And what does that say? Linnehan is UNEMPLOYED right now and Garrett brought him in and wasted players careers. You think some players don’t see this or talk about this? What winning team fires an offensive coordinator and that coordinator can’t even get a job anywhere else.
I’ve been bashing Garrett since 2008 and been saying he’s the worst decision Jerry has ever made in setting this organization back, And ruining the prime careers of talented players along the wat. I’m not defending him.
Linehan HAD a job before coming here and it was as his experience in Dallas that most likely has kept him out of a job, unless he decided to retire.
That being said, Linehan was far better than Garrett ever was as a play-caller and the only reason Linehan was brought in, was because Garrett’s offense would have changed completely. Linehan had the connection with Garrett via Miami and the offensive coaching trees were the ‘same’. First, Callahan was given control by Jerry and Garrett kept interfering, per Jerry’s own words, and sabotaging it, so Jones basically went with Jason and brought in Linehan. Jones specifically said this and further, said he didn’t want Garrett touching the offense.
It is a testament to Callahan’s work on the RG and OL that it took him only one year to get in the graces of Jerry that the latter actually experimented with him as a play caller.
But. Jerry’s decisions with regards to coordinators has been in regards to changing play-callers, not changing the complete offense, at least as far as Garrett has been HC these last few years. Garrett obviously maneuvered the situation in this manner. If the offense was completely revamped, then Garrett’s would be completely rendered “useless”.
This is why I think Garrett was a big reason behind Dak starting over Romo, because Romo post new-contract was shifting the power dynamic even more.
Remember, this is also the same Jerry who went 3-4, back to 4-3 on defense, but always defended Garrett’s role in the offense. It took Garrett multiple years of failure and Romo’s new contract for Jerry to start inserting himself between Garrett and the play-calling.
Yet, Garrett still remains despite all this. This still is telling that Garrett has significant influence in the organization. Any other person would have been fired. Jerry was extremely close to Jason’s father, Jim Garrett and the latter along with Lacewell were very influential in the 20 plus year disasters. Jim and Larry has to retire when Parcells came, but showed up once again after Bill retired.
