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Originally Posted by Chateau Becot
Yeah, you're right. With a loss in Philly 8-8 is the worst they can do...don't know how I'd forgotten the Oakland game had given them their eighth W of the season....duhhhh.
That said, how exactly did Garrett (and the Cowboys) "luck into" a 13-3 record in 2016? Is it really that easy to win that many games in the NFL?
Quick review: the team loses their franchise QB to a back injury during the pre-season, Once it became clear Romo was gone until game 8 to 10 of the schedule, fans and media alike projected another 4-12 (or worse) record. Look it up....local and national sports writers and talking heads wrote Dallas off before game one of the season had even kicked off.
Starting a rookie qb...with a rookie rb....a suspect defense....all of that while dealing with a meddlesome, controversy-starting owner/GM....even with a last-place schedule, who on earth saw a 13 win, top seeded team on the horizon?
By the way, those "who gave Garrett credit" were the voters for the annual COY award, who cast 25 of the 50 possible first-place votes for him. Bellichick was second with 14, Adam Gase received six.
I'm not saying Garrett is a great coach by any stretch....your bullet points of his shortcomings are well chronicled. Personally, I could care less if he's the coach next year or not. All I'm saying is we (as Cowboy fans) need to temper our expectations a tad. While we're currently light years ahead of franchises like Cleveland or Indy, it's very possible the Cowboys are not as good a team as we'd like them to be. Another good draft (along with a year of seasoning for this year's rookie class) might just do the trick. Jones knows that.....and becuz he does he'll stand pat with Garrett.
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The list of COY winners who became unemployed shortly after is a pretty good list. While dire predictions make for good topics, Vegas had the Cowboys as a .500 team http://www.oddsshark.com/nfl/2016-nfl-season-win-totals
Those numbers are two weeks after Romo was hurt, so the dire predictions were reflected in betting lines. Many other sites earlier in the year had their over under at 9.5 wins. Zeke and the O line had a bunch to do with that.
Garrett had nothing to do with a dominate O line and Zeke leading the league in rushing. A monkey knows to feed the running game with a rookie QB. And Dak was smart enough to know not to push and turn it over. That is the recipe for success, not anything Red Jesus did.
Jerry wont get rid of him because he won't hire anyone with a spine. Funny, he knew he had to with Parcels to get his palace. So he knows he can't win on his own. But now that he has the cash cow he can go back to the old days.
But a new head coach with some experience and a spine makes this team 2 wins better this season.
