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Jerry Jones: Jason Garrett will be coaching the Dallas Cowboys for ‘as far as I can see in the future’
By Jon Machota
jmachota@dallasnews.com
1:41 pm on December 16, 2013 | Permalink
Jerry Jones answered questions for roughly 12 minutes outside of the Dallas Cowboys locker room Sunday night. The team’s owner and general manager touched on several topics after Green Bay rallied for an improbable 37-36 victory at AT&T Stadium, but Jason Garrett was clearly the most popular subject.
Reporters wanted to hear Jones talk about his confidence level in the team’s head coach. Last month, Jones said Garrett would remain Cowboys head coach next year regardless of how the season ended.
The Cowboys are 28-26 under Garrett and 23-23 over the last three seasons.
After being embarrassed on Monday night in Chicago and blowing a 23-point lead against the Packers, many are wondering if Jones can stick with Garrett if the Cowboys miss the playoffs for a fourth consecutive season.
“Let me be real clear, my refusal to comment one way or the other is not in any way a change from anything that I’ve said earlier about Jason’s future as our coach,” Jones said. “Let me be real clear, and that’s all I’m going to say about it.”
But he actually had a lot more to say on the topic.
A reporter told Jones he was being given a chance to slam the door on any speculation about Garrett’s future with the team.
“Don’t,” Jones responded. “Don’t. I don’t need a chance. I slammed that door back here, when was it, four weeks ago. That door was slammed. I don’t need another chance. And y’all shouldn’t ask for one every time you see me under any circumstances, whether we’ve had a bad practice or whether we’ve had, as we had today, a real disappointment.
“That’s not an accurate, that’s not accurate at all and we’ve got a lot of work to do here as you can see. We’ve got a real challenge ahead of us. This is a bitter, bitter disappointment to lose this game right here in our stadium and we’ve got an opportunity to sweep the East by playing the Redskins and by playing the Philadelphia Eagles, we’ll start with the Redskins, and if we do we’ll win the East. That was our first goal. Then y’all will be seeing me and asking me if I’m giving him a raise, an extension.”
Jones went on to say that it was “not appropriate to talk about” Garrett’s future after the type of loss the team had just suffered. The glass half-full Jones already wanted to look ahead to next Sunday.
“We’ve got a ballgame coming up,” Jones said. “By the way, Garrett will coach that game against the Redskins, so book that and write about that. He’ll coach that ballgame we’ve got coming up and as far as I can see in the future be coaching games for the Cowboys. It’s a setback for everybody, not just one guy.”
By Jon Machota
jmachota@dallasnews.com
1:41 pm on December 16, 2013 | Permalink
Jerry Jones answered questions for roughly 12 minutes outside of the Dallas Cowboys locker room Sunday night. The team’s owner and general manager touched on several topics after Green Bay rallied for an improbable 37-36 victory at AT&T Stadium, but Jason Garrett was clearly the most popular subject.
Reporters wanted to hear Jones talk about his confidence level in the team’s head coach. Last month, Jones said Garrett would remain Cowboys head coach next year regardless of how the season ended.
The Cowboys are 28-26 under Garrett and 23-23 over the last three seasons.
After being embarrassed on Monday night in Chicago and blowing a 23-point lead against the Packers, many are wondering if Jones can stick with Garrett if the Cowboys miss the playoffs for a fourth consecutive season.
“Let me be real clear, my refusal to comment one way or the other is not in any way a change from anything that I’ve said earlier about Jason’s future as our coach,” Jones said. “Let me be real clear, and that’s all I’m going to say about it.”
But he actually had a lot more to say on the topic.
A reporter told Jones he was being given a chance to slam the door on any speculation about Garrett’s future with the team.
“Don’t,” Jones responded. “Don’t. I don’t need a chance. I slammed that door back here, when was it, four weeks ago. That door was slammed. I don’t need another chance. And y’all shouldn’t ask for one every time you see me under any circumstances, whether we’ve had a bad practice or whether we’ve had, as we had today, a real disappointment.
“That’s not an accurate, that’s not accurate at all and we’ve got a lot of work to do here as you can see. We’ve got a real challenge ahead of us. This is a bitter, bitter disappointment to lose this game right here in our stadium and we’ve got an opportunity to sweep the East by playing the Redskins and by playing the Philadelphia Eagles, we’ll start with the Redskins, and if we do we’ll win the East. That was our first goal. Then y’all will be seeing me and asking me if I’m giving him a raise, an extension.”
Jones went on to say that it was “not appropriate to talk about” Garrett’s future after the type of loss the team had just suffered. The glass half-full Jones already wanted to look ahead to next Sunday.
“We’ve got a ballgame coming up,” Jones said. “By the way, Garrett will coach that game against the Redskins, so book that and write about that. He’ll coach that ballgame we’ve got coming up and as far as I can see in the future be coaching games for the Cowboys. It’s a setback for everybody, not just one guy.”
