Imagine this: You just pulled up to a stoplight when you look out the window to your left. The first thing you notice is a red-haired young man in his 20s, yelling inside his car and waving his hands animatedly. Well, that’s Jason Garrett for you in the 90s. As a third-string quarterback behind Troy Aikman and Hugh Millen, who never got first-team reps, that ride to the training facility and back was his only chance to get some “real” practice in.

“The starters get the reps,” the former Dallas Cowboys quarterback said on The Dan Patrick Show . “You get the scout team stuff. Maybe you get a little something. Different coaches will give you 10 plays on Friday, or they’ll give you two plays at the end of a 20-play set or whatever. But I learned early on.

“I would complain to myself, ‘Ho

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