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Texas Tech football: Five jobs that would make sense for Kliff Kingsbury

By Matthew Conner

AUSTIN, TX - NOVEMBER 24: Head coach Kliff Kingsbury of the Texas Tech Red Raiders surveys the field as the team arrives before the game against the Texas Longhorns at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on November 24, 2017 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images)
AUSTIN, TX - NOVEMBER 24: Head coach Kliff Kingsbury of the Texas Tech Red Raiders surveys the field as the team arrives before the game against the Texas Longhorns at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on November 24, 2017 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images) /
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The Dallas Cowboys

I’m going to be a bit self-indulgent here because I dream of seeing Kingsbury coordinate the offense for my favorite team, the Dallas Cowboys.  If there was ever a team in need of an infusion of creativity on offense it would be Dallas.

Offensive coordinator Scott Linehan is about as creative as a phone book.  Dallas is a franchise trying to win in the modern NFL by playing offense like it is 1993; running the ball and utilizing the play-action pass.

The Cowboys rank 26th in the league in pass attempts, 22nd in yards per attempt and 28th in passing’s yards.  And perhaps no quarterback in the league could benefit more from working with the quarterback whisperer than Dak Prescott who has regressed as a passer since his stellar rookie season.

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Part of Prescott’s problem is that his offensive coordinator is asking him to be a drop-back passer when that is not his game.  He needs to play in a modern system where he throws from outside the pocket like Mahomes does and runs the ball as frequently as Cam Newton in Carolina.

Kingsbury would be the perfect man to develop Prescott in a way that suits him best.  Prescott is not a traditional NFL QB but his head coach Jason Garrett (a backup QB in Dallas in the 1990’s) and his OC want him to play more like Troy Aikman than play like he did at Mississippi State.

Many think that the Dallas offense is devoid of talent.  That is far from true.  With receivers like Amari Cooper, Cole Beasley and rookie Michael Gallup, there are enough weapons in “Big D” for the Cowboys to be a more-than-adequate passing attack.

And Kingsbury would have one of the best running backs in the league at his disposal in Ezekiel Elliot, who is as dangerous of a weapon on screen passes as there is in the league, which is something that Kignsbury loves to use in the passing game.

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Ultimately, it is hard to imagine that a backwards-thinking head coach like Jason Garrett would ever consider bringing on an innovative offensive coordinator like Kliff Kignsbury.  But if Garrett does not make the playoffs this year, he may also be forced to bring in a new offensive coordinator and a guy like Kingsbury would do wonders for the Cowboy’s stodgy offense.

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