Scott Linehan
Scott Linehan
Scott Thomas Linehanis an American football coach who is the play caller and offensive coordinator for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League. He was previously the head coach of the St. Louis Rams and the offensive coordinator for the Miami Dolphins, Minnesota Vikings and Detroit Lions. Prior to becoming an NFL coach in 2002, Linehan was a college assistant coach for 13 seasons...
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I have a pool of candidates. It's got to be a good fit for the system. Every once in a while there's going to be a bump in the road.
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I've had a couple of really good conversations with Marshall and I think he's very positive about having a couple of good years left in him. And that's very positive. The veteran leadership is critical. In this day and age, because of the salary cap, it's hard to have that. There aren't many people like Marshall in this business who can affect a team positively. Not just as a player but as a leader that can teach everyone else.
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It's like in baseball being strong up the middle. You have inside guy, a middle linebacker and a safety. It's a pretty good place to start.
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You don't want to hold the time away against him, but on the same side you have to know there's going to be time for him to get back into playing shape. It might be a good thing for a guy, too. He might come back with a little more fire to do it.
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I think that we are in good position to start up the talks again. We are going to make a commitment to try to get it done. Where I'm sure that there are other people who are saying that it will sure be nice to have him, his value to this organization is much higher than just his ability as a football player, believe me. We are going to make the effort that needs to be made to try and get it done.
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He still has some good 'juice' left in him in my opinion. So you might as well use him. Don't let him take any (unused) carries with him to the Hall of Fame.
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I'd love to have him as long as we can keep him. Some of those things are out of your control. In this case, I don't think that's the case. He's still got some life left in him. And we've had very good meetings with him.
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I think he is. He has never given me any indication that he's not.
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Obviously, I'm pretty sold that the guy can do it.
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Obviously, we've got to have a contingency plan, but I'm going from the standpoint that we're going to get it done. We'll address that if we have to. To me, that's down the road. ... We're talking about a guy that to me you don't replace.
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We've got to address that, and make it a stronger position for us on offense.
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Up to the day he shuts it down, he's way too valuable a player to not have the ball in his hands. For whatever reason, last year was not his best year statistically. But I would certainly like to utilize the abilities he still has, if he's willing to put a few more years in.
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It's not the way you like to do it. But either way, we achieved the goal, and that was to make sure he was on our team.
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It's really important for me to have guys that have great experience on that side of the ball. I'm going to lean heavily on them.