Cowboys owner Jerry Jones does not seem impressed with the job done by coach Jason Garrett this season.
Jones says he thought the coaching staff could have done a better job of succeeding despite the injury to Tony Romo, and he’s disappointed that it wasn’t until Monday night in Washington that they managed to win a game without Romo.
“I am stunned that we haven’t been able to win more games without Tony,” Jones said, via the Star-Telegram. “And I would have thought that we could have coached it up enough, and put it together enough, that we would not have lost those games without Romo early. We would be in better shape than we are right now.”
In that Monday night game, Jones said, the Cowboys “won on will, not tactical mastery.”
Ordinarily, when a coach is at 4-8 and his owner is openly criticizing him like that, the coach’s job is in jeopardy. In Garrett’s case, his job is almost certainly safe, as he’s in the first year of a five-year contract that reportedly guarantees him $6 million a year. Jones may not be happy with the job Garrett has done this year, but he likely isn’t so unhappy that he’s willing to buy out a contract like that.