News: SAEN: Garrett defends decision to cut ties with Ware, Hatcher

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SAN ANTONIO – Dallas Cowboys coach Jason Garrett stressed Wednesday that the NFL is a young man’s game, saying that the decision to part ways with aging defensive linemen DeMarcus Ware and Jason Hatcher was colored by the belief that “you always want to infuse your team with young talent.”

“You’re always trying to build your team for now and for going forward,” Garrett said at the NFL owners meetings, per the Dallas Morning News. “You don’t want to build your team with guys based on what they’ve done in the past. It’s based on what they can do now for your team and what they can do going forward for your team.

“That’s not a commentary on anyone we’ve let go. We feel like DeMarcus Ware has a lot of good football left in him. We feel like Jason Hatcher has a lot of good football left in him.

“…But we had to make an organizational decision in a salary-cap era, given our salary-cap circumstances. Again, we felt like these are the best moves for our team
now and moving forward.”

Ware signed with Denver after the Cowboys cut him this month. Hatcher signed with Washington in free agency.

Both will be 32 next season.

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