Interesting Garrett factoids (quotes) from Cowlishaw

[DCowboyz]

Crazy examples. This year and 2015 w/o Romo. This coaching staff cannot overcome injures, or changes. While NE can lose 3 of their best receivers and still find the next man up and still win games.

 

[yimyammer]

Here's a fun Garrett factiod:

Jason Garrett can clap his hands at 113 slaps-per-second, which is the same rate a hummingbird can flap its wings.

 

[Alexander]

I still get very amused by Garrett fan boys who use the "Coach of the Year" award to somehow defend him.

The coach of the year award is just that.

The year. That year.

Get lucky? You win.

There is zero to indicate future success.

Go back into the history of the award and you see certain things. Coaches that have had staying power like Belichick and Reid I am not counting because their success and ability is self evident.

Just for the "but but, he was a Coach of the Year" crowd:

Only going back to 2000. Even that is a stretch, but here you go.

2000 - Jim Haslett.

Fired in five seasons.

2001 - Dick Jauron

Fired after 2004.

2002, 2003 - Reid, Belichick

2004 - Marty Schottenheimer

Fired in 2006.

2005 - Lovie Smith.

Fired in 2012.

2006 - Sean Payton

Still kicking. And has his team rebounding after cap issues.

2007 - Belichick

2008 - Mike Smith

Fired in 2014.

2009 - Marvin Lewis

Continues in Cincinnati like a bad case of herpes.

2010 - Belichick again.

2011 - Jim Harbaugh

Got to a Super Bowl

2012 - Bruce Arians

Did a great job keeping Indianapolis afloat.

2013 - Ron Rivera

Still going. Lost in the divisional round.

2014 - Bruce Arians

Still going. Went to the playoffs with two backup QBs.

2015 - Ron Rivera

Super Bowl year.

Someone tell me what makes Garrett different from Dick Jauron, Mike Smith, Jim Haslett and especially Marvin Lewis?

Belief?

Romance because he is a former scrub QB that won a big game a long time ago on Thanksgiving?

Sorry, no 20 year reigns like Tom Landry here.

Except he has Jerry Jones controlling his fate. We are in such wonderful hands.

 

[Garrettop]

I liked Garrett for a few years because of offensive drafting philosophy. I was wrong and misguided due to complete lack of identity since the Jimmy years. He wanted to draft Olinemen which was a good change. It turns out that was really the only benefit he provided compared to the prior situations - he got Jerry to quit devaluing the position(s). He is a liability not only on gameday, but in the planning prior.

 

[haleyrules]

The entire coaching staff should have been fired after the disaster to GB in the playoffs last year. 13-3. #1 seed. Bye week. HFA.

One and done.

And to rub salt in the wound, GB got blown out the very next week by the Falcons. With a defense that was not better or worse than what the Cowboys fielded.

But instead of the warranted crucifixions. It was high fives and awards for all.

This franchise deserves everything they are reaping right now. And more.

Garrett and friends should have been sacked about 5 minutes after the 4-12 season.

 

[PA Cowboy Fan]

Garrett and friends should have been sacked about 5 minutes after the 4-12 season.

He should have been fired after one of those 8-8 end of season collapses.

 

[haleyrules]

He should have been fired after one of those 8-8 end of season collapses.

You ain't kidding.

 

[Alexander]

Garrett and friends should have been sacked about 5 minutes after the 4-12 season.

Bite your tongue. Then we would never have had last year's glory.

That year will probably shine as the beacon of hope until the entire Jones family finally dies off.

That kind of institutionalized familial idiocy can last generations.

Look at the Kansas City Chiefs. They have not won anything of any significance since Super Bowl IV.

That was in 1970.

That was 46 years ago.

The Cowboys last won a title in 1996.

Almost half way there. And there is still Stephen, Charlotte and Spaulding to go through.

 

[haleyrules]

Bite your tongue. Then we would never have had last year's glory.

That year will probably shine as the beacon of hope until the entire Jones family finally dies off.

. The one and done???

 

[PA Cowboy Fan]

Bite your tongue. Then we would never have had last year's glory.

That year will probably shine as the beacon of hope until the entire Jones family finally dies off.

We have 2007, 2014 and 2016. Those are our glory years this century. lol

 

[Alexander]

We have 2007, 2014 and 2016. Those are our glory years this century. lol

That is what sickens me when I see fans defend 2014 and 2016.

They hated Phillips and when he crashed and burned, they rejoiced.

They blame him up and down. He was weak, Camp Cupcake and blah blah blah.

Yet Garrett gets a pass? Why?

He did not have a backstabber with designs on his job waiting to stick the knife in like Phillips did.

 

[CalPolyTechnique]

Garrett Factoid #4,322:

Garrett once lost the ability to clap for three weeks due to a severe hangnail; he said “it was the darkest period of my life.”

 

[diefree666]

Of course, I agree it should be be a measuring stick. But the way Cowlishaw presented that (or it was stated) ignores the big picture. The majority of coaches didn't last as long as Garrett because they were fired for losing. Then of coaches we weren't fired, the ones he listed had one great season.

Sean Payton hasn't won a Super Bowl in the time Garrett has been Head Coach and he hasn't been to the playoffs in five years. That doesn't make him a bad coach, but I could cherrypick something like Cowlishaw did to make the case he is.

I was wondering when one of the Garrett apologists would show up

 

[dallasdave]

Jason Garrett giving Cowboy Fans more mediocrity one hand clap at a time.

Now that is a great point !!!

 

[Asklesko]

Garrett Factoid #4,322:

Garrett once lost the ability to clap for three weeks due to a severe hangnail; he said “it was the darkest period of my life.”

Imagine how bummed he would be if he lost both hands in a freak clapping accident

 

[MileyDancer]

But according to Idgit, we all just don't know how to evaluate coaches.........btw, where is he? Dude has vanished like a vampire at sunrise

 

[texbumthelife]

Of course, I agree it should be be a measuring stick. But the way Cowlishaw presented that (or it was stated) ignores the big picture. The majority of coaches didn't last as long as Garrett because they were fired for losing. Then of coaches we weren't fired, the ones he listed had one great season.

Sean Payton hasn't won a Super Bowl in the time Garrett has been Head Coach and he hasn't been to the playoffs in five years. That doesn't make him a bad coach, but I could cherrypick something like Cowlishaw did to make the case he is.

Good analogy with Payton. I see what you meant now. As long as we aren't comparing Payton and Garrett, cause that would be ugly .

 

[Alexander]

Of course, I agree it should be be a measuring stick. But the way Cowlishaw presented that (or it was stated) ignores the big picture. The majority of coaches didn't last as long as Garrett because they were fired for losing. Then of coaches we weren't fired, the ones he listed had one great season.

What is the "big picture"?

Somehow, for some reason, it takes what, ten years to get beyond the NFC divisional playoffs?

All this means in reality is that only Jerry Jones is as patient as Mike Brown and tolerates a coach that is not capable of winning consistently. Congrats. Give Garrett a participation ribbon.

Wait, are you really one of the imbeciles that has bought into the idea he is the next Landry and really has some sort of long game that is in place that for just some gosh darn reason it hasn't worked out yet?

 

[hutch1254]

1) not hiring a true GM to, on a full-time basis, manage and guide this franchise on the field

That's the one that gets me. Guy like Elway...that is all he does. He's up the backside of that team 24/7/365. Completely invested and engaged. Jerry is working all kinds of other stuff while trying "play" GM.

I'm not saying that one point is the whole problem but is one of the ones that bothers me a ton.

 

[CalPolyTechnique]

Garrett Factoid #6,641:

The percussion produced from a Jason Garrett hand clap produces a momentary sonic boom that is matched only by the mantis shrimp in nature.