I call this the 2010 season wrap-up but the season was really wrapped up 3 years ago when the Cowboys hired Wade Phillips. One could argue that the season was over as soon as the feebily inept Alex Barron held Brian Orakpo in the season opener against the Redskins. Perhaps it was the week after their bye when Marc Colombo receieved a crucial "excessive" celebration penalty for essentially falling down, setting up Chris Johnson and the Titans with great field position to punch in the winning ticket against the befuddled Cowboys. Maybe it was that fateful first Giants game when Tony Romo squirmed on the turf, his 2010 season expired. The straw that broke the camel's back was the debacle against the Green Bay Packers. The Cowboys were embarrassed up and down the field. Mike Jenkins played with his balls in his stomach, and the rest of defense acted like children who know nothing of personal pride. At this point, the last flame had been doused, the 2010 Cowboys season, one that began with such grand expectations, was painfully extinguished.
Under Interim coach Jason Garrett the Cowboys rebounded, somewhat, and finished with a 6-10 record. Still, this season will go down as the most dissappointing and most repulsive in the franchise's history. Never in NFL history, has a team been touted so highly and stumbled so far before the burden of those expectations. There are many reasons for this collapse and I am surprised that more people didn't see it coming. It all must start with the coaching style of Wade Phillips. At best, he's been a moderately decent NFL coach throughout his career. No one should be impressed with his 1 playoff win with a team as talented as the Cowboys have been under him. He ran camp cupcake in the preseason every year and the very moment that Dez Bryant was injured in this year's pre-season, baseball caps replaced helmets. The ending result? One of the softest, under-achieving, pudding-cake teams in the entire league and one of the most despicable regular season's in franchise history.
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