Bruce Read is out. If there was one move that was predictable, it was this.

Read’s unit was wildly inconsistent. The coverage teams allowed too many big returns at the wrong times. The Cowboys allowed 10.5 yards per punt return and 21.3 yards per kick return. They had a punt blocked for a game-winning touchdown. They allowed a 93-yard kick return for a touchdown. They were the only team without a touchback.

The return game – save for Felix Jones’ 98-yard score – offered little. The Cowboys averaged just 22.2 yards per kick return. In 2006 Miles Austin averaged 26 yards per return. He averaged 21.5 this year.

The confidence was so low in Read that Phillips had fellow assistant coaches help him midway through the season, and that didn’t even work.

As much as Read is being used as a scapegoat, Phillips has to change his ways when it comes to special teams. He has to put more value in it and that means allowing whoever the new special teams coach is to use starters. James Harrison covers punts in Pittsburgh. Enough said.

After the 2000 season in Buffalo, Phillips lost his job partly because he would not fire his special teams coach and friend, Ronnie Jones. This time he decided to make the move on Read.

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