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Brian Schottenheimer’s Debut as Cowboys Head Coach
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1/29/2025
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When you are dubbed America's team, you start in Dallas.
00:04
A theatrical introductory press conference for the Cowboys,
00:08
for Brian Schottenheimer himself.
00:10
His first head coaching role after nearly two and a half decades
00:14
as an assistant of some sort in the National Football League
00:18
the previous three years in Dallas.
00:20
But a lot said from Jerry Jones and his son Stephen Jones
00:25
about the outlook of this organization.
00:29
Scott, there was a very long answer from Jerry Jones
00:32
that really got this started yesterday.
00:35
Simple question, why did you end up hiring Brian Schottenheimer
00:40
that led to Jerry Jones really kind of saying
00:43
you don't understand my pedigree.
00:45
I have wanted to be a head coach.
00:47
Here is why I have done all the things that I have done.
00:50
You don't consider this a risk.
00:51
It's the biggest risk of my career to hire a first time head coach
00:56
and even got emotional in that answer.
01:00
Scott, what did you make of the introductory press conference in Dallas?
01:05
Yeah, now listen, it's a little weird, right?
01:07
I mean, again, I'm in favor of the hire.
01:09
But I wish they would have just said, take control of the situation.
01:14
You know, and how you do that by don't opening up the Pandora's box
01:17
to speculation on whether it was good, bad, or indifferent.
01:19
Really, and you knew you were going to be asked these questions, right?
01:22
So I would have liked Jerry and everyone within that organization
01:25
to really come forward.
01:26
He's our guy.
01:27
He's been with us for a long time.
01:29
You know, we wanted to have someone work with Dak Prescott.
01:31
Prescott likes him.
01:32
We've had success.
01:33
He's been part of that success on offense in the regular season.
01:36
You know, really kind of take control and silence the critics.
01:40
And they really didn't do that yesterday.
01:42
They just kind of like, you know, allowed the critics to have their say
01:45
and have the speculation about whether this is a good hire or not a good hire.
01:49
I wish they would have had a little bit more control of it.
01:52
Yes, I would agree, Scott.
01:53
Again, as we kind of discussed yesterday on the show,
01:56
as I have shared across a variety of programs
01:59
on the Sports Grid Network in the last 24 hours plus,
02:02
I actually root for Brian Schottenheimer.
02:05
I hope he does very well.
02:06
I still do not believe this coaching search in Dallas was conducted
02:10
in the correct manner.
02:12
And I still have a ton of questions about Jerry Jones
02:15
and his son, Steven Jones, leading in that front office positions.
02:20
And Scott, again, when they were speaking yesterday,
02:23
and Jerry Jones trying to, I think, be defensive
02:26
and debunk the idea that this was a comfortable hire
02:30
or he hired somebody to be yet another puppet man
02:33
and to say yes to everything that he desires with the Cowboys.
02:37
To do so in his explanation,
02:39
by calling it the greatest risk of his career,
02:42
to hire a head coach with zero head coaching experience,
02:46
you are almost working against yourself in what you are saying.
02:52
That was the Jerry Jones component.
02:54
And there was Steven Jones when asked about how they evaluate success
02:58
within the organization in saying,
03:01
we self-evaluate, we look at what we have done well,
03:04
what we have done poorly,
03:05
and the so-called, as he said, in air quotes,
03:09
drought the Cowboys have seen in the last 30 years
03:12
from winning a conference championship or, of course, a Lombardi trophy.
03:17
That answer, above all else, Scott,
03:20
really rubbed people the wrong way associated with the star yesterday.
03:24
They were not pleased with the idea that Steven Jones was sitting there
03:28
and almost mocking 29 consecutive years
03:31
of not reaching the NFC Championship game
03:34
since the last Super Bowl win for Dallas in 1995.
03:38
Yeah, and that ultimately is the problem, right?
03:41
Picture a pyramid and what's at the very, very top
03:44
and everything else supports it.
03:46
Well, at the very, very top is Dallas thinks
03:48
they've been successful for 30 years,
03:50
whereas the American public realizes they haven't been
03:53
when you compare it to Super Bowls.
03:54
But if they think they've been successful,
03:56
well, then why change things?
03:58
You know, and you think about it,
04:00
you know, in all his years of voting the Cowboys, right?
04:02
He got rid of Tom Landry.
04:03
Okay, so we're not going to count that.
04:04
He hires Jimmy Johnson, powerful man.
04:07
That doesn't work out, you know, because they can't get along
04:09
even though he was his best buddy.
04:11
He hires Bill Parcells.
04:12
But other than that, you go back to Barry Switzer or Jason Garrett,
04:17
Mike McCarthy, who is desperate for a job.
04:19
He's always hired guys, Ben, that he could control.
04:22
So if he thinks that's been successful,
04:25
why would this hire be any different?
04:27
I'm more amazed at the Cowboy fan
04:29
who was called for McCarthy to get fired.
04:31
That they're so surprised that he went down this road again.
04:34
Well, what else would you expect?
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