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Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones joined the 105.3 The Fan radio show Friday morning and discussed several topics including hiring Jason Garrett as the Cowboys head coach. Here are some highlights.
George Steinbrenner went over 15 years without a World Series win before he signed Joe Torre to manage the Yankees. On if Jason Garrett is Jerry Jones' Joe Torre:
"Well, we can certainly work toward that. Jason does excite me. I hope that this opportunity excites him. I think it does. I know it does. And that's how you do things. I have, on a personal basis, as much energy or as much desire or ambition to win a Super Bowl as I ever have in my life. Even before I won the first Super Bowl that I got to be a part of. So, there's nothing lacking around here on incentive. We thought we had the deck set pretty good this year. We had, on paper, and I emphasize on paper, underline that. On paper, we had as good of talent as anybody in the National Football League. That's not enough. We know that. You got to have other things. It's got to come together and it's got to be able to overcome setbacks. And we weren't able to do that. I'm not at all satisfied in any way. ... But I am pleased that we get to step forward here on where we need to improve. And we need to improve in a lot of places. But we'll visit it with Jason as our head coach."
On if he can give any information on the next defensive coordinator:
"No, not really. I think that's a process that will be influenced by what other clubs are doing, if they're making changes in staffs. It's not automatic. As you know, the rules are very succinct and designed in the NFL that the only way a coach can move, that's got a contract, without the permission of the club that he's got the contract with. Which by the way, it seems ridiculous to say it, that's the way the rest of life works. But the only coach that can move is a coordinator or a position coach that has a chance to be a head coach. Then you have to let him have that opportunity if you got him under contract. Other than a position coach or a coordinator. Just because another team is interested in him, just because he wants to go doesn't mean he can go. And so, that's just the rules. So, availability has a lot to do with the makeup of staffs when you have a need to make a change."
On if there is any chance that a quarterback is selected by the Cowboys with their first round draft pick:
"I'm not, and couldn't, and wouldn't get into where we would be strategy-wise or what positions that we might go with. I've seen several of the players that will be available to us and had preliminary evaluations of those players that will be available really in the first three rounds. And beyond that is where we'll be doing a lot of work. But I couldn't go there now as to what positions or what we might do. We need a lot of help in a lot of different areas."
Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones joined the 105.3 The Fan radio show Friday morning and discussed several topics including hiring Jason Garrett as the Cowboys head coach. Here are some highlights.
George Steinbrenner went over 15 years without a World Series win before he signed Joe Torre to manage the Yankees. On if Jason Garrett is Jerry Jones' Joe Torre:
"Well, we can certainly work toward that. Jason does excite me. I hope that this opportunity excites him. I think it does. I know it does. And that's how you do things. I have, on a personal basis, as much energy or as much desire or ambition to win a Super Bowl as I ever have in my life. Even before I won the first Super Bowl that I got to be a part of. So, there's nothing lacking around here on incentive. We thought we had the deck set pretty good this year. We had, on paper, and I emphasize on paper, underline that. On paper, we had as good of talent as anybody in the National Football League. That's not enough. We know that. You got to have other things. It's got to come together and it's got to be able to overcome setbacks. And we weren't able to do that. I'm not at all satisfied in any way. ... But I am pleased that we get to step forward here on where we need to improve. And we need to improve in a lot of places. But we'll visit it with Jason as our head coach."
On if he can give any information on the next defensive coordinator:
"No, not really. I think that's a process that will be influenced by what other clubs are doing, if they're making changes in staffs. It's not automatic. As you know, the rules are very succinct and designed in the NFL that the only way a coach can move, that's got a contract, without the permission of the club that he's got the contract with. Which by the way, it seems ridiculous to say it, that's the way the rest of life works. But the only coach that can move is a coordinator or a position coach that has a chance to be a head coach. Then you have to let him have that opportunity if you got him under contract. Other than a position coach or a coordinator. Just because another team is interested in him, just because he wants to go doesn't mean he can go. And so, that's just the rules. So, availability has a lot to do with the makeup of staffs when you have a need to make a change."
On if there is any chance that a quarterback is selected by the Cowboys with their first round draft pick:
"I'm not, and couldn't, and wouldn't get into where we would be strategy-wise or what positions that we might go with. I've seen several of the players that will be available to us and had preliminary evaluations of those players that will be available really in the first three rounds. And beyond that is where we'll be doing a lot of work. But I couldn't go there now as to what positions or what we might do. We need a lot of help in a lot of different areas."