Thoughts on Jason Garrett

[CTcowboy203]

I think was fine, but he just wasn't a great HC. While he was here it was pretty common to hear that he was a better Monday through Saturday coach than a Sunday coach. There is a place for those guys in the NFL, but it's typically as an assistant and not running the whole program.

This. He also screwed himself imo by taking a job so soon after being dismissed and it being the giants. He still had some name recognition after he left but he torpedoed that quick

 

[dacopacabana]

Appreciated him stepping up when needed as a player.

I think he was the OG “our guys” situation. Jerry wanted do much to be the smart guy of the bunch. Tell the NFL he groomed his ex backup qb to be the bright offensive mind of the nfl.

Too much too soon.

 

[dacopacabana]

Appreciated him stepping up when needed as a player.

I think he was the OG “our guys” situation. Jerry wanted do much to be the smart guy of the bunch. Tell the NFL he groomed his ex backup qb to be the bright offensive mind of the nfl.

Too much too soon.

 

[Hagman]

He iced his own kicker. It was one of the damnedest things I’ve ever seen even by the hilariously low standards of the last 30 years of the Jerry Jonesboys

 

[Bullflop]

From Garrett's start to his exit, he was more of a cheerleader than a coach. The fact that he wasn't ready to take on a HC's duties wasn't obvious to either of the Jones FO executives. They couldn't recognize a good coach, because neither of them knows what it takes. It's just a sad situation.

 

[ArtClink]

The Gulf of Mexico should have been renamed to the Gulf of Ranching instead.

Ha ha!

 

[GMO415]

I think JG would resonate with a college program.

 

[McKDaddy]

He was a solid coach but he needed to go. Once again he was not the problem. The Joneses are.

One problem can beget another problem.

 

[Johannes44]

Garrett tried to recreate the 90's style of Cowboys football that was built on the run. Unfortunately for him the QB who he was hoping would run said offense got hurt and retired. The guy who he had left was a guy who struggled passing the ball when he needed to. Furthermore, Garrett was an uber conservative in his approach which also didn't help matters, he folded when he needed to be bold.

 

[JohnsKey19]

Phony. Weird dude. I know for a fact he did some shady stuff behind the scenes while he was the HC. I'll leave it at that.

And before...

 

[DuncanIso]

This coming from Trey Lances biggest homer. Zero credibility.

2016 NFL coach of the year.

Voted by the NFL.

 

[TheSport78]

How you gonna just leave us on that cliff hanger?

I'll just say he's not as faithful as a guy as he seems on the horizon.

 

[Pass2Run]

I have just 2 words for Garrett....

he sucks.

Me too.

Good riddance.

 

[Pentagruel]

I think Jason Garrett’s biggest problem was his conservatism as a football coach at a time when the league was adopting a much less risk averse nature, especially on offense.

I’m probably in the minority on this forum but I thought he had a lot of good qualities as a coach. He was a good man manager whom players largely liked and I think he actually did run a fairly disciplined ship despite penalties frequently being cited as a lack thereof. I feel like there was a more obvious hierarchy with Garrett than with McCarthy and he was better able to handle the players than Mike was. I also thought Garrett made good changes in team building philosophy by focusing on the offensive line.

His biggest issues for me was his conservatism on game day for one. He never took risks on 4th downs for example, and his scheme was also conservative and lacked explosively. It worked when the OL was extremely dominant, at least in the regular season, but it was never enough to get over the hump in the playoffs. On top of this, the Jones’ are also conservative in constructing the team, to its great detriment, and Garrett was never able to get them to change that. But no coach in a long time has been able to do that unfortunately.

In short, Garrett was a pretty good team manager, an under appreciated quality and probably the reason most coaches fail. But he was a bad coach in terms of X’s and O’s, and didn’t have the staff to make up for those shortcomings.

 

[DuncanIso]

I think Jason Garrett’s biggest problem was his conservatism as a football coach at a time when the league was adopting a much less risk averse nature, especially on offense.

I’m probably in the minority on this forum but I thought he had a lot of good qualities as a coach. He was a good man manager whom players largely liked and I think he actually did run a fairly disciplined ship despite penalties frequently being cited as a lack thereof. I feel like there was a more obvious hierarchy with Garrett than with McCarthy and he was better able to handle the players than Mike was. I also thought Garrett made good changes in team building philosophy by focusing on the offensive line.

His biggest issues for me was his conservatism on game day for one. He never took risks on 4th downs for example, and his scheme was also conservative and lacked explosively. It worked when the OL was extremely dominant, at least in the regular season, but it was never enough to get over the hump in the playoffs. On top of this, the Jones’ are also conservative in constructing the team, to its great detriment, and Garrett was never able to get them to change that. But no coach in a long time has been able to do that unfortunately.

In short, Garrett was a pretty good team manager, an under appreciated quality and probably the reason most coaches fail. But he was a bad coach in terms of X’s and O’s, and didn’t have the staff to make up for those shortcomings.

He was NFL coach of the year.

Won a lot of football games.

How bad could he be?

 

[quickccc]

Where did he go wrong? He wasn't a good coach. He never was.

He didn't go through the Darwinian process of working his way up through the ranks, proving himself, and earning his promotions like most coaches. Jerry was seduced by the glory days connection, the Troy and Moose endorsements, Daddy Garrett being a Jerry loyalist, the Ivy League degree, and the rest of the garbage that had nothing to do with being a good coach.

Still can't believe we wasted 13 years on him as OC and HC, but then Jerry is that big a selfish, nepotistic football moron.

- Garrett was a smoke and mirror mirage, coaxed up by Jerry to be the next Sean Payton, Sean Mcvey wish dream by Jerry.

- An old schooler that was stuck in the 90's and could not relate to nothing but the 90's . He was stone age Flintstone, instead of being space aged Jetson.
Despite Jerry sugar coating him to be this offensive genius, he was actually conservative by nature. Oft critcized for not being gutsy to go for the throat at certain
downs and distances vs oppositions.. While oddly enuff exhibit games where he should have stuck to run game instead of letting Romo chunk it out en route to turnovers
and killer games.

- Jerry conned him as a great offensive mind, but suxed at play calling, gave the job over to Scott Linehan, and once Linehan went stale/predictable, Garrett resorted to
Kellen and Mussenburger (sp) , .he was not a game manager, he didn't adjust and adapt in-game. he just counted heavily upon his asst coaches, in where
he did not know when/how much to delegate tasks & authority to his asst/position coaches ,..and when to take control & authority himself as a HC.

- Note how since he was fired as a failure of a HC in Dallas, - and he hasn;t come close to receiving any HC offers from
NFL teams , despite being named as HC of the year in 2016. he wasn't even a competent OC for the pitiful Giants offense.

 

[Pentagruel]

- Garrett was a smoke and mirror mirage, coaxed up by Jerry to be the next Sean Payton, Sean Mcvey wish dream by Jerry.

- An old schooler that was stuck in the 90's and could not relate to nothing but the 90's . He was stone age Flintstone, instead of being space aged Jetson.

- Jerry conned him as a great offensive mind, but suxed at play calling, gave the job over to Scott Linehan, and once Linehan went stale/predictable, Garrett resorted to
Kellen and Mussenburger (sp) , .he was not a game manager, he didn't adjust and adapt in-game. he just counted heavily upon his asst coaches, in where
he did not know when/how much to delegate tasks & authority to his asst/position coaches ,..and when to take control & authority himself as a HC.

- Note how since he was fired as a failure of a HC in Dallas, - and he hasn;t come close to receiving any HC offers from
NFL teams , despite being named as HC of the year in 2016. he wasn't even a competent OC for the pitiful Giants offense.

Amazingly, Garrett might have been the most successful OC in that sad regime.

 

[ElGatoGrande]

I know that many Cowboys fans were ready to move on from him when it happened in 2020. Where do you think he went wrong? I mean other than the obvious, not getting it done in the playoffs. Why do you think he ultimately failed as an NFL coach?

Good luck getting any rational thoughts on this, he's the sheeple's choice whipping boy.

 

[DuncanIso]

- Garrett was a smoke and mirror mirage, coaxed up by Jerry to be the next Sean Payton, Sean Mcvey wish dream by Jerry.

- An old schooler that was stuck in the 90's and could not relate to nothing but the 90's . He was stone age Flintstone, instead of being space aged Jetson.
Despite Jerry sugar coating him to be this offensive genius, he was actually conservative by nature. Oft critcized for not being gutsy to go for the throat at certain
downs and distances vs oppositions.. While oddly enuff exhibit games where he should have stuck to run game instead of letting Romo chunk it out en route to turnovers
and killer games.

- Jerry conned him as a great offensive mind, but suxed at play calling, gave the job over to Scott Linehan, and once Linehan went stale/predictable, Garrett resorted to
Kellen and Mussenburger (sp) , .he was not a game manager, he didn't adjust and adapt in-game. he just counted heavily upon his asst coaches, in where
he did not know when/how much to delegate tasks & authority to his asst/position coaches ,..and when to take control & authority himself as a HC.

- Note how since he was fired as a failure of a HC in Dallas, - and he hasn;t come close to receiving any HC offers from
NFL teams , despite being named as HC of the year in 2016. he wasn't even a competent OC for the pitiful Giants offense.

He does TV gets paid $$$$ and doesn’t spend 18 hours at the Star.

The #JasonHate on here is insane.

 

[gimmesix]

I know that many Cowboys fans were ready to move on from him when it happened in 2020. Where do you think he went wrong? I mean other than the obvious, not getting it done in the playoffs. Why do you think he ultimately failed as an NFL coach?

I think most of the blame goes on the front office, and that mantra should be repeated with every coaching change. Even the great Bill Parcells "failed" here.

However, I think Garrett contributed to his failures with his offensive philosophy. We focused on rebuilding the offense after he became coach and did a good job of it personnelwise, but Garrett's philosophy kept the offense from being good enough to overcome an average to below-average defense.

That philosophy was it's all about execution. He believed in my man beating your man and hardly used trick plays (except end-arounds, which aren't really a trick anymore) and did very little to create matchup advantages. When the front office made him get offensive coordinators, he married them to his philosophy, even though Moore was at least allowed to add some motion to the offense.

For years, we heard from other teams that they knew exactly what we were going to do on offense. That part is on Garrett. Not making the defense good enough that the offense didn't have to be great is on the front office.