Garrett is now 13-4

[WPBCowboysFan]

And not surprisingly, we have yet to see a single poster enter this thread and actually give Garrett credit for the team's road success against rivals.

That would kinda be like me giving my kid credit for closing the front door of the house while he left all the other doors open and the dogs got out . . . . . . .

 

[Proximo]

That would kinda be like me giving my kid credit for closing the front door of the house while he left all the other doors open and the dogs got out . . . . . . .

No. It wouldn't be.

 

[texbumthelife]

No. It wouldn't be.

Credit where credit is due. Congrats on a winning record, on the road, against a division that's been historically weak for much of your coaching tenure, Garret. You sure showed Gruden how not to lose a game.

Better?

 

[Beast_from_East]

I can't blame Garrett because of what McFadden did. Run was the correct call but you really think Garrett said score? In the middle of the game Garrett doesn't run it up the gut, he passes on the goal line to score. I think McFadden scored on his own, hell he even went out of bounds instead of going down in bounds

McFadden is also not the brightest bulb in the package..............running out of bounds............no words for how stupid that is.

 

[Novacek84]

I don't care if he's 52-4 against the NFC East on the road. You can not manage the end game like that and expect to survive in this league. They are fortunate not to have lost this game. He is a horrible game manager and it cannot be defended anymore. And this is a Princeton grad?

 

[WPBCowboysFan]

Credit where credit is due. Congrats on a winning record, on the road, against a division that's been historically weak for much of your coaching tenure, Garret. You sure showed Gruden how not to lose a game.

Better?

Nope. Im pretty sure thats not the better he's looking for. He's looking for the equivalent of a participation trophy for NFL head coaches.

 

[Tommy]

End of game coaching was abysmal

No it wasn't! You clowns jump on this same agenda after every game. The only mistake that was made was McFadden running out of bounds and that was his fault not the coaches.

 

[Beast_from_East]

No it wasn't! You clowns jump on this same agenda after every game. The only mistake that was made was McFadden running out of bounds and that was his fault not the coaches.

Jerry apparently disagrees, in his post game presser he said it looked like a high school football by both teams out there and he was not surprised the Skins scored with how much time the Cowboys left them.

I think Jerry would have thought taking a knee 3 times and kicking a FG with 10 seconds left might have been the better strategy.

 

[WPBCowboysFan]

I don't care if he's 52-4 against the NFC East on the road. You can not manage the end game like that and expect to survive in this league. They are fortunate not to have lost this game. He is a horrible game manager and it cannot be defended anymore. And this is a Princeton grad?

Not only is he a Princeton grad but he comes from a "football family"

In all seriousness, if you've grown up in a football family and played and coached at every level, and you dont have it by now, well, Im gonna go WAY out on a limb here and say, he prob will never get it.

 

[Tommy]

Jerry apparently disagrees, in his post game presser he said it looked like a high school football by both teams out there and he was not surprised the Skins scored with how much time the Cowboys left them.

I think Jerry would have thought taking a knee 3 times and kicking a FG with 10 seconds left might have been the better strategy.

Cool story! So today Jerry Jones is the voice of reason. Tomorrow that will flip flop to him being an idiot!

If Dallas kneels the ball 3 times and Washington uses both of their timeouts they would have got the ball back with about :35 left being down by 3.

If the Commanders would have got anywhere near scoring we would be hearing today about how Jason "played not to lose!"

It never ends!

 

[SultanOfSix]

I think you mean Tony Romo, not Garrett.

The team won last night because Desean Jackson is a moron, and Bailey is money.

And it was still almost lost.

 

[JohnsKey19]

My problem with this series is that this is situational football, this is something that should be gone over continuously in the preseason, it is just incredibly disappointing. If the Cowboys had lost this game then I believe that Jason would probably be in a precarious situation come this off-season.

My other question would be the kick off, why wasn't Bailey instructed to kick the ball out of the endzone? Why did he kick it short? Maybe he was instructed to kick it out of the endzone, I didn't hear Garrett's postgame press conference so I don't know.

I have no idea. But Bailey has actually done this several times. Remember, he gave Harris a chance to return the KO TD late in the NYG game instead of kicking it deep out of the end zone. Not sure if he tires late in games or for whatever stupid reason, they are coaching him to kick it in play.

But yes, we are perhaps the WORST team in terms of situational football. And that points directly to the HC. We've been that way for years. This was one of Parcells' strengths as a coach that i miss.

 

[Stash]

End of game coaching was abysmal

It sure was. Right down to those final two aborted passing plays that gave Bailey no help whatsoever on that final field goal.

 

[Cowboys22]

I can't blame Garrett because of what McFadden did. Run was the correct call but you really think Garrett said score? In the middle of the game Garrett doesn't run it up the gut, he passes on the goal line to score. I think McFadden scored on his own, hell he even went out of bounds instead of going down in bounds

It is 100% Garrett's fault for not having his team ready for that situation and having everyone understand you don't go out of bounds and you don't score the TD in that situation. Average fans that never played the game can figure out in two seconds that if they got the first down, they could take the clock down to 10 seconds with three kneel downs and have Bailey hit a chip shot for the win. That is what every other team does in that situation but just like not punting on 4th down against Miami with a minute to go, Garrett has no clue how to close out games. He consistently gives the other team another chance to tie or win when he doesn't need to. He apparently does not have the ability to assess end of game situations and figure out the best path to victory. He seems to treat the last minute the same as the first minute which will can destroy a team.

 

[BotchedLobotomy]

Are we still doing this? Digging up scraps of information to try and justify this guy's existence as a head coach in the NFL? If ever this franchise needed JG and his coaching staff to do something special under adverse conditions it was this year and they have failed miserably. The only thing keeping this season from being a total disaster is a historically weak division.

 

[CowboysRule]

It is 100% Garrett's fault for not having his team ready for that situation and having everyone understand you don't go out of bounds and you don't score the TD in that situation. Average fans that never played the game can figure out in two seconds that if they got the first down, they could take the clock down to 10 seconds with three kneel downs and have Bailey hit a chip shot for the win. That is what every other team does in that situation but just like not punting on 4th down against Miami with a minute to go, Garrett has no clue how to close out games. He consistently gives the other team another chance to tie or win when he doesn't need to. He apparently does not have the ability to assess end of game situations and figure out the best path to victory. He seems to treat the last minute the same as the first minute which will can destroy a team.

I bet Coughlin told Eli to throw it out of the endzone on the Giants last play of the game when we played them the first time.

 

[khiladi]

I thought Garrett wasn't at fault for any losses because of his QB and all the injuries. Now he's given credit for a win with that same personnel? Make up your minds with your convoluted rationale in defending Jason everytime.

Homers were out in full force trying to rationalize away the fact that we were 0-8 and it was not possible to win for Jason in such circumstances, and suddenly we have evidence of his greatness.. So Garrett should have won games then, right?

The comedy of it all is that the defense, which they all blamed as the reason, made the changes and blitzed all game. Our offense turned the ball over 3 times and put all sorts of pressure on the defense to fold...

 

[black label]

I thought Garrett wasn't at fault for any losses because of his QB and all the injuries. Now he's given credit for a win with that same personnel? Make up your minds with your convoluted rationale in defending Jason everytime.

Homers were out in full force trying to rationalize away the fact that we were 0-8 and it was not possible to win for Jason in such circumstances, and suddenly we have evidence of his greatness.. So Garrett should have won games then, right?

The comedy of it all is that the defense, which they all blamed as the reason, made the changes and blitzed all game. Our offense turned the ball over 3 times and put all sorts of pressure on the defense to fold...

 

[khiladi]

And this is a meaningless statistic and tells us nothing. In his first three years HC, he's had five losses on the road twice and one where he had four losses on the road. Last year, was the only time he's went undefeated on the road and we all know that's Romo. He has three losses on the road already.

I can turn around and say, Garrett in his first three years head coaching could have qualified for the playoffs if he won a game against NFC East opponents and everytime he lost and choked.

How's that for a stat regarding Garrerr in the NFC East? Or in Wade's tenure, when Dallas was 9-7 and could have qualified for the playoffs against the Eagles, Garrett's offense turned the ball over 5 times on the road and gotten blown out.

Just looking hard for excuses for mediocrity.

 

[dfense]

Its a fair point. But you can then look at his poor record at home and say the opposite.

Hes a great team builder and a motivating players coach, but hes awful at game planning, time management and subpar at overall X and O philosophy.

He's an average head coach right now that needs to address a lot in the off-season.

He's beaten Philly in their house with Weeden and Washington in their house with Cassel. Horrible.