The Dallas Cowboys continue to make befuddling coaching decisions with their offensive staff this winter.
After strangely firing Kellen Moore and giving head coach Mike McCarthy the play-calling duties, the team has promoted NFL veteran Brian Schottenheimer to Moore’s old job. (Oh, and Jerry Jones apparently wants McCarthy around Dallas as long as Tom Landry!)
It’s a bizarre sequence of events after Moore took head coaching interviews last month and landed the coveted Los Angeles Chargers offensive coordinator role shortly after parting ways with the Cowboys.
Moore figures to be a head coach eventually in the NFL, while the Cowboys have raised plenty of eyebrows around the football world with this latest coaching decision.
The #Cowboys have hired Brian Schottenheimer as the team’s offensive coordinator. The in-house favorite.
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) February 4, 2023
Schottenheimer has worked around the NFL for more than two decades, but he’s not really etched himself down a long-term job with any team.
He last worked as an offensive coordinator with the Seattle Seahawks from 2018-20 before spending the 2021 season on Urban Meyer’s doomed Jacksonville Jaguars staff as a passing game coordinator. This past season, he worked in Dallas as a coaching analyst.
Let’s just say Schottenheimer’s fourth stint as an offensive coordinator left NFL fans a bit confused at what Jerry Jones and company are going for here.