USA Today: It's time to admit Cowboys' Jason Garrett grew into a great head coach

[Idgit]

You are what your record says you are....until that means giving JG props....

Hey man. I remember when the bar was "he can't even win a playoff game." Now people are talking championships. I'll take it.

Progress by stumbling forward. And trying to blur the lines in the process.

But that's ok. We'll remind them.

 

[DB_Cooper]

If you like slightly above average performance then ok. But he has had no material success to speak of other than being better than most but never the best. That doesn't make you great.

 

[Idgit]

If you like slightly above average performance then ok. But he has had no material success to speak of other than being better than most but never the best. That doesn't make you great.

The argument from the article was that performance has been much better than "slightly above average."

 

[waving monkey]

If you like slightly above average performance then ok. But he has had no material success to speak of other than being better than most but never the best. That doesn't make you great.

I do love the way the ball has moved from Garrett is the worst coach in the NFL that no other team would hire
to "his not great"! LOL

 

[Melonfeud]

when he coaches a team to a nfc championship game and wins a Lombardi then we may start to talk about being great wow win one game against the new York giants and they start talking greatness

BUMP

 

[Zman5]

Great coaches win playoff games. 2 playoff wins in 7 seasons is pathetic.

 

[MRV52]

He will become a great coach once he learns how to tell time.

 

[PJTHEDOORS]

http://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/201...s-jason-garrett-grew-into-a-great-head-coach/

You gon’ learn today.

On Sunday, the Dallas Cowboys solved a riddle that had befuddled them twice the previous season. The New York Giants came to town, winner of the last three head-to-head contests and the only team in the division to win a Super Bowl in recent memory. With their elite quarterback in Eli Manning, the division rivals seemed to have the Cowboys number.

No sir, not today.

Define exactly what Eli is elite at....waiting........

 

[Doomsay]

Coincidentally this all happened right after Garrett was stripped of play calling duties.

/thread

 

[waving monkey]

COTY should have been Belichick again. As usual the team wasnt supremely talented but he finds a way to do more with less.

Belichick is a great coach

 

[Jstopper]

/thread

Plenty of great coaches don't call plays, including Jimmy Johnson
/thread

 

[Melonfeud]

That is an impressive stat. It show how important good QB play is.

It is ! But it's structured to present the best outcome in win to loss ratio,discounting total games played with JG flying the plane, granted the fact it was an absolute stroke of master genius on JG part in pretending to be unable to coach his way out of a wet paper bag in high wind conditions in 2015 thusly landing the 2016 draft class that accounts favorably into this impressive skewed statistic

1st and goal at the 3-yard line. You ask the equipment guy to please plug your headset in, just this one time, so that you can call upstairs for permission to ask the guy that replaced you in your only coaching capacity, to please let your best-in-the-NFL offensive line and running back, punch it in. That's what great coaches do.

 

[Toruk_Makto]

The argument from the article was that performance has been much better than "slightly above average."

Beating your division rival by 16 and not allowing an offensive touchdown is "slightly above average" now. JG really has raised the bar around here. Great job JG!

 

[windjc]

Head coach is like a CEO. Garrett's a pretty good CEO. Tries new things, learns from his mistakes, delegates well and is a good judge of talent for those he will delegate to. Garrett is a work in progess. But you DO NOT mess with the progress. Not when a team is so tight and loyal to each other and their coaches. Its not sexy, its not bombastic, but this team has the best chance at a SB since the early nineties. We need to see how the next 2-3 years turn out.

 

[windjc]

Beating your division rival by 16 and not allowing an offensive touchdown is "slightly above average" now. JG really has raised the bar around here. Great job JG!

Give me a steadily improving team over a revolving door of coaches any day. It took Landry a while too. I think that turned out pretty well. Yeah, you can go ahead and munch on some of that historical crow.

 

[Blackspider214]

Great head coach??

 

[Fizziksman]

um how bout he actually have back to back winning seasons before we start anointing him as a good head coach.

 

[waving monkey]

If you like slightly above average performance then ok. But he has had no material success to speak of other than being better than most but never the best. That doesn't make you great.

He is growing with the job in all aspects and the team reflects that.
If thats not good for you so be it but you can see the positive changes in the team
unless you chose not to. I suspect you like a few others chose not to.

 

[noshame]

I think he's better than I expected honestly, but he's not great yet I'm still choking on the the playoff debacle last year.
Denver sucks but this still could be considered a trap game coming off a big win going to play at altitude.
this will be another big step in the right direction if we pull off a win.

 

[Nav22]

I like Garrett a lot and think he's a very good head coach. Tremendous leader for the team. Talks and acts like a man who was born to be an NFL head coach. The players clearly respect the hell out of him and give it 100% for him.

That being said, I hope he's as committed to improving as he pushes his players to be. And I'm talking clock management.

There have been a few odd decisions late in games that have cost us. Dak spiking the ball during our last drive vs GB in the playoffs was unequivocally the wrong decision and wound up costing us dearly. No matter what Garrett says publicly (and maybe that one was more on Dak than on Garrett?), I hope Garrett at least realizes it was a bad decision.

But that's really it. I have no issues with Garrett otherwise. If he can master the clock management aspect of the game, his "development" as a head coach will be complete.