In a less than surprising move, Dallas owner Jerry Jones announced on Thursday that he has hired Jason Garrett to be the Cowboys head coach.
Jones said that he wanted to make his decision quickly because he was concerned that other teams might attempt to lure Garrett away from Dallas.
That of course is bovine feces because there hasn’t been one report mentioning Garrett as a possible replacement for any of the current NFL coaching vacancies.
Jones said prior to the Cowboys Christmas Day game against Arizona that he knew Garrett had the skills to be a head coach, but wasn’t sure when that time would come.
That too was a disingenuous statement from the Cowboys owner.
If Jones honestly believes that Garrett’s 5-3 record as interim coach is an indication of what he can produce over the course of an entire season – or an entire coaching career – then he’s more delusional that I originally thought.
The facts are this: Jones will not hire a coach that has the type of personality that this team desperately needs and he won’t allow a coach to have any control over personnel.
For those reasons and many others – mostly as a result of Jones’ constant meddling into the football operations he clearly doesn’t know much about – the Cowboys have become a model of mediocrity.
Any suggestions that Jones should have looked to other candidates like Bill Cowher and Jon Gruden were nothing more than a pipe dream.
Coaches like Cowher and Gruden would never subject themselves to Jones micromanaging the team.
In the end, Jerry Jones got exactly what he wanted by making Jason Garrett the Cowboys head coach – another flunky.
Garrett will be a good “yes” man just like most of the others outside of Jimmy Johnson and Bill Parcells. He’ll kiss Jones’ ass and Dallas will continue to fail, just like Chan Gailey, Dave Campo and Wade Phillips failed.
Word is though that Jones will give Garrett the authority to do something unique, at least in Dallas – the new coach of the Cowboys will actually have the final say on who works on his staff.
Wow. That’s some serious pull.
Garrett doesn’t have much of a chance considering the Cowboys lengthy list of personnel issues, starting with bloated contracts for veteran players that haven’t produced.
But despite those realities he’ll still be expected to get the Cowboys deep into the playoffs, perhaps not next season – if there is a season – but certainly in 2012 and beyond.
And if Dallas doesn’t make the playoffs in 2012 you can bet that Jones will be looking for another flunky to oversee the circus.
Unfortunately, this circus doesn’t provide a lot of entertainment for those that deserve it most – Dallas Cowboys fans the world over.
