In hindsight, Jimmy definitely knew what was going on and gave us a glimpse behind the curtain

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Week ago today, Jimmy evidently spoke from primary source insight that the contest was between...

• Kellen Moore... who we already presumed, of course, to be legitimately a finalist... and
• You Know Who... who we had no clue was even ever going to be interviewed.

My take at first was that Jimmy was just pushing Schotty out of some personal preference, but it seemed unlikely that Schotty was a serious candidate. The conclusion on this side of the internet was that Schotty was Jimmy's candidate--that Schotty probably had some relationship with Jimmy through the years since his day Marty was a contemporary of Jimmy's. My guess was that Jimmy likely had already conveyed to Jerry that thought ahead of promoting him on his Fox segment.

At first when we learned that Schotty, indeed, was going to be interviewed, my inclination was that Jimmy had been successfully persuasive. But I couldn't fathom Schotty being a real candidate for HC... for OC, sure... but not for HC. And re-watching Jimmy's segment, I at first was left to think that Jimmy wasn't just promoting Schotty, he was promoting both guys, as he was mainly promoting continuity for Dak's sake. That would make so much more sense.

Fast forward to what we know this morning, a week later, and what have we learned.

Several things, but one is that we need to listen to Jimmy anytime he speaks about the Cowboys going forward. If he was speculating before, he's not now. The evidence says that he and Jerry are very much in communication with each other now, and while it might be an overstatement to consider him an ex-officio member of the front office now, it might not be an overstatement to even consider him, very much, a consultant.