3 Reasons why the NY Giants should hire Jason Garrett as OC

While many NY Giants fans will initially laugh off the idea of bringing on Jason Garrett as offensive coordinator, the move actually makes a ton of sense.

Since Joe Judge was shockingly hired as the new head coach fo the NY Giants, i’ve made my feelings known on how important I believe it is for him to round out his coaching staff with experience.

So far, that has not been the case, as the defensive coordinator has just one (shaky) year as a DC, and the new QB coach has never officially held that role himself (although he stepped in for Jim Caldwell in Miami last year for personal reasons).

Giants nation was united on the fact that bringing in Jason Garrett – even for a look – as head coach would be means for a riot. However, head coach and offensive coordinator are two very different things, and Garrett has proven himself to be a more than capable offensive coordinator. On Wednesday, news broke of Garrett being at the Giants’ facility to officially interview for the position.

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With the coaching staff almost complete, the offensive coordinator position is arguably the most important hire outside of bringing in Judge that this team will make for a long time. Daniel Jones‘ progression will have a lot to do with who is running the offense, and for a variety of reasons, I don’t see many candidates more qualified for the position than Jason Garrett.

Here are three reasons that the NY Giants should not let Garrett leave town without signing him to the position.

1. Experience

As I touched on earlier this week, this coaching staff is severely lacking in the meaningful NFL coaching experience department. That’s fine, as Joe Judge can surely make a leap from special teams coach to successful head coach, as long as the right people are put in the right places around him.

So far, Judge has chosen to fill out his staff with more relatively inexperienced coaches. The offensive coordinator spot was always going to be his most crucial hire, but now it is for even more reasons. Making such a big jump is going to require guidance, and Jason Garrett has eight-plus years of head coaching experience – and four more as an OC – under his belt.

By all accounts, Garrett has proven to be extremely easy to work with and is one of the best people in football. You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who’s worked with him – or played for him – that has anything bad to say about him. He seems like someone that can mesh with multiple different types of personalities, and his experience and positivity would be a big-time plus for Joe Judge’s staff.

2. Results as an OC/with QB’s

It seems like eons ago, but when Jason Garrett started his career with Dallas back in 2007 he led one of the most potent offenses in the NFL right out of the gates. In his three full years as the OC, the Cowboys had a top-three offense in the NFL twice.

I understand that team was pretty loaded talent-wise, but how much better could he (or anyone) possibly have done? Tony Romo has only started ten games in his career without Jason Garrett running the offense, and he went on to have an amazing career.

After Romo was fazed out of the picture, Garrett took a little known fourth-round draft pick out of Mississippi State and turned him into one of the better quarterbacks in all of football. While Dak surely has his limitations, that only makes what Garrett coaxed out of him all the more impressive. With TD/INT splits of 96/37, Garrett deserves a ton of credit for developing Prescott.

If Garrett can get results like that out of Dak Prescott, just imagine what he can do with Daniel Jones, who seems to be exponentially more talented.

3. Poses little threat to Judge’s job security

This one is important. With Joe Judge taking over the NY Giants with such a question mark over his head, bringing in a hot young OC candidate could actually be somewhat harmful. After years of middling success with a talented roster, Jason Garrett is not a legitimate head coaching candidate around the NFL at this time.

It’s likely going to take years for him to rebuild his image, and if things go south out of the gate (which they very well could), I do not believe many (if any) fans or media will be clamoring for Garrett to take over as head coach.

Obviously Garrett is going to want to get back into head coaching as soon as he possibly can, but he has to have a good idea that it’s not an option for him at this time after he received almost zero interest (and zero interviews) for any openings this off-season. He’s got an axe to grind against the Cowboys, and I truly believe he’d relish the opportunity to just come in here and put his head down and work.

John Mara has already hinted at how much he likes and respects Garrett, while also noting how important it’s going to be to add experience to this staff.

Hopefully, Joe Judge makes the right call, and Jason Garrett is named the offensive coordinator very shortly.