Garrett Watch Thread...

[bbgun]

for a few days or maybe even a week and then the storm would die down and it would be back to the same old nonsense of fans saying:

"well, what can you do? I'm gonna support my team regardless, jeri aint gonna keep me from being fan gawd dammit" (read in your best hick, dumbfuck voice)

they really are the worst. motherfuckers don't even know when to cheer at the right time.

 

[Cowboysrock55]

they really are the worst. motherfuckers don't even know when to cheer at the right time.

Everything eventually reaches a tipping point. The Skins used to have fans too. Now their stadium has become a ghost town.

 

[yimyammer]

Everything eventually reaches a tipping point. The Skins used to have fans too. Now their stadium has become a ghost town.

the damn PSLs fans bought keeps that from happening in Dallas

 

[Cowboysrock55]

the damn PSLs fans bought keeps that from happening in Dallas

How much of the stadium is PSLs

 

[yimyammer]

How much of the stadium is PSLs

I dont know the exact figure but I know jeri was able to pay off the stadium very quickly.

My dad used to own seats at the old stadium at around the 50 yard line, 20 rows up on the Cowboys side. So they offered similar seats at the new stadium. It was going to cost over $100K per seat just for the personal seat license fee (PSL) and then he would be forced to buy season tickets plus pre-season plus parking or lose the 100K+ spent on the PSL (trapping all PSL buyers going forward and guaranteeing sold seats for the team). He passed but he is a CPA and did the math on what jeri would have made if he received 100% of the asking price and sold all the PSL's. This would have amounted to a profit of over 1 BILLION DOLLARS!!

Its fair to assume they didn't sell 100% of the PSL's nor at full price but even if they only sold half the PSL's at 90% of the asking price, we can see how quickly he was able to recoup the stadium cost and basically free-roll from that point forward.

Further, visiting teams are happy to fill the stadium so even if Cowboys fans ever miraculously cooperated together to boycott attendance, the stadium would still be substantially full by the opposing teams fans

Even all the angst currently surrounding the team over Garrett as coach is fine with him because the fans are still there passionately expressing their outrage while still watching, attending and giving eyeballs to the shitty product

The one thing that could get jeri's attention will never be done because Cowboy fans don't have the discipline and solidarity to do it and even suggesting what needs to be done is met with scoffs, eye rolls and ridicule.

So, same ol', same ol in perpetuity

 

[Chocolate Lab]

I am curious to see how the Rams game turnout is, though. This is the first time in a while fans have been this down on the team -- I mean they've lose 7 of their last 10 games -- for a regular Sunday game, and the Rams don't have a huge national following to buy those tickets.

 

[Genghis Khan]

Odds To Be Next Head Coach Of The Dallas Cowboys | Odds Shark

The Dallas Cowboys may be looking to hire a new head coach. Odds Shark’s NFL expert breaks down the betting odds for which candidate will be the new boss.

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Odds To Be Next Head Coach Of The Dallas Cowboys

Gilles Gallant | Sun, Dec 8 2019, 5:55pm

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The Dallas Cowboys, for better or worse, are a centerpiece of attention in the NFL. The ratings and revenue for the league are infinitely better when they are at least competitive but after another debacle of a loss to the Chicago Bears on Thursday Night Football, oddsmakers can see the obvious and are already projecting who will replace head coach Jason Garrett.
New England Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels is the projected favorite of online sportsbook BetOnline to be the head coach of America’s Team to start the 2020 NFL season.
He would be a clear step up from Jason “The Clapper” Garrett, who has been in this role since 2010 and is the second-longest tenured head coach in Cowboys history behind the great Tom Landry.
Why Josh McDaniels Is The Favorite
Offensive ingenuity, quarterback whisperer, steady presence – these are all the qualities NOT used to describe current Cowboys coach Jason Garrett. However, they would be used to define Pats offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels.
McDaniels has won six Super Bowl championships with the Patriots in his career and while some may attribute his success to being an assistant under Bill Belichick and having Tom Brady as his quarterback, the fact remains that his offensive schemes have kept the Patriots ahead of the curve and they likely wouldn’t have been successful if he wasn’t on the sideline calling the plays.
Of all the candidates on the list, he would likely be the most experienced in the NFL in terms of assistant and head coaching experience (Yes, I know Sean Payton is on the list but he isn’t leaving New Orleans, so let’s put that to rest).
In his first season as coach of the Denver Broncos, he led them to a 5-0 SU start while beating the Patriots along the way. But the Broncos suffered a lot of injuries and the success trailed off.
With the Patriots’ behind-the-scenes drama unfolding and the potential of Tom Brady moving on from New England, now would be the best time for McDaniels to strike while the iron is hot.
If Not McDaniels, Then Who?
Of all the college candidates on the list, the one that immediately jumps out that would be considered a sexy pick is Oklahoma Sooners head coach Lincoln Riley. The Sooners have routinely been near the top in college football for offensive efficiency and his last two quarterbacks, Kyler Murray and Baker Mayfield, won the Heisman Trophy while going No. 1 in their respective NFL drafts.
However, the knock on Riley is that he’s only coached in the college ranks and with only three seasons under his belt in the NCAA, there’s skepticism that his methods would translate to the professional level. Some of his detractors argue that his success is predicated on the fact that he had such good-quality quarterbacks in his time in Oklahoma while playing in an offense-heavy conference like the Big 12, where games routinely see totals in the 70s.
Outside of McDaniels, another hyped assistant who is definitely going to have a head coaching job in the NFL next season is San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator Robert Saleh. The bald but jacked assistant has been a beacon of motivation for the Niners defensive unit that has been crushing teams this season.
It would be quite the ascension for Saleh after only becoming a defensive coordinator prior to the 2018 season but players seem to respond to his tactics. Like a lot of the candidates on the list with no prior head coaching experience, it remains to be seen how he, or whoever owner Jerry Jones decides to hire, would handle the spotlight of being the puppet to Jones’ strings.
Odds To Be Head Coach Of Dallas Cowboys For Week 1 Of 2020 NFL Season

Coach	Odds
Josh McDaniels	+300
Urban Meyer	+400
Robert Saleh	+500
Lincoln Riley	+600
Sean Payton	+600
Jim Harbaugh	+1000
Chris Peterson	+1200
Kris Richard	+1600
Ken Norton Jr.	+1600
Mike Leach	+2000
Jim Schwartz	+3300
Matt Rhule	+3300
Mike Gundy	+5000
Tony Romo	+6600

 

[Genghis Khan]

Surprised to see McDaniel as the favorite.

 

[deadrise]

Surprised to see McDaniel as the favorite.

Watching the strategic chess game between the Chief's and Patriots's staffs yesterday (with a great narration by Romo), when compared to Garrett's boneheaded futility, was like watching major league baseball vs. Double A.

McDaniel made two great calls with gimmick plays at exactly the right time. IMHO he'd be a great choice.

 

[Simpleton]

I'd take McDaniels in an instant, and given that the Patriots might be headed for a big time shake up with Brady starting to trail off and maybe even leave/retire, it may not be out of the realm of possibility.

 

[Cotton]

If Cowboys part ways with Jason Garrett, Jerry Jones should target these 5 coaches
By Jon Machota 3h ago

The Cowboys made it known throughout the offseason and into training camp: For Jason Garrett to get a new contract, the franchise would have to “take the next step” in 2019.

However, it wasn’t exactly clear if that meant reaching the NFC Championship game for the first time since the 1995 season or going a step further and playing in the Super Bowl for the first time since that same season.

Either way, with three games remaining in the regular season, the team has shown no recent signs of being able to reach those goals. While they are still in first place in the NFC East at 6-7, it’s difficult to imagine — considering the way they’ve been playing — that they will magically flip a switch and go deep into the playoffs.

And if things continue heading in this direction, Dallas will be hiring a new head coach in the near future. To give you an idea of who could be in line to be the franchise’s ninth head coach, here are five candidates that make the most sense.

1.) Urban Meyer. The former Ohio State head coach has won everywhere he’s been in the college game. He went 17-6 at Bowling Green, 22-2 at Utah, 65-15 with two national championships at Florida and then 83-9 with another national title while leading the Buckeyes. Meyer, 55, coached Ezekiel Elliott and raved about him before the 2016 NFL Draft. Dak Prescott’s college coach, Dan Mullen, was on Meyer’s staff at Bowling Green, Utah and Florida before taking the Mississippi State head coaching job in 2009.

Meyer doesn’t have any NFL experience, but neither did Jimmy Johnson or Barry Switzer before Jerry Jones hired them to coach the Cowboys. Meyer retired from Ohio State last year because of health reasons. He has dealt with a cyst in his brain that causes frequent headaches. Before joining the Buckeyes, Meyer retired from Florida at the end of the 2009 season after experiencing chest pains while coaching. He has worked as a college football analyst on FOX this season. If Meyer feels he can return to coaching without any health concerns, he makes sense as a possibility for the Cowboys.

When Pete Carroll left USC to become the Seattle Seahawks head coach in 2010, his talent evaluation was aided by the fact that he had recruited so many of the NFL’s younger players and future players. Meyer would have a similar advantage, having recruited and coached so many elite players who are either about to enter the NFL or already in the league.

During an interview on The Herd with Colin Cowherd in October, Meyer spoke highly of the Cowboys’ head coaching position.

“Pure speculation because I know him, but I don’t know him like that, but that’s the one (job),” Meyer responded when asked if Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley would have interest in coaching the Cowboys. “That’s New York Yankees, that’s the Dallas Cowboys. That’s the one. Great city. They got Dak Prescott, Zeke Elliott. You got a loaded team. And I can’t speak for him, obviously — I hate to even speculate because I don’t know him, that’s really not fair. But, to me, that’s the one job in professional football that you say, ‘I got to go do that.’”

Meyer said he has never been contacted by the Cowboys. But if he had been, he would have given it serious consideration.

“Sure,” he said. “Absolutely. Absolutely. That one? Yes.”

2.) Lincoln Riley. On Saturday, the 36-year-old improved to 3-0 as a head coach in games played at AT&T Stadium. Riley led the Sooners to a 30-23 overtime win over Baylor in the Big 12 Championship game. Riley’s two other wins at the home of the Dallas Cowboys came in the previous two Big 12 title games, 39-27 last year over Texas and 41-17 over TCU in 2017. The former Texas Tech walk-on QB is now 36-5 in three seasons in Norman. He is currently preparing the Sooners for their third consecutive College Football Playoff.

An important factor for Dallas’ next head coach will likely be how they can help Prescott. At Oklahoma, Riley has already coached two Heisman Trophy-winning quarterbacks in Baker Mayfield and Kyler Murray, the last two players to be selected first overall in the NFL Draft. The Cowboys have made it clear that their franchise quarterback isn’t going anywhere. While Prescott and the Cowboys are very high on first-year offensive coordinator Kellen Moore, Riley would be a fascinating candidate.

3.) Sean Payton. This would be No. 1 on the list if not for Payton agreeing to a five-year contract extension with the Saints in September. It’s a long shot, but expect Jerry Jones and Co. to try anything possible to make it happen.

To acquire Jon Gruden in Feb. 2002, the Buccaneers gave the Raiders two first-round picks, two second-round picks and $8 million. He replaced Tony Dungy, who wasn’t able to get the Buccaneers far enough in the playoffs. In six seasons under Dungy, Tampa Bay made the playoffs four times, reaching the NFC Championship game once. Gruden won a Super Bowl in his first year with the Buccaneers.

Payton has coached the Saints since he left Dallas in 2006. That may be the type of investment it would cost to get him out of New Orleans.

“Nothing surprising about that,” Jerry Jones said in September when asked about Payton’s contract extension. “They recognize everything that Sean is about positively, which is what he’s about. It doesn’t surprise me at all that they want to keep him there. He’s a big part of the fabric of New Orleans.”

Reporter: So it puts those rumors to rest?

Jones: “What rumors?”

Reporter: Payton in Dallas.

Jones: “(Laughing) I wouldn’t do that. We really are over in that tampering area.”

Payton was an assistant head coach and quarterbacks coach in Dallas from 2003 to 2005. He remains close with the Jones family.

4.) Mike Zimmer. The Minnesota Vikings head coach is under contract through next season. He was the Cowboys’ defensive backs coach from 1994 to 1999 and then defensive coordinator from 2000 to 2006. Zimmer enjoyed his time in Dallas, and both Jerry Jones and Stephen Jones are big fans of his work. Zimmer currently has the Vikings sitting at 9-4, a game back of the Packers for the division lead. He coached Minnesota to an 11-win season in 2015 and a 13-win season in 2017. He has a playoff record of 1-2.

Two things to note: If the Cowboys found a way to acquire Zimmer, it’s very possible they could keep Moore as offensive coordinator. But Zimmer has been outspoken about his preferences for a run-first offense in Minnesota.

After the Vikings beat the Cowboys, 28-24, last month, Jerry Jones mentioned Zimmer and how well coached the Vikings were on four separate occasions within the first five minutes of talking to reporters.

“I can’t say enough about how well Zim had their team coached up,” Jerry Jones said. “I give Mike Zimmer and his staff, I give them a lot of credit. Just basically could have put a sign on the start of the game that said [Elliott’s] not going anywhere, and that was the story of the game. Designed a plan to win the game that way.”

5.) Ron Rivera. He was head coach of the Panthers from 2011 until this season, when he was fired after Week 13. He led Carolina to three straight division titles (2013-2015) and an appearance in Super Bowl 50. Like Zimmer, Rivera could be viewed as a good leader of the team and someone to fix the defense while potentially allowing the Cowboys to keep Moore as offensive coordinator. Rivera is highly respected across the league and is expected to have several head coaching options after this season.

Longest of long shots: Bill Belichick. Jerry Jones raised eyebrows when he shared a story about Belichick during a radio interview last month on 105.3 The Fan [KRLD-FM]. After Belichick was fired when the Cleveland Browns moved to Baltimore in the mid-1990s, the current Patriots head coach ran into Jones at a ski resort. Jones said Belichick told him not to forget about him if he had a coaching job available in the future. The Cowboys owner and GM then shared that he still often thinks about that interaction. Belichick has since become arguably the greatest coach in NFL history, winning six Super Bowls with the Patriots. It doesn’t make much sense for him to leave everything he has built in New England, but if he’s looking for a new challenge, there’s no question he thinks highly of Jones and the Cowboys.

“I have a tremendous amount of respect for the Cowboys organization, the history there, what they’ve created,” Belichick said last month. “Obviously, they’re probably the premier franchise in all of pro sports. That’s no accident. That didn’t happen overnight. With what Jerry and Stephen and the rest of the organization have put together there, and the history going back to Coach Landry and Coach Johnson, those are standards that I’d say all of us in the profession aspire to look up to and aspire to meet — the levels of success that they have achieved.”

 

[Cotton]

It's stupid that we should even be having to have this conversation. It should be a given.

 

[yimyammer]

I'd take McDaniels in an instant, and given that the Patriots might be headed for a big time shake up with Brady starting to trail off and maybe even leave/retire, it may not be out of the realm of possibility.

Me too, I'd like to give him a shot, cross my fingers jeri doesnt fuck things up too bad and he's learned enough from his past coaching stop and working with Belichick that he's now ready to be successful

I know the Belichick coaching tree hasn't been too hot so far but surely he's learned a lot from being with him for over 16 years that can benefit him when he becomes head coach again

 

[boozeman]

 

[p1_]

muy interesante'

 

[Rev]

I think the players will be too old to to be kissed by his wife.

 

[jsmith6919]

Hmmm

 

[Genghis Khan]

I'm not a hard no on McCarthy, but I'm skeptical.

 

[Cowboysrock55]

I'm not a hard no on McCarthy, but I'm skeptical.

I'm a hard no. His offense looked poorly designed. It was all Aaron Rodgers improvising and slants.

 

[Genghis Khan]

I'm a hard no. His offense looked poorly designed. It was all Aaron Rodgers improvising and slants.

Plus he didn't seem particularly disciplined in running the team, and I don't think a HC has won the superbowl with more than 1 team.