The team took a giant leap forward when it put the coaches it had in the right positions to be successful. Yes, having the play calling off his plate took something where Garrett did not give us an advantage and turned it into something that was an advantage. But the flip side of that was that it also freed him up to manage the entire team. We saw every area of the team improve last year, not just the offense. It's because we were using our coaching resources better, not because Garrett was doing less.
And he *is* most definitely a personnel guy. His father was a scout for forever, and Garrett paid a ton of attention when he took over to both revamping the personnel in the scouting department and into redoing the way the scouting and coaching staffs interact. He talked about it a lot at the time, too. He also started the process of much more aggressively churning the bottom of the roster and of promoting younger player into starting positions when they earned them. He started us relying on the scouts to find replacement players for guys like Ware and Murray when we never had done that before. In fact, it's night and day different the way we go about personnel acquisition between Wade and Garrett. Honestly, I can't believe that's not obvious to you.
But you already know I think your read on how coaching works in this league and specifically for the Cowboys is half-baked. Maybe quarter-baked. That's not going to change until your opinion changes. But to tie this all back to your OP, yes, I do think that Garrett and company made the right call betting on the OL and not extending a RB who was right at the mileage mark where the wheels fell off. It was another in a long line of good decisions we've made since Jason took over.
Yah, well, you can spin that any way you want. And 100% Garrett was doing less. The moment he got away from the offense this team blossomed. He was a terrible play caller, pass happy, coached scared, and certainly couldnt manage the team the way a real head coach should. Garrett getting kicked to the curb from the offensive side of the ball was 7 years coming. He had no business coaching the offense. We saw 7 years of him butcher the talent that he had.
And the defensive side of the ball started to come together for two reasons:
Marinelli around for a 2nd year and running the football keeping them fresh and off the field more. Garrett only looked good because the team was winning.
Less Garrett=better football team and 6 more wins. If Garrett REALLY needed to be AWAY from the offense to figure out that we needed to run the ball more, then he is a fool to begin with. Most Cowboy fans could see that sitting at home. Im also sure that Jerry and Steven saw it and were probably hammering him to run it more with this revamped line. He clearly couldnt do it on his own even when preaching about it. Nothing happened in that department until he was gone from the offense. Whether he instructed it or not.
You can spin the facts any way you want, but the proof is in the pudding and the results. Garrett fought the move away from the offense for several years. And you can deny that all you want as well. It was Jerry's call to make him run the offense also and then it was Jerry's call to get him away from it. Again, spin it any way you want in your little fantasy Garrett world.
Less Garrett=Better Cowboys Those are the facts.
