Let's cut this crap right now. How Jason Garrett favors players is different from how Jimmy Johnson did it. Garrett wrongly cuts too much slack for "name" players who have "more" talent, whether they translated it to on-field production or not.
Jimmy Johnson was never tht lax or gullible.
Sure Jimmy Johnson treated players differently: he cut a lot of slack for those who produced and did so consistently . For those who did not, he turned on the burners and said "if you want me to turn down the heat, start producing consistently, like those guys over there". And once a consistent player became less consistent and less productive, Jimmy Johnson would immediately turn the heat up on him. I remeber a time early in Emmitt's carreer where Emmitt had fumbled ome more time than it pleased Jimmy, and Jimmy really took him to task on it. Emiitt quckly retooled his game because Jimmy Johnson commanded the kind of authority that Garrett does not.
Unlike Garrett who gets controlled by his players, Jimmy Johnson was in total control of his players -- especially in how he controlled the whole roster by treating players differnetly.
