This Friday, the Dallas Cowboys hastily concluded their search for a new head coach to replace Mike McCarthy, who could not arrange an extension with Jerry Jones’ team. After a brief search, they decided to promote their offensive coordinator, Brian Schottenheimer
In the formal search, Jerry Jones, the team’s owner and general manager, only interviewed remotely with his former offensive coordinator, Kellen Moore, and with Schottenheimer himself, as well as an informal talk with Deion Sanders, coach of the University of Colorado, and it is said that he had scheduled one more interview with the veteran, Pete Carroll, which did not materialize
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Schottenheimer served as the Cowboys’ offensive coordinator for the past two seasons, replacing Kellen Moore, although McCarthy was in charge of calling the plays. His role was more focused on organizing the offensive game plan and other functions within the team.
Reports from The Star indicate that his appointment was determined by the support of Dak Prescott, who asked the team’s top management for his appointment in order to give continuity to the offensive scheme that they have been running since the beginning of this decade
Schottenheimer leaves serious doubts about his record
Brian is the son of legendary coach Marty Schottenheimer, who had a long career in charge of teams such as the Cleveland Browns, Washington Redskins, Kansas City Chiefs and San Diego Chargers and is considered a defensive genius in the 1980s and 1990s, although he never made it to a Super Bowl.
But this will be his first opportunity as head coach after two decades as a coach, and he is in charge of the most high-profile team in the league and one that is in dire need of a title
His coaching career began immediately after becoming a national champion with the Florida Gators, with the St. Louis Rams in 1997 as an offensive assistant coach. He also worked with the Kansas City Chiefs (1998), the Washington Redskins (2001), the San Diego Chargers (2002-2005), the New York Jets (2006-2011), a second stint with the Rams (2012-2014), the Indianapolis Colts (2016-2017), the Seattle Seahawks (2018-2020), the Jacksonville Jaguars (2021) and 2022-2024 with the Cowboys
While Schottenheimer began his career as an equipment manager on his father’s teams, he has also held different roles in offensive schemes, from assistant coach, coach of a specific unit such as the offensive line or quarterbacks, he has also been in charge of quality control and has been an offensive consultant and coordinator for 28 years.
However, there are no outstanding results with his teams nor has he created any brilliant offense, even though he has been in charge of working with outstanding quarterbacks such as Phillip Rivers, Drew Brees, Russell Wilson, Trevor Lawrence or Andrew Luck.
This is some of his track record as a coach:
- 2001 – Redskins quarterbacks coach: The offense finished 28th out of 32, in an offense that featured Tony Banks, Kent Graham and Sage Rosenfels as starters
- 2002-2005 – Chargers quarterbacks coach: Except for 2004, the other years were the lowest statistically in Brees’ career, which led to his departure from the team to New Orleans, because he was allegedly finished and became a Hall of Famer. In 2003, he played 11 games, with a 2-9 record, for just 2,109 yards. While his best year in this span was 2004, with a record of 11-4 and 3,159 yards, one of the lowest records of his career
- 2006-2011 – Jets offensive coordinator: Schottenheimer was in charge of a low-scoring offense, led by Mark Sanchez, that shone thanks to its defense and reached the Conference Championship in 2009 and 2010. In three seasons, Sanchez could not reach 3,500 yards and in 2011 threw 26 touchdowns, in exchange for 18 interceptions, his highest figures with the team
- 2012-2014 – Rams offensive coordinator: the team’s offense finished 25th, 21st and 21st, respectively
- 2015 – Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at the University of Georgia: The team finished with the 85th-ranked offense nationally.
- 2016-2017 – Colts quarterbacks coach: In the first season, Andrew Luck and the Colts went 8-7 with 4,240 yards, his highest total ever, and in 2017 he did not play due to injury and the team had the 30th ranked offense in the league
- 2018-2020 – Seahawks offensive coordinator: Russell Wilson had three good seasons (10-6, 11-5 and 12-4), but was sacked 51 times in 2018, 48 in 2019 and 47 in 2020, as well as his highest year in lifetime interceptions, with 13 in 2020
- 2021 – Jaguars passing game coordinator and quarterbacks coach: In Trevor Lawrence’s rookie year, the Jaguars went 3-14, and Lawrence had more interceptions (17) than touchdowns (12)
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