Tag Archives: Leadership

Dallas Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones Should Name Himself Head Coach

Posted on October 12, 2010 by Gene Strother

The recent bye week for the Dallas Cowboys ought to have been the bye-bye week for coach Wade Phillips.
I have tried to imagine the tirade Jimmy Johnson would have gone on after his team, favored by many— if not most— … Continue reading →

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Is Wade Phillips The Head Coach of the Dallas Cowboys? Does It Matter?

Posted on November 16, 2009 by Gene Strother

“Everything rises and falls on leadership.”
I do not know who said that first. I first heard it from a preacher named Lee Roberson, back in the seventies. Then, John Maxwell popularized it in more recent memory. Whoever said it, … Continue reading →

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Keith Brooking: A Leader Emerges

Posted on October 25, 2009 by Gene Strother

A leaderless locker room is a rudderless ship.
The Dallas Cowboys are a team needing compensation. The absence of sideline leadership under Wade Phillips has led to frequent chaos. The Patrick Clayton flap is just the most recent evidence that there … Continue reading →

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Greg Ellis Proves Me Right

Posted on July 13, 2009 by Gene Strother

During the 2008 off-season, I began to call for Greg Ellis to be cut. I contended that, rather than being the leader he was purported to be, he had become a locker room cancer. In a recent radio interview – … Continue reading →

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