Jerry's biggest fear....
Having to replace Garrett and then having to watch all the credit go to the next coach if success follows, a la Jimmy Johnson.
It eats at him like a pack of rats. Credit consumes him. He's basking in the Amari Cooper light as we speak. He feels like a football man, and it's glorious.
Any other coach won't be "his" guy unless it's his buddy Lincoln Riley, who isn't ready to jump yet. It's gotta be Garrett, or the asterisk on Jerry will be fully supplanted.
Anything short of a win Sunday and a good showing in the divisional round....and the vultures will be swirling over Jerry all offseason to fire Garrett.
He shouldn't see it that way, but that's just his hillbilly logic.
We all know Linehan is the planned fall guy, but if this ends in a thud, that won't placate anybody. It will be laughed at endlessly.
Jerry is puckered up right now.