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To the surprise of no one including Todd Bowles and Ray Sherman, who interviewed for the job this week, Jason Garrett was promoted from interim coach in Dallas on Thursday and given a four-year contract by Cowboys owner/general manager Jerry Jones.The only other news that came out of the lovefest at Cowboys Stadium was that Garrett, who was the offensive coordinator when he replaced the fired Wade Phillips on Nov. 8 with Dallas at 1-7, will continue to run the offense. The only NFL head coach in 2010 who didn't have an offensive coordinator was New England's Bill Belichick, who happens to be the only active leader with three Super Bowl championships on his resume. Garrett has a 5-3 record including a 14-13 victory in the finale at Philadelphia in which the Eagles rested just about anybody they could to prepare for this week's playoff opener.
So Garrett will call the plays for the Cowboys while Super Bowl winners Mike Shanahan, Tom Coughlin and Sean Payton (all of whom have offensive backgrounds) employ coordinators. Garrett will have more control on game days but less control of personnel because no owner is as hands-on as Jones, a captain on Arkansas' 1964 national championship team.
Jones made the 44-year-old Garrett the first former Cowboys' player to coach the franchise because "he's someone who can communicate effectively with today's players, someone who commands the respect of the team in the meeting room, the locker room and on the field, someone that has walked in the same shoes as the players that he's gonna coach."
The owner said that Garrett certainly passed his audition during the final eight games while leading the Cowboys to upsets of the AFC South champion Indianapolis Colts and the 10-6 New York Giants and a close shave against the defending Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints.
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