Jason Garrett's Strengths

[Q_the_man]

He’s intelligent, organized, consistent, and able to dampen the circus atmosphere Jerry insists on cultivating. He develops players well. He keeps the team focused, and they play hard.

Most of what he does poorly is massively exaggerated by upset fans. They hated his play calling, though his offenses were generally in the top ten in the league in terms of production/series. They are his press conferences, though fail to understand he does it for a very good reason. They hate his clapping...never understood why that was such an issue. Really, what they’re unhappy about is the team not going on a playoff run, and when they don’t like that result, the easiest person to blame is the coach. Personally, I don’t think he’s miss d the playoffs with a playoff caliber team until last season.

Yeah Right.

How can Garrett dampen the circus atmosphere Jerry insists on cultivating, when something happens we hear from Jerry not Garrett, lol.

Consistently losing

Organized- we do wear matching uniforms

Intelligent vs football IQ, I'm talking football IQ every time in a real game. Book smarts don't make u a great coach and Garrett isn't even a OK coach at that, Garrett is garbage and by some type of luck we might get lucky and win a playoff game in the next 5 years.

meaning 13 years as HC and 2 playoff wins.

I hate losing.

 

[Beast_from_East]

I don’t agree. I think the issue in Dallas not being even more successful than they have been has been the ability to assemble talent.

And I don’t think it matters that much what other teams do. Dallas is organized differently than those teams and the team presents different challenges.

If the problem with the team has been talent acquisition and not coaching, as you say, then what is going to be different this year than from previous years?

For the sake of debate, lets say you are right, that problem with the team has been talent acquisition over these past 8 years and not Garrett's coaching. Then why is year 9 going to be any different? If the team has been bad at overall talent acquisition and that is the reason we have not been successful, then what changes have been made to change how talent acquisition is done? I see Will McClay getting an extension, I see all the main coaches still here, I see pretty much the same scouting department.

So what is going to be so magical that going forward their talent acquisition process is going to be so much better? Or is this a case of just doing the same thing and hoping for different results.........and you know what Einstein called that, right?

 

[Beast_from_East]

In 2 of the last 4 years, the Cowboys have had the best overall record in the NFL.

2014: 12-4 Tied with Seahawks and Packers for top record in the NFL. Although Dallas beat Seattle, who beat Green Bay in the regular season, Dallas lost the tie breakers due to Conference record
2015: 4-12 Cowboys lost DeMarco Murray before the season, Dez Bryant in Game 1, and Tony Romo in Game 2. That's the equivalent of the 90's Cowboys losing all three triplets before the end of the 2nd game of the year.
2016: 13-3 Secured #1 seed in playoffs
2017: 9-7 6-game suspension of Elliott derailed season. Dak's 1st half QB rating of 97.9 plummeted to 73.8 in 2nd half of season.

I don't share what happened in 2015 and 2017 to make excuses. Those are just the facts of what happened. I believe that without those two seasons of the Cowboys playing very well, Garrett would have gotten fired. But the Jones family believes the mitigating factors of 2015 & 2017 don't accurately reflect the talent of the team, as reflected by what Jerry Jones recently said about the gap between the Cowboys and Eagles being smaller than perceived. But I do think Garrett MUST have a big bounce back year in 2018 to keep his job in 2019.

The fact that we were the number one seed in 2016 and didn't even win a single playoff game kinda proves my point about Garrett.

And for the record, of the last 10 teams that clinched the number one seed in either conference, Dallas is the only one not to advance to the SB.

Again, kinda proves my point about Garrett, doesn't it.

 

[Beast_from_East]

Players love him and play hard for him, and that counts for a lot. Contrast this to McAdoo and Fisher who were hated amongst their most recent group of players.

He handles his relationship with Jerry much better than Parcells or Phillips did, at least publically.

He hires quality assistants because he is well liked and thought of in coaching circles.

He vouched for FO guys like McClay which has improved player eval tremendously.

His teams are generally excellent in the red zone both offensively and defensively as well as on special teams.

Too bad none of this actually translates to the win column come playoff time.

Oh, that's right.....to win a playoff game you have to make the playoffs and Garrett misses the playoffs 75% of the time.

My bad.

 

[Idgit]

If the problem with the team has been talent acquisition and not coaching, as you say, then what is going to be different this year than from previous years?

For the sake of debate, lets say you are right, that problem with the team has been talent acquisition over these past 8 years and not Garrett's coaching. Then why is year 9 going to be any different? If the team has been bad at overall talent acquisition and that is the reason we have not been successful, then what changes have been made to change how talent acquisition is done? I see Will McClay getting an extension, I see all the main coaches still here, I see pretty much the same scouting department.

So what is going to be so magical that going forward their talent acquisition process is going to be so much better? Or is this a case of just doing the same thing and hoping for different results.........and you know what Einstein called that, right?

I didn’t say anything would be different. Einstein can say what he wants, but replacing the carburetor over and over on a car with a busted transmission isn’t exactly the picture of sanity in my book. Fix what’s broke.

That said, I think this teams been capable of competing since 2014, so I’m not as down on the Cowboys as most of you guys are.

 

[Buzzbait]

This is a topic that is a glutton for punishment.
Whatever strengths he has, I hope he puts them to use this season!

He already did..... he got all the players to wear ties on the airplane.

 

[cowboy_ron]

Has anybody found a strength yet?

 

[ShortRound]

18 pages, that's good for a playoff game now right?

 

[dallasdave]

18 pages, that's good for a playoff game now right?

Yes

 

[Skillit]

I like that he’s basically the same guy after a loss or a win. He’s calm and consistent .... deals with Jerry well.


That’s all I got.

 

[plasticman]

His strengths are more suitable to the position of GM, that's where he should be.

 

[ondaedg]

His strengths are more suitable to the position of GM, that's where he should be.

I've been saying that as well. Or a college coaching position where his primary strengths could be used for recruiting purposes.

 

[charron]

He’s intelligent, organized, consistent, and able to dampen the circus atmosphere Jerry insists on cultivating. He develops players well. He keeps the team focused, and they play hard.

Most of what he does poorly is massively exaggerated by upset fans. They hated his play calling, though his offenses were generally in the top ten in the league in terms of production/series. They are his press conferences, though fail to understand he does it for a very good reason. They hate his clapping...never understood why that was such an issue. Really, what they’re unhappy about is the team not going on a playoff run, and when they don’t like that result, the easiest person to blame is the coach. Personally, I don’t think he’s miss d the playoffs with a playoff caliber team until last season.

Similar to how Belicheck got better after being fired from the browns Garret might have a better chance to succeed if he was leading a less dysfunctional organization. not suggesting he will come close to competing for multiple superbowls.

 

[Cmac]

Clapping butts, clapping period.....and slinging others under the bus.

 

[ondaedg]

Similar to how Belicheck got better after being fired from the browns Garret might have a better chance to succeed if he was leading a less dysfunctional organization. not suggesting he will come close to competing for multiple superbowls.

I.think that would be true if JG was truly good at strategically scheming or a game time tactician. Those aren't his strengths. He has struggled in those areas on his own with or without JJ's interference.

 

[Captain-Crash]

his strength is his robotic voice.. it would be awesome if he would do the "robot" when he's walking up to the mic.........."we got to. got to ,, we got to do good things. we like good things.. good things are what we like".... ending robotic voice.......asamoe2000 is now going into sleep mode....sleep mode... sleep mode is what we like... sleeping enabled.

 

[erod]

Garrett's strength is his resolve to work within the circus tent Jerry has created and still convince him to do important things like build offensive lines with first round picks and release old veterans like Brooking, James, and Kosier.

The head coach is hated in almost every NFL city. It doesn't take any knowledge or thought to bash the coach.

 

[KingintheNorth]

The idea of Garrett is great.

The reality of Garrett is underwhelming. He either is coaching this environment of mediocrity or allowing it to happen.

 

[erod]

A year ago, Philly hated Doug Pederson.

They detest Mike McCarthy in Green Bay.

Seattle wants Carroll's head right now.

New York ran off Coughlin and Ryan.

Houston is about to hang O'Brien.

It's the same virtually everywhere.

 

[kevm3]

Garrett's greatest strength? He's a master politician. He can make others fall on the sword for his foibles and can hoist the trophy for their successes. He has managed to last 8 years and pick up paycheck after paycheck for mediocrity. I think only Marvin Lewis is more talented in that regard. Garrett could probably finesse himself into being the US president. I mean he's so skillful at his politics that he even makes people use terminology like 'he's outsmarting himself' or 'he's trying to be the smartest guy in the room' when it's clear he doesn't know what he's doing. I mean I wish I could have people tell me, "This guy's so smart that he outsmarted himself by thinking too deeply and that's why he chose the wrong answers and failed that test".

Honestly, since Garrett has been here, the drafts have been much better. How much of that is McClay and how much of that is Garrett, I don't know, but if we HAVE to keep Garrett here, I'd rather have him in the front office than on the field