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Jason Garrett Should be Our New OC

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The guy everyone should be focusing on is Jason Garrett. I know the popular opinion is that he is too inexperienced, but he has been considered a future coach basically since he entered the league.

*His dad scouted/coached in the NFL for 30 years, he has three brothers that are coaching football right now.

*He has experience learning offenses under offensive gurus like Norv Turner, Chan Gailey, Jim Fassel, Jon Gruden, and now Scott Linehan.

*From interviews such as THIS one, it appears the guy definitely knows his stuff about offenses.

*He's basically been a player-coach for 3 or 4 years now, and Fassel was hoping to hire him to his staff, as was Gruden.

*He quickly worked his way into Linehan's good graces, becoming his eyes and ears in the booth once Scott moved to the sidelines.

*He's a Princeton grad, obviously pretty darn smart. Made his way his whole time in the league based mostly on smarts not talent.

*If you're worried that he only has one year of experience as a QB coach, stop worrying. The guy he compares to most, Gary Kubiak, played for the Broncos all the way until 1991. In 92 & 93 he was the RB coach at Texas A&M, and then went to QB coach of the 1994 super bowl champion 49ers before heading over to Denver the next year in 1995 as their OC.

He's the right guy for the job. When you don't jump on things like this now, you lose your chance later because he'll go off and coordinate elsewhere. At this point, I wonder if the guy Scott Linehan is talking to Nick Saban about taking with him to St. Louis isn't Jason Garrett, rather than Charlie Baggett.

Looking at Gary Kubiak as an example, he became a coordinator in San Fran then went back to his home team Denver, and stayed a coordinator there for a LONG TIME. That is what we need right now in Miami...a stable offensive system. Why? Because we're looking to bring in young QBs to try and groom them into starting. If you don't have a stable offensive system, you can't act surprised when you don't hit on any of your QB bets.

Credit goes to KB21 on the following idea, but it is an idea that I like as well.

KB21 said:
I'd make Jason Garrett the offensive coordinator. I'd let Charlie Baggett go to St. Louis with Scott Linehan. I'd hire Gary Tranquill, who recently retired from North Carolina, and give him the title of offense/quarterbacks/assistant head coach. I'd then make Judd Garrett our receivers coach and promote Dameyune Craig from special teams assistant to offensive quality control.

Back to Gary Tranquill. He coached with Nick in Cleveland and at Navy. He was also Nick's offensive coordinator from 1995-1998 at Michigan State. He's an older guy, but I think he would bring a steadying influence to a young offensive coordinator, and his work with quarterbacks at the college level has been outstanding. He may not have had many pro prospects, but he had some good college quarterbacks under his coaching.
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The only part of that I'm not in total agreement is Judd Garrett as the receivers coach. But, who knows about that.

Garrett allows us to keep some stability in the offensive system while also giving us a promising young coordinator.

EDIT: There was a typo in the official Denver Broncos biography of Gary Kubiak. He was not the OC of the 49ers in 1994. He was the QBs coach. He had one year of QB coach experience before he became a coordinator, and Garrett has one year of QB coach experience.
 
You can't promote a guy like that just because he is an up-and-comer. So was Wanny (he was once the hottest head coaching prospect in the league), and we all found out just how over his head he was. I'm not saying we need decades of football experience here, just more than a year (doesn't even have to be the NFL for me).
I've been riding the Rodriguez (WVU) bandwagon for a little while now. And if baggett goes, then I say we take a look at this guy.
 
Pocoloco said:
You can't promote a guy like that just because he is an up-and-comer.
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Why not?? The Rams are just as a lot of other teams past, present, and future!
 
I think that is a real possibility CK, I have heard good things about Garrett before and he has certainly worked under some good offensive minds. I realy hope we get someone who is just on his way up so we can actually keep him for more than a year, its awfully hard on an offense when you change cordinators every year or two. I also wonder how much he was already doing from the booth this year, It may not be nearly as much of a stretch to make him as OC as some people think.
 
Pocoloco said:
You can't promote a guy like that just because he is an up-and-comer. So was Wanny (he was once the hottest head coaching prospect in the league), and we all found out just how over his head he was. I'm not saying we need decades of football experience here, just more than a year (doesn't even have to be the NFL for me).
I've been riding the Rodriguez (WVU) bandwagon for a little while now. And if baggett goes, then I say we take a look at this guy.
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Forgive me if I'm mistaken but I think everyone who's ever been promoted in the NFL was an up-and-comer.

And Wannstedt was a pretty good defensive coordinator. And, unlike Wanny, Garrett comes from a whole family full of Princeton grads.
 
good post ckparrot. I definately see your logic.In my opinion if you have the personnel your offense will be successful if you dont it wont be. I realy believe its that simple.
 
I guess he wouldn't be a horrible choice. If Baggett leaves, then what the hell, throw caution to the wind.
 
I like it CK. Alot of good points that are hard to argue with. I would be willing to give him a shot..

And if you're going to say NO! or Post NO! and that be it... at least give us some reasons or dispute what CK is saying with an intelligent argument against it..
 
I think he would do a better job than what Linehan did.
 
While you have listed all good reasons for hiring Garrett, what proof is there that he is ready for a OC job. My biggest concern, is that where Kubiak had a lot more actual time as a starting QB before becoming a coach, Garrett has never started except for TC and an odd game here or there. Knowing how to coach, while not having a prerequisite of being a player, you do have to have been involved in the experience of creating plays, teaching players, etc. Kubiak also had the advantage of working as an OC to Shanahan, an excellent OC and a pretty good QB in Elway. He didn't start off calling the plays though, it was several years later that he took that responsibility from Shanahan and still, even now, Shanahan has carte blanche on calls. Garrett has some good things going for him, including a fact that you didn't mention, that he wanted to be a coach even when he was player. While you make some good points for him, there just isn't enough experience as a coach or player to put him in that position right now.

I forsee a fresh face to call plays coming...not someone in the system since Baggett is reportedly going with Linehan...
 
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