The Cowboys are apparently still adding to their coaching staff.
As per senior NFL reporter Albert Breer, the team is hiring Brian Schottenheimer into a newly-created role where he’ll track league trends. He’ll then help both offensive coordinator Kellen Moore and defensive coordinator Dan Quinn in implementing ideas into their game plans in Dallas.
Schottenheimer served most recently as the passing game coordinator and quarterbacks coach in Jacksonville last season. Prior to that, he spent three years as Seattle’s offensive coordinator.
Sources: The Cowboys are hiring Brian Schottenheimer, the Jaguars’ pass-game coordinator last year, into a unique role, where he’ll help both coordinators, Dan Quinn and Kellen Moore.
Much of Schottenheimer’s job will center on league trends and game-planning. Pretty cool idea.
— Albert Breer (@AlbertBreer) March 24, 2022
The 48-year-old is the son of legendary coach Marty Schottenheimer, who passed away last year. Marty, coincidentally, gave Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy his first NFL job in 1993, hiring the Pitt graduate assistant as offensive quality control coach in Kansas City. It, too, was a job that didn’t exist at the time.
Over his own coaching career dating back to 1997, Brian has also been on staff with the Rams, Chiefs, Commanders (under their old name), Chargers, Jets, and Colts, and spent time in the college ranks at Syracuse, Southern Cal, and Georgia.
Schottenheimer’s game-planning role is said to be a unique one, though it sounds as though it will bear at least some resemblance to the position that Ben McAdoo filled last season on Mike McCarthy’s staff. McAdoo is now the head coach in Carolina after acting as a special assistant who did advance opponent scouting for the Cowboys.
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