JJT: Jumping jacks drill shows what Jason Garrett expects from Cowboys' rookies

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Jumping jacks drill shows what Jason Garrett expects from Cowboys' rookies
Jean-Jacques Taylor
ESPN Staff Writer

IRVING, Texas -- For Dallas Cowboys coach Jason Garrett, the game is always about the details. The sooner the Cowboys' rookies understand that, the better for themselves and for the team.

That's why Garrett stopped a rudimentary jumping jacks drill during a warmup period before practice last weekend.

The players were supposed to count, "one, two, three, one," followed by "one, two, three, two," and so on until they reached five.

A perturbed Garrett, doing his best drill sergeant impersonation, quickly stopped the drill because too many players weren't in sync. He loudly reprimanded the rookies, making them restart.

"We have to do things the right way," Garrett said. "If you don't do things the right way right from the start, those things will continue throughout practice. We have a high standard for the way we want to do things.

"The stretch lines need to be right. The jumping jacks need to be right, and that carries over to the different drills we do before we start running football plays. Everyone needs to understand that if we're doing them, we're doing them for a reason and they need to do it the right way."

Garrett takes nothing for granted. The coaching staff showed the rookies exactly how the drill was supposed to be done before their first practice.

"If they don't do it that way, we stop it and get them to do it right," Garrett said. "That's not to suggest in any way that if we don't stop it, they're doing it right because, sometimes, you have to coach on the run. But if they're not doing things the right way, you have to let them know what the standard is."

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:lol

"The stretch lines need to be right. The jumping jacks need to be right,

What's funny is I've read multiple reports from fans of how lazy and disorganized our pregame stretching routine is.
 
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Professional athletes do jumping jacks? But for some reason it doesn't surprise me that Garrett would make a big deal out of counting out the jumping jacks wrong. He's the NFL equivalent of a junior high PE coach.
 

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It's embarrassing. I don't even know how people have this shit written about them and not find it embarrassing. Your team was a complete fucking wreck and your offense looked absolutely pathetic and disorganized but you want to chastize rookies because they didn't do their jumping jacks properly?

Fucking joke of a HC.......
 

cmd34

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Slapping clipboards out of a coach's hands? Guys being guys.


But if those motherfuckers don't count right for jumping jacks......
 

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"We have to do things the right way," Garrett said. "If you don't do things the right way right from the start, those things will continue throughout practice. We have a high standard for the way we want to do things.

I'm sure he was imagining how this would sound in the NFL films "Road To Super Bowl 51" when he said it.
 

yimyammer

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Hey, give carrot top a break, I'm sure that's as far as jerri would allow him to exert his authority
 

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Professional athletes do jumping jacks? But for some reason it doesn't surprise me that Garrett would make a big deal out of counting out the jumping jacks wrong. He's the NFL equivalent of a junior high PE coach.


Laugh all you want! But this is why we went 4-12 last year: not doing jumping jacks properly.

If you can't handle the little things... how can you handle the big things, like running in place?
 

cmd34

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Hey, give carrot top a break, I'm sure that's as far as jerri would allow him to exert his authority

Jerry: I have final say on which players we trade for, draft, sign, keep, and who plays.
Jason: What am I in charge of?
Jerry: I will let you do some, I said some, press conferences and you get, umm, you get jumping jacks.


Just like every other team.
 
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[video=youtube;XdEsUB3NPqo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdEsUB3NPqo[/video]

Garrett: Now, Maliek, if you don't do your cartwheels the right way, those things will continue throughout practice.
 

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somewhere a drill sergeant is happy

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Pro Tip: Stop drafting dumb players. You can't fix dumb and you can't coach dumb. If they can't do this simple fucking count? They're DUMB.
 

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It's embarrassing. I don't even know how people have this shit written about them and not find it embarrassing. Your team was a complete fucking wreck and your offense looked absolutely pathetic and disorganized but you want to chastize rookies because they didn't do their jumping jacks properly?

Fucking joke of a HC.......

I guarantee this was something Garrett picked up from an old dusty book or from his decrepit father.

Jumpin' jacks. Why don't kids these days do any more jumpin' jacks? Jumpin' jacks build character.
 
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The players were supposed to count, "one, two, three, one," followed by "one, two, three, two," and so on until they reached five.

4 X 5 = 20

Do 20 jumping jacks have any impact on the gifted athletes who play NFL football?
 
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I'm sure he was imagining how this would sound in the NFL films "Road To Super Bowl 51" when he said it.

Yeah, he probably envisions some future episode of Americas Game where Cowboys players recount how Jasons attention to detail is what got them to win the Super Bowl. Like, they'd be all "He can't actually coach worth a fuck but I remember my rookie minicamp he made us restart jumping jacks and from that point on I decided I'd run through a wall for this guy!"
 

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[video=youtube;XdEsUB3NPqo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdEsUB3NPqo[/video]

Garrett: Now, Maliek, if you don't do your cartwheels the right way, those things will continue throughout practice.

That's what our practices look like on a good day
 

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Seems like this is the type of year where coaches who are out to prove themselves start to act tough on the young guys. Hue Jackson in Cleveland was just ribbing Corey Coleman about needing to get in shape.
 
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