First, I never said he was a great offensive mind. I said he was smart and went onto be Coach of the Year, nobody would argue either point.
And Garrett wasn't driving a UPS truck before he took that OC job, he had been in the league for 14 years. He was known a smart guy who was a future coach when he was a backup QB for 13 years. Sean Lee has never been paid a coach but he would get hired as LB coach by half the teams in the NFL next year if that is what he wanted to do.
I already used the example of Kellen Moore, who had a third of the NFL experience Garrett did. He had two NFL starts and one year as a QB coach, now is the rookie OC of the second rated offense in the NFL. Bob Sturm had an article this year saying anyone who has ever been in the room with Moore has called him a savant.
Garrett got the OC job and did it well enough to get the HC job. He did the HC job well enough to win Coach of the Year at one point. The proof he did both jobs well (at times) is proof he was qualified.
OK, smart guy then. I'm a smart guy but that doesn't mean I'm qualified to be the OC for the Dallas Cowboys. See, here's the thing, nobody is questioning the validity of your statements, but that's also not what anybody is asking you. What I asked you is, if you were the GM would you hire a guy with that very limited experience to be the OC? Would you have done that? That's the question you have failed to answer or if you have posted the answer, I have not seen it.
Garrett wasn't driving a UPS truck, that's true, but he wasn't calling a Pro Offense either and he also was not exactly the most experienced player in the entire world. He was a career backup and while that doesn't mean you can't coach, it's also not something that makes him a lock to know what he's doing. See, if it were the LB Coach, or in Garrett's case, lets say QB Coach, then yeah. Yeah, that would be no problem but that's not what we are talking about. We are talking about the OC, and that's not exactly a position coach gig.
For the record, I am not a fan of what is being done With Moore either. He is another Garrett situation and I just believe that now is not the time for us to experimenting with a full of potential long shot at OC. You would think we would have learned our lesson here but clearly we have not. Moore may end up being a Savant but it makes no sense to take a team as talented as ours is and create a lab to test theory on.
For the record, it is true that he was OC and that he did that job well enough to get the HC job but, would that have happened anywhere else other then Dallas? I mean, that's the real question right? In Garrett's first year as OC, the Offense did well. I believe they were 2nd in the NFL but then again, that Offense was good before he ever got there. The year prior to Garrett being hired, the Offense was ranked 4th in the NFL so a legit case can be made that it was not Garrett who was responsible for that. In fact, if you look, the offense was ranked 19th in Garretts second year as OC, the year after that they were 14th, so basically, it got worse. The HC gets fired but not the OC who, in two years, took a top 5 offense in the NFL to a Middle of the pack offense and he gets promoted to HC? Where, other then Dallas does that happen? In most other organizations, I think what happens there is that the HC gets the axe and the coordinators go as well. But not in Dallas. So you can say he did his job well enough to get hired as OC but you can't tell me that it's because he actually did a good job. Nope, that was the plan all along. Garrett to HC was always the plan and everybody knew it. Jerry wanted to say that he found the next great HC of the Dallas Cowboys and that's why Garrett has been in Dallas for as long as he has.
Yes, he did get voted Coach Of The Year, in his 7th season as HC of the Cowboys, but would he have ever even gotten the opportunity anywhere else? Consider, in his 6 previous seasons, he posted 3 .500 win seasons, one losing season and one winning season. I don't count the first season because honestly, he was only HC for half the season and you can look at that and say he did well in that time or you can look at it and say he is still responsible for the performance for that season for the entire year. In most franchises, that kind of performance gets you fired but not in Dallas. So no, it actually proves that Jerry wanted him as HC of the Cowboys but it certainly doesn't prove that he was qualified. I would hope, that after all these years as HC of the Cowboys, he would at least be qualified to be a HC for somebody else but that remains to be seen. Lastly, is "Qualified" what you are looking for in a HC? I mean, that's not what I want in a HC.