{"id":21609,"date":"2025-01-24T02:39:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T02:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=21609"},"modified":"2025-01-24T02:39:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T02:39:22","slug":"breaking-cowboys-dak-prescotts-true-feelings-on-likely-new-coach-leaked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=21609","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Cowboys Dak Prescott\u2019s True Feelings on Likely New Coach Leaked.."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\" class=\"wp-caption \">\n<div class=\"h-responsive\">\n<figure class=\"h-responsive__inner\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-featured-image size-featured-image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2173796489-e1737668699372.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2173796489-e1737668699372.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2173796489-e1737668699372.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/GettyImages-2173796489-e1737668699372.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Cowboys QB Dak Prescott\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" data-dom-ready-time=\"1285\" data-img-load-time=\"1731\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption-credit\">Getty<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-post-image-caption-text\">Cowboys QB Dak Prescott<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Cowboys\u00a0are increasingly moving in on hiring offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer to be the team\u2019s new coach, a move that is not likely to go over well with fans who had hoped for a splashy new name, a coach who could lead a culture change following the departure of Mike McCarthy earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>But bringing in Schottenheimer, even with a lengthy resume and a familiar name in\u00a0NFL\u00a0circles, signals more of the same from the Cowboys, who may well have never been serious about any other candidate except Schottenheimer all along.<\/p>\n<p>Schottenheimer is\u00a0an experienced coach, though just 51 years old. He is the son of former head coach Marty Schottenheimer, he was given opportunities to get into the sport early. He was an assistant with the Rams as far back as 1997, when he was just 24.<\/p>\n<p>Schottenheimer has never been a head coach but he has spent 14 years as an offensive coordinator, including the last two for Dallas. He\u2019s spent eight years as a quarterbacks coach and was in the collegiate ranks for three seasons. He spent one year, 2022, as a consultant for the Cowboys before spending the last two as the team\u2019s offensive coordinator.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Cowboys Could Get a New Coach Sooner Rather Than Later<\/h2>\n<p>On Thursday, longtime beat reporter Clarence Hill, now of DLLS Sports, wrote on Twitter\/X that the process of hiring Schottenheimer was moving into high gear, and could come at any moment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook for the Cowboys to cross the finish line on hiring Brian Schottenheimer no later than Friday, possibly today,\u201d\u00a0Hill reported.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the afternoon, Jane Slater of NFL Network wrote on Twitter\/X that Schottenheimer spent five hours with the team, a good indication he is their man.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">\u201cThe\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\">#Cowboys<\/span><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"> met with OC Brian Schottenheimer for more than 5 hours yesterday in what was their 2nd interview this week with him. When asked if this was imminent or whether news expected today, I was told \u2018nothing as of yet\u2019 per a source informed. The wait continues,\u201d she noted.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Dak Prescott a Brian Schottenheimer Fan?<\/h2>\n<p>While fans might not be happy about the move to essentially keep status quo after the team finished 7-10, the real question will be how the players feel about the ascension of Schottenheimer. That\u2019s less clear.<\/p>\n<p>As the season wore on with McCarthy last year, and the injuries piled up\u2013including to quarterback\u00a0Dak Prescott, who played just eight games in 2024, most of the Cowboys seemed to play harder for McCarthy, even with the season all but lost. But Prescott, for one, could well have Schottenheimer\u2019s back.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s from Hill, during an appearance on the, \u201cDLLS Cowboys Podcast.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-youtube-com\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Play\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iUfascv6FJY?autoplay=1\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Hill checked his phone during the podcast and said he had a text from a player about Schottenheimer that read, \u201cHe\u2019ll be ready for the next step. He has the right personality and brain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hill did not identify Prescott directly, but clearly leaked that it was from him. \u201cProbably No. 4,\u201d Hill said, laughing. Prescott, of course, wears No. 4.<\/p>\n<p>When asked again if the text was from a player, Hill repeated, \u201cProbably No. 4.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty Cowboys QB Dak Prescott The Cowboys\u00a0are increasingly moving in on hiring offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer to be the team\u2019s new coach, a move that is not&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hot-news","category-nfl"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING: Cowboys Dak Prescott\u2019s True Feelings on Likely New Coach Leaked.. - 24\/7 News America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=21609\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING: Cowboys Dak Prescott\u2019s True Feelings on Likely New Coach Leaked.. - 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