Well, here we go again. ESPN put out another ranking, this team of the current coaching staff in football.
As you can see by my title, yes, they ranked Dallas as the 4th worst coaching staff in all of football.
The Cowboys were ranked 29th on the list, falling 16 spots from their ranking last season, and Brian Schottenheimer’s past experience as an offensive coordinator was cited as part of the reason.
Take a look below to see what they said.
What They Said
“Schottenheimer has been an offensive coordinator for 14 seasons in the league. Six with the Jets, three each with the Rams and Seahawks, then the last two in Dallas. Schottenheimer called plays in 12 of those 14 seasons, but if we look at all 14, his average success rate on offense is 42.9% — the league average last year was 43.5%. His offenses score an average of 1.85 points per drive — the league average last year was 1.91. As far as expected points added per play, Schottenheimer’s offenses literally average out to 0.00.”
They have a fair point, and although I enjoy the energy he has brought to the team so far, we have yet to find out if he can coach a football team.
I was not a fan of the hire when they made it, but I mean, who would be after dealing with Mike McCarthy and Jason Garrett as the last two head coaches?
We know how Jerry Jones runs this team, and we should have seen this coming from a mile away, but we have to take it for what it is.
I like Matt Eberflus as a defensive coordinator. He was not a good head coach with the Bears, but just a pure DC. He is fine. I have no problems with that.
Special: New Cowboys HC Brian Schottenheimer says the Cowboys are going to 'win' this season:
“We’re gonna win. And when we win, our coaching staff is going to get raided. People are going to come after our coaches, because we’re gonna win.”
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Schotty is the main reason that they got ranked as low as they did, and they have every argument to put the Cowboys there.
The season starts real soon, and I would use it as fuel, but it up in your office, look at it every single day.
The only way you are going to get these guys to move you up is if you can coach your behind off, and he will have the chance to do that from the get-go.
Nobody is picking the Cowboys to beat the Eagles week one in their building, so go prove a point to both ESPN and Colin Cowherd while you are at it.
a Dallas Cowboys fan, since the 70’s the only reason why the Cowboys coaching staff is so terrible is because Jerry Jones control everything the coaching staff are Jerry Jones puppets they have no say so
Please go learn something instead of making these stupid comments!! And quite lying to everybody…. You have NOT been a Cowboys fan since the 70s!! There’s no way somebody can be a fan for that long and know literally nothing about the team!!
Eburflus created a really bad defense at Chicago and was fired. Schotty was the OC last season and the Boys could not run and ran primitive pass offense. The Rams dominated the offense and defense lines of the Boys 2 days ago. Hard to find any evidence of coaching excellence or scheme innovation.
Being a head coach and being a defensive coordinator are 2 totally different things!! Dan Quinn got fired from the falcons cause he wasn’t a good head coach, so Robert Saleh got fired cause he wasn’t a good head coach, but that don’t mean they’re not good defensive coordinators!! Coaching a whole team is a lot harder than coaching just the 6 defense!! That’s why Eberflus is a good hire at defensive coordinator!! He’s a really good defensive coordinator, try learning about the stuff he done before he was the head coach for the bears!! I guarantee your gonna look stupid when he gets our defense going!! And if I was you “which I’m glad I’m not” I would quit making comments like the ones you’ve been making lately, you sound stupid!!
And another thing that proves that is the part where you keep saying that our offensive line or as you said in your last comment “Schotty was the OC last season and the boys could not run and ran primitive pass offense” but the FACTS are that Schotty has nothing to do with either of them!! He didn’t coach the offensive line, and he definitely wasn’t calling the plays and he surely didn’t run his own scheme!! So how are you gonna blame him for what the other coaches did!? Like I said, you sound stupid!! This year with the new coaching staff and a different head coach, there is nothing gonna be the same as last year or the year before that!! This year we have a better offensive line coach, and in case you didn’t know, he’s the one that coaches the offensive linemen!! We have a new offensive coordinator and he was a great offensive line coach when he was with Arizona!! We have a new RBs coach, who just happens to be really good at his job too!! And on defense we have a new defensive line coach who was really good for the jets!! We have a new DBs coach, but I’m not sure if he’s gonna be better than the one we had the last few years or not, but he is pretty good either way!! And then we have a new defensive coordinator, who is one of the best in the NFL despite of what you think!! He’s pretty much like Dan Quinn, except Eberflus is a linebacker guru!! And if you actually knew anything, you would see that everywhere he’s been he’s had top 10 defenses!! And you can’t say he got fired from the bears because he had a bad defense, because that is completely wrong!! He got fired because the team wasn’t winning games!! And like I said above, being a head coach is totally different than being a defensive coordinator!! Coaching a whole team is a lot harder than coaching only the defense!! And Eberflus has always been a good defensive coach, even before he was the defensive coordinator, he was one of the best linebacker coaches!! So like I said, you sound stupid, and you have no idea what your talking about!! We have a really good defensive coordinator with Matt Eberflus!!
You are correct about most of your very astute comment. The only thing that you needed to add is that eberflus wasn’t fired because the bears were bad. The reason that he was fired was 1 thing and one thing only, Caleb Williams. You could easily tell that he was not listening to eberflus.
a Dallas Cowboys fan, since the 70’s things was much better when Tom Landry was coach