Dallas Cowboys: It's now or never for Jason Garrett

Jason Garrett has been the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys since the halfway point of the 2010 season, and while he’s had moderate success, he’s long over due for the Super Bowl.

Dallas Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett has been with the Cowboys organization for of the majority of his professional football career.

The man known as Mr. Clapper or the Clapping Carrot, has played on two of the Cowboys’ Super Bowl winning teams as the backup quarterback to Hall of Famer and three-time Super Bowl winning signal caller Troy Aikman.

From his days as the backup quarterback, Jason Garrett was known as an intelligent person with a bright future as head coach.

In fact, when Jason Garrett was the offensive coordinator of the Cowboys in 2007, owner and general manager Jerry Jones paid Garrett handsomely to remain the OC when offered to coach the Baltimore Ravens

Back in 2007, Jason Garrett was seen as the up and coming offensive genius that could take any team to the next level.

At that time, Tony Romo was throwing touchdown passes to Hall of Fame wide receiver Terrell Owens, the late and magnificent Terry Glenn, Patrick Crayton, Miles Austin, Sam Hurd, Jason Witten, along with running backs Julius Jones and Marion Barber rounding out the the offensive juggernaut.

With Jason Garrett calling the plays, the Cowboys ranked second in the league in scoring with 28.4 points a game. That’s why the defensive minded Ravens wanted the offensive creativity of Garrett at the helm to balance out their team.

But that’s not the only reason why Jerry paid Garrett to stay on the staff to call plays. In the event then head coach Wade Phillips fell short (and he did), Garrett would be Dallas’ next head coach.

As we all know, Garrett became Dallas’ interim head coach midway through the 2010 season and has sat in that position ever since.

Now in 2019, Garrett has another talented roster of players and it’s either now or never for him to lead this team a Super Bowl victory.

To avoid any repeat playoffs let downs, Garrett needs to be the player caller like he did in 2007 when Dallas was an offensive powerhouse. And remember, nobody coaches better than a coach that’s out of excuses and sitting on a throne hotter than hell.

The Cowboys have a talented roster and the youngest in the NFL

The last time the Cowboys had a roster of this magnitude- full of elite, ultra- talent- was in the early 1990’s. That was so long ago actor Will Smith was a rising star on “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air”.

Those teams in the early 1990’s consisted of the best offensive line in NFL history. Aikman led the way, but he had wide receivers Michael Irvin, Alvin Harper, Kelvin Martin, tight end Jay Novacek, Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith, and Pro Bowl fullback Daryl Johnston as his offensive weapons. The defense was fantastic, too.

That dynasty went on to win three Lombardi trophies in a four-year span. I’m not saying this roster can do the same, but I am saying that the proverbial “sand in the hour glass” is moving pretty fast on Garrett in terms of taking this team to at least an NFC Championship game.

Dallas’ offensive line is littered with Pro Bowlers. It boasts the best running back in the league (Ezekiel Elliott), has one of the best clutch quarterbacks in the game (Dak Prescott), presents an outstanding receiving corps in Amari Cooper, Michael Gallup, Cole Beasley, Noah Brown and has an up and coming tight end named Blake Jarwin.

The defensive side of the ball consists of Pro Bowl defensive end DeMarcus Lawrence, Randy Gregory, Maliek Collins, Antwaun Woods, Jaylon Smith, Leighton Vander Esch, Sean Lee, Byron Jones, Chidobe Awuzie, Jourdan Lewis, Anthony Brown, Xavier Woods, Jeff Heath, and Kavon Frazier.

That’s an awesome roster of talent that’s only going to get better, and Garrett understands he needs to make the best of it before he receives the ax like former offensive coordinator Scott Linehan.

Linehan was fired because he didn’t know how to utilize the play makers on this offense, and scoring 21.2 points a game in today’s high scoring NFL will not make the cut.

Further, Garrett realizes Jerry knows this team is beyond gifted and should be playing in the Super Bowl on February 3rd. To Jerry’s credit, he’s been more than patient with Mr. Clapper. Jerry didn’t even fire Garrett in 2015 when the Boys won only four games. My goodness!

Teams of this magnitude don’t last forever. You must take advantage of the skill sets that’s at your disposal before all of the Pro Bowlers start asking for big money (Dak, Zeke, D-Law, Cooper to name a few). Or before your best players test free agency.

Garrett has led Dallas to two 13 win seasons, with the latest one being a #1 seed in 2016. Both times Dallas lost in the divisional round, same as this season. And both teams were talented enough to compete for the Lombardi trophy.

How many chances does Garrett think he’ll get to lose in the playoffs with a talented roster before being fired? None!

Dallas Cowboys: It’s now or never for Jason Garrett

By Dink Kearney | Jan 24, 2019

Jason Garrett has been the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys since the halfway point of the 2010 season, and while he’s had moderate success, he’s long over due for the Super Bowl.