Welcome Our New Coach: Jason Garrett

I’m being a bit sarcastic here but when an owner pays a coordinator more than what another NFL team was offering that coordinator to become a head coach, what else should us Dallas Cowboys fans believe other than what my headline states?

ESPN’s Ed Werder, who has a hot daughter whom I’d love to, well, you know, reports that Cowboys owner Jerry Jones gave Jason Garrett $3 million a year to remain the offensive coordinator. That means the Falcons and Ravens lose.

But the amount of the offer is mindboggling. The whole situation with Jones and Garrett is odd. Usually, a head coach hires his coordinators. But Jerry Jones snagged Garrett out of Miami and hired him even before he hired a damn head coach. When Wade Phillips was hired, he already had one guy on his staff. This lead us all to believe a few things: first, we thought Garrett was going to be named head coach. Then we thought, once Phillips got the job, that he was a puppet, and that Garrett would take over the head coaching job after a year or two under his belt in Dallas.

And now this. So, here is to Jason Garrett, our new head coach. Go win us a damn record-breaking sixth Lombardi Trophy!

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We can only hope you're right Dave.

It amazes me that the guy who got off the game plan that was beating the Giants for one that cost them the game is now the highest paid coordinator in the game.  I'm sure Garrett is good at his job.  I'm sure this was a learning experience for a guy who hasn't been coaching that long.  But what an expensive lesson.  If Wade Phillips gets fired next year (and he may not even weather this year), I wouldn't be so sure Garrett isn't fired with him. Garrett abandoned the running game right when it would have helped the most.  And he failed to find a way to get the same kind of vertical offense he was getting earlier.   His timing and playcalling were poor. If he didn't learn a lot from it, he's going to take the blame for next year's playoff loss, too.-DW