townsend
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God, I never thought I'd side with Schmidt on anything. But Garrett just isn't that bad of a liability. Clearly he's had to learn on the job, and he could have and should have leaned on the run more. He's untalented at the Xs and Os aspect of coaching and could never succeed with an average coordinator on either side of the ball.
But you'd have to be pretty stupid to not see the change in culture that's happened to this team. How many gutless performances did we see in 2016? That's one hell of a demon to exorcise. Even Parcells couldn't overcome the Cowboy's tendency to underperform in the clutch.
I just don't buy that Garrett is holding the team back. In an alternate universe where GB misses both field goals, no one would say we won in spite of Garrett, they'd say we won in spite of Marinelli's porous defense.
I don't see a string of 8-8 seasons from several years ago as that big of an indication that Garrett's somehow incapable of winning a SB either. Sean Payton, John Harbaugh, and Tom Coughlin are all coaches that have won SBs, but have also shown that they can't coach a mediocre team to be more than mediocre. More talented team builders like John Fox or Andy Reid could have probably gotten the 2011 Cowboys to 10-6, Marty Schottenheimer could have gotten them to 12-4, but none of them have ever won a super bowl.
The sad fact is that it's better to be lucky than good. Jim Harbaugh lost his first NFC championship thanks to two muffed punts.(he also lost his first AFC championship in 1995 thanks to a missed call on Cordell Stewart catching a ball after running out of bounds), he lost a super bowl thanks to a missed PI call at the end of the game.
The perception is that you have to be Tom Landry or Don Shula to win a SB, or at the very least some kind of wunderkind like Ron Rivera. But Ron Rivera lost in a Super Bowl to Gary Kubiak, think about that. Is there a more painfully mediocre HC in the history of the league than Gary Kubiak? Garrett can win a super bowl, he just needs to be as lucky as many of the others who the stars aligned for.
But you'd have to be pretty stupid to not see the change in culture that's happened to this team. How many gutless performances did we see in 2016? That's one hell of a demon to exorcise. Even Parcells couldn't overcome the Cowboy's tendency to underperform in the clutch.
I just don't buy that Garrett is holding the team back. In an alternate universe where GB misses both field goals, no one would say we won in spite of Garrett, they'd say we won in spite of Marinelli's porous defense.
I don't see a string of 8-8 seasons from several years ago as that big of an indication that Garrett's somehow incapable of winning a SB either. Sean Payton, John Harbaugh, and Tom Coughlin are all coaches that have won SBs, but have also shown that they can't coach a mediocre team to be more than mediocre. More talented team builders like John Fox or Andy Reid could have probably gotten the 2011 Cowboys to 10-6, Marty Schottenheimer could have gotten them to 12-4, but none of them have ever won a super bowl.
The sad fact is that it's better to be lucky than good. Jim Harbaugh lost his first NFC championship thanks to two muffed punts.(he also lost his first AFC championship in 1995 thanks to a missed call on Cordell Stewart catching a ball after running out of bounds), he lost a super bowl thanks to a missed PI call at the end of the game.
The perception is that you have to be Tom Landry or Don Shula to win a SB, or at the very least some kind of wunderkind like Ron Rivera. But Ron Rivera lost in a Super Bowl to Gary Kubiak, think about that. Is there a more painfully mediocre HC in the history of the league than Gary Kubiak? Garrett can win a super bowl, he just needs to be as lucky as many of the others who the stars aligned for.
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