Jason Garrett , one of the NFL's hottest assistant coaches just a few years ago, became the interim head coach Monday of a 1-7 team whose players tweet about their refusal to quit because you can't tell from their sorry performance.
Jerry has charged the 44-year-old Garrett, who has called plays since 2007, with changing the culture that Bill Parcells created and Jerry and Wade Phillips destroyed.
Tony Romo is gone for the rest of the season with a broken collarbone, and the defense has been repugnant the past three weeks, yielding no less than 35 points.
It makes you wonder why Garrett, a Princeton grad, even took the job.
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