Jason Garrett's Mind-Boggling Quote After Loss to Pats Proves He Has No Idea What He's Doing
By Jerry Trotta
Stop us if you've heard this before across the last decade (!), but Jason Garrett's Dallas Cowboys came up short in a game against a perennial contender.
Garrett's alarming tendency to coach scared (or not to lose) reared its ugly head during Sunday's loss to the New England Patriots when he decided to kick a field goal with six minutes left in the game to ... put the Cowboys down by four.
Dallas, though facing a 4th and 7, was knocking on the door and basic football know-how should have convinced Garrett to go for it, especially on the road. Why didn't he? Well, apparently he and his coaching staff don't care for in-game win probability statistics.
Jason Garrett “we don’t use the stats when in the game”
— Connor Livesay (@ConnorNFLDraft) November 25, 2019
When asked about win probability numbers given before decisions to kick or go for it.
You hate to see that, you really do.
We'd understand Garrett's hesitance if the Cowboys would made things a three-point game with that field goal, but that wasn't the case. They still needed a touchdown either way. The worst case here would've been pinning the Patriots deep in their own territory if Dak and Co. couldn't get the first down.
Despite stats telling him to go for it -- or maybe not since, you know, Garrett and Co. don't use stats during the game -- the 53-year-old put faith in his defense to stop Tom Brady and thought that Dak Prescott would be able to overcome the NFL's best defense playing behind a raucous Gillette Stadium crowd in poor weather conditions. Yup, all the while his offense was rendered useless through three-plus quarters.
Jason Garrett, when asked by @1053thefan if he uses win probability stats to help make decisions:
— Warren Sharp (@SharpFootball) November 25, 2019
“We don’t use those stats within the game”
In an era where coaches are advised real-time by analytics assistants, the Cowboys prefer to find out what they did wrong afterwards. pic.twitter.com/4mTm35cvXv
We'd like to say that Garrett surprised us with this mind-numbing revelation during the postgame presser, but it's sadly the same old story with him. When the pressure mounts, Garrett crumbles and Sunday's L proved that he has no idea what he's doing.