PFT: Schefter: Shanahan won't be joining the Cowboys

[JBond]

Posted by Mike Florio on December 21, 2009 8:04 PM ET

Our friend Adam Schefter of ESPN has written a book with free-agent coach Mike Shanahan, and Shanahan widely is believed to have Schefter on his speed dial. So, on one hand, anything Schefter reports about Shanahan has extra credibility. On the other hand, anything Schefter reports about Shanahan could represent an effort by Shanahan to disseminate a specific message, regardless of whether the message being disseminated by Shanahan is accurate.

Tonight, Schefter reports that Shanahan will not be coaching the Cowboys in 2010. Schefter explains that Shanahan is looking for more control than he'd have in Dallas.

Schefter also reports that Shanahan believes coaching the Commanders would be "appealing."

Of course it would be, especially since Shanahan has been talking to Commanders owner Daniel Snyder for months. Moreover, and as Schefter's ESPN colleague Chris Mortensen recently has reported, Snyder hired Bruce Allen to be the General Manager because Shanahan wanted Snyder to hire Bruce Allen to be the General Manager.

In this case, Shanahan could be using Schefter to get the word out that, if Cowboys owner Jerry Jones were to give the reins to a personnel executive like Bruce Allen, Shanahan might be interested.

It's also possible that Shanahan has received word from the Cowboys that, as Jay Glazer of FOX reported on Sunday, the Cowboys aren't interested in Shanahan. Thus, Shanahan likely would prefer the official word to be that Shanahan isn't interested in the Cowboys.

None of this is a slap at Schefter; he's simply doing his job. Given his relationship with Shanahan, we don't expect Schefter to express public skepticism about the things that Shanahan tells him.
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Don't you have to be offered the job first? Just saying...

All this talk seems a bit premature to me considering we are in the middle of the playoff hunt. Do these "reporters" get paid by the word?

 

[Doomsday101]

Why would Shanahan be joining us? We already have a HC.

 

[JBond]

Not sure what you mean by this......

Do I have to bring up 44-6?

We are not that good.... period.

Skins suck fer sure, but we suck just as bad.

Kids, pay attention. This is a perfect exapmle of why drugs are bad.

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[Chief]

I don't quite understand the logic here.

Shanahan wants control. So that eliminates Dallas.

But if Jerry Jones hired a GM like Bruce Allen, it would be different?

If he wants control, he wants control. It should not really matter who the GM is.

Doesn't make any sense.

 

[BAZ]

Our friend Adam Schefter of ESPN has written a book with free-agent coach Mike Shanahan, and Shanahan widely is believed to have Schefter on his speed dial. So, on one hand, anything Schefter reports about Shanahan has extra credibility. On the other hand, anything Schefter reports about Shanahan could represent an effort by Shanahan to disseminate a specific message, regardless of whether the message being disseminated by Shanahan is accurate.

Reading this is like eating ice cream too fast and getting brain freeze.