Should Hot Start Cause the Cowboys to Extend Jason Garrett, DeMarco Murray?

October 7, 2014   ·   Brad Gagnon   ·   Jump to comments

The Dallas Cowboys are 4-1 for the first time since the 2008 season. Nobody in football has a better record than them, and no two figures deserve more credit for that than head coach Jason Garrett and star running back DeMarco Murray.
Garrett has evolved into a top-notch offensive game-planner who is finally showing a willingness to run the ball. This team has always played hard for him, but he's rallying it in extraordinary fashion this season.
Without Pro Bowl-caliber defensive linemen DeMarcus Ware and Jason Hatcher, and with injuries/suspensions affecting key cogs like linebacker Sean Lee, cornerback Orlando Scandrick and front seven studs Rolando McClain, Bruce Carter, Justin Durant, Henry Melton and Anthony Spencer, this team has no business winning 80 percent of its games.
Right now, Garrett has to be an early front-runner for Coach of the Year.
Meanwhile, Murray has become the playmaking bell cow Dallas has been looking for ever since the end of the Emmitt S...

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