News: ESPN: Jason Garrett says character matters to Dallas Cowboys

[Sarge]

I'm really getting tired of his same old speeches. Really, it's just one speech over and over again. This RKG thing is BS. Randle, Gregory, Hardy......

 

[Doomsday101]

I think it does matter about the character of a player, people point to Hardy or McClain but if you look the contracts they signed were pretty much risk free and Dallas is able to walk away with no cost should the individual not conform to what the club expects out of that player.

 

[cowboyblue22]

I don't pay much attention to what garrett says at all about anything any more he is not going to be around much longer anyway. He is on his way out the door and will be if they don't make the playoffs this year, and that aint happening with the team they have .

 

[Dave_in-NC]

Why does Garrett insist on talking about this? Just shut up and quit trying to fool every one. Very few are buying what your selling JG.

 

[PA Cowboy Fan]

Why does Garrett insist on talking about this? Just shut up and quit trying to fool every one. Very few are buying what your selling JG.

Everything that comes out of his mouth is spin.

 

[65fastback2plus2]

Let me know when winning something besides clapathon 2016 matters.

 

[CowboyRoy]

Jason Garrett says character matters to Dallas Cowboys

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I have no doubt that Character matters to Jason Garrett. But it clearly doens't matter to Jones which means it doesnt matter to the Cowboys.

 

[CowboyRoy]

There are 53 guys on a roster. Character is very important to us, but in some cases we'll take a chance on a troubled but very talented football player if we think we can help him. But overall, we want to be very careful to maintain the balance of the locker room.

It's pretty simple. And it's not having it both ways. It just takes an understanding that there are a lot of factors that go into roster decisions, and football character is only one of them.

Its pretty simple. Character matters to Garrett, but he doesnt run the show here, Jones does. Jones picks the players. But..........Garrett has to continue to roll out his mantra or he would look worse then he already does. Everyone knows by knows that Garrett has less control then most head coaches in the NFL. He is a Jerry puppet in ever sense of the word puppet. Im sure there are some nice concepts that Garrett his tried to implement and he simply cant because Jones does whatever he wants.

 

[WPBCowboysFan]

 

[visionary]

There are 53 guys on a roster. Character is very important to us, but in some cases we'll take a chance on a troubled but very talented football player if we think we can help him. But overall, we want to be very careful to maintain the balance of the locker room.

It's pretty simple. And it's not having it both ways. It just takes an understanding that there are a lot of factors that go into roster decisions, and football character is only one of them.

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[Idgit]

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Asked what he meant by the phrase “right kind of guy,” Garrett said: “The idea of defining something. I just think there are characteristics that the right kind of guy has. Is he the right kind of person? He has great personal character and integrity. He's got great football character and integrity. He works hard at it. He wants to be great. He wants to be a great teammate. He is a consistent person. I can go on and on.

“It's just the make up of the person. A lot of it has to do with his desire to be great. His desire to be part of something great. His willingness to work at it and function in a team environment.”

Garrett went on to say “red flags” don’t necessarily erase a player from being considered the “right kind of guy.” Just look at how the Cowboys helped Rolando McClain resurrect his career last season.

“There is no black and white here,” Garrett said. “This guy had this ... that's not how we look at it. You want to investigate everything that has happened off the field, but you have to understand where the person is, where the player is right now.

“A lot of times we will interview these guys at the Combine and they will some issue that happened early on in their college career. We got to get our arms around what that is. Is this guy a perpetual fill in the blank? Or is this a one time incident when he was 17 or 18 years old?

"So we investigate it. We try to turn over all the rocks and make sure we get a feel for what the player is before we bring him into our doors. That is a really important thing. You want to bring the right guys in and hopefully develop them in the right way.”

Garrett didn’t need long to respond to a follow-up question as to whether that philosophy applied to free agents, saying: “Absolutely. Absolutely.”

For now, Hardy has apparently passed Garrett’s “right kind of guy” speech. Time will tell whether that proves to be the right decision.


Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/sports...orner-blog/article15306461.html#storylink=cpy

It's not really as complicated as you guys want to make it sound. They have a mindset they look for. They try to develop that mindset in their players. They try to find players with similar mindsets in FA. And they'll take a chance on somebody if they think they have a shot at developing that mindset if they think the risk is worth the reward. If it doesn't pan out, they move on.

And, overall, they think they've done a good job brining high character players in to comprise most of the team. I agree with them, but then I don't bend over backwards looking for something to quibble with or second guessing risks that didn't pay off.

 

[visionary]

It's not really as complicated as you guys want to make it sound. They have a mindset they look for. They try to develop that mindset in their players. They try to find players with similar mindsets in FA. And they'll take a chance on somebody if they think they have a shot at developing that mindset if they think the risk is worth the reward. If it doesn't pan out, they move on.

And, overall, they think they've done a good job brining high character players in to comprise most of the team. I agree with them, but then I don't bend over backwards looking for something to quibble with or second guessing risks that didn't pay off.

Yep, players like Hardy who beat women and constantly show up late for meetings are the very definition of RKG

Between hardy and Gregory who have off field issues and choir boys who are career under achievers and can't play like Mo, Garrett sure had build a team full of RKGs

Oh wait, I'm sorry, he has only had 6 years and whoever heard of building a team in only 6 years?

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[Idgit]

Yep, players like Hardy who beat women and constantly show up late for meetings are the very definition of RKG

Between hardy and Gregory who have off field issues and choir boys who are career under achievers and can't play like Mo, Garrett sure had build a team full of RKGs

Oh wait, I'm sorry, he has only had 6 years and whoever heard of building a team in only 6 years?

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Or...bear with me... you could try reading what he actually said about what you're trying so hard to criticize instead of just misinterpreting it some more.

You're barking up the wrong tree if you're trying to make a case that our team has a character problem, anyway. It doesn't, and it hasn't under Garrett.

 

[visionary]

Or...bear with me... you could try reading what he actually said about what you're trying so hard to criticize instead of just misinterpreting it some more.

You're barking up the wrong tree if you're trying to make a case that our team has a character problem, anyway. It doesn't, and it hasn't under Garrett.

Remind me again why "professional" football is played?
The rest is just fluff including RKG

Just buzz words for lap dogs to lap up

 

[Idgit]

Remind me again why "professional" football is played?
The rest is just fluff including RKG

Just buzz words for lap dogs to lap up

I never argued it was particularly meaningful. It's just another example in a long line of examples of you finding the wrong things to complain about without having to talk about the things that actually matter.

There's enough wrong with this team to legitimately criticize. We don't really need multiple lengthy debates re: the HCs desired mindset for his players. Especially since he's been explicit on the topic many, many times and the people who wan't to complain simply don't want to be honest about or just don't understand the explicit context.

 

[visionary]

I never argued it was particularly meaningful. It's just another example in a long line of examples of you finding the wrong things to complain about without having to talk about the things that actually matter.

There's enough wrong with this team to legitimately criticize. We don't really need multiple lengthy debates re: the HCs desired mindset for his players. Especially since he's been explicit on the topic many, many times and the people who wan't to complain simply don't want to be honest about or just don't understand the explicit context.

So RKG does not matter?
Careful now, your homer card might be revoked

 

[Idgit]

So RKG does not matter?
Careful now, your homer card might be revoked

Define 'does not matter.' It's a general statement about the kind of mindset the head coach is looking for. How meaningful is that? I don't honestly care. I only bother to respond when people misinterpret it because they apparently want to be the subject of negative attention. In which case I point out, as I did here, that you've got it backwards.

The little digs aren't doing you any favors, btw.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Or...bear with me... you could try reading what he actually said about what you're trying so hard to criticize instead of just misinterpreting it some more.

You're barking up the wrong tree if you're trying to make a case that our team has a character problem, anyway. It doesn't, and it hasn't under Garrett.

 

[Dave_in-NC]

Or...bear with me... you could try reading what he actually said about what you're trying so hard to criticize instead of just misinterpreting it some more.

You're barking up the wrong tree if you're trying to make a case that our team has a character problem, anyway. It doesn't, and it hasn't under Garrett.

It may be a group of choir boys but it hasn't won squat under JG either.

 

[DFWJC]

Jason Garrett says character matters to Dallas Cowboys

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It's not remotely debateable that character is HUGE to Garrett.
You'd have to be borderline brain dead not to acknowledge that much.
Like he said, Dallas has taken some risks too...though my guess is that he preferred to not get Hardy and some others.
There are 53 players, so Jerry will talk him into accepting some risk if it's only 5-10% of the roster.