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Jerry Jones Pays Tribute To Jason Garrett & Family

Former Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy is the chosen man to replace Jason Garrett as the Dallas Cowboys coach.

Something of a lame duck all season, the firing of Jason Garrett seemed inevitable at some point. Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones had previously insisted that no decision on the head coach would be made until the offseason.

However, results forced Jerry Jones’ hand. Dallas failed to make the playoffs, and so Jason Garrett was axed.

Jones, though, was at odds to stress that it was handled in the right way on Wednesday. It appears that Jones, due to his respect for Garrett, had trouble deciding how to handle his firing.

 

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“Of the 30 years I’ve been with the Cowboys, I’ve written a check to the Garretts,” Jones said on Wednesday.

 “Think about that a minute, all but two years. All but two. Counting his dad, and counting him, his brothers. All of ’em. … I will tell you that I had a great 30 years around the Garrett family and it’s wonderful, it’s a good feeling and it is one of the best parts of my life.

…”I do, not only respect what he brought to help what we’re sitting in, help what we’re doing. Their family has been a part of that in their own way, as we all know not the way, it took too many people, too many former players, coaches and everybody involved to get to be sitting here today, but I felt strongly about that. We all wanted this to have a very nice, if possible under the circumstances, soft landing.”

 

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“We’re where we are, there’s none of this — smallest violin — there’s none of this folks, at all, here,” Jones said. 

“What you criticize about Jason, you should criticize me for. And I say that not trying to be big boy here. I’m just saying, you should.

“He’s a great guy, he’s got a great family and we know it’s going to be good for him. And by the way, just as I’ve been, he’s been one lucky guy to get to be a part of this organization and the Dallas Cowboys for all these years. And he’d be the first one to tell you that.”

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