Straight from the Horse's Mouth -- Jason Garrett Scouting Report

Our closer look at each of the Broncos Head Coaching Candidates continues with a closer look at Jason Garrett, Dallas Cowboys offensive coordinator.  To help us with that, I reached out to Dave Halprin who runs Blogging the Boys, the best of the best in terms of Cowboys blogs.  Here is what he had to say about Garret --

There's a lot of controversy over Jason Garrett right now among the Cowboys faithful. Last year our offense was a juggernaut and he was widely-praised as a 'genius' and the head-coach-in-waiting. This year, the offense wasn't as good and some started to question his play-calling and in-season adjustments. Defenses were starting to recognize plays from our formations and were calling them out ahead of time and DB's were running routes with our receivers. He's a young coach so I expect he will make the proper adjustments this offseason to freshen things up and confuse defenses a little more.

As a coach, he's very good when talking to the media and you get the sense that he knows what he wants to do and is a very smart guy. Listening to him talk he sounds like a head coach.

He runs the timing offense that he learned under Norv Turner when Garrett was the backup QB for the Cowboys in the 90's and Turner was the OC. It's a vertical passing game backed by a power running game. This would be a change for you guys because you generally like to have big maulers on the offensive line instead of the athletic zone-blocking scheme you're used to. The passing scheme is a deep read, then intermediate and short-read system that values getting the ball downfield. Personally, I think he tended to get pass-happy on occasion and benfitted from Tony Sparano's run-first mentality when they shared the play-calling duties in 2007. He has no real say in our defense with Wade Phillips here so I don't know what he would do on that side of the ball.

Overall, I think he's a very good coach with a potentially great future. He's smart, he's not overly-emotional and he knows what he wants to do. He's still young and learning though and he did make some mistakes in 2008. I hope you guys don't hire him because I want him back as our OC in 2009.

Our thanks to Dave and everyone at Blogging the Boys.  Lord knows they have their hands full with the circus in Dallas.