Jori Epstein answers the question we all have - why Schottenheimer?

[big dog cowboy]

 

[Catpappy]

Make it stop

 

[Cowboys5217]

"He understands the dynamics of how it works" - yeah, who needs actual football acumen or a resume with proven results.

 

[DasTex]

So basically - he's comfortable with the Jones family, he's comfortable with Dak and while Big Mike didn't work out - maybe someone on his staff with little to no success elsewhere might work out. So we'll give it a shot..probably will end badly, but hey - we tried.

 

[darthseinfeld]

Brandon Loree is already in board. The rest of the goobers will soon follow

 

[DallasEast]

Epstein ends her commentary asking whether Brian Schottenheimmer is the best playcaller for 2025 and is uncertain whether there is enough evidence saying he is.

Someone. Anyone. Tell me whether I am misremembering.

Didn't Mike McCarthy start making all the play calls when Kellen Moore left--despite the fact Schottenheimmer was his offensive coordinator?

I mean... huh? More evidence? Why? Do we need a smoking gun? Is it necessary for the butler to confess? Are we waiting on CSI:Miami to supply the DNA results? OH NO!

 

[SteveTheCowboy]

Epstein ends her commentary asking whether Brian Schottenheimmer is the best playcaller for 2025 and is uncertain whether there is enough evidence saying he is.

Someone. Anyone. Tell me whether I am misremembering.

Didn't Mike McCarthy start making all the play calls when Kellen Moore left--despite the fact Schottenheimmer was his offensive coordinator?

I mean... huh? More evidence? Why? Do we need a smoking gun? Is it necessary for the butler to confess? Are we waiting on CSI:Miami to supply the DNA results? OH NO!

SO many things have been for quite a few years.

Everyone knows I'm a romo homer...and that's fine to ridicule me for it. But when Romo didn;t come back in when fully healed? Was the day i FINALLY went .

We'd been failing for quite some time before that...but it was the moment I told myself we not only don't know HOW to win...we don't even WANT to.

I think that was the FINAL Curse of Jerry. The really great things we have done to try to win since then....

 

[RS12]

The Jones family doesnt have insightful answers when it comes to the product on the field. 29 years of futility about to extend with no end in sight.

 

[McMicah]

All this answer means is that he can effectively suck up to Jerry, because he “understands the dynamics” (he understands his place as a lackey)

 

[roy31]

Just go get Gruden!!! You can’t tell me Jerry is worried about bad PR… has it been any worse than it is right now??? Clown show!

 

[Whirlwin]

We’ve been asking for an unscrewed head coach. Well here it is lol oh, did I spell unscrutinized wrong?

 

[Whirlwin]

That ain’t how karma works. If BS is the hire, it will simply be due to another bad decision by Jerry Jones.

Nobody has any idea what kind of field management we can expect

 

[ElGatoGrande]

Only way this works is if they bring in great coordinators and relieve shotty of the OC duties. And really, when you think about it, they're stuck with Dak for a few years most likely, bring in the proven HC when he can have his own QB to mold.

 

[big dog cowboy]

It's not a Dak thread folks.

 

[CowboyChris]

I feel much better after listening to that analysis. I can see why the Jones boys are salivating to hire this guy.

 

[john van brocklin]

So basically - he's comfortable with the Jones family, he's comfortable with Dak and while Big Mike didn't work out - maybe someone on his staff with little to no success elsewhere might work out. So we'll give it a shot..probably will end badly, but hey - we tried.

This is such an amazingly poorly run franchise

 

[Creeper]

Schottenheimer is a perfect fit in Dallas. First, there is not place else he could get a head coaching job if that's what he wants. Dallas is the only place he can go to get a HC job. From Jerry's perspective, that's perfect because Jerry know he can control him because the guy is desperate for a HC job. Jerry gets the guy who will let him play GM and everything else, and Shotty, who I predict will have his name spelled with a different vowel before long if this team does not win games, get the HC job he couldn't otherwise get. It is symbiosis.

 

[Teague31]

No one else wanting him means he will work for peanuts and do whatever Jerry tells him to do

 

[Hadenough]

Hahaha! Schottenheimer is going to be the sacrificial lamb. This season is going to be a complete wash and they're going to end up in the Arch Manning sweepstakes.

 

[Hawkeye19]

This counts as “analysis”? Lol

The results speak for themselves. Has he succeeded anywhere? He may be a “nice guy” that gets “interpersonal relationships” and understands the “dynamics of the Jones family” but Epstein acts like the guy somehow gets the best out of players?

Really? He wasn’t calling plays the past two years— so theoretically he should have had all this time to get the “3rd WR to play like a 2” — and yet the exact opposite happened this year.

The offense sucked. Why does he deserve a promotion?!

I swear what passes for “journalism” these days looks exactly like what I flush down the toilet every morning— and is worth about as much.

 

[MonsterD]

Hahaha! Schottenheimer is going to be the sacrificial lamb. This season is going to be a complete wash and they're going to end up in the Arch Manning sweepstakes.

Arch will be out in 27 draft not 26. So better be a bad season followed with an even worse season.