waving monkey
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2016 has been an incredible year for the Dallas Cowboys. They sit atop the entire league with the best record of any team at 8-1. They have done that with a fourth-round rookie quarterback who at the moment has no real competition for rookie of the year and maybe even MVP outside of the other rookie in the backfield with him. And while the decision to make Tony Romo the backup to Dak Prescott is sucking up all the attention at the moment, it does not change one fact: This all goes back to the vision and leadership of the head coach, Jason Garrett.`
Everything this year can be tied to him. The blueprint of resurrecting a run-first offensive plan behind a dominant, talent-laden offensive line while almost all the other teams are focused primarily on the passing game is his idea. Drafting Ezekiel Elliott with the fourth-overall pick this year was another piece in his overall design. And the decision to make Prescott’s role as the starter permanent was almost certainly his. Don’t forget that no other head coach in the league is more suited to understand the ramifications and impacts of that call than Garrett, whose playing career was as the backup quarterback in Dallas and with the New York Giants. He went to New York to compete for a starting job, and was not able to win it, so he even has some measure of understanding of what Romo is going through, although obviously Garrett’s path was quite different. Still, he has been on the field to lead a team, something most other head coaches never did. And he clearly has been personally involved in mentoring and developing Prescott, as evidenced by the one-on-one throwing and discussion sessions he has engaged in with the rookie since he was elevated to the starting job back in preseason. There is also anecdotal evidence that the Prescott selection was driven by the coaches. If Garrett had gone into a mad-science laboratory and build his perfect “right kind of guy” player, it would look just like Prescott, although maybe without the bow ties.
link/http://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2016...-take-dallas-cowboys-to-new-heights-tony-romo
Everything this year can be tied to him. The blueprint of resurrecting a run-first offensive plan behind a dominant, talent-laden offensive line while almost all the other teams are focused primarily on the passing game is his idea. Drafting Ezekiel Elliott with the fourth-overall pick this year was another piece in his overall design. And the decision to make Prescott’s role as the starter permanent was almost certainly his. Don’t forget that no other head coach in the league is more suited to understand the ramifications and impacts of that call than Garrett, whose playing career was as the backup quarterback in Dallas and with the New York Giants. He went to New York to compete for a starting job, and was not able to win it, so he even has some measure of understanding of what Romo is going through, although obviously Garrett’s path was quite different. Still, he has been on the field to lead a team, something most other head coaches never did. And he clearly has been personally involved in mentoring and developing Prescott, as evidenced by the one-on-one throwing and discussion sessions he has engaged in with the rookie since he was elevated to the starting job back in preseason. There is also anecdotal evidence that the Prescott selection was driven by the coaches. If Garrett had gone into a mad-science laboratory and build his perfect “right kind of guy” player, it would look just like Prescott, although maybe without the bow ties.
link/http://www.bloggingtheboys.com/2016...-take-dallas-cowboys-to-new-heights-tony-romo
