Schottenheimer: Eberflus is a great coach and he's trying

[stilltheguru]

Some posters can't stop bringing up the kittykat in every thread

 

[FVSTONE]

Someone please slap some sense into this idiot! The guy was fired in Chicago for a reason, and because this organization doesn't employee smart football personnel this is why a former player can talk smack all week long and not one Cowboy responded to the tongue lashing this guy was giving the Cowboys, not one. That just about tells you what kind of players this team is overloaded with. No Balls, No Guts, No Heart! Dead last in the Eastern Division is 2025!

 

[plymkr]

Okay Schotty. Is he trying to make adjustments or trying to figure out how appropriately use Bland and Diggs?

 

[plymkr]

But he’s trying though. The effort is there. In this world of participation trophies he’s getting his trophy. The only talent this guy has is making Jerry feel comfortable that he won’t steal the spotlight if the Cowboys win. That’s it, and that’s all he needs. A little nepotism makes up for no talent.

BTW Stephen has been “trying” too. We’re screwed.

 

[Clove]

Schotty, instead of worrying about Ebu and his deplorable defensive design, you need to worry about why you all of a sudden became pansy coach of the year on that last series.

 

[stinkface]

They don’t play smart.

No gap control.

Too much zone coverage/ off man coverage.

Just really bad play calling on defense.

Yes, the coaching sucks, but there is a severe lack of talent on D that is pretty obvious to everyone. Well maybe Jerry doesn't see it.

 

[TwentyOne]

Is a bad coach able to judge coaching abilities of another coach? Especially if the others coach expertise is on the other side of the ball.

Asking for a girlfriend i play ping pong with.

 

[NDGAEDE]

Eberflus has sucked it up.

In fairness to him though, when he came on board, it was with the expectation he'd have one of the league's best pass rushers on the team.

Good thing we hired a coach who is so good at scheming up pass rush.

The Joneses are always a step ahead.

 

[Cmac]

Schotty has to say that in front of the media. In the back room, please jack him up Scotty.

 

[atlantacowboy]

Eberflus was a head scratching hire. Because the question is do we have anyone on the defensive staff that could be better?

Anyone who would junk this zone defense and try something different can probably do better. Hard not to improve on the worst defense in the NFL.

 

[Cmac]

Is a bad coach able to judge coaching abilities of another coach? Especially if the others coach expertise is on the other side of the ball.

Asking for a girlfriend i play ping pong with.

Right now......I wouldn't use the word expertise. At some point the word to use is sabotage.

 

[Trajan]

Yes, the coaching sucks, but there is a severe lack of talent on D that is pretty obvious to everyone. Well maybe Jerry doesn't see it.

This. Really, how many players on this defense would start on other teams ?

Jerri has done an atrocious job on the defensive talent. You could bring in the best defensive coach and he isn’t fixing this.

 

[Pass2Run]

DweeberGoof is a joke.

Get him out of here.

Should have happened week 2.

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

He's....trying.....? I'm sorry...........WHAT??????? I'm sorry, I thought this was the NFL. Not the YMCA.

 

[John813]

A for effort, graded on the Jerry curve.

 

[phildadon86]

He is wasting his chance as a head coach with this guy. He's waited two decades for this opportunity, has one of the best offenses in the league (that he built), and is going to risk it all by keeping Matt frigging Eberflus.

That he built? Lol.

My Lord the delusion.

The only player on offense he’s been in the draft room for as HC is Booker and he isn’t even playing right now.

How in the world has be “built” this offense?

 

[visionary]

And there you have the major reason we are a poorly run franchise

Coaches and players are hired and fired based on nepotism and ‘comfort’ with the owner/GM and not on results

 

[NDGAEDE]

That he built? Lol.

My Lord the delusion.

The only player on offense he’s been in the draft room for as HC is Booker and he isn’t even playing right now.

How in the world has be “built” this offense?

He built the scheme, sorry. Bit of an exaggeration to say he built it all, yes. But Schotty has transformed a stale, predictable and slow offense into a completely different unit that is capable of scoring anytime they touch the ball. It's not delusional to say he is doing an extremely good job running the offense. And regardless, the point still remains: Schotty's newfound success as a HC, something he's waited decades for, is going to be completely undone by a DC who is running the team into the ground.

 

[DuncanIso]

This is a garbage statement from Schotty. There is no excuse for this performance. Be the head coach. Hold your other coaches accountable. This is not only not good enough, it's ruining your first season as a head coach.

I don't care if Eberflus won the super bowl last year or every year he's been a DC. This is the worst defense I've ever seen and the defensive coordinator is doing nothing to improve. He's stubbornly doing the same thing over and over and over and we're getting ravaged by every team we play.

WRs, RBs, TEs are literally WIDE OPEN all day long. By 5-10 yards. It's like that GB playoff loss but every week, vs. worse players.

Our QB is playing the best ball of his career and it doesn't matter because Eberflus makes the other QB look even better.

He’s probably trying to save Ebers job.

It would be career ending to get fired like this.

 

[DuncanIso]

He built the scheme, sorry. Bit of an exaggeration to say he built it all, yes. But Schotty has transformed a stale, predictable and slow offense into a completely different unit that is capable of scoring anytime they touch the ball. It's not delusional to say he is doing an extremely good job running the offense.

He is.

I want him to take over the defense next.

He has to.