Cowboys EVP Stephen Jones, son of owner Jerry Jones, made a splash yesterday by saying Dallas' coach Jason Garrett had his “back up against the wall.”
Speaking to reporters today at the combine in Indianapolis, Garrett responded to those comments, per Charean Williams of ProFootballTalk.com.
Garrett once again proclaimed he wasn't worried about his job status, saying “I don’t really have any feelings about” Jones' comments:
“I’ve always just tried to do my job as well as I can do it and build a team we all can be proud of. We’ll just continue to do that. I never spent much time thinking about the business part of my job. I feel good about where our team is. Again, a really young football team, one I think grew over the course of last year. So we’re going to continue to try to build a team that we all can be proud of,” Garrett continued.
Garrett's job security is going to cast a shadow over the Cowboys all offseason and into the regular season. His contract is up after 2019, and the Jones family has already indicated they don't plan on extending him before the season.
That means Garrett will enter the year as a lame duck coach, which means questions about his future will continue to swirl.
Garrett is no stranger to this type of adversity. There's been talk of him being fired seemingly every year for the past half decade. Garrett went into the 2014 season as a lame duck, and ended up having one of his best seasons as a coach. The Cowboys went 12-4 and won the NFC East, which earned him the five-year extension that is now almost up.
The Cowboys again won the NFC East this past year, but the ride wasn't always smooth. They beat the Seahawks in the Wild Card round, but fell to the Rams in the Divisional round as Garrett's offense again received a ton of criticism for lacking creativity.
Garrett was eventually forced to fire his long-time offensive coordinator Scott Linehan, and he could be next if things don't improve next season.
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