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The Dallas Cowboys made the stunning determination to prosecute violative coordinator Brian Schottenheimer arsenic the team’s caput manager aft the squad divided from Mike McCarthy and rumors swirled astir Deion Sanders’ involvement successful the job.
Schottenheimer is the lad of the legendary Marty Schottenheimer and spent the past 2 seasons arsenic Dallas’ violative coordinator nether McCarthy. He was besides the violative coordinator for the New York Jets from 2006 to 2011, the St. Louis Rams from 2012 to 2014 and the Seattle Seahawks from 2018 to 2020. The Cowboys volition beryllium the archetypal squad helium volition service arsenic caput coach.
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Not everyone was thrilled with squad proprietor Jerry Jones’ determination connected Schottenheimer. Fans made their opinions known connected societal media.
Cowboys fable and Hall of Famer Michael Irvin was unhappy arsenic well.
"Here's my issue. We mislaid an accidental here. I don't cognize what happened with manager Schottenheimer and the Cowboys, but Jerry is simply a shrewd, shrewd businessman, and this opportunity, I'm shocked helium did not see. I was pushing for Deion Sanders to beryllium the adjacent caput coach, and I inactive basal 10 toes down connected that push," helium said successful a video posted to his YouTube channel.
He pointed to the NFC Championship being betwixt 2 NFC East teams – the Philadelphia Eagles and the Washington Commanders.
"Let maine interruption it down," helium said. "We person 2 NFC East teams successful the NFC Championship crippled being played tomorrow. All eyes connected them. The Philadelphia Eagles and the Washington Commanders. Our enemies connected each fronts. And they’re successful a presumption that we haven’t held successful 30 f---ing years. The longest drought by immoderate NFC East team, 30 years.... You bring successful idiosyncratic who's already wrong for caput coach. You suffer things determination that you can't drawback backmost that I'm disquieted about."
Irvin expressed concerns astir the Cowboys losing their lasting successful the conference.
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"We’re losing crushed successful the NFC.... It was clip to bring idiosyncratic successful present that could shingle things up and drawback this past limb of Cowboys nation," helium added. "If we've got 30 years close now, and beingness expectancy is 100 years, that means by mathematics 1 3rd of Cowboys Nation has ne'er felt oregon lived the glory of a title story. Don't adjacent cognize astir it. How the hellhole tin they walk thing down erstwhile they don’t adjacent cognize astir it?
"Worse yet, that procreation has seen full domination from a squad named the Kansas City Chiefs, who successful that span is moving up connected winning 3 successful a row. So not lone are you losing shot games implicit present and opportunities implicit present and divisions implicit here, you’re astir to get our moniker snatched disconnected our backs."
It’s unclear however superior the talks betwixt the Cowboys and Sanders were. It gained involvement among fans, but Sanders was wide astir his emotion for the Colorado shot program.
For now, Sanders stays successful assemblage and Dallas embarks connected a caller travel with a caller coach.
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