Brian Schottenheimer’s Debut as Cowboys Head Coach

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00:00When you are dubbed America's team, you start in Dallas.

00:04A theatrical introductory press conference for the Cowboys,

00:08for Brian Schottenheimer himself.

00:10His first head coaching role after nearly two and a half decades

00:14as an assistant of some sort in the National Football League

00:18the previous three years in Dallas.

00:20But a lot said from Jerry Jones and his son Stephen Jones

00:25about the outlook of this organization.

00:29Scott, there was a very long answer from Jerry Jones

00:32that really got this started yesterday.

00:35Simple question, why did you end up hiring Brian Schottenheimer

00:40that led to Jerry Jones really kind of saying

00:43you don't understand my pedigree.

00:45I have wanted to be a head coach.

00:47Here is why I have done all the things that I have done.

00:50You don't consider this a risk.

00:51It's the biggest risk of my career to hire a first time head coach

00:56and even got emotional in that answer.

01:00Scott, what did you make of the introductory press conference in Dallas?

01:05Yeah, now listen, it's a little weird, right?

01:07I mean, again, I'm in favor of the hire.

01:09But I wish they would have just said, take control of the situation.

01:14You know, and how you do that by don't opening up the Pandora's box

01:17to speculation on whether it was good, bad, or indifferent.

01:19Really, and you knew you were going to be asked these questions, right?

01:22So I would have liked Jerry and everyone within that organization

01:25to really come forward.

01:26He's our guy.

01:27He's been with us for a long time.

01:29You know, we wanted to have someone work with Dak Prescott.

01:31Prescott likes him.

01:32We've had success.

01:33He's been part of that success on offense in the regular season.

01:36You know, really kind of take control and silence the critics.

01:40And they really didn't do that yesterday.

01:42They just kind of like, you know, allowed the critics to have their say

01:45and have the speculation about whether this is a good hire or not a good hire.

01:49I wish they would have had a little bit more control of it.

01:52Yes, I would agree, Scott.

01:53Again, as we kind of discussed yesterday on the show,

01:56as I have shared across a variety of programs

01:59on the Sports Grid Network in the last 24 hours plus,

02:02I actually root for Brian Schottenheimer.

02:05I hope he does very well.

02:06I still do not believe this coaching search in Dallas was conducted

02:10in the correct manner.

02:12And I still have a ton of questions about Jerry Jones

02:15and his son, Steven Jones, leading in that front office positions.

02:20And Scott, again, when they were speaking yesterday,

02:23and Jerry Jones trying to, I think, be defensive

02:26and debunk the idea that this was a comfortable hire

02:30or he hired somebody to be yet another puppet man

02:33and to say yes to everything that he desires with the Cowboys.

02:37To do so in his explanation,

02:39by calling it the greatest risk of his career,

02:42to hire a head coach with zero head coaching experience,

02:46you are almost working against yourself in what you are saying.

02:52That was the Jerry Jones component.

02:54And there was Steven Jones when asked about how they evaluate success

02:58within the organization in saying,

03:01we self-evaluate, we look at what we have done well,

03:04what we have done poorly,

03:05and the so-called, as he said, in air quotes,

03:09drought the Cowboys have seen in the last 30 years

03:12from winning a conference championship or, of course, a Lombardi trophy.

03:17That answer, above all else, Scott,

03:20really rubbed people the wrong way associated with the star yesterday.

03:24They were not pleased with the idea that Steven Jones was sitting there

03:28and almost mocking 29 consecutive years

03:31of not reaching the NFC Championship game

03:34since the last Super Bowl win for Dallas in 1995.

03:38Yeah, and that ultimately is the problem, right?

03:41Picture a pyramid and what's at the very, very top

03:44and everything else supports it.

03:46Well, at the very, very top is Dallas thinks

03:48they've been successful for 30 years,

03:50whereas the American public realizes they haven't been

03:53when you compare it to Super Bowls.

03:54But if they think they've been successful,

03:56well, then why change things?

03:58You know, and you think about it,

04:00you know, in all his years of voting the Cowboys, right?

04:02He got rid of Tom Landry.

04:03Okay, so we're not going to count that.

04:04He hires Jimmy Johnson, powerful man.

04:07That doesn't work out, you know, because they can't get along

04:09even though he was his best buddy.

04:11He hires Bill Parcells.

04:12But other than that, you go back to Barry Switzer or Jason Garrett,

04:17Mike McCarthy, who is desperate for a job.

04:19He's always hired guys, Ben, that he could control.

04:22So if he thinks that's been successful,

04:25why would this hire be any different?

04:27I'm more amazed at the Cowboy fan

04:29who was called for McCarthy to get fired.

04:31That they're so surprised that he went down this road again.

04:34Well, what else would you expect?

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