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We can't believe it either

I was a little tickled to read that the Dallas Cowboys were not retaining Dave Campo as their defensive backs coach.

Suddenly it all made a little bit more sense. Like finding a missing piece of the puzzle underneath the coffee table.

This is no indictment on Campo as a coach more than it is of an organization that would somehow keep employing him despite all that's gone on since, say, 1999.

Campo joined the Cowboys with Jimmy Johnson as secondary coach. He worked himself up to defensive coordinator and for three dark years he was the head coach before mercifully being fired. He spent several seasons in Cleveland and Jacksonville before returning in 2008 under Wade Phillips as defensive backs coach.

To put this plainly, Campo started as a dish washer, became an assistant manager, was named manager and was then fired because it was absolute chaos.

Then, two years later, he's back as a dishwasher.

Campo may be a swell secondary coach. If the proof is in the proverbial pudding, he's not that good. Or his players are not that good. In that case, why isn't Campo, Phillips or Rob Ryan telling Jerry Jones not to extend Gerald Sensabaugh and Orlando Scandrick?

It's the principle of the thing. What team in professional sports has a guy work his way up the food chain, get fired after humiliating himself only to hire the same guy back?

I'll tell you: The Dallas fuckin' Cowboys. That's who.

Over the past 13 years, why has Jerry Jones continually felt that Campo was the answer to some sort of question? If the difference between Campo and the next best secondary coach is negligible, why not try something different?

It doesn't make any sense. As we are learning, nothing involving the Dallas Cowboys rarely does.

Campo is not the only change. Noted offensive line coach Hudson Houck retired for the eighth time and was replaced by New York Jets assistant coach and offensive line coach Bill Callahan, also famous for coaching the Oakland Raiders in their Super Bowl and running the Nebraska Cornhuskers into the ground.

Considering Callahan's credentials (for whatever they're worth), you wonder if this a move to address the responsibilities of Jason Garrett as head coach and offensive coordinator.

Replacing Campo is Jerome Henderson, the secondary coach in Cleveland the last three years, two of those under Rob Ryan. He, too, is a former Jets assistant. The Browns ranked second in pass defense this season. Again, for whatever that's worth.

It might not be better. But it's different.

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