Less than a week after the dismissal of Wade Phillips as head coach of the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys, sports betting sites are taking proposition bets on the team’s next leader. While Jason Garrett has been named interim head coach, and has been viewed for some time as coach-in-waiting, Garrett’s contribution to the Cowboys’ current debacle as offensive coordinator makes him only one of a handful of possible permanent choices.
Jon Gruden, the Monday Night Football broadcaster who formerly ran the Tampa Bay Bucs and the Oakland Raiders, is listed at sportsbook. com as the favorite, a 2-1 wager. John Fox, head coach of the Carolina Panthers, is second choice at 7-2.
Garrett is listed at 4-1, the same as former Pittsburgh Steeler coach Bill Cowher. Cowher and Gruden both carry Super Bowl wins on their resumes, important for a publicity-seeking and impatient owner like Dallas’ Jerry Jones.
Certainly the next coach will be expected to be more of a disciplinarian than Phillips, who replaced tough boss Bill Parcells only to see the team slowly deteriorate under his watch. The question is whether such established names as Gruden and Cowher can find comfortable working terms with Jones, known as a meddlesome and egotistical owner.






