The NFL teams that were left without a head coach at the end of the 2024 season accelerated their search to find their new head coach and the Dallas Cowboys were no exception, although Jerry Jones‘ choice in appointing Brian Schottenheimer has had many detractors.
Former Cowboys receiver Michael Irvin is one of them, but recently joining the comments was Sports Illustrated reporter Albert Breer, who acknowledged that Schottenheimer is someone who is highly respected within the NFL, but did not like the process of Dallas to hire him.
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“I don’t like the way the process is to get there. The Cowboys had a chance to go and watch the way other teams have done things to renew their own operation. And they had plenty of time to prepare for a search,” Albert said for his segment ‘The Breer Report’.
Jerry Jones could have taken more time in his analysis
In the video, the panel discussed the interviews they conducted for the position with Leslie Frazier, Pete Carroll, Robert Saleh and Deion Sanders, which were not much use, because Jerry Jones ended up hiring a coach he already had at home.
“I’m not saying you don’t want to end up with one of those guys, but I think there was an opportunity here to look more broadly at the way the rest of the league is doing business, that they missed and shouldn’t have missed based on where they’ve been for the last 25 to 30 years,” said Albert Breer, particularly because of the need to win a Super Bowl again and the mistakes that have been made in the choice of head coach.
Despite how questionable the decision may have been, Jerry Jones may have taken into account that just at the time of his choice there were two former Cowboys coordinators about to fight to reach the Super Bowl: Dan Quinn, who was defensive coordinator and is now the head coach of the Washington Commanders, and Kellen Moore, current offensive coordinator of the Philadelphia Eagles, who won the duel and will compete for the title against the Kansas City Chiefs.
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