Last week in Dallas was an awkward one, as Jerry Jones waited a week until after the season to finally announce that Jason Garrett would not be coming back as head coach.
Garrett had hoped to stay on and coach the Cowboys and had a few meetings with Jones in the days before the announcement. But on Sunday he was officially out of a job.
On Wednesday we found out that one of those meetings must have been extremely awkward, as Jones gave some details during a press conference in which Mike McCarthy was officially introduced as the new head coach.
Jones told Garrett last week that he was going to meet with McCarthy and Garrett raved to Jones about the former Packers coach.
“One of the biggest things that impressed me was I told Jason Garrett I was going to be visiting Mike, before I had the visit,” Jones said at McCarthy’s introductory news conference. “He said, ‘You’re not going to meet anybody any more special than Mike. I love his story, I love him, he’s great.’ Give you an idea of a class act, that’s it right there, in both cases.”
Garrett had a tough run of for the second half of the 2019, as well as in years past, but it sure seems like he is a really nice guy who doesn’t have a bad bone in his body.
But man, that meeting must have been so weird as he told his boss that his likely replacement was such a great guy.
Here’s to Garrett moving on and finding a new opportunity in the NFL.
