Jason Garrett is the most overrated coach in the NFL

Two seasons ago with the Dallas Cowboys coached by a defensive minded Wade Phillips – Jason Garrett was the $4 million offensive coordinator / head coach in waiting. The strange thing about the whole Jason Garrett – Wade Phillip dynamic was the team was actually pretty good defensively and struggled on offense. Yet Jerry Jones in all his infinite wisdom somehow was convinced the man running his horrible offense was the man for the head coaching job. So he fired the always constipated (his facial expression on the sidelines looks like he was always constipated) Wade Phillips. I kid, I love me some Wade Phillips, miss his press conferences.

Let me prefix my statement by saying there is no doubt that Jason Garrett might have a brilliant football mind, but this guy cannot coach a football team to save his life. He is neither decisive nor a leader of men.

How can you be an offensive minded coach and yet your teams biggest weakness is the offense. This is a team filled with talented players like Dez Bryant, Miles Austin, Jason Witten, Kevin Ogletree, DeMarco Murray, Felix Jones and Mr. Tony Romo. Yet through the first five games of this season this team had the fewest points scored in the NFL.

Everyone likes to blame Romo and his bad decision making every time the Cowboys blows another game, but if you watch these games closely you would notice Mr. offensive guru Jason Garrett never gets the plays to Romo on time especially with the game on the line and in most cases this leads to delay of game penalties or burning a timeout, all those waited game clock so the greatest thing to ever happen to the head coaching profession can decide on which play to call.

Mr. Garrett’s ineptitude is not limited to his inability to decide on what plays to call, no, this guy is the full package. He has never heard of the two minute offense, neither does he know how to coach one nor manage the clock and timeouts during one of those strange occurrence.

Last season in a game against the Arizona Cardinals – the Cowboys faced a 1st and 10 at the Cardinals’ 31-yard line and they had 26 seconds left on the clock and the game tied at 13. What does the offense genius do in this situation? He let 18 seconds run off of the clock trying to figure out what play to run or maybe he was trying to figure out what he should have for dinner or maybe he was just wondering why there were no Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders on the sidelines. At an impasse he directs Romo to spike the ball so he could get more time to think. Couldn’t they have just spiked the ball earlier instead of letting the clock run down to eight seconds, even if they didn’t have any timeouts left.

The funny thing.… Dallas actually had two timeouts and didn’t use them, why you ask? May he (Jason Garrett) was either being overwhelmed with this entire head coaching stuff or maybe he is actually clueless as to what timeouts are used for. Regardless of what the reason might be he was now left with 8 seconds left and no other option but to take field goal which they missed and eventually lost the game 19-13.

And to tell you how completely clueless this guy really is: this season playing on the road at Baltimore in Week 6 Garrett decided to showcase his brilliance once more for the world to see. With the ball just inside the Ravens’ 35-yard line and 26 seconds left to play (where have I heard this before?), Romo threw a pass to Dez Bryant a ball he absolutely had to catch to give the Cowboys two points which would have tied the game. Now the pass is incomplete and the time is running down and Jason Garrett on the sidelines once again looks like a deer caught in headlights as he squandered 20 seconds of the clock then forcing kicker Dan Bailey to try a 51-yard field goal — which would have tied his career high. Just in case you’re curious, he missed and the Cowboys lost the game.

The Cowboys started the previous play with 26 seconds remaining and a timeout left, but somehow managed to waste 20 seconds off the clock for a poorly executed 1-yard pass to Bryant.

The Cowboys are never going to win with Jason Garrett running the show, he was an average (at best) offensive coordinator and has proven to be maybe the worse head coach (a position he shares with Norv Tuner) in his short term as a head coach of America’s team.

The sad news for all Cowboys fans out there is: nothing is going to change at the head coaching position anytime soon because Jason Garrett is Jerry Jones’ brain child and as long as Jerry Jones runs the Dallas Cowboys machine Garrett is going nowhere.

So fasten your seat belt folks because Jason Garrett is going to be flying this baby for the foreseeable future.