Coach Roth: Football: Drills and Coaching

Another offensive coordinator will not return for the next season to his team: Tennessee Titans Norm Chow got the boot from head coach Jeff Fischer on Tuesday.

Now, that the Dallas Cowboys are eliminated from the playoffs, the extended coaching staff is already falling apart: The Miami Dolphins hired Brian Gaine, the Cowboys Assistant Director of Pro Scouting for the last three years,  as their Assistant Director of Player Personnel today.

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Remeber 2 weeks ago? Quite some playoff-bound teams played, then seemingly meaningless games, and played most of the time their second- and third-stringers…

Well, looking at the teams who played this weekend in the Divisional Playoffs, reveals the following:

Only 3 of the 8 teams won their game in Week 17, all 3 teams won subsequently this weekend too, beating a team that lost in week 17, and are now going to the Conference Championsship game…

Just the last playoff games had no week 17 winner, both teams lost, but with what a different effort: the Cowboys more or less forfeiting the game, while the Giants fought their heart out to prevent the Patriots from going unbeaten… and the outcome of their match is known
see the overview below:

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Compared to the previous couple of days, today has been a quite slow day so far:

The Miami Dolphins filled their QB coaching position: David Lee, who also spent 4 years from 2003 - 2006 with Bill Parcells at the Dallas Cowboys, and in 2007 he coached the QBs and ran the offense at the University of Arkansas, and was supposed to fill similar role in 2008 at Ole Miss …

Comment: The hiring of an assistant before hiring a head coach can only mean two things:

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