Garrett from MMQB

[Sonny Koufax]

Jason Garrett has coached the Cowboys for five full seasons, 2011-15. (He took over midway through the 2010 season when Wade Phillips was fired.)

In Garrett’s first three full seasons, Dallas was a combined 24-24.

In his last two seasons, Dallas was a combined 16-16.

In playoff games coached by Garrett, Dallas is 1-1.

In his five full seasons, Garrett, in all games, is 41-41.

That’s what you call Even Steven.
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[erod]

Awesome offense.

Dreadful defense.

That's what 8-8 looks like.

 

[Sonny Koufax]

NFL Stats ‏@NFL_Stats 6m6 minutes ago
Stat of the Day: Since 1997, the #Cowboys are 152-152

 

[phildadon86]

Awesome offense.

Dreadful defense.

That's what 8-8 looks like.

Imagine that offense if they moved Dez around to exploit defenses, ala Jones and Brown

 

[Dodger12]

Awesome offense.

Dreadful defense.

That's what 8-8 looks like.

Good point. I wish Jerry would just pull the trigger and make Garrett the HC, instead the HC of just the offense.

 

[TheCount]

Awesome offense.

Dreadful defense.

That's what 8-8 looks like.

I don't completely agree with this.

It's easy to look at the stats at the end of the year and conclude the offense is good and the defense is terrible.

However, numbers lack context. Watching the team play year after year, the offense (2014 withstanding) was as inconsistent as the defense was.

The team, as a whole, has had big highs and big lows, and when you average that - you get average.

 

[RS12]

Never liked the hire, still dont.

 

[erod]

Imagine that offense if they moved Dez around to exploit defenses, ala Jones and Brown

That would require that Dez learn the offense in a way he hasn't shown he can.

 

[CATCH17]

He provides structure throughout the week.

He is one of the worst strategic coaches I've ever seen and offers nothing to the team on gameday.

 

[texbumthelife]

Garrett is still a coach with training wheels that Jerry has hitched his legacy too. Unfortunately, Jerry has always been at least as worried about being right, as he is about being competitive and winning. He is with Garrett for the long haul in the hope that eventually he'll win more than he loses and Jerry will be right.

 

[erod]

I don't completely agree with this.

It's easy to look at the stats at the end of the year and conclude the offense is good and the defense is terrible.

However, numbers lack context. Watching the team play year after year, the offense (2014 withstanding) was as inconsistent as the defense was.

The team, as a whole, has had big highs and big lows, and when you average that - you get average.

The 2013 defense was the worst defense in Cowboys history, and almost the worst in NFL history. The offense has not been anywhere near that level of incompetence in recent years.

 

[texbumthelife]

That would require that Dez learn the offense in a way he hasn't shown he can.

If that's true, than the front office is to blame for giving him that massive contract. I don't think that's the case at all though. They can't develop a second TE. It took them how long to actually use Dunbar the way they kept saying they would? Garrett has no desire to create mismatches on offense. It goes against his logic. He is a line up and beat the guy across from you coach. Moving Dez and/or anyone else around simply adds more variables to an equation that Garrett is already stupefied by when the game is actually in motion.

 

[erod]

If that's true, than the front office is to blame for giving him that massive contract. I don't think that's the case at all though. They can't develop a second TE. It took them how long to actually use Dunbar the way they kept saying they would? Garrett has no desire to create mismatches on offense. It goes against his logic. He is a line up and beat the guy across from you coach. Moving Dez and/or anyone else around simply adds more variables to an equation that Garrett is already stupefied by when the game is actually in motion.

Garrett used TO and Crayton in all sorts of ways. Dez spent his first three seasons having to be lined up properly by Romo. He doesn't "see" the game like others.

 

[LittleD]

I, like many here on the zone, believe the Jerry thinks of Garrett as one of his home grown kids.
Stephen likes him too and he seems to fit into the family. Garrett has been a .500 coach and
he has to break that mold this year or Jerry will look for someone else. Now, you have to
also remember that Landry has some bad years his first few as the Cowboys head coach all
those years ago. Maybe Garrett will improve, we hope, but I will say that Garrett is not the
innovator that Landry was... No way, no how!!!

 

[Idgit]

I don't completely agree with this.

It's easy to look at the stats at the end of the year and conclude the offense is good and the defense is terrible.

However, numbers lack context. Watching the team play year after year, the offense (2014 withstanding) was as inconsistent as the defense was.

The team, as a whole, has had big highs and big lows, and when you average that - you get average.

The offense has far outperformed the defense during the span in question here. It's not even close.

 

[texbumthelife]

Garrett used TO and Crayton in all sorts of ways. Dez spent his first three seasons having to be lined up properly by Romo. He doesn't "see" the game like others.

TO played a handful of snaps a game from the slot. Crayton was almost strictly a slot guy unless there was injury or someone came off the field. Not good examples at all.

Even still, like I said and you ignored, if that was the case with Dez, why did the team shell out all that $?

 

[TheCount]

The 2013 defense was the worst defense in Cowboys history, and almost the worst in NFL history. The offense has not been anywhere near that level of incompetence in recent years.

The offense has far outperformed the defense during the span in question here. It's not even close.

I don't believe I said the defense was good.

 

[Sydla]

It really is sad that Jerry professes all this love and admiration for Romo and wants him to get that Super Bowl but then will make him play out his last few years under such mediocre head coaching.

 

[chicago JK]

I really wanted Garrett to work out. I still hope he does, but besides everything coming together in 2014, his reign has been pretty disappointing. Unfortunately, I think we will look back at the Romo years with some regret that we have had so little playoff success with an elite or near elite QB. When you find that QB, that is when you typically win. I hope I am wrong and Romo can have more success in the playoffs.

 

[erod]

I don't believe I said the defense was good.

You said the two were equally as bad.

Romo has broken every passing record in existence. Murray broke Emmitt's season rushing record. Witten has broken all sorts of records, and receivers have been made millionaires in free agency.

I will agree that the offense was extremely one-dimensional prior to building the offensive line.

But no, the defense hasn't been anywhere on par with the offense. I give you Dallas 48, Denver 51 as example, as well as countless other 30-point efforts that went as losses.