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[Beast_from_East]

Nick Eatman said the Garrett has to not only win the division, but win that home playoff game in the first round to keep from getting fired. He sounded like he was pretty confident that this is how it is going to go, not just some wild speculation.

Who thinks Garrett beats SF in the first round?

 

[big dog cowboy]

On November 13th?

 

[Pabst]

Well, I can't say I disagree with him. Winning a terrible division doesn't really say much about his coaching ability. Especially if it's 7-9 or 8-8 that takes it.

Winning a playoff game, against a team who will undoubtedly have a better squad and record, does.

 

[Neverhood]

If he makes a decision to fire the coach off of one game we are screwed. I think even if Garrett wins the division and wins a home playoff game and we get stomped in the 2nd round of the playoffs that he should still get fired.

 

[17yearsandcounting]

It is going to be one of the happiest days of my Cowboy fandom watching the exit press conference.

 

[xwalker]

Nick Eatman said the Garrett has to not only win the division, but win that home playoff game in the first round to keep from getting fired. He sounded like he was pretty confident that this is how it is going to go, not just some wild speculation.

Who thinks Garrett beats SF in the first round?

Eatman is clueless.

During the Blue-White scrimmage in training camp, he was calling out players based on the Jersey numbers. Unfortunately, he apparently had a roster from 2009. He thought that #35 was Keon Lattimore and called out multiple other players that have not been with the Cowboys in years. It was very comical.

 

[Super_Kazuya]

Seems kinda silly to say this early... what if they lose Romo, Bryant, Carr, Scandrick and Carter to season ending injuries? An arena league team is supposed to knock off Seattle/San Fran?

 

[Stash]

Well, I can't say I disagree with him. Winning a terrible division doesn't really say much about his coaching ability. Especially if it's 7-9 or 8-8 that takes it.

Winning a playoff game, against a team who will undoubtedly have a better squad and record, does.

Exactly right.

What accomplishment is it to suck less than the other three teams in your division?

None.

Not that I give them a chance at this point, but I can definitely see that it would - and should - require a playoff victory against an actually good team to keep the job.

But for me, that ship has sailed anyway. I've seen enough and Garrett has gotten more than enough time to show what he can, and can't do.

 

[EPL0c0]

if that's the case

Nick Eatman said the Garrett has to not only win the division, but win that home playoff game in the first round to keep from getting fired.

Well if that's the case, we'll know by the time we're serving ourselves that 2nd (or 4th) helping of pecan pie

 

[panchucko]

Seems kinda silly to say this early... what if they lose Romo, Bryant, Carr, Scandrick and Carter to season ending injuries? An arena league team is supposed to knock off Seattle/San Fran?

Shouldn't matter which player is lost, Garrett is always preaching "Next man up" so if they can't win it all, then he needs to go

 

[Frosty]

If he makes a decision to fire the coach off of one game we are screwed. I think even if Garrett wins the division and wins a home playoff game and we get stomped in the 2nd round of the playoffs that he should still get fired.

IMO if this team puts up another embarrassing loss like they took in NO....he should be gone with or without winning a division and a playoff game. I am just tired of all the embarrassments this Cowboy team has had under Garrett. Something has to change.

 

[Fredd]

Garrett could win out and still not impress me as a head coach....time to move on regardless of when they play their last game of the season

 

[Frosty]

Seems kinda silly to say this early... what if they lose Romo, Bryant, Carr, Scandrick and Carter to season ending injuries? An arena league team is supposed to knock off Seattle/San Fran?

Sounds like a good opportunity to REBUILD this team

 

[Super_Kazuya]

Shouldn't matter which player is lost, Garrett is always preaching "Next man up" so if they can't win it all, then he needs to go

If you're just going to make an impossible task up, why not just say Garrett has to broad jump from one end zone to the other to keep his job? People around here act like this is a 12-4 team held back by coaching. It is far, FAR closer to a 4-12 team that is improbably buoyed to .500 every year. You and Jerry can make up whatever magical goal you want; doesn't mean it's possible.

 

[bark]

Well they did fire Marty Shottenhiemer after a 14-2 season and a playoff win.......of course they haven't won anything since.....

 

[Stash]

If you're just going to make an impossible task up, why not just say Garrett has to broad jump from one end zone to the other to keep his job? People around here act like this is a 12-4 team held back by coaching. It is far, FAR closer to a 4-12 team that is improbably buoyed to .500 every year. You and Jerry can make up whatever magical goal you want; doesn't mean it's possible.

And you can make up whatever hypothetical excuse you want for bad coaching.

With the Garrett supporters, it's always something else to blame.

 

[WoodysGirl]

This isn't news, tho. Is it? Hasn't the general thought process was that Garrett had to win a playoff game to keep his job? If not, maybe I assumed something else. Winning the division wasn't the end goal. Making noise in the playoffs was.

 

[Picksix]

And you can make up whatever hypothetical excuse you want for bad coaching.

With the Garrett supporters, it's always something else to blame.

So when we go 8-8 next year with a different coach, who do we blame then?

 

[dcstands4]

So when we go 8-8 next year with a different coach, who do we blame then?

thats my next thread. Garret wont get fired unless we lose out...

 

[cowboys1981]

I have to see how this plays out. If we lose more key players and manage to still win the division Garrett should keep his job. If we continue to lose players to these injuries, maybe we need to look at our training staff.

I'm not all to pleased with what is going on and SNF game didn't help that much either. I am curious as to what adjustments will be made and how our players will respond in NY.

Here's my observation on our philosophical problem:

Offense:

Our strength is our passing game and we should get that going first and foremost. I say this because we struggle at getting a RB healthy on the field. Lets jump out early passing and use it to setup our run.

The change we need to make on passing is getting away from these intermediate to long routes that take too long to develop due to a lack of separation we fail to create and go with shorter routes (7-10 yards). With Waters out, the entire right side is our weakness on the line. Making this adjustment will make it harder for teams to blitz and it takes the pressure off of Romo on longer routes to develop. I think he looks more at Free's matchup from the snap than at receivers running routes. Lol.

Defense:

I wanted more man coverage and now we're getting it. I understand the injuries played a role in the decision to stick with zone. Playing man, plays to our CB's strengths and it will allow more time for our Dline to get pressure on the QB.

Lets go Cowboys!