Report: Wade Phillips Fired, Jason Garrett Named Interim Head Coach of Cowboys

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Nov 8, 2010

Wade Phillips is no longer the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys — despite repeated claims by owner and GM Jerry Jones that his job would be safe until the end of the season.

Phillips will be replaced by offensive coordinator Jason Garrett, according to CBS' Bill Jones.

Phillips' Cowboys were defeated 45-7 by the Packers on Sunday night, prompting Jones to change his tune and refuse to comment on his coach's status.

"There are a lot of people here who are certainly going to suffer and suffer consequences," he also said.

The son of coaching legend Bum Phillips was 34-20 as Cowboys head coach, but his team collapsed in 2008 and missed the playoffs with a week 17 thrashing at the hands of the Philadelphia Eagles, and he won just one playoff game with the team. The Cowboys are off to a 1-7 start this year.

Garrett, Troy Aikman's backup from 1993-99, has been considered a hot coaching commodity for years, and was given the most lucrative assistant's contract to remain in Dallas as offensive coordinator. After being considered for many head coaching posts, he will now have an opportunity to show what he can do.

Even with the coaching change, the Cowboys still have more than their share of issues.

"We have so many things that we need to correct and address, as this game so vividly exposed and previous games have," Jones acknowledged after Sunday's loss. "I've got a lot of work to do, got a lot of decisions to make. And it's not just one, two, three or four. There are several decisions. I think everybody in this country would agree that there's a lot wrong with this team that we've got to address, and I'm certainly the one to address it."

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