At some point during that odd week in which Jason Garrett hadn’t been officially let go as Dallas Cowboys coach but was clearly not coming back, owner Jerry Jones asked Garrett about Mike McCarthy.
Who knows how awkward that moment was, but what Garrett said might have helped Jones make his quick decision to hire the former Green Bay Packers coach.
“One of the biggest things that impressed me was I told Jason Garrett I was going to be visiting Mike, before I had the visit,” Jones said at McCarthy’s introductory news conference. “He said, ‘You’re not going to meet anybody any more special than Mike.