DMN: Bob Sturm: Why I just don't love the fit of Jason Garrett coaching the Dallas Cowboys

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[DandyDon52]

Well there is one media guy saying JG should go but jerry wont do it yet.

 

[Fredd]

such a depressing franchise with the Jones' at the top and refusing to do what a "normal" franchise would do to get better instead of just thinking that he knows best...he thinks this is fantasy football where if you don't win "ih, so what?"; there is always a next year with different players

 

[daveferr33]

On why Garrett is still HC while Chip Kelly is out of a job:

Garrett, for all of his flaws, is a master at political games and keeping everyone around him from getting upset. They are opposite and that is why one has a job today - despite perhaps being more mediocre at his job.

 

[Idgit]

Well there is one media guy saying JG should go but jerry wont do it yet.

This isn't new for Sturm.

He's right about the tired scheme. But I think he's very likely dead wrong about how stuff gets handled internally. That's just stuff that is never made public (for good reason).

 

[big dog cowboy]

Well there is one media guy saying JG should go but jerry wont do it yet.

Since when does Jerry listen to media guys for advice on running his team anyway?

 

[DandyDon52]

Since when does Jerry listen to media guys for advice on running his team anyway?

Well it has a effect, if enough say it he will then question himself if maybe they are right.

 

[SultanOfSix]

I don't see a good coach at all. He only got the job with minimal experience effectively because of "nepotism".

I think despite all the negative criticism Jerry gets, I think he's hired the right front office people who've done well with personnel acquisition (with a few exceptions here an there), especially on the lines.

What I haven't witnessed is good coaching. I see superficiality: a focus on platitudes, cliches, politicking, clapping, "rah rah", and a process that has produced little to no progress. Political maneuvering is the way of those who can't really get the job done, and so essentially weasel their way around the system using superficialities to create the image that progress is being made.

Unfortunately for this team, as Parcells said many times: "you are what your record says you are."

 

[big dog cowboy]

Well it has a effect, if enough say it he will then question himself if maybe they are right.

He has owned the Cowboys for almost 27 years. Give me one example of that happening.

 

[Beast_from_East]

Strum is right about the schemes, they are some of the most basic in the league.

But Jerry and Steven have already said that Garrett is safe for next season, so the whole point is moot. Now if Garrett doesn't make the playoffs next year, I think you will start to hear a lot more rumblings about needing to make a change.

That would be 5 non-playoff seasons and just 1 playoff season over Garrett's first 6 years as head coach. Don't see how an owner can sell that to the fan base going into year 7.

Making the playoffs just 1 time in 6 years is virtually an automatic firing at that point.........next year is Garrett's most important year of all time.

 

[Tusan_Homichi]

I think JG gets one more year.

A successful year probably gets him to the end of his contract. If it's 8-8 or worse? I could very easily see him being gone.