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There Will Be No Big Splash from Outside the Building
The Dallas Cowboys are making an in-house pick from their pool of head coaching candidates, hiring offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer as their next head coach. Schottenheimer will take on his first head coaching job, which is a similar move to the team’s past hires of Jason Garrett and Dave Campo, who both lacked prior NFL head coaching experience but had previously been with the Cowboys.
Schottenheimer has spent the past three seasons with the Cowboys, serving as a consultant in 2022 and as offensive coordinator from 2023-2024. He is the 51-year-old son of the late Marty Schottenheimer, who earned 200 regular-season wins during his coaching career with multiple teams.
Schottenheimer met with the Cowboys brass on Tuesday, the fourth candidate to interview, following Seattle Seahawks assistant head coach Leslie Frazier, Philadelphia Eagles offensive coordinator Kellen Moore, who is also a former Cowboys coordinator, and Deion Sanders, who was among the bigger, splashier names mentioned as potential hires.
Promoting Schottenheimer should bode well for maintaining continuity with quarterback Dak Prescott, wide receiver CeeDee Lamb, and others. However, the hire could be seen as more of the same for a team aiming to bounce back from a disappointing 7-10 season. Nonetheless, it is a bright new day for Schottenheimer, who began his coaching career in 1997 as an assistant with the then-St. Louis Rams. He has coached for nine NFL franchises and is now getting his first shot to be a head coach.
