Dallas Cowboys shouldn’t fear Jason Garrett going to the Giants
Following another loss, Jason Garrett’s seat just got hotter. Here’s why the Dallas Cowboys shouldn’t fear him going to their NFC East rivals, the New York Giants.
The 2019 Dallas Cowboys are who we thought they were. All season long, the Cowboys have been a team that defeats lesser teams and loses to greater ones. That narrative continued in Week 12 with Dallas losing to the New England Patriots, 13-9.
The Cowboys now have a 6-5 record. And despite the fact that performance in the standings would not be good enough to lead any other division in the entire NFL, Dallas still sits atop the NFC East. And that’s only due to the fact they play in the worst division in the league.
Although a loss to the now 10-1 Patriots in Foxborough wasn’t unexpected, the coaching miscues, the bad officiating, and the terrible weather conditions certainly were. And despite those obstacles, Dallas was still one solid drive away from winning the game.
Still, Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones displayed his frustration with the coaching staff afterward describing the loss as a significant setback. Here’s what Jones said during his postgame presser according to DallasCowboys.com.
"“I don’t think there’s a game where a coaching staff couldn’t do better in. I just don’t like it that we’ve got so many as I’m standing here tonight … we had opportunity here to do some things against a really outstanding organization, outstanding team in a rough situation and we just didn’t get there. That’s disappointing and I’m reflecting it.”"
If there was one person who didn’t appear to escape this matchup unscathed outside of the team’s entire special teams unit, it was head coach Jason Garrett. Prior to the contest, NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported that the New York Giants could be interested in Garrett if he was somehow no longer with the Cowboys. It came across as some veiled threat.
Jerry Jones certainly put Garrett on the hot seat to start the year by not signing the near-decade-long head coach to a contract extension past 2019, making him a lame-duck coach this season. And so far, Garrett has been unable to rise to the challenge, as Sunday’s outcome was just the latest example of.
At the end of the day, the Dallas Cowboys shouldn’t fear Garrett going to the New York Giants. Although the Cowboys have invested nearly 13 years into his development as a coach, the results have been so underwhelming (two playoff victories as a head coach) that most organizations would have given up on him several years ago.
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The loyalty of Jerry Jones has always blinded him to the truth. That’s the fact Jason Garrett is simply not a very good head coach. And after this Sunday’s postgame presser in which DallasCowboys.com staff writer David Helman pointed out Jones used some variation of the terms disappointed or frustrated 13 different times, it seems that Jerry is finally starting to realize it too.