The Dallas Cowboys have developed a very comfortable way of doing things lately.
[O]utside of Dan Quinn, not a single Cowboys coordinator under three successive head coaches (Wade Phillips, Jason Garrett, Mike McCarthy) over a span of 18 seasons was promoted into a head coaching job with another team.
But it’s not just the absence of future head coaches among the assistant coaching ranks that should raise all sorts of alarms. The fate of former Cowboys offensive and defensive coordinators (Dan Quinn’s potential move to a HC position notwithstanding) once they leave Dallas is an unmitigated disaster and is a flaming indictment of the Cowboys front office.