But if you listen to Jerry now, he seems pretty sure he's put together a SB caliber roster. So at some point, he is going to demand results and won't be able to cover for Garrett much longer. I think he can be loyal to a fault but he's also not stupid. He's likely going to realize in short order (if he hasn't already) he might have a coaching issue.
I think he likes Garrett a lot and thinks he can give him a good enough roster and give him good assistants and it will overcome whatever deficiencies Garrett has. But at some point, if everything Jerry has done isn't working, he's going to make the call on Garrett. It could come after this season if Garrett doesn't deliver.
FWIW, I tend to agree that we have a pretty good roster that could make noise with the proper coaching. SB? Not sure about that but this team definitely should be better than they were in 2018.
The first mistake is listening to Jerry. He’s simply promoting his product. And when it doesn’t meet expectations has to go into Damage Control to find excuses or scapegoats. It’s a vicious cycle no other owner places their team in. All to keep himself and the Cowboys front and center selling more hope for the fans and interest by media.
Jerry can address the coaching situation anytime he chooses but is limited with prospects who’d fall into his meddling type of ownership. The current status is manageable for him as long as team is relevant unless revenue slipped.
I’m not sure how good of team we are? We were 3-5 early until Cooper came along. And 9-7 in 2016 going 3-3 without Elliott. So pending a couple pieces are probably closer to a .500 team than upper echelon. Most oddsmakers are placing us in the 4th -7th slot in NFC. Not even picked to win our division.
Most of the upper tier teams either have a top 5 defense or offense and QB. We don’t have any of those and why we’re probably in the next tier of teams about where we finished.
I felt like last year we probably over achieved especially based on how we finished in 2017 and begun 2018.