With NFL head coaching jobs beginning to open, we'll profile some of the candidates to fill those openings. Name: Jason Garrett
Current job: Dallas Cowboys offensive coordinator
Past jobs: Miami Dolphins quarterbacks coach, 2005-06.
Pros: The Cowboys' offense has been outstanding this year with Garrett running the show. Garrett spent 12 seasons as an NFL backup, mostly to Troy Aikman in Dallas, and he's widely regarded as a smart, strategic coach.
Cons: With only three years of coaching, he's the most inexperienced candidate in the league.
Conclusions: Garrett is expected to interview with the Falcons this week, and depending on which other coaches get fired, he could have more interviews. But Cowboys owner Jerry Jones loves Garrett and would likely make it worth Garrett's while financially to turn a head-coaching offer down: Jones might even give Garrett a new contract that guarantees him the top job in Dallas whenever Wade Phillips leaves. Although Garrett is a hot candidate, the prediction here is that he will still be the Cowboys' offensive coordinator next year.
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12-30-2007 @ 2:14PM
Richard Sanders said...
you are right about Jerry being willing to and capable off doing whatever it took to keep Jason in Dallas BUT give him the head coaching job. I think Jason knows if he sticks around it will be his job in a few years, I am sure that Jerry has promised him that verbally. Question is, just how bad does he want to coach the Cowboys. Some would say you should take the oppurtunity while it is there. It is improbable but no impossible that something could happen that would lead to him not to being considered a head coach calibur guy.
And dont forget, Jason was hired before Phillips. Phillips was hired on the condition that Jason would be his OC. That is very uncommon and therefore speaks volumes for how much Jones covets Jason. And what Jerry Jones wants, Jerry Jones usually gets.
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12-30-2007 @ 8:22PM
cowboy fan said...
Yeah, I just watched the Redskins shutdown the Cowboys offense all game and rip open the secondary as well. The Cowboys are the worst team for the NFC going into the playoffs. I am a Cowboys fan but I am a realist. I call it as I see it and I try not to let my emotions get into my decisions (for example: concentrating on the pass completions to Witten/and usually TO so that Romo and Witten/T.O can get some records, going for the touchdown at the end of the second half instead of a field goal try -I mean c'mon what are the percentages, and Romo's boy-like decisions courting Jessica Simpson and others during the season -one of the reasons why Brady and Peyton prove to be such great professionals).
What it comes down too is that the coaching is to blame. All of this, including Romo's ill regard for his teammates' dreams comes down to the coaching. Romo still hasn't proven to me that he can hang with the big boys, that is plain and simple reality. Coaches, you have two weeks to address it heavy handedly, for you will definitely be in the right.
Signed, pissed off cowboys fan who understands that not striving for perfection leads to a path of mediocracy.
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12-30-2007 @ 9:14PM
MaximillianIV said...
I sort of agree with you 'CowboyFan'. Have been one
of Romos biggest supporters and am a bit worried.
He has not played well lately. Why? I blame most of
that on bad game planning. Romo plays best when the
Cowboys run well and he uses playaction to pass.
My question is and has been, why is there no plan
to run Barber 25-35 times per game. There is not a
defense in the NFL that could stand up to such a
dose of Barber. Garret calls plays like what he is,
a QB. Pass-pass-pass. Damn. Wear them down with the
power running of Barber, then pass. If they do not
change the way they play offense, I dont believe
that they will go far in the playoffs.
A very frustrated Cowboy Fan, since '63
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