The Dallas Cowboys finally pulled the plug on Jason Garrett’s tenure on Sunday night, announcing that he would not return in 2020 and had been terminated with just a few days remaining on his contract.
With multiple head coaching searches ongoing across the league, Garrett immediately becomes a potential candidate for several teams.
Might one of them be the New York Giants?
There had been heavy speculation about the Giants’ potential interest in Garrett and visa versa, and it took only a matter of minutes after his termination for that to surface once again.
“The job that Jason Garrett has thought about if he was let go from the Cowboys — and, of course, now he finally, mercifully was — the job that he’s thought about and the job that he’s discussed with his assistant coaches is the Giants job,” NFL Network inside Ian Rapoport said on Sunday.
“We’ll see if they end up bringing him in for an interview. And that is a place that has discussed hiring Jason Garrett in the past. If Garrett was free a couple years back they might have taken a look at him during one of their previous coaching searched.”
As interested as the Giants have been previously and as interested as Garrett may be currently, the two sides have yet to make contact.
“No indication that right now they are interested,” Rapoport added. “We’ll see if the Giants end up having interest, but I know Garrett has interest in them.”
The Giants enter Week 2 of their head coaching search on Monday and have scheduled interviews with New England Patriots special teams coordinator/wide receivers coach Joe Judge and Baylor head coach Matt Rhule. They are also expected to meet with Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels at some point this week.
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