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Wade will keep the seat warm for one more year..
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3200822
Sources: Garrett turning down head coaching jobs to stay with Cowboys
ESPN.com news services
Updated: January 17, 2008, 10:27 AM ET
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Dallas head coach Wade Phillips has been informed that Jason Garrett will turn down head coaching opportunities with the Atlanta Falcons and Baltimore Ravens and remain as the offensive coordinator for the Cowboys, sources told ESPN's Ed Werder.
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Sources told ESPN.com that Garrett, who spent several hours meeting with Atlanta officials earlier in the day, huddled with Dallas owner Jerry Jones on Wednesday night. Garrett met with the Ravens on Monday night and part of the day Tuesday before flying to Atlanta for a follow-up session.
The Cowboys could offer Garrett a substantial raise and the tacit promise that he will eventually succeed Phillips within the next couple years.
In 2004, Jones convinced both his coordinators at the time, Sean Payton on offense and Mike Zimmer on defense, to bypass head coaching opportunities and stay with the Cowboys. Payton had been offered the Oakland Raiders' head coaching position and Zimmer the job at the University of Nebraska.
It is believed the Ravens formally offered Garrett their head coach job, at a salary of less than $3 million annually. Sources told ESPN.com's Matt Mosley that the Falcons' job is Garrett's if he wants it. The Falcons have also been seriously considering former Baltimore defensive coordinator Rex Ryan, who met with club executives on Monday for a second time, and who is held in high regard.
There were rumblings around the league on Wednesday that the Ravens were growing impatient with Garrett and might turn to another candidate, perhaps Philadelphia secondary coach John Harbaugh.
Both the Falcons and Ravens lost a candidate on Wednesday when Indianapolis assistant head coach Jim Caldwell withdrew his name from consideration for the vacancies. The move, first reported by ESPN's Chris Mortensen, fueled immediate speculation that Caldwell removed himself because he is about to be named the successor to Tony Dungy.
But Dungy told Mortensen that he has not yet made a decision on his future and likely will not before the weekend. League sources said Caldwell's action was motivated more by the reality that he was probably not viewed as more than the No. 3 candidate by both Atlanta and Baltimore officials.
One reason for a second interview between Garrett and Atlanta executives is that the Falcons did not have a general manager when they huddled with him for the first time on Jan. 4. On Saturday, however, Atlanta hired Patriots college scouting director Thomas Dimitroff as its new general manager, and he will have considerable input into the selection of the head coach. The Falcons' vacancy was created when Bobby Petrino resigned with three games remaining in his first season as an NFL head coach, to fill the vacancy at the University of Arkansas.
Atlanta has interviewed five other candidates for the position. If the team is still without a new coach by the weekend, and New York loses at Green Bay in Sunday's NFC Championship Game, the Falcons probably will seek permission to interview Giants defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo. The Falcons made such a request earlier, but the Giants rebuffed it because of the team's status in the playoffs.
Even as he faced the specter of losing Garrett as his coordinator, Jones was attempting on Wednesday to retain several assistant coaches whose contracts are about to expire, and who are rumored to be candidates for staff positions in Miami, where Cowboys assistant head coach Tony Sparano on Wednesday was hired as the Dolphins' new coach.
Jones has offered contract extensions to secondary coach Todd Bowles, linebackers coach Paul Pasqualoni, and defensive line coach Kacy Rodgers.
Wade will keep the seat warm for one more year..
Well...I was kinda right.The Cowboys could offer Garrett a substantial raise and the tacit promise that he will eventually succeed Phillips within the next couple years.
Sweet.
I don't think he ever intended to leave as I am certain he is more than willing to wait another year or two but nice s game to get more money. Good for him.
The risk here is that the Cowboys' carriage turns back into a pumpkin next year and JJ cleans house after a 7-9 season during which the offense continues to suck like it did the last six weeks of the season.
Whats the risk?
for garrett, if they go 7-9, his stock will plunge. not to mention that phillips has less motivation to succeed.
Ah ok, I thought he was saying risk for JJ was risking something.
But I seriously doubt Jerry would cut him under any cir stances. Jerry is far too loyal to anyone who shows him loyalty.
Good
Like this will really matter, The girls are going to suck next year.
so your entire life revolves around hating one team?
bwaaaaa hahahahahahahahaha
I am still in awe of "Cowboyhater "
I went through that entire site and read so much of it.
There is no bigger sign of a legendary and successful franchise than for them to cause people to hate them so much it causes people to be so fervently against them.
Makes me proud to be a Cowboy fan! Normally we only see such reaction from soccer fans across the pond. Such sites are fairly rare for American sports.
Cowboyhater...you have made me so happy!
I salute you sir!
Its good news. They need to hire a new defensive coordinator. I want to see more blitzes.
If we can shore up that secondary than I am with you.
Would you rather be head coach of the Ravens or Falcons in 2008 or head coach of the Cowboys in 2009 with a substantial raise? Easy decision for Garrett.
To be honest I can fathom why anyone would want to be a NFL head coach. Such a nightmare high pressure job. I would rather get one of those decade long contracts the NCAA hands out.
Amen!
Cowboy Hater, if that is your site, then I am disappointed. Part of the fun of this board is that when someone's team loses, you give them . Hey, its just the way it is. Colts, Cowboys, Lions, Bolts, Pats, Skins whomever...we all give each other crap but at least we have a team. Whomever runs that site isn't brave enough to actually support a team. That kind of crap is for middle schoolers. If you are not man (or woman) enough to pick a team, stand by them and take the good with the bad, you are a coward, IMO. So if that is your site, then you're a coward. If that is not your site and you have a team and support that team no matter what, then
I though Phillips was a defensive genius that was going to turn a very talented Cowboys D into the greatest D in history?
I don't recall anyone saying that...
Garett is waaaay overrated.
I know a certain few Cowboys fans who said that.
Well at least there is one other sane person in the world.
Good news.
The Cryboys will still blow again next season. As long as jackass Jones owns and COACHES them, they don't have a snowball's chance in of going to another Superbowl. Jones needs to retire and sell the team.
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