When I woke up on Friday morning, the Dallas Cowboys head coach “search” was filled with rumors and speculation. I waited for breaking news all day, but after sleeping just two hours, my 38-year old mind and body couldn’t take it anymore, and I hit the sack early.
Waking up this morning to the news that the Dallas Cowboys actually did it. They hired OC Brian Schottenheimer as the 10th head coach of the Dallas Cowboys.
So you’re telling me that after interviewing or placing phone calls to coaches like Deion Sanders, Robert Saleh, Pete Carroll, and Leslie Frazier, they really sat there and decided that a has-been play-caller who didn’t even call plays as the offensive coordinator under Mike McCarthy is the best option to get this team over the hump?
Wow.
I’m almost lost for words, but in a way, I’m not that surprised because this safe behavior is exactly how Jerry Jones, Stephen Jones, and the rest of the decision-makers in the front office do things.
From the loyal fans of Cowboys Nation, please stop being this way!
Take some risks. What you’ve been doing over the course of the past 30 years has not been the winning formula.
As fans, we are fed up. Brian Schottenheimer might be the best fit for YOU (more on this subject tomorrow), but he is not the best fit for the Dallas Cowboys.
Jerry Jones better get ready for the backlash that will come on social media all weekend, and he will need armor for the slings and arrows that he will be dodging at the introductory press conference on Monday morning.
History has shown us what to expect of this hire, and as fans, we have plenty of reasons to hate the move.
Take a Risk For Once
The biggest gripe that fans will have with Brian Schottenheimer being named the new head coach is that it’s more of the same nepotism that has kept the franchise stagnant for the past 30 years.
Take a risk!
Go after one of the hot coordinator names that all other teams looking for head coaches are doing.
Not even a phone call placed to the Lions for permission to speak to Ben Johnson or Aaron Glenn.
Not a lick of interest in Vikings DC Brian Flores, who also has head coaching experience.
How can the franchise ever move forward if there is no new perspectives?
No innovation.
It’s just Jerry speak, and if you don’t speak Jerry, you don’t belong in the building.
Maybe if we tell Jerry in a way he can understand, he will open his eyes.
How about a Southern country idiom? That seems to be the way he likes to communicate. Hey Jerry, my granny used to say “you can’t expect fresh bath water if you never clean the tub”.
Basically, you can dump out the water from the tub (change coaches and players), but if you don’t wipe the tub clean (change beliefs and processes) before adding more water for your next bath, you can’t possibly step out of the tub with the desired expectations.
This is a pattern, and it goes back all the way to Bill Parcells. Jerry Jones loves to have an assistant on staff that he can groom for head coach in case he ever gets unhappy with the current head coach.
The only catch is that if the groomed coach becomes a hot coaching candidate around the league, Jerry will let him go because he is too expensive.
Sean Payton was that person for Bill Parcells, and he became a hot coaching commodity and departed for New Orleans.
Jason Garrett was that person for Wade Phillips, and went on to take over midseason, coaching the Cowboys for the next 10 years. Kellen Moore was that person for Mike McCarthy before Brian Schottenheimer became that person.
It’s all a pattern of insane decision-making rooted in comfortability, and we are sick of it.
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