dressing like his dad did on the sidelines.



I mean, my God, it's so obvious that he should do this. He owes it to himself to do this. On second thought, to hell with that, he owes it to me.

ON THE HOT SEAT IN 07
I think you have to consider every head coach in this division not named Andy Reid as a prime candidate to not return in 08.

I was positive the Giants had already fired Tom Coughlin twice already. But lo and behold their web site says he is still their head coach. He will again have the sword of Damocles hanging over him next season.

Joe Gibbs probably has one more year to turn it around in Washington. He may want to start by fixing the wiring in his headset so that he can hear his assistant coaches and not his crew chief.

And, of course, Wade Phillips shouldn't get too comfy either.