The disillusioned speak.

I've never been one to hide my fandom, but I've always tried to be impartial when talking about teams and games, even the teams I despise, so I almost apologize if it looks like I'm piling on the Cowboys. Well, not really. Anyway, during a press conference yesterday Cowboy Coach Wade Phillips claimed that despite the outcome of the game, his team played better, and was the better team that day.

"After looking at the tape, I feel like the best team lost the game," he said. "I thought we outplayed them. But we lost. Certainly, that goes directly to the coach, and I accept that."

Oh Wade, yes, at times the better team loses. It happens all the time, and the Cowboys proved throughout the season that they are better than the Giants. hell, the proved to be the best team in the NFC. However, the team that plays a better game usually comes out with a win. The Giants Defense made some gutty and hard fought stops in that second half. Do you forget your team had the best offense in football this side of New England? With 47 seconds left in the first half, Manning and his offense marched down the field to score a TD to tie the game, and effectively bringing all the momentum to their side. Is that one of your examples of Dallas outplaying the Giants.

Phillips went on to talk about their 13-4 season, the NFL record 12 Pro Bowl selections, and he brought up that the team had four more wins than a year ago. He also mentioned that the team was eliminated a round deeper into the playoffs than last year, which is semantics. Dallas still lost their first playoff game, as they did last year.

I am assuming is his way of trying to say, "Please forget the guy who put this team together, and had a coaching style that many say was needed come post-season, I swear I can coach. Yes I am 0-4 as a head coach in the playoffs and he has 2 Super Bowl rings, but the last one was in the '90's!!"

Let's be frank here bub, you need to shut the eff up and call Joe Torre for lessons on how to address a season that had championship expectations written all over it, but fell short. I am by no means comparing Steinbrenner and Jerry Jones, (that would be like comparing Microsoft's top sales guy, with Mattress King's top seller for December in one of their Omaha branches), but I imagine that Jones finds very little solace in the 12 Pro Bowl appearances.

Last off-season Jason Garret was made the Offensive Coordinator, and many thought it was with the intent to give him 2-3 years of top level coaching before he took over the head coach position. Bringing in Wade Phillips was a perfect fit, as being seen as a guy that's smart enough not to fuck up a good thing, but not too smart where it would be hard to get rid of him a year or two from now when Garret is ready. Well, Jason Garret might be the coach of Baltimore or Atlanta within the next few weeks and there fore putting the kibosh on Jerry Jones' plan. You have to wonder, if Garret leaves, does Wade get the boot right behind him?

As per a previous post, here's the best thing Wade Phillips ever contributed.