There was no special compulsion for Jerry Jones to interview more than one minority candidate, yet he did anyways. That would be considered strange behavior for an "inherent" racist (would it matter if he were an acquired racist?).

I'd answer yes, or at least a qualified "It's possible" given his head coaching experience that Rivera lacks. Or perhaps Rivera simply had a bad attitude.

Rhetorical questions only work if you don't answer them for us, and if the question demands the conclusion you want. Nope. Nope.

Is this really necessary?

NOTE: I hate Jerry Jones more than you. I just think it's absurd to claim racism where none clearly and undeniably exists. It cheapens legitimate discourse.

Phillips is one of the few 3-4 gurus in the league and that was the biggest reason for the hire. The Cowboys defense will go from good to elite next year because of Phillips. He attacks the pocket relentlessly and his defenses always stop the run.

Hiring any offensive guys would be stupid because the Cowboys offense was very good once Romo started playing, they scored over 400 points and averaged 26 points a game. The Cowboys problems this year centered around their defense, and thats why this hire makes the most sense.

To say Jones hired Phillips because he is a Texan and white is absoutley ludicrious and stupid.

The writer obviously does not follow the Cowboys, otherwise he would know the NUMEROUS, excellent reasons why Wade was hired.  I could go into them here, but it would take up the rest of my response--and I am not responding to defend Wade, but to call out this post (if u do want to know why Phillips was hired, just check out Blogging the Boys, Cowboys.com, or any of the other cowboys sites or forums--there you will find much more info that I could supply here--and just read what his former players at San Diego and elsewhere said about him).  Succinctly put, his record of coming in as a DC or HC SIX times on winless teams and taking them to the plafoffs the 1st YEAR of his employment--as well as his record of dominating defenses, and winning record as a head coach--speak for themselves.  Not to mention, he was the perfect fit for what Dallas needs NOW.  It's pathetic how uninformed this post was.

It is truly sad that this type of blog post is the SB Nation representation that a great team like the Indianapolis Colts receives.  I am glad to see that others are calling this tripe out for what it is (I hope other SB Nation representatives besides Skins Patrol read this and comment on it for what it is).  When the Cowboys played the Colts earlier in the season, we had numerous Colts fans come on our forums and comment (and we Cowboys fans visited the Colts forums too).  I have to say, OVERWHELMINGLY, the Colts fans were some of the classiest, most respectful, honest, and knowledgeable fans I have encountered (even if it was only via cyberspace).  Furthermore, I was glad Indy beat Da Bears, and Manning finally got his ring.

Simply stated: you Colts fans deserve better than this garbage-filled racist rant.

For someone advocating racially sensitivity, how hypocritical is it for you to be calling Wade Phillips "white trash"? Maybe you should be the one joining the 21st century?

If Jerry Jones was racially insensitive, why did he even bother interviewing four minority candidates? This blog post is uninformed, hypocritical, and racist in its own right. You should step down from your position at SB Nation and get your head on straight.

Now, to address the issue at hand.  I am sad to see what passes for "Analysis" at Stampede Blue.  

Anytime one leads with a picture of someone in a nazi uniform, a klan outfit or blackface it certainly seems that you are trying to appeal to the lowest common demoniator.  It's sad that after Indy's finest hour you need to go so low so fast.

Oh well.

To the point. Parcells resigned after many vacancies had been announced and filled.  Dallas was facing a buffett of leftovers and interviewed a huge list of candidates.  Many were retreads (Norv, Wade, etc) some were up and comers that likely weren't ready for prime time (Garrett, Singeltary) some were highly respected assistants who are frequent interviews for top jobs (Caldwell, Rivera).  Some were on staff already (Sparano, Bowles). Some were from Texas (Phillips, Singeltary, Rivera).  Some were African American (Bowles, Singeltary, Caldwell).  One was Latino (Rivera).  Some were white (Norv, Wade, Garrett, Sparano).  Some were fat (Wade).  One was a redheaded step child.

At the end of the day, Dallas hired a fat white guy from Texas.  Ultimately his hiring had less to do with him (or his fat-white-texaness) than it had to do with the team.

Dallas finished in the top 3 in scoring despite having one of the worst feild goal percentages in the league (I know you love that).  The offense was productive.  The defense, on the other hand stunk.  After spending 2 years revamping the team to have a big, physical 3-4 defense and replacing 6 of the front 7, we fans were promised a young swarming, aggressive defense.  We got what I called "The Silver Seive."

The team had to fix the defense or get worse.  So right off, Caldwell, Garrett and Turner were out.  While that may reek of bias to you, its a similar strategy the Colts adopted when they hired Dungy, a defensive mided coach to get them over the hump.

That left Rivera, Singletary and Phillips.  

Rivera is very talented.  Still hiring him made no sense.  First, he is credited for "running Lovie Smith's cover 2."  He is a coordinator but not the clear architect of the defense.  In his interviews he discussed a willingness to use SOME 3-4 but wanted to run some variation of the Tampa 2.  If you ever watched Dallas, you would see that a defense that planned on having Roy Williams in deep pass coverage would be highly problematic.  Additionally, none of the teams linebackers can drop into coverage effectively.  Hiring Rivera means changing from a speed based 4-3 to a size based 3-4 to a Tampa 2 in a four year period.  Forget it.

Singeltary has 3-4 experience.  Unfortunately, in addition to being black, he is green.  Notice that San Francisco hired San Diego's LB coach (a guy who worked UNDER Phillips) to be the 49ers DC.  That's right, Singeltary now reports to him.  While I pondered what Singeltary would be like as a headcoach, I think it is just too early.

This leaves Bowles and Wade.  No matter what people say about Bowles, he was the secondary coach for an extremely BAD secondary.  Sorry, not good enough.  Now Wade...  He runs a great 3-4.  If he gets it done, we keep him, if not we hire Cowher.  If that happens, I guess you will call Jerry a racist again...

Oh Well.  Now as far as coaches, we have had a lot of African American assistants (Tolbert, Carthon, Bowles, etc.) however that is less a statement about Jerry than it is about Parcells, Campo, Gailey, Switzer and Johnson.