Fans roast Cowboys for hiring Brian Schottenheimer as next head coach: ‘Clown show’

The Dallas Cowboys hired Brian Schottenheimer, their violative coordinator, arsenic the team’s adjacent caput coach, announcing the determination connected Friday with a Jerry Jones connection attached to it. 

"Brian Schottenheimer is known arsenic a vocation assistant," Jones said, per ESPN. "He ain’t Brian nary more. He is present known arsenic the caput manager of the Dallas Cowboys."

The hire comes astatine a daze to immoderate and a astonishment to many, arsenic the Cowboys’ process this offseason has been a head-scratcher. 

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Cowboys fans voiced their opinions connected societal media, and they weren’t excessively blessed with their team’s choice. 

"Hiring Brian Schottenheimer arsenic caput manager without adjacent trying to speech to Ben Johnson, Aaron Glenn oregon different apical candidates is 1000% the aforesaid happening arsenic not calling Derrick Henry and conscionable signing Zeke," 1 instrumentality said connected X. "Same. Exact. Thing."

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To recognize wherever Cowboys fans whitethorn beryllium coming from, 1 indispensable recognize the unusual process the squad went done since the offseason began. 

First, the dilemma for Jones and the remainder of the enactment was what to bash with Mike McCarthy, the seasoned caput manager who went 7-10 connected the last twelvemonth of his woody without backmost Dak Prescott for a bully chunk of the season. 

Players similar Prescott and others publically voiced their enactment for McCarthy, but the Cowboys moved on. 

In doing so, though, they were already down the 8 ball, arsenic different caput coach-needy squads were already retired conducting interviews and getting their candidates successful order. 

When Dallas got their database together, it was an absorbing group. Robert Saleh, the ex-New York Jets caput manager who was fired midseason successful 2024, came successful contempt not being precocious connected anyone’s database but for the Jacksonville Jaguars. He yet returned to the Bay Area to presume his aged occupation arsenic antiaircraft coordinator nether Kyle Shanahan. 

There was besides Pete Carroll, who ended up returning to the NFL by taking the Las Vegas Raiders job. Kellen Moore, the erstwhile Cowboys violative coordinator who is present with the Eagles, came successful for an interview, arsenic did Leslie Frazier, who serves arsenic adjunct caput manager of the Seattle Seahawks. 

While these candidates each person their credentials, fans were not blessed that apical candidates similar the ones mentioned above, who person each landed elsewhere, ne'er came into the building. 

Fox Sports’ David Helman broke down the concern from a Cowboys process perspective.

"We don’t cognize Brian Schottenheimer volition beryllium a nonaccomplishment immoderate much than we cognize Ben Johnson volition beryllium a success," helium posted connected X. "Coaching hires are weird & hard to predict. 

"We bash cognize that it REEKS of atrocious process to fart astir for 8 days with a caput manager who needs a caller contract, neglect to clasp him aft missing an interrogation model for coveted candidates, bring successful 2 erstwhile caput coaches who are not successful precocious demand, 1 extracurricular adjunct you already person a narration with and *then* take the feline down the hallway who a) is not drafting involvement elsewhere b) has not been a caput manager c) has not called plays for you and d) has had mixed results erstwhile helium has called an discourtesy successful the past."

Finally, immoderate consciousness Schottenheimer is akin to Jason Garrett, who took implicit the occupation aft Wade Phillips, whom helium worked under, was fired. 

"Quick, easy, CHEAP, and the Jones’ clasp power conscionable the mode they similar it," 1 disgruntled instrumentality wrote. "This squad doesn’t privation to win. It’s astir attention. It’s astir egos. Cowboys fans are exhausted with this clown show."

Schottenheimer joined McCarthy’s Cowboys unit successful 2022 arsenic a coaching expert earlier replacing Moore arsenic violative coordinator successful 2023. His archetypal twelvemonth successful the presumption was besides Prescott’s champion season, arsenic the squad went connected to triumph the NFC East earlier flopping successful the Wild Card Round to the Green Bay Packers. The squad had the fifth-ranked discourtesy that season. 

Schottenheimer, the lad of decorated NFL caput manager Marty Schottenheimer, has astir 3 decades worthy of coaching nether his belt, spending clip with the Jets, Rams and Seahawks earlier joining the Cowboys. He served successful an violative coordinator relation for each of those teams. 

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