Trent Dilfer: If Cowboys fire Garrett, he'll be No. 1 candidate NFL Jobs for

VACowboy said:

I think it's easy for us to sit in front of our TVs and assign blame for decades of mediocrity in Dallas. I've been a Garrett critic myself for almost 10 years now. I hate his offense. I hate his conservatism. I hate his often inexplicably logic-defying game day decisions and his refusal (or inability) to adapt--to anything. But there are reasons he stands on the sidelines on Sundays while I sit on my couch. There are reasons people around the league (reportedly) admire Jason Garrett, and I'm willing to entertain the possibility that they know a lot more about his ability than I do. So I'm gonna reserve judgement. It remains to be seen whether he actually gets scooped up and how he does elsewhere, how the Cowboys do without him. After all, it's not like Valley Ranch was a bastion of championships in the 19 or whatever years before the Red Rocket took over. Maybe the problem really is bigger than head coach.

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That's fair. I've never been a Garrett fan myself. I think Rex Ryan recently summed up his team very well. He said we were, "soft like Charmin". I believe that is a reflection on Opey. However, I will most definitely eat my words, & admit he's a good coach IF, he goes somewhere like the Giants, & takes them to a Super Bowl. Or, at least delivers multiple deep playoff runs for them. Call me skeptical that that is possible but, time will tell....

cowboyblue22 said:

good let him go his time in dallas is over

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Garrett will win a Superbowl with another franchise. The problem is Dallas is the culture and that is set by Jones.

The only owners and execs following the Cowboys every week, including off seasons, are the Jones clan. Everybody else be like Alice Through the Looking Glass.

So, I'm not really surprised by what Dilfer is saying, because JG is a good man, he's positive, he's easy going and easy to get along with, he's a great student of the game, and he's a man of high moral character.

Having said that all that, he isn't perfect. He seemingly hasn't risen above student, he's stubborn, he thinks it's still the 90's, and he won't make the adjustments he needs to progress. He also has a nasty habit of throwing people/Romo under the bus instead of taking personal accountability, not to mention there's rampant speculation among Dallas fans, anyway, that he can be ambitious enough to sabotage the coaches around him.

All I know is that JG needs a fresh start elsewhere. And if it's true that owners are going away from hiring college coaches, and are back to looking for experienced coaches/coordinators, I can see where Jason G would be a hot commodity for team with a history of losing.

Chocolate Lab said:

LOL

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It’s time to move on from Garrett, but facts are facts. Your feelings have no bearing on the matter.

ksadler1 said:

I find it extremely hard to believe that Garrett would be #1 on anyone's list. If he is, it would say alot about what people think of the other candidates. If Garrett is that "highly regarded" in the football world, why isn't he being looked at as a GM?

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Odd comment. Being well regarded as a coach doesn’t somehow automatically mean a team would look at tha coach as a GM.

*. I’m not saying I agree that Garrett is well regarded as a head coach, just that the GM comment doesn’t make sense.

I don’t care what Dilfer says. I will be stunned if another team hires him to be their head coach. His lack of overall game management skills are clearly evident for the entire NFL community to see.

He is a carbon copy of Marvin Lewis.

RD21 said:

That's fair. I've never been a Garrett fan myself. I think Rex Ryan recently summed up his team very well. He said we were, "soft like Charmin". I believe that is a reflection on Opey. However, I will most definitely eat my words, & admit he's a good coach IF, he goes somewhere like the Giants, & takes them to a Super Bowl. Or, at least delivers multiple deep playoff runs for them. Call me skeptical that that is possible but, time will tell....

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This is me exactly.

This rumor has been swirling for 5 years so we keep him. JG has a good PR dept

Below average QBs love below average QBs. Dilfer, Garrett, Copper Rush, etc....

pitt33 said:

I don’t care what Dilfer says. I will be stunned if another team hires him to be their head coach. His lack of game management skills are clearly evident for the entire NFL community to see.

He is a carbon copy of Marvin Lewis.

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Yeah, I don't quite buy the league-wide Garrett love or understand it at all if it really exists, but like I say, those guys are making the big bucks playing, talking about and running NFL teams while I whine from my couch

Bye JG. Best of luck somewhere else.

Streetwise said:

We're ready for a change. A different minded head coach, that I'm on board with, it's been a decade.

But regardless to what us fans think/feel, JG will get picked. The real problem is his boss.

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Finally, some common sense and willingness to express what should be obvious to all. Coaching the Cowboys with Jerry Jones as meddling GM and carnival barker is an impossible situation. I would argue however that this coaching change only serves to provide an appearance of motion,,, the true problem still remains.

Common Sense said:

Winning weak divisions isn’t exactly a high bar for anything. Somebody has to win them.

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Bill Belichick enters the chat.

Hawkeye0202 said:

Hmmmm...heard this somewhere else (lol)

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He is not going to be fired!! How anyone keeps saying fired is beyond me

Sully said:

Garrett will win a Superbowl with another franchise. The problem is Dallas is the culture and that is set by Jones.

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He might be more successful away from Dallas but I'd be shocked if he ever won a SB. He just isn't a very good game coach.

I think this speaks mostly for how desperate the NFL is for head coaching experience. I wouldn't doubt for a second that an NFL team will bring in Garrett for a real chance at the job. I just know I am over him in Dallas. Time for change.

I agree with those that don't really care because this has run it's course. He can go win a SB in his first year with another team and few will wish he were back here.

I do wonder what HC can be successful with this setup? It is a go along to get along job and any HC is going to have to work within the parameters of the Jones family and how they want it. And that's OK, they own it.

I think those that are hopeful that a new HC brings more success and will run a tight ship need to consider the one word the GM mentioned that concerned him about a coaching change, comfort. Think Kraft is comfortable with Belichick and his latest shenanigans?

The problem is the HC should be hired to do the job and given every tool he needs to accomplish that, including his own staff that answers to him, not the GM.

Consider this if you are a HC possibility. What did you see the GM do to this HC in the last year of his contract? He embarrassed him publicly and forced an inexperienced OC on him to help him save his job. And he likes the HC!!

It's a dilemma like I wouldn't want to be in a club that would have me. Any guy that wants this job is a suspect.

Wouldn't it be funny if garret got away from here and won? That would make jerry look even worse.

I am no fan of Garrett and I believe his time is up here just like many of us. I'm not going to say he cant go elsewhere and be a good coach. Does that mean he will win a superbowl elsewhere? I dont know that he is capable of it based off of what we have seen here. I've said before and I'll say again, I'm nowhere near qualified enough to say someone is the best/worst coach for us but after the amount of time hes spent here without at least and NFC championship game, I think it's time for a change.

Someitmes coaches leave and become successful elsewhere and I know that is definitley a possibility here but I could also see him leaving and his next team being worse than what we were under him.

Dilfers opinion is fine, but he is one of many people who have voiced their opinion and they arent all as complimentary.

I dont see what the point of even posting something like this is because you can reply with a former coach/player who say the complete opposite of Trent. His quote is simply his opinion and literally nothing more.

He could be better, could be worse, could be about the same as here. I'm unsure what that means in terms of what we do next. Does that mean we shouldn't fire him because he could get another job? Most coaches get jobs after leaving one team.

This is basically people who are pro Garrett vs. People who want him gone and another topic to debate the same b.s. we have done a thousand times on this site in the last week alone.

We can easily just say Jerry sucks and hes the reason we arent going to be good. We can blame Garrett for his many miscues and say it's all him. Either way I feel like it's totally irrelevant at this point. If Jerry is the issue and we feel like he hinders the team, does that mean we should keep Garrett and give him a job job for life because it's all Jerry's fault?

Alot has happened in his time here and whether you hate Jerry or not, you cant say Jason didnt have a chance to have further success. Maybe as a whole Jerry is a problem but Jason has gotten to the playoffs and done nothing multiple times. That's on him at some point as well.

This team needs a change and Jerry isnt going anywhere whether we like it or not, and Jason hasn't exactly been perfect.

I'll be happy for a change here regardless if Jason gets another job or not. My hope is for this team moving forward to improve not to piss and moan about whether Garrett might do better elsewhere just so I can point and say I told you so.

Hes had his shots here, coaches get fired every year, usually with much less time than Garrett's had.