Posted by Will Brinson

Update (2:30):To no surprise, Jerry Jones took the podium in Cowboys Stadium on Thursday and introduced Jason Garrett as the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys.

Update (12:00): Calvin Watkins of ESPN Dallas is reporting that Jason Garrett has been named head coach of the Dallas Cowboys. So the press conference at 2:30 PM EST (1:30 Cowboys time) will be, in the words of Denny Green, what we thought it was.

Jason Garrett is the de facto coach of the Dallas Cowboys. Or interim, if you prefer to be technical about it. But it sure seems like that tag will be lifted Thursday, as the Cowboys announced they're calling a press conference at 1:30 PM CST to announce something.

That "something" is all but guaranteed to be an announcement that Dallas is hiring Garrett as it's full-time coach.

Garrett's been the offensive coordinator since 2008 and the interim head coach of the Cowboys since November of 2010 and because of the success he had with the Cowboys (relative to the success that Wade Phillips had anyway), he's the leading candidate to coach them in 2010.

Additionally, if Jerry Jones is hiring Garrett full time, he'll circumvent any issues surrounding a new coaching staff and implementing a system that might revolve around labor issues and the impending lockout.

Many a local Cowboys fan might begrudge the hiring -- Garrett's obviously culpable for some of Phillips' failures too -- and there are other capable candidates out there including ranging from ideal (John Fox) to big-name (Bill Cowher) to rising coordinator (Rob Ryan).

But it seems the possibility of having Garrett go somewhere else and succeed (he turned down approximately 5,000 other jobs during his tenure with Dallas) is too terrifying, and Jerry just believes Garrett's his guy.

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