The Dallas Cowboys have their new head coach, and he’s very acquainted with the group.
Crew proprietor Jerry Jones informed ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Friday night time that offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer would be the subsequent head coach of the franchise.
He’s anticipated to be launched at a information convention on Monday morning.
Schottenheimer has been an assistant all through the NFL for greater than 20 years and is now getting his first crack at a head-coaching job for one of many league’s most well-known franchises.
He spent the previous two years because the offensive coordinator in Dallas.
The Cowboys offense ranked first and twenty first, respectively, in factors scored these two seasons.
Whereas that appears like an enormous drop from the 2023 season to the 2024 season, the Cowboys spent most of 2024 enjoying with out beginning quarterback Dak Prescott.
The Cowboys had interviewed Kellen Moore, Robert Saleh and Leslie Frazier for the job, whereas additionally having discussions with College of Colorado head coach — and former Cowboys participant — Deion Sanders for the job.
In the long run, Schottenheimer is the one who will get the chance. He’ll exchange Mike McCarthy after he and the Cowboys have been unable to return to phrases on a brand new contract following the season.
Whereas being the pinnacle coach of the Cowboys is a big alternative, it is also going to be a particularly difficult job with excessive expectations. The Cowboys haven’t performed in an NFC Championship Sport (or a Tremendous Bowl) for the reason that 1995 season (the longest convention championship drought within the NFC), and have largely been an afterthought for the previous 30 years on the subject of postseason success. The roster has some big-name expertise, but it surely additionally has extreme flaws all through.
So long as Jones has full management over the roster it’s onerous to think about any of that altering anytime quickly regardless of who the pinnacle coach is. Head coaches, assistant coaches and gamers have all come and gone all through the years, however the outcomes have largely remained the identical. The one fixed all through all of it has been Jones.
If Schottenheimer is ready to flip the Cowboys again right into a winner, he’ll grow to be a Dallas legend. If not, it is going to simply be extra of the identical mediocrity they’ve come to know.
