Jerry Jones Has Treated Jason Garrett Way More Generously Than Tom Landry and That Feels Wrong

The Dallas Cowboys finally seem prepared to rip the Band-Aid off (or slowly jostle it off, after five years of pulling at the edges). After missing years upon years of chances to do so, sources claim that the Cowboys are now prepared to press on without Jason Garrett as their head coach, as Jerry Jones' seemingly boundless loyalty towards Garrett can only withstand a certain amount of 8-and-8s.

Garrett's long tenure with the Cowboys is made even weirder by the fact that the old Jones rarely showed ANY degree of loyalty towards coaches, no matter how vaunted they may have been. The first thing he did after taking over as Cowboys owner in 1989 was fire Tom Landry. While Landry started to decline near the end of his tenure, he had 29 seasons in with the Cowboys and two championships, yet Jones didn't think twice about sending him into the abyss.

Jimmy Johnson won two straight Super Bowls, and Jones fired him because he felt like Johnson got too much credit for the championships, harboring the belief that "anyone" could coach that team. Anyone?! Barry Switzer was dismissed at the first sign of disintegration, one title later. Even Bill Parcells was given a short leash.

Garrett, the definition of an average coach, managed to last longer than any Cowboys coach not named Landry, who built the bulk of his tenure long before Jones got his meddling hands on the franchise.

Garrett has yet to deliver a Super Bowl for the Cowboys, or even an appearance in an NFC Championship game, and it took this long for him to get the boot. Meanwhile, Landry coached the team for 29 years and won three titles, and Jerry dropped him in two seconds. He fired Johnson after two titles because of his ego. Somehow, Garrett managed to hang around for a decade in Dallas.

It boggles the mind.