Does Jerry want a new playcaller or not?

Arkyvarminter

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I know this has been debated and is currently "up in the air" as to who is going to call the plays next season. Jerry has stated that it is up to Garrett who calls the plays. Do you think this is Jerry's way of letting Garrett know that he would rather someone else call the plays? I guess I'm trying to read between the lines as to what Jerry wants, which can be hard to do. I think he wants a new playcaller but in the end I also think Garrett will be calling the plays unfortunately....
 

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I think he's torn at this point. Jerry has, for a long time, wanted the HC to be a playcaller, whether it be offense or defense. Recently, whether it be from outside criticism/questioning, or from inside VR, or just his own thinking, he seems to be softening on that. I honestly think he's at the point where he's just not sure, so he's leaving it up to Garrett.
 

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I think he wanted JG to spend more time on other areas of the team more than anything else. I think they like and believe in Garrett more than anything else. But we've still got position groups like WRs and the interior OL on offense blowing assignments, and I'd bet there were a lot of decisions going on during the week regarding the defense last season where a little more attention from a detail-oriented HC might have been useful. If you're cutting Jason's responsibilities down so he can focus on fundamentals, play calling is one area where you might do that.

And I'd imagine Jason understands that he's been stretched too thin, but also enjoys calling the plays. So he's juggling responsibilities with the new staff and seeing how that works early to decide if he should offload the play calling, or not.

I think it's basically a non-issue in terms of authority for anybody, and more operational in terms of where Jason can and should be spending his time. I'd guess Jerry wants Jason freed up and would prefer he let Callahan call the plays. And I think the local media spoonfed the story to a gullible fan base for attention the way they recently did the Bernadeau surgery fiasco and the they-can't-sign-their-draft-picks bit of journalistic incompetence.
 

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I'm pretty sure the decision to consider a new play caller all came from Garrett. Jerry has said he would still prefer his head coach to call plays.
 

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Jerry Jones is leaving that decision up to Jason Garrett, as he should.

No apologies if that does not fit some of the ill informed agendas on this forum.
 

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AMERICAS_FAN;5030641 said:
Jerry Jones is leaving that decision up to Jason Garrett, as he should.

No apologies if that does not fit some of the ill informed agendas on this forum.

I agree, let Garret decide.

Either way, if we miss the playoffs again Redball is gone. So let him decide
 

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AMERICAS_FAN;5030641 said:
Jerry Jones is leaving that decision up to Jason Garrett, as he should.

No apologies if that does not fit some of the ill informed agendas on this forum.

I think you are right. He has let Garrett make the decision. I believe Jerry has told him that he won't have a job if another 8-8 season comes about. He is leaving it up to Garrett to make a decision that may or may not cost him his job if next season doesn't go well. He is giving him enough rope to hang himself.
 

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I think Jerry was suprised how poorly this team was prepared at times last season. I believe he will give Jason every chance and option to get it right this year, including who calls the plays.
 

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jnday;5030647 said:
I think you are right. He has let Garrett make the decision. I believe Jerry has told him that he won't have a job if another 8-8 season comes about. He is leaving it up to Garrett to make a decision that may or may not cost him his job if next season doesn't go well. He is giving him enough rope to hang himself.

noshame;5030649 said:
I think Jerry was suprised how poorly this team was prepared at times last season. I believe he will give Jason every chance and option to get it right this year, including who calls the plays.

What makes you guys say these things? Anything you're picking up from context quotes? Or are they just guesses?
 

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Idgit;5030658 said:
What makes you guys say these things? Anything you're picking up from context quotes? Or are they just guesses?

Jerry made several quotes after the season that can be pieced together to come to this conclusion. If you read the quotes and look at the actions, it is clear. I think Garrett was made to feel more uncomfortable than just getting rid of his brother. Jerry said it best when he stated that 8-8 records was not acceptable.
 

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I don't think it's really Garrett's call. When the season flopped, Jerry demanded a new playcaller, then realized how much it sounded he was neutering his head coach. So he backtracked and claimed it was RJ's call.

I mean, if you listen to Garrett, it's clear he thinks he and his offense have done a bang-up job. So why would he spontaneously change if he thinks things are so peachy on his side of the ball?

Pretty clear to me that if it were totally up to him, we wouldn't even be having all this question about who is calling plays. Garrett would say there's no question, I'm doing it like I have all along, end of story.
 

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Chocolate Lab;5030667 said:
I don't think it's really Garrett's call. When the season flopped, Jerry demanded a new playcaller, then realized how much it sounded he was neutering his head coach. So he backtracked and claimed it was RJ's call.

I mean, if you listen to Garrett, it's clear he thinks he and his offense have done a bang-up job. So why would he spontaneously change if he thinks things are so peachy on his side of the ball?

Pretty clear to me that if it were totally up to him, we wouldn't even be having all this question about who is calling plays. Garrett would say there's no question, I'm doing it like I have all along, end of story.



The way everything has transpired recently during this Off Season it has been incredibly obvious that Jerry and Jason were not on the same page regarding play calling duties for 2013.
 

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Here are the quotes from Jones at the Senior Bowl that started the whole controversy.

Well, we have more work to do as far as where we’ll end up (and then went in to talking about being poised to hire a new special teams coordinator, the hiring of Monte Kiffin and the change to a 4-3 defense). The one thing I do want to point out here is that there is a tremendous – in my mind, without exaggerating – a foundation that we’ve put in place with Jason as head coach, and we put that in place, and although it might appear differently, we are building on all the pluses of that foundation whether it be personnel – so the direction that we’re going might be misinterpreted with the changes we’re making in different areas that we’re throwing out everything we’ve done in the last few years. That’s just not the case. We’re actually building on it; it’s a coordinated effort, obviously, over on the defensive side of the ball, Jason is not just a part of it, he’s a focal part in making this decision and obviously concurring on every step of the way.

We’re still getting into how we’re offensively going to function, and I don’t want to get ahead of ourselves there. But make no mistake about it, when I hired Jason as a coach he was hired specifically for his shills, for his abilities to call the plays. When he became head coach it was at my insistence that he continued to call the plays and I felt philosophically if anybody could continue to do it he could do it, so it was not as Jason’s insistence. So it is not a step back for the Cowboys or a step back for him individually to change the way we are putting a game plan together or calling the plays on the offensive side of the ball.

As you know, there are differences of opinions that frankly can be a step in a better direction. So the big thing I want to say here is anything we do on the offensive side of the ball as it relates to Jason not specifically doing what he was doing, that’s not something that Jason has ever been on the table, pounding on the table to do. It was more me. And so if we make a change there, it will be more of a concession on my part to go forward with a little different procedure as to how we put the offense out there.

Because now I’m assessing the fact that after two and a half seasons of Jason as head coach, we need to do some things differently. We are not, and I know our fans are not – I’m not, Jason’s not – we’re not at all satisfied we’ve been 8-8 two seasons in a row. So given different circumstances we might have done better. What we are is what we are.

But the reason I’m doing it, basically saying, OK, let’s do it differently because I think with where we are right now basically gives us the chance to get to the playoffs and where we want to go immediately.

The question was, “how come?” and I think that we’ve got and are getting the coaches that will allow us in all phases of the game, will allow us to have Jason’s skills, if we go in that direction, to be more focused on every aspect of the team and in the case of being involved in the game, he’ll be able to make the decisions he’s been making, but he’ll be able to do it with more focus on the overall game and the circumstances with the game. The advantage of a walk-around head coach, as you say, one that doesn’t specifically spend every day making game plans, doing that, can spend their time looking at the overall picture, not only on game day but also during the game week.

Well I’ve always known since he became the head coach there was another way to do it and there are degrees of that as well, in other words, the specific duty of presenting and preparing a proposed game plan. When you start the week, the specific duty of implementing that game plan and then the specific duty of calling the plays, it wouldn’t be accurate to divorce Jason from that and so you are talking about degrees and maybe you can talk about allocation of responsibilities more than you are in the case of offensive or major philosophical changes. … It’s very likely that we’ll have with the way we’re structured some additional new philosophy in what we can do offensively, even though Bill Callahan has been here one year, we’ll have some new things … we are talking degrees more than anything the way I look at it. Rest assured this would not be being done if our head coach Jason Garrett wasn’t absolutely all in.
 

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FuzzyLumpkins;5030687 said:
Here are the quotes from Jones at the Senior Bowl that started the whole controversy.

The comments that I based my opinion on were from the week after the season ended. The comments you listed was from Jerry's attempts to give credibility back to Garrett after Jerry's "uncomfortable" rampage. He certainly had to come out and smooth things over to save face for Garrett.
 

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Exactly, jnday. This started way before the Senior Bowl. It really started a couple of days after the season when Jerry made his "uncomfortable" comments on his radio show, and reporters started hearing about major changes coming. And it only picked up when Rob was fired.

But on that radio show, the hosts asked if he wanted Garrett to still call plays, and Jerry got angry and refused to answer. It was clear then that something was up.
 

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Jerry is real quick to throw out an opinion then redraw it upon further review.

In this case, he seemed to think it was best for him to change from his preference that the head coach also be a coordinator. Then after consulting the head coach and finding out that Garrett apparently did not want to stop calling plays, Jerry added that he wasn't forcing a change, merely giving Garrett the opportunity to let someone else call plays if Garrett wanted to.

Such a turnaround is not that unusual for Jones.
 

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jnday;5030691 said:
The comments that I based my opinion on were from the week after the season ended. The comments you listed was from Jerry's attempts to give credibility back to Garrett after Jerry's "uncomfortable" rampage. He certainly had to come out and smooth things over to save face for Garrett.

I dont think any of this really matters at this point, if Garrett was undercut or not.


Bottom line..........If this team does not make the playoffs......Redball is gone.
 
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