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A noon game at Tampa Bay on Nov. 15 — it doesn’t sound like the sort of thing that produces major fanfare in the National Football League. For the Dallas Cowboys, mark it down as historic.
When your heroes take the field against the red-and-pewter clad Bucs, Jimmy Johnson will step aside as the man who coached the most Cowboys games behind Tom Landry. Johnson will remain Landry’s only equal in Lombardi trophies, of course, but with his 81st game as head coach, Jason Garrett will slide past Johnson in regular-season games.
Two things should be mentioned. One is that Garrett isn’t going to catch Landry unless he remains on the job into the 2036 season. The other is that if the Cowboys get through the first half with better than a 3-5 record, Garrett’s regular-season record will trump Johnson’s.
I’m dismissing the idea that Garrett can get fired before mid-November, and I do that at some risk since Wade Phillips was out after a 1-7 start the last time the Cowboys were coming off a playoff victory.
This club seems equipped to fare better than 1-7 and, in addition, there is the matter of Garrett having just signed a five-year contract that Cowboys owner Jerry Jones would not be inclined to disregard.
Really it’s Garrett’s security that raises one of this team’s bigger questions as the club prepares to head for Oxnard, Calif., this week. Garrett has never entered a season as anything approaching a fan favorite. He has had Jones’ blessing, which, in a sense, is all that matters.
But even that doesn’t keep one from feeling the hot seat, given that Johnson’s five-year stay has been the longest in Jones’ quarter of a century in charge.
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When your heroes take the field against the red-and-pewter clad Bucs, Jimmy Johnson will step aside as the man who coached the most Cowboys games behind Tom Landry. Johnson will remain Landry’s only equal in Lombardi trophies, of course, but with his 81st game as head coach, Jason Garrett will slide past Johnson in regular-season games.
Two things should be mentioned. One is that Garrett isn’t going to catch Landry unless he remains on the job into the 2036 season. The other is that if the Cowboys get through the first half with better than a 3-5 record, Garrett’s regular-season record will trump Johnson’s.
I’m dismissing the idea that Garrett can get fired before mid-November, and I do that at some risk since Wade Phillips was out after a 1-7 start the last time the Cowboys were coming off a playoff victory.
This club seems equipped to fare better than 1-7 and, in addition, there is the matter of Garrett having just signed a five-year contract that Cowboys owner Jerry Jones would not be inclined to disregard.
Really it’s Garrett’s security that raises one of this team’s bigger questions as the club prepares to head for Oxnard, Calif., this week. Garrett has never entered a season as anything approaching a fan favorite. He has had Jones’ blessing, which, in a sense, is all that matters.
But even that doesn’t keep one from feeling the hot seat, given that Johnson’s five-year stay has been the longest in Jones’ quarter of a century in charge.
link/ http://www.***BANNED-URL***/sports/...record-jason-garrett-feeling-the-hot-seat.ece