The Cowboys need to fire Jason Garrett and move on

Enough’s enough. The Dallas Cowboys need to stop playing around and fire Jason Garrett. Go find and hire a new head coach and move on, please.

It’s been a week since the Dallas Cowboys missed out on the NFC playoffs. Yet, America’s Team is taking its sweet time to part ways with its ineffective head coach Jason Garrett. Many people thought owner Jerry Jones would have parted ways with Garrett days ago, yet here we are. Garrett remains under contract through Jan. 14. Dallas needs to do the inevitable and fire the guy.

FOX’s Jay Glazer reports that’s Garrett isn’t going away quietly, opting to bargain for his job back after underperforming in Dallas for a decade. Jones is already interviewing potential head-coaching candidates in former Cincinnati Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis and former Green Bay Packers head coach Mike McCarthy. Garrett needs to grow up and read the writing on the wall.

Glazer would report the following, “Never seen anything like it. Because Jason Garrett, they’ve gone through it now a couple of times this week to say, ‘Ok, you’re out as our head coach.’ He says, ‘Hold on! Hold on! Don’t do it yet. I still want to be considered for this.’ And every time they do it, so they said, ‘We’re moving on, we’re starting to interview other people.” How utterly embarrassing.

This is a full-grown man bargaining for his job back, not fully aware he’s in the cycle of grief of losing the most important job he’ll ever have. Jones is 78 years old and can’t expect he can win a Super Bowl in his lifetime with Garrett on the sidelines. Garrett had more than enough time to make America’s Team great again, yet he made them slightly better than Jeff Fisher 7-9 B.S.

Bringing in a head coach the caliber of Lewis or McCarthy will establish a culture of accountability and one where the Cowboys can become a fixture in the playoffs consistently. Dallas may opt to go the college route with a guy like former Ohio State Buckeyes head coach Urban Meyer or current Oklahoma Sooners head coach Lincoln Riley. Either way, the culture will improve over this.

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Ultimately, it’s getting super awkward in Dallas. The longer it goes on, the more embarrassing it’s going to get. Jones should take Garrett’s key card. We shouldn’t care he’s “family,” sometimes, you have to cut ties with someone who’s been holding you back for a long time. Do the right thing Cowboys and move on.