Garrett the next Jimmy Johnson...child please!

As soon as the league caught up to the gimmic wild cat offense and made them play legitimate football down in Miami, they realised they screwed themselves by never developing Chad Henne because they spent three seasons practicing a gimmic offense and wasted a full season thinking Pat White was the man. I love how that blew up in their faces.

Sporano wasn’t the reason this offense was really good in 2007. It was the offensive line playing above its head until the Philadelphia Eagles came into town and showed the league how to beat them: stunts, twists, inside blitzing, forcing Romo to stay in the pocket like a sitting duck.

Don’t forget the offense started 2008 strong, only after Romo went down for 3 weeks, Kosier went on IR, Austin went on IR, Felix went on IR, Adams and Holland were also battling injuries that season. It was a season that started with promise and ended badly.

2009 Barber was a shell of himself; the line was on life support; the offensive woes weren’t because of playcalling but because of oline.

The oline play has gotten worse each season, although now it’s younger and should be much better in 2012. But what do I know, I’m not a Jason Garrett hater.

I can’t wait for the day this team shuts up all these troll haters who want Garrett gone, want a new QB because they think Romo sucks, etc. Once this team shuts them up, they’ll probably bitch and whine about not beating teams by 30 every game.

I wonder how some you would’ve tried to run Jerry, Jimmy and Aikman out of town in 1989 and 1990 when this team was 8-24.

Ok my all over the place rebuttal is finished.

Regarding your “smartest guy in the room” comment, since when was it a negative to be intelligent?

He can be better. If Jerry lets him do his own thing, hire his own coaches, making sure he he gets the players that he wants. The sky is the limit with Garrett.

Not sure what you have against him but you seem to look at anything he writes in a negative light.

garrett is good but he’s no jimmy and drinking kool-aid is good and makes you feel ok but you know what’s better and something very close to garrett’s way being aware of the real situations inside an organization in order to identify the possible weak areas and consequently implement the necessary actions to make a healthier organization

…the meddle to return this team to glory but time will tell and I hope I’m wrong.

Great post!

There is nothing to suggest that Garrett is an effective leader.

There is, you are just not looking…

Like most of the Cowboys’ defenders, linebacker Bradie James didn’t know much about Jason Garrett before he replaced Wade Phillips. But after playing four games for Garrett, James sounds very much like a man who wants to play for the Princeton grad for years to come. "That fire – you are born with it," James said of Garrett. "He’s got that fire in the belly. He motivates you, man. I’ll be honest with you, he really does. He gives you something to think about, and guys respond."

After Jason Witten caught what would prove to be a game-winning four-yard touchdown pass from Stephen McGee in the team’s season closing victory over the Eagles in Philadelphia, then-interim head coach Jason Garrett gave Witten a little congratulatory shove.

Only it wasn’t really all that little.

Some observers thought Witten to be upset over the push, which sent him back a few feet; but according to the veteran tight end, who revisited the exchange with the Bad Radio Show on 1310 the Ticket recently, this was not the case.

“No, I wasn’t upset, " Witten said, per the Dallas Morning News. "I was focused. I was locked in. I just caught the game-winning touchdown, I had hoped. That’s the way he is. His interaction with the players, that’s the way he does it.

"I was a little caught off guard. He gave me a pretty good shove, I got to admit. It knocked me back a little bit. But that’s him. He’s all in with his players. He loves to compete. He respects this game so much and he gets the most out of his players."

Terence Newman: “Jason Garrett just gave the greatest speech i’ve heard in all my years playing football.”

Although Garrett doesn’t show it when talking to the media, he’s got a reputation for being a motivational master.
"He’s unbelievable in front of our team," linebacker Sean Lee said during training camp. "He’s obviously extremely intelligent. At the same time, he’s very personable."

"I told you guys when Jason Garrett took over that he will change things," Michael Irvin said on NFL Total Access . "He’s going back to the old Jimmy Johnson style where you’re going to have to earn everything. And I certainly do like that."
Irvin said that Garrett, a teammate of Irvin’s from 1993-1999, understands what it takes because he put in the work when he was a backup quarterback with the Cowboys.
"Jason Garrett was one of the guys that earned it," Irvin said. "He didn’t step on the field on Super Bowl Sunday, but I worked his butt to death everyday in practice when I couldn’t go with Troy [Aikman]. So, he understands what it takes and he’s going to deliver it."

A high-ranking Ravens official mentioned to me in ’07 that Garrett could run for president if he got sick of coaching someday.

Garrett’s a great leader. He seems to strike with ease a balance between being a meticulous task master and passionate players coach. We’re lucky to have him directing the organisation and rebuilding this roster.

… from the get-go. Eras, players, JJ/JG personalities and coaching styles, Turner/Wannstedt/Sparano/etc, men and their Time, pre-cap, post-cap, coincidental circumstances, prior and current, influencing the then-Present, and on and on. Contextual definition’s required, which may, in and of itself, invalidate the debate altogether.

I dont know how good Jimmy was as I was too young to experience those seasons. But how many of you that were following the team then, thought Jimmy was the great coach you think he is today after going 1-15 his first season?

Point is, give Garrett time, he’s had 1 1/2 seasons, and no offseason to work with the team. He needs time to assemble HIS team. It takes time for all the SOFTNESS that Wade instilled in them. We saw some real toughness from this team this season.
This fanbase is way to Knee-Jerk.

Coach Garrett has been in control for a year and a half. What type of magic trick did you want him to pull off. When it was clear to a blind man that the team isn’t as talented as we would like to believe. Plain and simple you have to be able to cover or you’re not going to win. With a cap that was strapped, they went after the best DB on the market and lost. What could Coach Garrett have done?

I can only imagine what you guys would have said if Coach Garrett would’ve have had a season like Coach Johnson had in his first year coaching. Yes I know, I shoudn’t compare the two. Exactly what I was thinking. Fact of the matter, the guy is rebuilding the team to have his footprint. You can’t look at other teams or other coaches and think it should be done here. Every team from year to year is different.

I for one think we’re on the right track. Building an organization isn’t a over night thing. Changing the culture of a team and at the same time getting an onhands owner to see the big picture is a start. Give it time, because that’s what its going to take

The only owner/GM in the league.

He and Johnson put together that team and won 3 SB’s (well, 2 for Jimmy) despite Jerry, not because of him. They got a once-in-a-lifetime deal for Herschel, struck gold with their high picks from the losing years and,
most importantly,
were not dealing with a salary cap. If there was a hole Jerry could write a check and fill it. Everyone wanted to play in Big D in those days, and stepped onto a team with real leaders in the lockerroom.

Since then it’s been an embarrassment. Winning starts at the top of the organization (Consistent winning) which is why some teams are there year after year after year.
This team is looking at having an Al Davis type of situation where a control freak who’s time has come and gone wil not let go, and until a real NFL football man takes over as GM, nothing will change.

Jerry’s current tone (echoing Garrett and saying all the right things about process, etc.) is just another phase, after the
“I’ll try any warm body "phase, and the
“Bill Parcells” phase and the
“Wade Phillips” phase,
and is doomed to failure.

Why? Because at the top there is confusion in the leadership. Jerry is not a good GM, therefore he is not capable of putting together good teams year after year.
And any coach who steps in, even Garrett, has to answer to a guy who is BOTH GM and owner, who pulls the player strings and the $$ strings.
Players sense that, and so when the going gets tough, it’s hard for a coach to be the leader. Because the whole lockerroom knows who the real leader is. And, they know he’s an old guy, living on glory 2 decades old, having plastic surgery to seem younger, and who wants all the attention on him.

No matter how hard JG and the coaches work they are doomed.
No matter how hard the scouting department works they are doomed.
No matter how hard Stephen Jones and Tom Ciskowski works they are doomed.
No matter how hard the players work and train year round they are doomed.

Well I guess I should just dump my clients with the Cowboys because they will never succeed under Jerry. Everyone on the site should just forget about the draft, training camp and games becuase there is no way they can succeed. We should just change BtB to Bitchin About the Boys and wait for Jerry to die, then just maybe we have a shot to be a contender.

Glad you cleared that up for me so I do not waste my time with the Cowboys.

I’m a writer myself, and have been reading the posts and comments here for the last few years, but only now will come on to engage you awesome guys in some good ole’ boys discussions.

We don’t need to be talking about this right now. Jason Garrett needs the time to implement his program. This will be the first full offseason he’s gotten, so I do expect things like the rookies, 1st year guys, and the defense to improve. Mike Woicik can go to work on those guys, and Dez Bryant can finally get the entire offseason work he needs to jump to the next level.

You honestly cannot compare the two as of yet if DeMarco pans out we will have a running game that IMOP will be the best we have had since Emmit. Wouldn’t hurt to secure that middle for bigger plays. You have to have a threat back there these days unless your New England.

But composing a coaching staff with Norv Turner, Dave Wannstedt, Butch Davis, Mike Woicik, Dave Campo the list just goes on, has to make your job a little easier.