Cowboys' Jerry Jones Will Fire 'Schotty,' Claims Colin Cowherd in Surprise Prediction

Cowboys’ Jerry Jones Will Fire ‘Schotty,’ Claims Colin Cowherd in Surprise Prediction originally appeared on Athlon Sports.

FRISCO — The Dallas Cowboys have their naysayers, and coming off a 7-10 season tacked on to their infamous “30-year championship drought?”

Maybe “America’s Team” has fed those naysayers full of Dallas doubt.

New head coach Brian Schottenheimer, of course, has very little to do with the Cowboys’ many years of being “almost good enough,” which is, I think, a fair characterization of this team’s annual status.

So — give it time — I say “Schotty” has yet to earn the skepticism being shoveled out by the national media as it constructs its storylines and predictions for the upcoming 2025 season. …

But old friend Fox Sports 1’s Colin Cowherd is nevertheless shoveling out a pair of doozies, one shovelful burying Dallas and the other shovelful burying its coach.

Cowherd is announcing his NFC bold predictions, and he has gone in double-hard on the Cowboys.

He expects them to get humiliated … and often.

And he expects owner Jerry Jones to fire Schotteheimer after one season.

Brace yourself …

“Brian Schottenheimer is a one and done,” Cowherd said, adding that he thinks this is his “least surprising prediction.” “Jerry will know by Thanksgiving he made a huge mistake. Forget the fact that Philadelphia and Washington will probably blow them out in the division twice. ‘One and done’ happens all the time now.

“I think Dallas is going to be humiliated on a lot of Sundays.”

Having been a guest on “The Herd” more than a few times over the years, I’ve had the opportunity to experience “off-the-air” and “pre-show” Cowherd. So I can say that more than many in his chair, he takes doing his homework seriously.

But these two views don’t show that.

To the two predictions …

One — Jerry Jones, for a variety of reasons and over 36 seasons, has never fired a head coach after one year. Chan Gailey was not an organizational favorite, but he got two years. Dave Campo was an organizational favorite — with two Super Bowl rings — but he lasted three years here while going 5-11 in each of those campaigns.

There is simply no precedent in Dallas upon which to base this prediction.

Additionally, by the way, Colin’s assertion that “one-and-done” NFL coach firings are some sort of a trend is way off.

Said Colin: “We’ve got a lot of one and dones happening now, David Culley, Steve Wilks, Urban Meyer, Nathaniel Hackett, Antonio Pierce, Jerod Mayo. … One and done happens all the time now.”

Wait a sec. Culley was fired by the Texans three years ago. Hackett was fired by the Broncos three years ago. Meyer was fired by the Jaguars four years ago. Wilks was fired by the Cardinals seven years ago.

In the last 10 years, there have been around 75 different men hired to be NFL head coaches. And Cowherd is citing the firing of five of them as a trend that’s “happening all the time now?”

Based simply on the data, he’s dead wrong.

Now to the numbers as they relate to the Cowboys getting “humiliated” on the scoreboard on some sort of regular basis in 2025, with a focus on Washington and Philly. … and let’s go back a decade again.

In the Dak Prescott era, he’s 11-2 vs. Washington. And he’s 9-4 vs. Philadelphia.

So not only does Dallas not get blown out and “humiliated” by those two NFC East rivals; Dallas usually wins those games.

Even last year, the 7-10 Cowboys didn’t get blown out by the Commanders. They beat them in Week 12, Dallas winning 34-26, and they lost at the buzzer in Week 18 against third-string scrub QB Trey Lance in a 23-19 loss.

As for the Eagles and their Dak history as it relates to blowouts?

It’s really happened just once, a 37-9 loss in 2017.

Once. In a decade.

That 9-4 lifetime record against Philly is a number most “casual” Cowboys fans know. I say respectfully that Colin should also have it memorized.

So, the Cowboys getting blown out by both Washington and Philadelphia (all four times?!) in 2025? There is no evidence there.

And the Cowboys firing Brian Schottenheimer in one-and-done fashion? There is no evidence there, either.

I say it a lot around here, to our 75-member staff and to you: “We’re all entitled to our opinions, but opinions without facts are worthless.”

And … so here we are.

Naysayers’ eye-catching opinions … in conflict with hard Cowboys facts.

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jun 27, 2025, where it first appeared.

Cowboys’ Jerry Jones Will Fire ‘Schotty,’ Claims Colin Cowherd in Surprise Prediction

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