Posted on 01/04/2020 6:25:19 AM PST by DoodleBob
No one expects Jason Garrett, whose contract officially expires in 10 days, to coach the Cowboys in 2020. But no one expected him to still be the coach of the Cowboys six days after the team’s season concluded.
And yet he is. As noted by Clarence E. Hill, Jr. of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the long farewell continues between the Cowboys and Garrett, who became head coach during the 2010 season after the firing of Wade Phillips. If the goal, as suggested by Ed Werder of ESPN on Thursday, is to demonstrate and “abundance of care and respect” to Garrett, the paralysis (or whatever it is that’s causing this thing to linger) at some point becomes careless and disrespectful.
Arguably, that point already has come.
The question now becomes whether the news comes during the first weekend of the playoffs. On Friday’s PFT Live, Big Cat suggested that Jerry Jones will try to bigfoot the playoffs by making the announcement not long before the Bills face the Texans on Saturday afternoon. (My guess is Sunday at 4:00 p.m. ET, to take attention away from the playoff game between the Seahawks and the Eagles, the one in which the Cowboys should be playing.)
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Garret will do until Jerry Jones finds a new door mat.
Garret would be gone already but JJ can’t find anyone willing to work for him.
“ Garret will do until Jerry Jones finds a new door mat.”
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Well, Jerry does like to meddle. But, he is the sole owner of the team. So, guess he has a right to do so if he wants. But, in Garrett situation Jerry gave him a team loaded with talent the last couple of years and Garrett still couldn’t win. But, on the flip side, I find it hard to understand why full grown men, supposedly working their trade as “professionals” have to be given a motivational speech before every game. I don’t get it...
And what has the sports world been talking about for 6 days.
What a perfect storm - if Jones has people who love him, they won't let him anywhere near a phone or a camera today.
The Bills, who spanked the Cowboys in their home stadium Thanksgiving day, are in a playoff game with the Texans, the Cowboy's rival for bragging rights in Texas.
That's right, Houston is in the playoffs, Dallas is not.
Not a good day for Jones...
Should be? They are an 8-8 team. Again, for the 4th time in Garrett's 10 year tenure. They are where they belong.
One of the reasons the Cowboys got Jason Garrett in the first place is that as a youngish head coach he was willing to make allowances that no established coach would accept. That situation never changed and so Garrett ended with a long, mediocre tenure in with the Cowboys.
As an Eagles fan I hope that JJ has a long life and continues to run the Cowboys organization in the same manner that he has run it since he fired Jimmy Johnson. The eternal 8-8. But I wouldn’t blame Cowboys fans if they boycotted. It’s the fans that make the Cowboys the most valuable franchise in all Sports today. JJ could cash out with a tidy profit.
“But, in Garrett situation Jerry gave him a team loaded with talent the last couple of years and Garrett still couldn’t win.”
All of which goes to my theory that to win in the NFL you need a stable franchise where everyone knows & is responsible to do their job. If one guy — even the owner — insists on running the show then gaps will form. As soon as things get a little rough those gaps will result in disappointing losses.
Dak Prescott just finished 4 years without missing a start. That is as impressive as any of the passing or rushing stats that he has rung up in that period. The fact that he hasn’t had a sniff at the Superbowl over the last 2 years is largely due to the way that JJ choses to run his team.
About 8 years into the current losing streak, the Cowboys NFL franchise was worth $2.7 billion. I looked the other day and it is around $5.2 billion.
All without winning a single play off game.
Why would Jones mess with such a successful business plan?
I heard yesterday that he had been fired. No confirmation, though.
Sports media now deciding things for sports just as the lib media think they should decide things for the American people. The DFW sports media have egg all over their faces declaring Garrett gone before the last game of the season.
And so they try to force Jerry Jones (who does, after all, have the money in this deal) to submit to their announcement that Garrett is gone.
The biggest problem in America—the fifth column media.
“JJ could cash out with a tidy profit.”
Yes, but then he would lose his microphone - look at how effective doing nothing has been for the standard “look at me” Jerry M.O.
As an aside, the author is PFT’s Mike Florio, a vile leftwing socialist, racist and “attorney” who supports Krappernik and his socialist justice warriers.
If his contract is up on the 14th, seems like the sports press has its panties in a bunch over nothing...
Which come to think of it, it pretty much the sports press 24/7
I saw that Dallas is planning to interview Marvin Lewis. Must be the token Rooney-rule candidate. But if I was a fan of an NFC East team, I would be rooting for him to be hired.
JJ figures any publicity is good publicity.
Cowboys will never get the ring with Garret as their coach and Dak as quarterback.
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