FRISCO \u2014 The Super Bowl drought is at 29 seasons and counting.<\/p>\n
It doesn\u2019t matter how thirsty the Cowboys\u2019 fan base is for a title or the front office and players\u2019 abilities to move from one season to the next, there is a new man ready to deal with the drought with his own mixtures of winning: Brian Schottenheimer.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s embraced the drought. He\u2019s embraced what the fan base wants. He\u2019s embraced what team owner Jerry Jones seeks.<\/p>\n
A Super Bowl title.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t get caught up in the drought,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is one year. This is the first year of mine. I mean, I\u2019ve been here a couple of years, but when the season is over, we move on. We do. We move on. So, 2024 is over, now it\u2019s 2025. Are we going to win the Super Bowl this year? I hope. I think we are. If we don\u2019t, you move on.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Cowboys last won a Super Bowl title in the 1995 season. To think that a generation of fans hasn\u2019t experienced a championship for the pro football team in the area is remarkable, considering that when the Cowboys first played in the NFL in 1960, it took them six years to reach the league championship game. They lost to the Green Bay Packers in 1966.<\/p>\n
It will be nearly 30 years and the other three pro sports franchises in town, the Mavericks, Stars and Rangers, have won championships during that time.<\/p>\n
The Cowboys are not alone in title droughts.<\/p>\n
The Montreal Canadiens won 23 Stanley Cup trophies in franchise history. Their last title was in the 1992-93 season.<\/p>\n
The Toronto Maple Leafs have 13 Stanley Cups. Last title? The 1966-67 season.<\/p>\n
The New York Knicks\u2019 last title was the 1972-73 season.<\/p>\n
The franchise just fired coach Tom Thibodeau after leading it to the Eastern Conference title game for the first time in 25 seasons.<\/p>\n
In the NFL, the San Francisco 49ers, the Cowboys\u2019 biggest rival during the 1990s Super Bowl run, haven\u2019t won a title since the 1994 season.<\/p>\n
However, the 49ers have reached the NFC title game eight times with three Super Bowl appearances since their last championship.<\/p>\n
Cowboys fans would take that.<\/p>\n
Schottenheimer\u2019s goals to end the drought begin with chemistry. He\u2019s forming bonds with players and coaches with various off-the-field activities, whether it\u2019s a paintball outing, seafood boil, individual dinners or attending charitable events.<\/p>\n
The other part is making sure the talent assembled fits the schemes being applied. Schottenheimer noted that second-year tackle Tyler Guyton is getting comfortable in the new scheme, allowing him to perform better.<\/p>\n
The Cowboys added faster players in free agency (Miles Sanders), the draft (Jaydon Blue) and by trades (George Pickens) to boost the offense.<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe that Schotty\u2019s doing it the right way from the top down,\u201d quarterback Dak Prescott said. \u201cTake the offense and defense away from it, take the positions away from it, take the coach and player aspect away from it and let\u2019s connect. And you\u2019re talking to one of the most optimistic people I think you\u2019ll find. I\u2019ve seen it the way that it\u2019s going, I see the way people are buying into it and it\u2019s hard for me to think anything different.\u201d<\/p>\n
Recently, Schottenheimer invited former Cowboys players to The Star to connect with the current group. Schottenheimer said it was one of the best days of the offseason.<\/p>\n
There were roughly 25 players in attendance from various periods whether it was Bob Lilly (1960s), Thomas \u2018Hollywood\u2019 Henderson and Drew Pearson (1970s), Michael Irvin (1990s), Bradie James (early 2000s) or Joe Looney (2010s).<\/p>\n
Schottenheimer wanted his group to see their Super Bowl rings, hear their stories and understand the ultimate goal is winning titles.<\/p>\n
He doesn\u2019t believe the Super Bowl drought is burdensome, especially when you embrace it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think so,\u201d he said. \u201cNot when the head coach sits up here and talks about the ultimate goal is to win a world\u2019s championship. I think it\u2019s to be celebrated. You\u2019ve got an incredible organization, incredible team, but the history speaks to what we\u2019re about. So I think some people might view it as being burdensome. I don\u2019t.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s awesome. I think the more those guys are around, the more we see their Super Bowl rings, which they wear very proudly, I think that\u2019s great for our guys because that\u2019s why we do it. We don\u2019t hide from that. Again, I talk a lot about that. Doesn\u2019t mean there\u2019s not a process, right? There\u2019s a process that goes into winning a world\u2019s championship. It just doesn\u2019t you talk about the steps to help you get there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Winning a championship requires so much. Talent. Luck. Coaching. Health.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s never easy.<\/p>\n
Schottenheimer is getting the buy-in from the locker room and the front office.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love that attitude that\u2019s what you do every year,\u201d team co-owner Stephen Jones said. \u201cOnly one is trying to repeat year in and year out and hats off to (Philadelphia). They got it done last year, there are 31 others who want to be where they are right now and certainly that\u2019s what we\u2019re shooting for. They\u2019re in our division so we\u2019re going to get to see them (in season opener). We look forward to it. We embrace it and obviously our goal is to win football games get ourselves in the playoffs and have success once we get there.\u201d<\/p>\n
The success has been lacking in the title department. But the Cowboys believe the man in charge can quench everyone\u2019s thirst.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have to win games,\u201d he said. \u201cYou\u2019re supposed to win. You have to get into the playoffs, and all those things. But I think it\u2019s meaningless to set an arbitrary goal (like), \u2018Hey, we want to win 10 games or we want to do this.\u2019 We want to win a Super Bowl and we don\u2019t hide from that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRISCO \u2014 The Super Bowl drought is at 29 seasons and counting. It doesn\u2019t matter how thirsty the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2066],"tags":[265,647,637,230,229,257,2461,7,636,21120,122,5456,633,634,631,6,252,632,635,9,505],"class_list":{"0":"post-110444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-cowboys","8":"tag-american-football","9":"tag-american-football-competitions","10":"tag-american-football-teams","11":"tag-cowboys","12":"tag-dallas","13":"tag-dallas-cowboys","14":"tag-dallascowboys","15":"tag-football","16":"tag-gridiron-football-variants","17":"tag-michael-irvin","18":"tag-national-football-league","19":"tag-national-football-league-competitions","20":"tag-national-football-league-seasons","21":"tag-national-football-league-teams","22":"tag-national-football-league-teams-seasons","23":"tag-nfl","24":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","25":"tag-seasons-in-american-football","26":"tag-seasons-in-american-sport","27":"tag-sports","28":"tag-super-bowl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}