Jason Garrett isn’t going to be the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys moving forward, unless he is. We have entered Day 6 of this bizarre dance and the Cowboys are in the same position they were after their season ended, with Garrett as the coach.
We’re all just waiting for the inevitable information dump from Jones and the Cowboys, when we least expect it, that Garrett will not be retained. Despite the odd delay, there doesn’t seem to be anything to suggest Garrett will be back.
This is the hot mess Jerry Jones and the organization has caused with this weird posturing. Garrett is still, technically, the head coach of the Cowboys even though it’s expected the team will have a new coach in the future. He’s still under contract until January 14. The drama is going to end up being much ado about nothing.
That doesn’t appear good enough for many in Cowboys Nation, who want Garrett gone immediately. They want the process (still a bad word around this fan base?) over with and the search for his successor to kick into high gear.
When a new coach gets named, he is going to be the next thing fans will complain about. It’s been almost 10 years with Garrett at the helm, which means almost 10 years of complaining, and fans are ready for new blood.
Whoever that coach is will also be the latest in the line of scapegoats for the Cowboys since the turn of the century. Garrett was the final piece to go after the last 10 seasons of failures and now his watch has (will) ended.
With Garrett at the helm, there were some early people to blame, mostly on the defensive side of the ball. Rob Ryan and Monte Kiffin were easy to pinpoint because their defenses were bad. The finger then began to point in the offenses direction, first with Bill Callahan and ending with Scott Linehan at the end of last season. The jury is still out on Kellen Moore’s portion of the blame because everyone is too focused on Garrett’s failures.
Garrett doesn’t deserve to be retained, he’s had his chances, but not everything should fall at his feet. What ails the Cowboys hasn’t just been the head coach. Troy Aikman’s been railing for a month about the biggest problems in Dallas and they start at the top with Jerry and Stephen Jones. It’s understood the Joneses aren’t going to fire themselves, but if they really want another championship, the changes need to start there.
That won’t happen so the easy mark is Garrett. It has to be done, Garrett cannot come back, he’s earned his ticket out of Dallas and the organization knows it.
The only thing that’s changed is the perception of when it happens and why it’s taking so long. Jerry Jones and the Cowboys gonna do what Jerry Jones and the Cowboys do.
It’s a mystery that ends in the same place, with a new coach of the Cowboys. Par for the course in Dallas.
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