{"id":713413,"date":"2026-01-29T07:04:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T07:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/713413\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T07:04:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T07:04:18","slug":"rookie-hc-schottenheimer-did-outstanding-job-in-a-difficult-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/713413\/","title":{"rendered":"Rookie HC Schottenheimer did \u2018outstanding job in a difficult situation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jimmy Johnson knows a thing or two about the difficulty of being the Cowboys\u2019 head coach.<\/p>\n

He spent five seasons coaching the Cowboys under Jerry Jones and won two Super Bowls<\/a>. As for current Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer … well, who knows if any Super Bowls are in his future, but he did better than 1-15 in his rookie NFL head coaching season, so he\u2019s got Johnson beat there.<\/p>\n

Johnson recently stopped by \u201cThe Pat McAfee Show<\/a>\u201d where, after he was finished ripping into the Pro Football Hall of Fame selection committee re: Bill Belichick<\/a>, he got into his former team in Dallas, the job that Schottenheimer did in his rookie year and what the Cowboys have to do to get back to the glory days of Johnson\u2019s Cowboys in the \u201890s.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what Jimmy had to say:<\/p>\n

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Question: How do you feel about the state of the Cowboys? Where do you think they go from here with Dak, CeeDee, hopefully Pickens?<\/p>\n

Johnson: \u201cAs far as the Cowboys, you know, Brian Schottenheimer did an outstanding job in a difficult situation last year, they were just horrible on defense. I think if they can make some corrections on defense, in fact I talked to Jerry Jones<\/a> not too awful long ago, after the season, I said \u2018You can make some corrections on defense.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd, you know, it may not be that you\u2019re gonna be dominant, but if you\u2019re just \u2018good.\u2019 Just \u2018so-so.\u2019 You\u2019re gonna be so good on offense, if you can keep Pickens and get the running back situation going, you can have an outstanding team. You can make a run at it, because you\u2019re that good offensively. But they\u2019ve gotta make the corrections on defense.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watch the full episode here.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Dallas<\/a>Dallas Cowboys 2026 NFL draft checklist: Full list of picks, early mocks and more<\/a><\/p>\n

The Cowboys will have two first-round selections for the first time since 2008 in April\u2019s NFL draft.<\/p>\n

\"Dallas<\/a>ESPN ranks Cowboys WR George Pickens as No. 2 free agent in 2026 class<\/a><\/p>\n

Cowboys RB Javonte Williams also appeared on ESPN\u2019s list of the top 50 NFL free agents this offseason.<\/p>\n

\"Ohio<\/a>New mock draft has Cowboys taking \u2018athletic freak\u2019 at No. 12, raw prospect at No. 20<\/a><\/p>\n

Another mock has Dallas going double-defense with their pair of first-round selections.<\/p>\n

Find more Cowboys coverage from The Dallas Morning News here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy Johnson knows a thing or two about the difficulty of being the Cowboys\u2019 head coach. He spent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2066],"tags":[230,229,257,2461,7,43939,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-713413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-cowboys","8":"tag-cowboys","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-cowboys","11":"tag-dallascowboys","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-jimmy-johnson-american-football-coach","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115977118323673198","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713413","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=713413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}