Garrett's Last Ride

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the process does not equate to progress. garrett's sophomoric speeches no longer inspire. "you are not a wolf. and this is a land of wolves now"...………………….sicario
 
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Hawkeye19 said:
This team has finally taken on the demeanor of it's HC. No emotion. Flat. Uninspiring delivery. The talking points already mapped out before the media asks it's first question after another disappointing performance. Garrett refuses to accept responsibility-- why should any of his players?

The Eagle's HC guarantees a win to inspire his team-- JG keeps talking about getting a little bit better every day. Now-- they did come back from 3-5 last year-- so maybe they are circling the wagons internally and have a buzzsaw waiting for Philly on Sun night-- but I won't hold my breath. Man-- I just want a HC who has some balls and stands up for the franchise he represents. There are a lot of viable responses he could have given in response to Pedersen-- but the milk-toast, nice-guy schtick is literally the worst one IMO. Garrett may be a "motivator"-- but he falls far short of being a warrior. That is what this team needs right now-- some fire and passion-- someone to throw some tables and lockers around and not explain himself in trite little platitudes.

If this team comes out and lays an egg again with the division on the line-- then Garrett is done. He is already a lame duck coach and the players are simply not responding to him during games. The franchise will need a shakeup in order to have any shot of regaining it's competitive spirit.

Firing Garrett at the bye week and rolling with Richard as the interim HC does two things:

1. Holds JG accountable and gives the team a chance to come out of it's death spiral

2. Determine whether or not Richard is a capable HC to consider in the offseason.
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I agree with all of this except......

Jerry talks about how if Garrett is fired, there will be a lineup of owners around the block wanting to hire him. I just don't believe Jerry is letting him go before year end. And that's only if they are REALLY bad between now and then

Which is certainly possible.
 
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CouchCoach said:
Won't happen, the Joneses haven't been doing anything but endorse this coaching staff since it started losing.

And didn't Garrett get this HC gig just as you're describing Richard getting it?

I started another thread saying the exact opposite of what you're stating here, which, btw, is good common football sense but when has that ever applied to the Cowboys? If they lose Sunday night and there's too much media chatter about Garrett's future, I am predicting they extend him during the bye. That also assures Booger of no one stealing his thunder just because they're not playing that week.
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I hadn’t thought of that but it would be typical of Jerry during bye week to squash the negative vibe around Garrett’s security by extending his contract.

And it might only be for 1 or 2 seasons. Nevertheless it diligences the rhetoric on Garrett. And Ole Jer can weather the storm better than anyone.
 
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Whirlwin said:
Cowboys backfield coach Kris Richard how fast people forget what he brought to this team. We couldn't even hand off Crossing wide receivers at the end zone before he got here I'm not saying he's a great defensive coordinator but he taught this backfield so much especially this young rookie backfield
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:laugh:taught them what? How to get torched by a Jets passing game that struggles against air?

Garrett, Richard, the whole lot of them should be sent packing.
 
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This is historically the game that Garrett has the Cowboys coming out looking like champions. Right when you think Garrett is done, he goes into his closet and pulls out the pics, emails them to every player with a simple message. "Good luck on Sunday".
 
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Flamma said:
This is historically the game that Garrett has the Cowboys coming out looking like champions. Right when you think Garrett is done, he goes into his closet and pulls out the pics, emails them to every player with a simple message. "Good luck on Sunday".
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its a different vibe tho at this moment.
 

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I've been a cowboy fan my whole 29 years on this earth and i've seen many many ups and downs unfortunately. But this team, after watching them sunday vs the jets just feels different..and not in a good way. I get the vibe the team has given up on garrett and hopefully im wrong, but i dont see us just flipping a switch and going on a tear and beating everyone. i hope im wrong but this just feels different than previous years.
 
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players and coaches are SO subdued, content, and satisfied. Hard to geta player ready when you give the impression theres no real reason to do your best.
 
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CATCH17 said:
Well.. Garrett was a terrible coordinator too and he got promoted as head coach and here we are a decade later still scratching our heads as to why.

I guess it’s because he went out and beat those New York Football Giants.
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The worst thing was winning games at the end of that season. It made Garrett look much better than he really was. I don't know if we keep him or not had we finished out that season losing and ending up like 2-14 or whatever but it had a decade long effect. Garrett won some meaningless games and Jerry falls in love and hires him. And no matter how bad he is, does not hold him accountable. I say he should have been fired after 3 straight 8-8 seasons and all ending with NFC East losses with the division on the line.

Garrett is a front running coach. Adversity strikes and he withers and hides. His best seasons are ones where the end of the year, he had no real on the line games. 2014, 2016 and 2018. The end of the year, we had it wrapped up. But any time something was on the line and we needed a big end of the season win, FAIL. 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2017. All had terrible losses in the month of December that did us in.

Garrett basically had a good 11 game start to his OC career. After that, defenses figured him out and he never, ever, not once adjusted. He has ran the same gameplan now for 12 seasons. Dak is running an offense that was designed a decade before he even got into the league. He's running an offense designed for the 2007 Romo team. Nothing about this offense caters to what he can do personally. Nothing.
 
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Direwolf63 said:
I agree with all of this except......

Jerry talks about how if Garrett is fired, there will be a lineup of owners around the block wanting to hire him. I just don't believe Jerry is letting him go before year end. And that's only if they are REALLY bad between now and then

Which is certainly possible.
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Yah... this thread is more of a “hope so” thread and a possible way fwd out of this mess to make lemonade out of lemons

JJ is going out of his way to do more than just give JG a vote of confidence... it’s just sad how JJ continues down this path.

There is a psychological principle that basically says that once a person has pursued an erroneous way long enough— they continue down that path and justify it because to admit they were wrong and then try to go back and correct the error causes too much upheaval and dissonance.

That sadly seems true here with JJ and his belief in JG. Instead of admitting he made a bad hire 10 years ago and was wrong— JJ compounds his error by continuing to do the same thing and expect different results.

His worst fear is that he would fire JG and then he would get hired and win a SB elsewhere— this the continual justification and narrative that owners would be “lining up to hire Jason.”

We have been in a death spiral for 23 years— BP started to get us out of it but was too tired to finish the job. I am losing hope as a fan
 
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Agreed.

Hawkeye19 said:
There is a psychological principle that basically says that once a person has pursued an erroneous way long enough— they continue down that path and justify it because to admit they were wrong and then try to go back and correct the error causes too much upheaval and dissonance.
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On a side note, this sounds like @Risen Star regarding Carson Wentz

:lmao2:
 
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