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One of the things that stands out about today's NFL is that all of the coaches who have won a Super Bowl in the 2000s, with one exception, have done it within five years of taking over a team.
I've brought this up before, but if the Joneses do fire Garrett, I think at least getting the team to the NFC Championship Game within five years has to be the standard. No matter the excuses, you either get that done or you get gone.
Jerry Jones bought into "the process" when Garrett was hired, that you can slow-build a team, but that's not the reality of the salary-cap era. You have to use a combination of the draft and free agency to maximize your talent before pieces of it depart in free agency or some of the key players fall out of their prime.
Coaches, GMs and owners have to understand that there is no real process, it's all strike now before it's too late. Now, it would take all the talent in the world to strike with Garrett IMO because his philosophy holds the team back, but even beyond that, the message needs to be clear.
Maybe the Joneses don't make a change, although they should and the signs point to it, but no matter what their strategy needs to be that the next guy gets five years at most to get the team to at least the NFC title game.
I've brought this up before, but if the Joneses do fire Garrett, I think at least getting the team to the NFC Championship Game within five years has to be the standard. No matter the excuses, you either get that done or you get gone.
Jerry Jones bought into "the process" when Garrett was hired, that you can slow-build a team, but that's not the reality of the salary-cap era. You have to use a combination of the draft and free agency to maximize your talent before pieces of it depart in free agency or some of the key players fall out of their prime.
Coaches, GMs and owners have to understand that there is no real process, it's all strike now before it's too late. Now, it would take all the talent in the world to strike with Garrett IMO because his philosophy holds the team back, but even beyond that, the message needs to be clear.
Maybe the Joneses don't make a change, although they should and the signs point to it, but no matter what their strategy needs to be that the next guy gets five years at most to get the team to at least the NFC title game.
