The next time Garret or our defense are actually top tier will the the first in a long time too.
As somebody who is a clear Romo historian perhaps you should have better recognition of the fact that Garret and the defense have also been holding us back for years.
I’ve been criticizing Garrett since 2008. There were VERY FEW people on this forum that attacked Garrett, blaming everybody else including Romo. I’m pretty sure many of the Romo critics that love Dak are now trying to leverage the Garrett excuse for their boy..
The reality is Garrett was neutered in 2014 and Jerry said Garrett isn’t touching the offense.
Most of Jerry’s comments around coordinators has its origins specifically in this. When Dallas won in 2016, that basically was Jerry’s way of justifying Garrett, that as long as we have coordinators around Garrett limiting his role, they can retain his ‘adopted son’ as HC.
Dallas handling of Dak is absolutely on no way like they did Romo, number 1 because Garrett was already relegated to a walk around HC. From the very beginning, they adjusted the offense for Dak and have done everything possible to make it Dak friendly, including establishing a significant run game. With Romo on the other hand, they were using him mask the incompetence here.
we could have very well threatened for a SB with Wade, if we weren’t straddled with Garrett as a play-caller. Anybody that really looked knew the offense would eventually implode against a good defense, because it was too reliant on Romo having to push the offense on his own in an offense that attacked deep and outside the hashes first. Garrett has no clue how to even establish a run game to keep a defense honest.
Now Garrett isn’t even a play caller.