Last month, Dallas Cowboys announced that Brian Schottenheimer would be promoted to an attacking coordinator in the head coach. The decision was made after the Cowboys and Mike McCarthy do not reach an agreement on a contract extension.
The promotion of Schottenheimer met some lukewarm reactions of fans and even of some of the former players for cowboys. Emmitt Smith is the last formidable franchise to express his dissatisfaction with the long -standing decision of the owner of the Jerry Jones team to enter the 2025 season with Schottenheimer at the helm.
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The former Ballon de Dallas carrier Emmitt Smith, shakes his hand with owner Jerry Jones after presenting his ring at the temple of fame during a match at the Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, November 21, 2010. (Matthew Emmons – USA TODAY SPORTS)
Smith, who spent the majority of his career at the temple of fame with Cowboys, suggested that he would adopt a patient approach to the mandate of Schottenheimer coach in Dallas.
“I will book most of my comments for a later date, but right now, I’m soaking,” Smith told Sports Lens at the end of last month. “What’s going on and trying to analyze where we are going from here and what it will look like. I don’t even know who he still has on his staff, who he has kept, including He got rid of, which it brings. “
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Smith followed these comments by warning that the Cowboys campaign in 2025 could be disappointing, given its conviction that the problems of the franchise go beyond the one who carries the head coach headset.
Dallas cowboys head coach Brian Schottenheimer, and owner Jerry Jones speak to the media at a press conference at the star. (Images Tim Heitman-Imagn)
“Next subject,” said Smith in a recent appearance in Espn Radio “Asportsman Like” when he asked him about his feelings about Schottenheimer’s hiring. “I have no reaction. I don’t know what to say. I know that we have to give man a chance, and I am ready to give him a chance, an opportunity to reverse “do not align our vision and our commitment to this vision, I think we will get a lot That we have seen in the past, and that doesn’t feel good. “
“We need much more than Ashton Jeanty. Everything about having a ball carrier and a racing game – there is nothing wrong with our racing game when there is a commitment to the Running game.
Emmitt Smith attended the game between the Vikings Augustana and the Duke Blue Devils at Cameron Indoor Stadium on November 4, 2016, in Durham, in North Carolina. (Images Lance King / Getty)
Jones contacted the former Cowboys star and the current Colorado football coach, Deion Sanders, during the job process. Jones later characterized his interaction with Sanders as more than one conversation with someone with whom he had a personal relationship rather than an official job interview.
“Just a conversation on the team and where he is and his boys, a conversation with his boys, this type of conversation,” said Jones. “I said that I had spoken to many coaches, and deion has a job.”
Smith said that the passage on Sanders had left him disappointed. “It is a little disappointing that, from the point of view of the opportunity, he was not considered high enough to do so,” he said. “But as I said, some things must be played.”
Michael Irvin, who won three super bowls during his career in the cowboys, also expressed his dissatisfaction with Jones deciding not to go ahead with Sanders as a team coach.
The Cowboys finished the 2024 season with a 7-10 file. The quarter-Arrière Dak Prescott missed nine games due to an injury to the hamstrings.
