FRISCO, Texas -- Too many of y'all have let coach Jason Garrett's easy smile fool you. You've bought into the false narrative that Garrett is a puppet, doing Jerry Jones' bidding because he's thrilled just to coach the Dallas Cowboys.
Well, he showed us in November that's not the case, when he made the best decision he has made in his six-plus seasons as head coach even if it created a rift between Garrett and his friend, Tony Romo.
It was also the most difficult decision of his tenure.
Garrett showed us he could traipse all over the country with Romo, going to college basketball games and studying winning habits from folks like Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski, and yet still execute the kind of ruthless decisions every NFL head coach must ultimately make if he's going to thrive.