Do you think that with another coach we would have won at least one SB in the 10 year Garrett era?

------We all talk about the Dez Catch game but to be honest we probably should've lost the Detroit game if they call the pass interference on Hitchens. Another game when a Jason Garrett team came out flat and got down 14-0 to start the game.

Tired of hearing about ONE play in the Detroit game when there were several blatant calls in both Green Bay losses that should have been called for us, and just as many terrible ones against us. There was one crucial catch on 3rd down in Green Bay that Cobb CLEARLY let hit the ground....no, the ball was more like sitting on the ground....that never got looked at....I never hear it talked about. They went on to score in that series.

ConstantReboot said:

Jimmy Johnson = Hall of Fame
Parcells = Hall of Fame

Where is Garrett?

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Parcells wouldn’t be a Hall of Famer based on his tenure in Dallas which wasn’t any better than Garrett’s.

There are similarities though. Both took over a declining team and left them with much more talent for the next HC.

And that’s really one of the best measurements of coaching and any Mgmt. . Did you leave it a better place than when you took over. I think we could say Jimmy, Bill and Jason all did here.

I would narrow it down to the Tony Romo years and say that another coach might've put us in more favorable position to compete in the playoffs. Winning the SB takes a lot and is hard to predict. Maybe another ref against GB '15 would've helped?

I think our best chance to go to a Super Bowl was 2007 this era. That team was primed with 13 Pro Bowlers and a defense probably the best of this playoff era.

Getting upset by NY at home after we’d swept them during regular season was IMO our greatest blunder in 21st Century.

We probably don’t beat Patriots in SB but imagine how much greater the Romo era might have been if we make a championship game and possibly Super Bowl in his first full season starting.

I think Jerry running off Bill before the job was done ( which IMO was the case) changed our course in history.

Diehardblues said:

I think our best chance to go to a Super Bowl was 2007 this era. That team was primed with 13 Pro Bowlers and a defense probably the best of this playoff era.

Getting upset by NY at home after we’d swept them during regular season was IMO our greatest blunder in 21st Century.

We probably don’t beat Patriots in SB but imagine how much greater the Romo era might have been if we make a championship game and possibly Super Bowl in his first full season starting.

I think Jerry running off Bill before the job was done ( which IMO was the case) changed our course in history.

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I have to agree with you about that 2007 playoff game.
To have that team, with that talent, at home lose to NY after they had swept the Giants in the regular season, was by far the biggest failure this era, post-dynasty, even.
I have long believed - and still do - that had Bill Parcells stayed for that year, they would have beat NY and very likely made it to the Super Bowl.
And Bill would have maybe gone down as one of the heroes in Dallas history, IMO.
THAT is why I am hoping for something special from McCarthy, since he is a guy that has won it all, overcoming mounds of injuries in the process on that Super Bowl championship run in 2010. I would love nothing more than to see him get Dallas back to the Super Bowl (It would be my first crack at seeing them in the Super Bowl, BTW)...

The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good and that could be again.

Oh wait. We are talking Dallas Cowboy football. The one constant has been Jerry Jones which means no championship regardless the coach.

ConstantReboot said:

Jimmy Johnson = Hall of Fame
Parcells = Hall of Fame

Where is Garrett?

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Hallway

Risen Star said:

Why didn't we win a Super Bowl the 10 years before Garrett? What was the excuse then?

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Talent. Jerry bumbled his way through 1996 to 2003, 7 years of this franchise wasted. Then Parcells gets in here and has some good drafts (we will forgive him for Bobby Carpenter) and leaves Wade with a stacked team.

That Parcells took a team lead by Quincy Carter and Troy Hambrick to the playoffs still boggles my mind.

Anyway, the team in 1999-2004 doesn’t hold a candle to the teams in 2014-2019.

Now back to OP’s question, there were real Super Bowl possibilities in 2007, 2014, 2016, 2018 and yeah I’ll say it even 2019.

You could especially make the case for the 2007 (under Wade+Garrett) and 2016 (under Garrett+Linehan) teams, both #1 seeds who breezes through the playoffs and were outcoached in the divisional round.

The answer is yes, another coach would have won a Super Bowl.

Darkhound said:

Garrett had some very good talented teams.

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No, not really. They all had fatal flaws, it was only after he rebuilt the offensive line that things were looking up, and even then the defense was lagging and Romo was getting hurt, then they made the fateful switch.

Williamsboys said:

I honestly dont think the Cowboy's would have won a Super Bowl , though I am really glad Garrett is gone. I think Jerry and Stephen Jones making personel decisions as far as the roster went hurt the team. Plus New England was still the best team in the league many of those years.
It would of been nice to at least won an NFC championship, the stars just werent aligned for us.

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Yes. Dallas would have won one, maybe two. The talent was there.

Gorgon said:

Yes. Dallas would have won one, maybe two. The talent was there.

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What year did the Cowboys have a championship defense?

We would never have won with Garret.

Darkhound said:

Yes, no? and why?

I DESPISE Garrett probably more than anyone here, but I will try to be objective.
I do think that JG wasted the career of many talented players and I truly think that we could have won at least one SB in this past 10 there if it were not for the clapper.

What do you guys think?

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Depends on the coach. Bill Bellicheck? Yes. Sean Payton Yes. Anybody else not so sure

Darkhound said:

Yes, no? and why?

I DESPISE Garrett probably more than anyone here, but I will try to be objective.
I do think that JG wasted the career of many talented players and I truly think that we could have won at least one SB in this past 10 there if it were not for the clapper.

What do you guys think?

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Objectively - He was the OC of a 13-3 team with a record 13 Pro Bowlers and could not win with home field advantage throughout the playoffs in 2007.

He was the Head Coach of a 13-3 team with a top 10 defense, rookie of the year at QB, league leading rusher at RB, and could not win with home field advantage throughout the playoffs.

He coached the following players that when they left the Cowboys under Garrett went almost immediately to Conference Championship games or Super Bowls; Demarcus Ware, Barry Church, Anthony Hitchens, Damien Wilson, Chavirious Ward, Mo Claiborne, and Mark Nzeocha. Note that all are defensive players a failing under Jason Garrett as a HC.

Garrett is a poster boy for the failure of the Rooney Rule by the Fritz Pollard Alliance. He was unqualified for OC job and unqualified for HC job. He was a comfort hire that Jerry Jones abused the Rooney Rule to hire. He was a one year QB coach promoted to OC and a failed OC promoted to HC. Considering the Cowboys passed on Lovie Smith, Todd Bowles, Mike Tomlin, Ron Rivera, and passed on Jim Haubaugh twice in 2007 and 2010 too name a few better and more qualified Head Coaches than Garrett, you can objectively say that more than likely another more qualified Head Coach would have done better from 2007 to 2019 in either OC or HC positions for the Cowboys.

Zordon said:

A better coach makes a difference in 2016. The team came out flat in the GB playoff game, did not scheme around the Packers' numerous injuries, and had some odd run/pass decisions throughout the game. We win the Super Bowl that year with a real coach.

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I disagree. Atlanta would’ve steamrolled that 2016 defense. They were like the Panthers the year before and just simply clicking.