Giants offensive coordinator Jason Garrett speaks to the media before practice during training camp at the Quest Diagnostics Training Center in East Rutherford, N.J., on Thursday. Credit: Brad Penner
What’s in a name? Quite a lot if you heard Jason Garrett a certain way, it turns out.
Reporters have called the Giants’ offensive coordinator by his first name for the past year, including a few times during Thursday’s press conference. Garrett has never been bothered by that. Nor was he when he was head coach of the Cowboys all those years.
And he’s not now.
When he scolded (jokingly or not) those assembled around his lectern at the end of the question-and-answer session on Thursday after he said "Good to see you guys" and then filled in his own response – "’Good to see you, Coach.