Should We Approach Gary Fencik?
By Matt Cordon (kh). Filed in Dallas Cowboys News in Brief |
So now that Jerry is extending the coaching search to last until after the Super Bowl, I offer these very random thoughts about the combination of geniuses and the former members of the 1985 Chicago Bears.
(a) We didn’t have the luck for which we had hoped (note I didn’t say failure this time) with the coach of the 1986 New York Giants, but we did get to compare the Cowboys with that Giants team plenty of times in four years. And now that we are beyond that, the Cowboys are now taking a hard look at members of the 1985 Chicago Bears. This has all the makings of a good “I Love the ’80s” episode on VH1.
(b) If you are going to run a football blog, it is probably a good idea not to admit to having watched I Love the ’80s.
(c) I know that Jason Garrett was essentially a coach while he was a backup quarterback in the NFL, but I would have to think that his degree from Princeton has played a big part in obtaining his genius label.
(d) The last time we hired a coach with a genius label was none other than University of Arkansas graduate Jimmy Johnson, at least according to Jerry in 1989. Yes, that University of Arkansas.
“I made it very candid when I first talked with the Cowboys, if I got into football, Jimmy Johnson is coming with me,” Jones said. “I think he is the best coach in America. Frank Broyles will tell you Jimmy is the only football player with a genius IQ that he ever recruited at Arkansas.”
Only football player with the genius IQ???
(e) Did you know that the highest estimated IQ of someone from world history is German poet and author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe? According to this site, he had an IQ of 210. Amazingly, no football coach made the list, but chess master Bobby Fischer
did, scoring a 187 to rank seventh. If I weren’t aware of his exile in Iceland, I would wonder more openly whether he could run an imaginative 3-4 scheme.
(f) So where am I going with this? Well, I think we are missing a big piece in the coaching search puzzle: a presumed genius due to his Ivy League degree and a member of the 1985 Chicago Bears: Yale graduate and former safety Gary Fencik!
Trying to find out what Fencik has been up to, and I have discovered that he also has an MBA from Northwestern!…
Err… I see now that he is serving as a spokesperson for TicketsNow. He and the TicketsNow CEO are apparently going to get on the TV this week and discuss the availability of Super Bowl tickets, explaining how to safely purchase tickets for the Big Game.
Nice work, Gary. Moving on…
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So we are left wondering what the Cowboys are going to try to do with Ron Rivera.
Chicago Bears defensive coordinator Ron Rivera may have a job opportunity after the Super Bowl — as coach of the Dallas Cowboys.
Rivera, interviewed for several head coaching jobs the past two seasons, reportedly has emerged as the latest candidate to replace Bill Parcells in Dallas.
“I haven’t talked to anybody in Dallas,” Rivera said at the team hotel. “Nobody has told me anything.”
Rivera said his wife called him after practice Jan. 31 and informed him of the report on ESPN.com. The report also said that leading candidate Norv Turner told Cowboys owner Jerry Jones that if he got the job he’d want Rivera as defensive coordinator.
“That’s something I’d address if it ever came to fruition,” Rivera said when asked about moving to the Cowboys as a coordinator. “Right now, I can’t tell you because I don’t know anything. It’s kind of frustrating because nobody has told me anything.”
