Brian Schottenheimer may indeed be running the show. The Dallas Cowboys held a press conference on Wednesday afternoon to introduce Christian Parker as the team\u2019s new defensive coordinator and right out of the gate something stood out.<\/p>\n
There were only two people present. The two in question were head coach Brian Schottenheimer and Parker himself.<\/p>\n
It may seem like we are being overdramatic here, but you have to recognize that this is the Dallas Cowboys we are talking about. Every press conference or appearance where the team has a spokesperson present has involved either Jerry Jones, Stephen Jones, or in some non-football settings another member of the Jones family.<\/p>\n
This press conference was directly in relation to the football part of the franchise and that neither Jerry nor Stephen were in attendance spoke volumes. It is similar to how Jerry Jones did not hold court on his bus at the NFL combine last year (we will see if that repeats itself next week) and offered the actual coaches the opportunity to speak on behalf of what they are tasked with doing – coaching the football team.<\/p>\n
We all know better than to jump to wild conclusions, but this suggests that maybe the Cowboys are letting the football coaches run the show which would be a huge changing of the times. Brian Schottenheimer corroborated the idea that he is leading the charge on all of this in noting that the Cowboys interviewed 40 or more candidates before landing on Parker. He expressed that the Cowboys (talking about the front office) were very patient with his diligence on the matter which again suggests that he got to execute the process that he wanted to from start to finish.<\/p>\n
Good for the Cowboys for letting their head coach be so involved and stand on business with regards to the man he chose to run his defense. Let\u2019s hope this disposition carries through well beyond a press conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brian Schottenheimer may indeed be running the show. The Dallas Cowboys held a press conference on Wednesday afternoon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2066],"tags":[230,229,257,88924,2461,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-761130","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-dallas-cowboys-coaching-staff","12":"tag-dallascowboys","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116093902617226818","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761130","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=761130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}