Garrett jumped at chance to be Giants’ offensive coordinator
Jason Garrett wasn’t interested in sitting around for a year after the Dallas Cowboys didn’t renew his contract as their head coach after 10 years in charge.
So when the New York Giants and new head coach Joe Judge called to ask him about becoming the offensive coordinator, he jumped at the chance
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday for the first time since he was hired in January, Garrett refused to discuss his final days in Dallas. He thanked the Cowboys organization and players for his time there, but wanted to focus on the Giants and his return to the area.
“I love coaching football,” Garrett said on a virtual conference call Tuesday. “I was just so fortunate to have been able to play football in the National Football League for 15 years and now I have been coaching since then. I love the game. I love every part
of it about the game as a player, as a coach.”
Garrett said the opportunity to return to the Giants and the area was too good for him and his wife to pass up.
Garrett grew up in New
Jersey, played football at Princeton and spent four seasons with the Giants, primarily as Kerry Collins’ backup from 2000-2003.
The 54-year-old steered clear when asked about whether he was helping Judge in his first season as a head coach. Garrett said he was learning and contributing to the team in any way he could.
There has been speculation the Giants’ offense would look very much like the one the Cowboys ran in his tenure.
While there probably will be some similarities. Garrett said his focus is learning about his players.
“We certainly have a system of football that has been in place for a long time, but it’s also a system that has evolved through the years,” Garrett said. “It’s evolved based on the people we have on our team. There have been times in the past we have thrown the ball a lot and times in the past we have run the ball a lot.”
Garrett said the common theme in his offenses is the desire to attack defenses in different ways while executing at a high level.