The Dallas Cowboys ridiculously messy season continued yesterday with word that Tony Romo would be out until at least mid-November. First he was out four weeks, then there were rumors he might play last Sunday, now he’s out for four more weeks.

If that’s not a scary enough premise for Cowboy fans, compounded by the fact Romo’s replacement threw three picks against the Rams last week, we now have word that their head coach wants to try and help out more, and you know, do some stuff.

And by that we presume Wade Phillips means tending to the defense because Jason Garrett already runs the show on the offensive side of things, which begs the question, what exactly was Phillips doing before this reassuring announcement?

There’s little doubt Phillips already was spending most of his time with the defense. That’s why he described this change as merely a move to “concentrate more, I guess you’d say. It was one of those things you think you’re in there but maybe I wasn’t enough,” Phillips said.

Right. If I’m a Cowboys fan, a team with a 4-3 record coming off a blowout loss to the Rams, no Romo, their safety gone, the ridiculous Pacman saga, T.O. in vintage Jekyll and Hyde form, Jerry Jones in panic mode and now my head coach in ‘I’ll try concentrating more’ mode, I’m ready to put on my drinking helmet and tackle my neighbor’s trash cans.

The last thing good ol’ Wade needs to do is put any extra attention on the defense and start calling plays. The only association I have with his name over the years is that he was the savvy defensive coordinator behind all those Denver Broncos teams from the 80s that excelled so well at video game-like slaughterings in the Super Bowl.

Whenever his name has surfaced for a head coaching gig, like it did when Parcells left and Jerry Jones applied his brilliant ‘fool-follows-genius’ coach replacement formula (see: Johnson; Switzer), I always wondered why and still do.

Focusing more on anything sounds like a shitty idea, just stick to standing there and being puffy, Wade.