No names conjure up the hat

Frisco, Texas – When the cowboys started looking for head coaches, prepared for interviewing people like defensively thinking coaches like Robert Saleh and Leslie Frazier and of course the name Kellen Moore was in circulation, they learned that there was another candidate.

Someone whose name was not on the list of the usual suspects.

Then apparently comes the name that surprises us the most.

And don’t think that the cowboys conjure up a name. This has been possible since the cowboys and Mike McCarthy could not agree in the duration of a contract extension. Not exactly the consolation potential that it is presented, since the Detroit coordinator Ben Johnson has taken over the head coaching post at the Chicago Bears and as expected to Aaron Glenn at the jets. And let us understand that the NFL agents have negotiated these deals behind the scenes, even if there are restrictions on interviews.

Be honest. Schotty has been a coach in the NFL for 25 years. Three years on college. The last three seasons here at the cowboys, with a 10^TH NFL-stop to his CV, initially as a team consultant in 2021 with a view to the analysis of the defense and the last two as an offensive coordinator without a game request after McCarthy took over these tasks after Moore’s departure in 2023, and remember the back then, Much to DAK Prescott.

Then what makes Schottenheimer a potentially attractive choice? Apart from the fact that he was brought up by his head coach Marty Schottenheimer, who was an NFL member and head coach of the original Cleveland Browns, Kansas City Chiefs, who was then Washington Redskins and San Diego Chargers, a total of over 21 years of age Six years NFL player career and another 10 years as an NFL assistant coach. And remember it was Marty who gave McCarthy his first job as an NFL assistant in the chiefs when Brian was just 20 years old.

Think about it that the now 51-year-old Schottenheimer spent all the first few months of his formative years as the son of an NFL coach.

Again: Why may Schottenheimer, who had his second interview on Wednesday?

Remember what was pointed out on Friday. No matter who is hired as 10 of the cowboys^TH Head coach of the franchise is now 66 years old–Year history, then do you have to tell me who the offensive coordinator is when it is actually not bog? My guess would be if Brian, as head coach, also takes on the job of the coordinator, and continuity in an offensive that has changed three times since DAKS in 2016, more than enough. Do not need a third time in five years now.

And it is not the case that Schotty would not have been an offensive coordinator not only before. Three times in the NFL and a year at the University of Georgia. First from 2006 to 2011 with the jets, where he finished four times second in the AFC East and twice, also qualified three times for the playoffs and rose twice to the AFC Championship Bame, losing against the Colts and Steelers. In addition, the jets made it into the AFC Championship Game with the rookie quarters back in the 2009 season.

From then on, Schottenheimer became the OC of the St. Louis Rams under head coach Jeff Fisher (2012–14). There he was dealing with the injury-plagued QB Sam Bradford, then with players such as Kellen Clemens, Shaun Hill and Austin Davis, who, incidentally, completed 31 points with a 34:31 defeat against the cowboys playing in the playoffs in the 2014 season he 30 out of 42 passes for 327 yards, two touchdowns, a pick and a QB rating of 98.0.

Later he became OK of the Seattle Seahawks (2018–20) with Russell Wilson as a quarterback, and in 2020 the Seahawks won the NFC West with 12: 4 and scored a franchise record of 459 points (average 28.7). A game during his work for Pete Carroll, the third out of three playoff appearances there during his tenure.

Although he hopped around, Schottenheimer was a success as an offensive coordinator, not to mention that he started in Jacksonville as a passing game coordinator in Urban Meyer’s only NFL head coaching season (2-11) against the rookie quartersklortback Trevor Lawrence before he was fired. And as we know, assistants go under with the head coach, and when the Jags Doug Pederson hired as head coach, he wanted to lead the offensive, but was recently released.

I have to believe that DAK is a Schottenheimer supporter and do not forget that the cowboys have invested so much money in DAK. Better make sure that he is happy. It is always good to have the quarterback at your side. Seems to have the personality to master the room when you consider how Brian handled the media meetings of his weekly coordinator in the last two seasons.

Hopefully this will be completed earlier than later when Schotty is, um. Shot.

• Now then DC: Right, now the question arises whether the head coach is not a defensive type that takes over on the other side of the ball. Mike Zimmer wants to stay the defensive coordinator, which would certainly not be bad, right? Especially after the defense had received some teeth towards the end of the season and when you consider what Zimm had to say towards the end: “I just did things that were uncomfortable for me. I just had to do what I had to do. ”So here was the situation: they were good last year, so I didn’t really want to rock the boat as I usually am stubborn about things – about how I wanted to do things – is the best way to express it, and that’s what I regret the most. But if Zimm wants to go to his ranch in Kentucky and enjoy life, then there is a thought for DC, and the guy is at least now available. How about the former LineBacker coach of the Cowboys, Matt Eberflus, who was recently released as head coach of the Bears? He worked as a DC and deputy head coach at the University of Missouri and in four seasons as DC of the Colts before he got the job at the Bears. Pretty sharp defense spirit. Problem with the Bears, he is a defensive -thinking trainer who could not put the lazy offensive in order, even with the first pick in the NFL Draft, QB Caleb Williams. Think of flu.
• No bones: It’s a shame that John “Bones” Fassel, whose contract like the rest of the co-trainers of the cowboys expires, decided to make operations and to take over the position of the special team coordinator at the Tennessee Titans. A good hand, and I understand that the cowboys worked to keep him, even though they had not yet decided on the position of the head coach.
• Ruthless history: Now it’s time to criticize the cowboys and their owner Jerry Jones, but be careful if you don’t criticize even more. Explain how the cowboys in 2007 Jason Garrett initially hired in an indefinite position as an offensive coordinator before finally appointing Wade Phillips as head coach. So now, 18 years later, for those who were not out of their diapers at the time, provided that now, this is Jerry, who folds the horse from behind. Not like that. After Garrett had only been the Dolphins under head coach Nick Saban for two years, offers. Saban wanted to bring Garrett to Alabama, where he left Miami to become head coach of the Crimson Tide. The former assistant of the cowboys, Butch Davis, called for permission to take Jason to Cleveland. Calls came from the Rams, LSU, North Carolina, and since he was under contract with the Dolphins for another season, they wanted to extend his three -year contract. For this reason, Dolphins owners Wayne Huizenga all refused to speak to Jason. Only that the cowboys who knew that Jason had played there lived there all the years. Huizenga did Jones and Jason a favor and announced Jerry this week that he had a deadline until Thursday if he wanted to hire Jason. Since the cowboys still hadn’t chosen for a boss and coach and Wilson only officially stopped on February 8, they kept the deadline, nothing else. You hired Garrett on Thursday, January 25, 2007. So listen to the rhetoric and now you know the facts.
• Survey shots: On February 15, Texas Sports Hall of Fame will record the former defensive end of the cowboys, Ed “Too Tall” Jones, as one of eight players in the 2025 class in Waca, Texas, and thus appreciate his 15-year-old career, what The second longest in the franchise only corresponds to Jason Witten and LP Ladouceur (16) … and in the Hall of Fame Class of the National Football Foundation 2025, former cowboys defender Dennis Thurman and Linebacker Darrin will be recorded Smith … and remember it to warn the Detroit Lions of the “magical existence” of the Washington Commanders this season, now, the charm struck again when the Commanders took the lead with 31:28. There was a Four-and-2 on the 5-yard line of Detroit, you set up to achieve the first down, and the game was stopped: the Lions had 12 players on the field, half a distance , and of course Washington scored two moves later with 38:28 when he sat down with 45:31 against number 1 … The same applies to the Eagles on Sunday … Be careful.

And allow me to have the last word again this week as to the search for the head coach of the cowboys and the restructuring of the coaching staff, since all contracts have also expired.

I don’t see anything wrong with the idea of ​​hiring Jason Witten, the former Cowboys-Tight-end, in any function as an assistant coach and thus enabling him to start a potential NFL trainer career. Great player. Intelligent player. Knowing football, even if he was only active as a coach at the high school level at Liberty Christian and at the Tapps level in Argyle, Texas, where his two sons played. Witten, the head coach, won two state championship titles at private schools in a row, at a school that had lost three seasons in a row before his arrival in 2022.

Hey, at least Witten can become the “accountability” trainer.