University School alum Jason Garrett will take over as head coach of the Dallas Cowboys for the rest of the year. Owner Jerry Jones fired Wade Phillips Monday, a day after the Cowboys lost 45-7 to the Packers to fall to 1-7.
View full sizeWade Phillips has been fired as head coach of the 1-7 Dallas Cowboys. Taking over will be offensive coordinator and assistant head coach Jason Garrett, a University School alum.Taking over will be University School alum Jason Garrett, according to the reports distributed on sbnation.com. In 2008, Plain Dealer reporter Bill Lubinger profiled Garrett, whose star was at its zenith at that time.
This move was expected by many as multiple reports surfaced following the game that Phillips was unlikely to make it through the week. Phillips' certainly deserved this fate after the Cowboys started the season 1-7.
Last week Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said Phililps would remain on as head coach for the rest of the season but I'm not sure if others, Jones included, actually believed that at the time. Jones said after the Packers game that there would be people in the organization who suffered the consequences of failing so badly on expectations this year.
Offensive coordinator Jason Garrett will take his spot, according to the CBS-11 report. Garrett has been a head coaching candidate at multiple points in his career including interviews with the Broncos and Rams over the last two years. Garrett though is one of the NFL's highest paid assistants and plenty of people expected him to be the next Cowboys head coach.