dbair1967;1337234 said:
Jones decides not to hire Jason Garrett in any role...then the fickle dopes here go ape after seeing Garrett turn into somebody else's great offensive coordinator or HC
"why the hell didnt Jerry just hire Garrett when he had the chance"
"he had all that info and history on him, but waited"
"did you see Garrett's game plan vs XYZ???"
"typical Jerry"
"franchise XYZ is so much smarter than Jones because they saw Garrett as a really bright future talent"
David
That may be true. But any reasonable thinking person would've waited for more evidence that he could actually do that. Payton for example paid some dues before he was just handed the keys.
So unless someone wanted to promote JG to HC at this very moment, why couldnt a person have watched him be an OC for a couple years and then jumped on him like white on rice whenever you needed/wanted to as an HC.
It's not like at the end of every season there isnt 31 other teams with OC's that you couldnt throw money and the keys at to get them as your HC. He'd be no different. Unless one is afraid he would've turned Jerry down at that point for the same job at a different team.
Not only that but the nature of the HC position is to be hired to be fired at some point. So unless theres any reason to believe he'd be the next Bill Walsh, even if he got an HC job elewhere before the timing was right to offer the job for your own team, it's not like odds are he'd be untouchable for the rest of his life.
Still say if it werent for the fact that he played for us nobody would even begin to buy into giving him as much responsibility at this point as it's assumed he's going to be given.
