Not this thread again.
What did I do to deserve this thread being resurrected.
Why don't we talk about what Garrett is doing or not doing to make the team better for the upcoming year. That is a worthwhile topic. Garrett is the coach this year no matter how many of you want someone else. If he is successful he will probably get another year. If he is not then we're probably going to get another year of Garrett but might get someone else. Jerry has put a lot on the line for his belief in Garrett and I"m not convinced he is going to give up on it even if we miss the playoffs again.
IMO, the team has gotten continuously better from 2010 to 2011 and 2012 despite getting younger and suffering several key injuries. There is now a young core whereas there were no good, young, established players when Garrett took over - not a single one. Dez and Sean Lee were here but neither were very good players when Garrett took over. Sean Lee had hardly seen the field at all up to that point and Dez could only run a couple of different patterns. Basically all of the good players were Parcells vets and they had started their decline at the time that Garrett came to power so he has had to steadily improve the rest of the team just to avoid the team from getting markedly worse. Look how much Ware, Rat, Gurode, Bigg, Free, Felix, Miles and TNew have fallen off since the 2009 season when we last made the playoffs. So you add that drop + minimial cap space + the injury plagued 2012 season and I think the coaches did a good job to get us to 8-8.
I don't think Garrett has proven he is an upper echelon coach but I also don't believe he is holding us back. The biggest impediment this organization continues to face is Jerry Jones' mismanagement of player personnel decisions.
