Cowboys pass over Deion Sanders and others, hire Brian Schottenheimer as next coach

the Dallas Copules They go with an internal option for their next coach.

The team announced on Friday that the offensive coordinator Brian Shuttenheimer and Copuans agreed to an agreement to make him the next coach in Dallas.

Shotenheimer, 51, has been in the past three -seasons training team, where he has worked as an offensive coordinator since 2023. However, former Copuz coach Mike McCarthy has dealt with offensive play duties over the past two years.

However, the Schottleheimer upgrade is in line Dac Brickot The best season. Cow’s sponsors ranked second in MVP vote in 2023, when the league led the decline in that year on its way to the third consecutive team season 12-5.

Now, Schottenheimer will be assigned with the help of Breskot to return to this level along with improving the rest of the cowboy list after the 7-10 disappointing season in 2024. In 2024 after undergoing surgery in the knee strings, which came after his conflicts in the early season.

Braiscott, along with a handful of others, played a big role in the reason for Dallas 3-7, as he ended her hopes in the qualifiers before Thanksgiving. Cowboy chose to keep McCarthy at the end of the season, but he announced that they were unable to reach conditions in a new deal on January 13, a day before his contract ended.

Cow sponsors’ decision to abandon McCarthy made them the seventh team this season in order to obtain a major coach vacancy, but came more than a week after the end of the normal season. As a result, Dallas missed the opportunity to speak with a few senior training candidates early, such as Mike Farble, Ben Johnson and Aaron Glenn.

Dallas did not take many interviews, in her research to replace McCarthy. former Planes The main coach Robert Saleh, Eagles The offensive coordinator Kililin Moore (who previously played and trained for cowboy) Siocus Leslie Fraser’s assistant assistant was the only three candidates who conducted an interview with the opening.

There were also some rumors that Colorado The coach and the former Copules star Dion Sanders was the first candidate for the opening. Despite the reports of the mutual interest, Sanders did not officially met a magazine on the job. Jones also spoke informally with the former Siox coach Beit Carroll.

Schottenheimer was not a major coach before, but he brings nearly three decades of experience as an offensive assistant coach on the table. He held the position of offensive coordinator for a few other teams before joining cowboy in 2022, and works in this role for Jets (2006-11), Rams (2012-14) and Sehawks (2018-20).

Schottenheimer is also the son of former NFL coach Marti Shotenheimer. Shotinheimer was the largest coach of four teams, where he scored the largest number of victory (205) for a coach in the history of the American Football Association.

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