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Cowboys not changing coaches; coach plans change
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The Dallas Cowboys aren't changing coaches. Instead, coach Wade Phillips plans to change.
"We know things must improve. The only way is to change things," Phillips said. "To get to the standard we want, I don't see another way."
Phillips said he and Jerry Jones already "talked man to man" about what went wrong and what needs to be done about it. All he's decided so far is that he needs a plan; he's only started putting it together. However, he said both coordinators will be back and he expects all the star players to return.
"My personality is not going to change so much as what you ask players to do," he said.
Here's something that hasn't changed: soap opera side stories.
Bradie James spoke to reporters only to clear up information about an incident he'd just gotten into with a fan who was standing outside the driveway into team headquarters wearing a sandwich board that read "Our team has no heart" on the front, and "Wade is an embarrassment to the star."
James tore the sign off the man, breaking his sunglasses. James then went to his locker, got a pair of expensive shades he'd been given and returned with an apology, a handshake and a gift. Police came and left without taking any action.
"He was like, `Why you guys didn't have that fire last night!' You should've showed that much heart last night!' So the next thing you know I'm just ripping that sign off of him," James said. "So I went and gift-wrapped some Oakleys, and he got something out of the deal. I told him, `I share your frustrations. But where we differ is I wouldn't go to anybody's job, especially not up here with 300-pound guys, trying to tell them what they didn't do right.'"