The Dallas Cowboys are busy building their coaching staff, but there are still holes to fill before it’s complete. One role was checked off when the team hired Tiquan Underwood as the assistant wide receivers coach.

There’s just one problem, the Cowboys don’t have a WR coach yet. This isn’t the first time the organization has built the coaching staff backwards. Underwood, like Jason Garrett and Kellen Moore before him, has been hired before his superior.

This instance isn’t nearly as egregious as bringing the offensive coordinator onboard before the head coach, but it’s still an odd way to build the staff. What if Underwood and the WR coach don’t get along, or their ways of teaching don’t line up? Then it could be an awkward season where the coaches’ messages to a team that has several young WRs doesn’t help their players development.

Underwood is qualified to have the gig; he spent six years in the NFL despite being close to Mr. Irrelevant as a late seventh-round pick in the 2009 draft. During his time in the league, Underwood caught 63 passes for 1,006 yards and six touchdowns.

As a coach, Underwood has spent time with five different teams, both in college football and in the NFL, and as a WR coach in four of those stops. Last season, Underwood held the same job with the New England Patriots that he’ll have in Dallas. At 37-years old, Underwood also brings some youth to relate to young WRs like Jalen Tolbert, Jalen Brooks, Jalen Moreno-Cropper, Jonathan Mingo and Ryan Flournoy on the roster.

This isn’t questioning the credentials of Underwood, but the Cowboys continue to put the cart before the horse when putting their coaching staff together. Maybe the team didn’t want to lose the promising young teacher, as there were reports he might take a job at Florida State, but it’s still strange to see the organization hiring an assistant before the coach.

Dallas still needs to find it’s WR coach to advise a group of WRs led by CeeDee Lamb. And if the reports are true, the team is expected to add a young receiver early in the draft, so they’ll need a coach to help study the best receivers available, and to guide if they select one.

Conventional wisdom says the Cowboys should hire the WR coach first, then let him help pick who he wants to work with as his assistant. That didn’t happen in this case, and it’s another example of the Cowboys building the coaching staff backwards.

The organization remains consistent, but for the wrong reasons.

This article originally appeared on Cowboys Wire: Cowboys coaching hire shows them once again putting cart ahead of horse