Colin Cowherd Torches Cowboys Amid Reports of Questionable Coaching Hire: ‘You’ve Become the Jaguars!’
Colin Cowherd on Thursday called the latest report regarding the Dallas Cowboys’s head coach search the “fall of a great American brand.”
Shortly after the conclusion of the NFL’s regular season, the Cowboys announced that the team had parted ways with head coach Mike McCarthy. In five seasons with the Cowboys, McCarthy had a record of 49-35 — including three straight seasons of at least 12 wins. During his tenure, however, the Cowboys managed just a single playoff win.
On Thursday, it was revealed that the Cowboys were nearing a deal to promote offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer to head coach. This past season, the Cowboys were middle-of-the-pack on that side of the football and finished 17th in the league in total offense. In fairness, they were without Pro Bowl quarterback Dak Prescott for the final nine games of the season.
To Cowherd, the potential hiring meant the end of the Dallas Cowboys as a brand and institution, adding:
We are watching the fall of a great American institution. He’s not even interviewing for other jobs. Nothing against him. Nice guy. Three jobs, five seasons. Never been a head coach; never really been a top candidate for a head coach; but [Cowboys owner Jerry Jones] likes him. He’s bounced around the league. Again, dad was a legend, nice guy; but 7-10 football teams don’t move off a coach and then hire the offensive coordinator who didn’t call plays. I’ve never even heard of that.
I mean, in any industry, You do not let good people leave the building, right? Like, we all know. Like, Liam Coen is this kid at Tampa. The resurrection of Baker Mayfield. He went and interviewed for the Jacksonville job. He said, “No, thank you.” He was such a good candidate, the owner of Jacksonville fired the general manager who couldn’t close the deal. He goes back to Tampa and they’re going to make him the highest paid coordinator in the league, offensively. Or Ben Johnson — who’s going to show up 25 minutes on our show — he was like the leading candidate for four jobs. Brian Schottenheimer wasn’t a candidate for any other job.
I looked at his bio this morning. It’s lateral moves [his] entire career — college, pro. What are we doing? Elite employees don’t make lateral moves — maybe at the end of their career, but not at the beginning and middle. I mean, watch Vegas react to this. So it just illustrates the directionless state of the Cowboys. Mike McCarthy a Super Bowl-winning coach, to Deion Sanders, a very promising college coach, to an offensive coordinator in the building for a 7-10 team that didn’t call plays. What are we doing?
Dallas Cowboys fans, I’m not overreacting here. You have become the Jaguars. You are lost at sea. Jaguars can’t find a coach. None of the top candidates are interested. Cowboys now handing the keys to somebody who’s not a candidate for anybody else… No, Dan Campbell wouldn’t have the power and the control of the locker room, and probably a say upstairs in personnel. I mean [Los Angeles Ram coach Sean McVay’s] got power with the Rams. [San Francisco 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan] does in San Francisco. [Bill Belichick] did. Andy Reid doesn’t want it but could have it. You are watching the fall of a great American brand.
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