At one time Jason Garrett, the Dallas Cowboys head coach, was an up and coming coaching candidate. In 2005 and 2006 Garrett worked under Nick Saban with the Miami Dolphins as the teams quarterback coach. The same team that boasted players like Gus Frerrote, Daunte Culpepper, Sage Rosenfels, and Joey Harrington. The Dolphins in those two seasons didn’t do much which led to Saban’s departure to Alabama.
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Why am I telling you all this? In 2007 the Dallas Cowboys hired Garrett to be their offensive coordinator. The Cowboys were the 2nd best offense that season and Garrett’s name quickly rose to the top of the coaching candidate food chain. In 2010 he became the interim head coach of the Cowboys and after the season became the head coach and has been since.
The Cowboys have not made the playoffs in that time and in the three years as the teams head coach he hasn’t produced better than an 8-8 record. Fans have not been thrilled as Jerry Jones has stood beside and behind his head coach decision.
Today we learn that two former NFL players are taking a stab in the direction of Jason Garrett. Randy Moss and Donovan McNabb both shared comments about the Dallas Cowboys head coach and where the teams blame should fall.
"“When you look on paper, it’s every year that the Dallas Cowboys and Oakland Raiders have a lot of talent on their team,” Moss said. “I mean, talented, top-end players. For the Dallas Cowboys to keep sputtering every year, it’s not the players – some of it falls on the players – but go on up top and see what’s going on. . . .“The thing that’s not really fair to Tony Romo is he really hasn’t had that coaching to be able to bring him along. I’m not sitting here busting Garrett or trying to call Garrett out, but there has not been nothing steady in Dallas. It’s always coaches come and go.”"
McNabb however was a little more to the point.
"“I’m still figuring out how he still has a job at this particular point the way we have continued to see this team just continue to crumble,”said McNabb. “You can’t fire Wade Phillips and hire Jason Garrett and Jason Garrett’s doing worse than Wade Phillips was doing. That’s just not going to get it done. What team is going to follow that?”"
Both players bring up valid observations and despite most in the media portraying Garrett as on the 2014 proverbial hot-seat, Jerry Jones likes Garrett and Jones is the only one with the say on whether this season will or won’t be his last in Dallas.