The Cowboys have been pretty fortunate when it comes to their coaching staff the past few days, being able to retain Jason Garrett as offensive coordinator and bring on Hudson Houck to replace Tony Sparano as offensive line coach. Remember, you don’t get to pick and choose your assistants. They have to be available, and I’m thinking replacing Garrett and presenting a young quarterback like Tony Romo with a new offense and coach might have been disruptive. And with the much-respected Houck, he moves back in without being a stranger to guys on the offensive staff and the head coach.
You know, the more I think about it, the more Tom Coughlin’s off-the-cuff remark last week was right on. When asked one of those perfunctory questions predictably asked head coaches in the situation he was in, Coughlin shot back to media members something to the effect, you guys must have a “book with a stack of questions,” meaning very few can think for themselves. That is what is happening now with the dire predictions being made for the Phillips-Garrett relationship.
OK, in case you guys missed the caller to Talkin’ Cowboys who suggested the best way for the Chargers to cover Randy Moss on Sunday, this one is for you: “Put the woman who received the 500-foot temporary restraining order in the end zone.”
And the scores . . . hard to pick against the home teams in the conference championship games, so that means we’re going with the Patriots to move to 18-0 and the Packers to give Brett Favre a chance to possibly bow out on top a la John Elway, that is, providing frostbite from a three-degree high being predicted in Green Bay Sunday doesn’t cause everyone to succumb first.