My question to someone like you would be that having spent years telling others that all decisions are group decisions and Jerry is the devil who won't let Garrett have his way and having no inside knowledge, how do you know how much of what happened this year was because of Garrett and not Jerry or linehan or marinelli or the OL or a magical season by Murray or romo s best season ever ?
So when things wee going poorly it was everyone else's fault and poor Garrett was trying to navigate his way and the moment things come together (with a ton of new pieces) suddenly it was all because of Garrett ?
My easy answer to that is it's a mischaracterization of what I've ever thought. I've never thought Jerry was the devil or that Garrett was necessarily stymied in what he wanted to do. And I've never thought that Garrett hasn't made obvious mistakes. In fact, I've explicitly said the opposite on many, many occasions.
What I thought, and think, is that JG has been a very good guy to have in the tough position of building consensus in an organization that is run by a wildcard like Jerry Jones. Jerry's always been a mixed bag. He brings both huge positives and some huge negatives to the table. That's not easy for every coach to work around. But if you have a guy who can work with that alongside Stephen and the rest of the management, and if that guy is bring and organized and committed to culture and systematic, then you've got something you can potentially work with there that's the best-case scenario for this particular organization. As for the coaches and staff that works for Garrett, those guys are all below him in the org chart, so he gets credit for bringing them in and getting them to work together effectively on his watch.
You have to remember, visionary, that I've never agreed with you that things were going poorly since Garrett took over. I think he was doing a very big job slower than most of us expected, but that he's been consistently doing the right things. The nice thing about that perspective is--now that it's obvious to everybody that it actually is paying off--I don't have to pretend that it's happening by magic or because of the hiring of an assistant coach. To some of us, this is just the logical extension of doing things the right way over time. You should hope that we're right about that, too (we are), because that means we've actually got a workable formula here in Dallas going forward once the HC is extended. And we're going to need it, because we've still got a defense to build and a backup QB position to fill, and that's going to require a lot of work and more than a little luck.
