Garrett was a not a good HC but he was the HC for Booger. His comfort was of the utmost importance and you can bet that was job 1 for McC in that 12 hour interview.
I do not know what kind of OC he's going to be in NY, that OL is not great, 2nd year QB and their best weapons are a RB and TE. It will be interesting to play against his offense twice year while he is there.
There is something about Garrett we do not see and most don't want to see. When the guy was wet behind the years in coaching, he was in demand in ATL and BAL and DET had asked to interview him. He will always get a second look because of who he worked for in Dallas and the unknown about the extent of the Joneses except for holding up team meetings.
One thing many don't seem to want to consider is just how many great OC's or O HC's are there in the NFL? Payton comes to mind but he only has 2 trips and 1 ring. Reid? He needed the hottest new QB to come in since Elway to get his 1st ring. McVay, wasn't he the second coming and the new poster boy for O? Wasn't Norv Turner always the answer?
My point is there really isn't any great coaching and certainly not any stretching beyond the level of talent on these teams. Garrett is not nearly as bad as some make him out to be, he's just in a pack of mediocre coaching....unless they hit the talent jackpot like KC and BAL and SEA because of the skills of that QB.
I have a theory about Garrett and his 90's style offense, that was all by design. I believe coming in, alongside his partner in crime Stuphen, the job was to convince the GM to return to what really brought him glory and that sale took a little because he was enamored with his Favre-like QB in the center ring. But finally he did make the sale and we saw that with 3 1st round OL and a RB. It was to be a return to glory just like the old days. The problem was we don't even know if that O would have been as successful in the last 10 tears as the league was evolving.
One thing in that video sang 100% correct, coaches do what they do. In order for LSU to do what they did, they couldn't rely on their OC so they brought a "helper" in Joe Brady because their OC was a lot like Garrett. He was stuck in that 90's offense because that's what he knows.
Garrett will run what he knows, what he learned from Turner, who learned it from Zampese. He was hired to run his offense and get the most out of the two best weapons, Barkley and Ingram. Just like he did RB's and a TE in Dallas. He gets heat for not adapting, why should he? That's what he learned when that was dominating TOP and winning SB's. You see many coaches evolving? Kansas State has Bill Snider there to do what he's done for over 40 years.
Garrett has been the convenient dumping ground for everything wrong with the Cowboys and if he got something right, it was blind luck. I agreed with a change being necessary but I don't lay it all on coaching, execution matters.