Tim Cowlishaw on Buck

by Adam J. Morris on Oct 3, 2006 3:16 PM CDT in News

Tim Cowlishaw did a chat session today, and fielded a couple of questions about the Rangers' managerial situation...

He thinks Buck is gone, and that the replacement won't be Baker, Alou or Girardi. He sees Daniels going after someone relatively young, closer in age to the players than Baker or Alou...

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Hmm

who could that be? Will Clark?

by Longhorn on Oct 3, 2006 3:14 PM CDT reply actions

I give that

a CM Burns style "excellent".

by Brett Perryman on Oct 3, 2006 3:18 PM CDT reply actions

That...

would make a lot of sense. Trey Hillman or Rusty Greer maybe?

BRAWLFEST 2006! F the Angels!

by ortonius on Oct 3, 2006 3:27 PM CDT reply actions

TH

http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/trey_hillman/

by Longhorn on Oct 3, 2006 3:30 PM CDT up reply actions

The more I hear...

the more I like this guy. See another article here:

http://www.lonestarball.com/story/2006/10/3/163534/577

BRAWLFEST 2006! F the Angels!

by ortonius on Oct 3, 2006 3:34 PM CDT up reply actions

Very

nice.

"Buck wants to do the best for this team, he bleeds blue" -Tom Hicks "So if I bleed a color, can I be a coach?" -Miles

by thedirkatron on Oct 3, 2006 3:29 PM CDT reply actions

Rod Barajas

He's being re-signed as player/manager.

Book it.

by tlt29 on Oct 3, 2006 4:19 PM CDT reply actions

R.A. Dickey...

the man for the job.

by benmor78 on Oct 3, 2006 4:36 PM CDT up reply actions

Cowlishaw

What's up with his hard-on for Dusty Baker? Baker is pretty much the worst choice possible to succeed Buck, for reasons that we all know about. Why doesn't Cowlishaw see that?

by RCCook on Oct 3, 2006 5:09 PM CDT reply actions

I'd rather have Buck

than Baker.

by Alan Smithee on Oct 3, 2006 5:31 PM CDT up reply actions

Yep

Dusty's "walks just clog up the bases" comment was beyond belief. Whatever's Showalter's personality issues, he'd never say anything that silly.

by Lucas on Oct 3, 2006 5:49 PM CDT up reply actions

His column after the Cowboy game was a typical hatchet job on Bledsoe. "This offense is best when Bledsoe doesn't throw much". Yeah, because he's clearly so bad. If you actually watch the Cowboy games, it often seems like the offense is best when they open up the passing game, the reverse of what he wrote (though I understand, if you get a lead you run a lot in the NFl-no problem with that, but Tenessee is hardly a real game).

There's a lot of Bledsoe haters like at LSB out there who when the Cowboys win, they dont know what to do. They cant say the most important offensive player the QB is good, so they usually end up saying Julious Jones is so good. Give me a break. That's what we call a stretch. I like Jones and all, though.

by Sharky on Oct 3, 2006 6:20 PM CDT reply actions

Hey Shark

Why aren't the Texans better?

They hired the Broncos' offensive coordinator.

by Adam J. Morris on Oct 3, 2006 6:22 PM CDT up reply actions

Pay attention

I did a little research and I'm not that sold on Kubiak.

Basically he was the OC in Denver but he didn't call the plays. Shanahan did. Kubiak in fact did, but they had two or three so-so years (8-8?) Shahanan took the playcalling duties back again. And Denver started playing good again.

I mean it's so hard to tell with a lot of these guys, but my preliminary evaluation is he's not a great OC. And I stated that on LSB before the season. So the Texans mucking around is not a surprise to me.

It's really hard to tell unless you're a fan of that team whats going on though. For all I know, Kubiak may have been delegating playcalling duties to somebody else in Houston. Some offensive coaches call their own plays some dont. Coker, our ex-OC, doesn't call plays and that's why Miami sucks, for example.

So I dunno, defense and all that factors in too, about all I'm confident saying is Kubiak appeared to be a perhaps decent OC, but not great. Sort of the same thing I thought about Sean Payton.

by Sharky on Oct 3, 2006 6:31 PM CDT up reply actions

Another thing

I have noticed a lot of times it seems to take a year or two for the team and OC to jell. Cincinnati is kind of an example of that imo.

So even if Kubiak was a great OC a subpar first season wouldn't have been shocking. Like Martz in Detroit or (hopefully) Saunders in Washington.
I wouldn't expect Kubiak to reach great heights as I've noted, but judge year two, three etc will be more telling probably.

by Sharky on Oct 3, 2006 6:39 PM CDT up reply actions

Also

I like that I dont know what I'm talking about, but the Houston Texans very specifically only interviewed top young offensive coordinators and nobody else. And we know Houston teams in the past do the right thing rather than being PC (Dallas would surely have interviewed only defensive staff).

They very much had the right concept, I'm just not entirely sold on the execution (Kubiak).

Yeah but I'm crazy, but the Houston Texans do exactly as I say. Actions over words.

I really think the Houston Texans should be forced to hire a minority playcaller at all times in the interest of affirmative action, though. I'm sure they'd win a lot with that. Since you know, it doesn't matter.

by Sharky on Oct 3, 2006 6:59 PM CDT up reply actions