Mind-Boggling Statement Award: Jason Garrett, head coach, Cowboys
When asked what new Cowboys passing game coordinator Scott Linehan brings to the team, Garrett avoided saying that Linehan was just one more person to undermine the leftover granules of Garrett's authority. Barely. "The biggest thing we have tried to do is allow me move more to the responsibility of a head coach." Garrett has been a head coach since 2010, so you think he would already have arrived at such responsibility.
Linehan will take over play calling (duties formerly assigned to Bill Callahan, who is still hanging around), and with Monte Kiffin and Rod Marinelli in complete control of the defense and Jerry Jones buying the groceries, Garrett would appear to be moving further away from the responsibilities of a head coach, which generally involve making meaningful decisions about something. Maybe it's one of those optical illusion country roads, where cars appear to roll uphill. Maybe it's the real secret to how the Cowboys finish .500 every single year.
