by Chris HarryFiled under: Cowboys, NFL Coaching, NFL Analysis
Cris Collinsworth summed it up perfectly.
As cameras framed a flummoxed Wade Phillips during the third quarter of Sunday night's humiliating 45-7 Cowboys loss at Green Bay, NBC's color analyst offered a comment on the game that just as easily could have applied to the Dallas Cowboys' catastrophic 2010 season.
"There's no nicer man in the world than Wade Phillips," Collinsworth said before pausing for effect. "But this is bad."
And it's over.
Finally and mercifully.
But make no mistake -- Monday's firing of Phillips, with his team off to an unspeakable 1-7 start, says as much about the players as it does about their likable but painfully uncharismatic coach. Owner/president/GM Jerry Jones, who's hardly absolved of blame here, couldn't fire the 53 guys who wear the uniforms, so Phillips was the natural fall guy.
What makes the Dallas disaster so confounding, though, is the core of a team that won 33 games under Phillips the last three seasons -- including two NFC East titles, and last season, the first playoff game in 14 years -- returned utterly intact, with 20 of 22 starters back to build on its accomplishments.
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