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The Dallas Cowboys selling offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer to go coach after shifting on from Mike McCarthy in January has been met with scrutiny from the larger Cowboys group, and confusion from the NFL world at massive.

However certainly one of Schottenheimer’s former bosses, former head coach and present analyst Eric Mangini, thinks the noise across the rent has led many to overlook what the brand new Dallas boss brings to the desk.

“I feel individuals are underestimating what Brian can do,” Mangini mentioned on Tuesday’s version of “Breakfast Ball.” “Brian was my offensive coordinator in New York after I was with the [New York] Jets. One of many issues that I actually appreciated about Brian is that he put loads of stress on the protection. We had performed San Diego the 12 months earlier than. He was there. He was a part of that system, and his offensive system put a ton of stress on our protection in New England as a result of there have been shifts, motions, a number of formations, every part was difficult.

“So then I deliver him in for the interview, actually good, had a conviction on what he wished to do offensively but in addition very open to different issues that we wished so as to add. We wished so as to add components of what we did in New England, some issues they’d been doing in New York, the issues he was bringing, so I appreciated that a part of his method, as nicely. He was prepared to run the ball and be dedicated to working the soccer, which I assumed was vital.”

After a number of assistant teaching positions, together with being the San Diego Chargers quarterbacks coach with future Corridor of Famer Drew Brees below middle, Schottenheimer was employed by Mangini to be the Jets’ offensive coordinator when the latter turned the crew’s head coach in 2006; Mangini was beforehand the defensive coordinator of the Patriots. Schottenheimer would stay New York’s offensive coordinator by means of 2011 regardless of Rex Ryan changing into the crew’s head coach in 2009. The Jets made the AFC Championship Sport in back-to-back seasons (2009-10).

Following three seasons because the offensive coordinator for the St. Louis Rams (2012-14), Schottenheimer was the offensive coordinator at Georgia in 2015, quarterbacks coach for the Indianapolis Colts with Andrew Luck from 2016-17 and the offensive coordinator for the Seattle Seahawks from 2018-20. Then, after one season as passing sport coordinator for the Jacksonville Jaguars, Schottenheimer, 51, joined the Cowboys’ teaching workers as a training analyst in 2022 and later turned their offensive coordinator for the 2023 and 2024 seasons.

Final season, Dallas went 7-10 and misplaced quarterback Dak Prescott after eight video games resulting from a hamstring harm. Nonetheless, Schottenheimer’s offense managed to common 328.4 whole yards per sport, which ranked sixteenth within the NFL. In 2023, the Cowboys have been first within the sport with 29.9 factors per sport and fifth with 371.6 whole yards per sport.

“Brian, I do know, wasn’t the horny rent or the thrilling rent essentially for Dallas, however I feel it is an underrated rent as a result of he is simply as succesful as any of those different first-time head coaches, and I feel he’ll be wonderful,” Mangini mentioned.

The Schottenheimer period for Dallas begins on Sept. 4 with a street bout in opposition to the NFC East rival and defending Tremendous Bowl-champion Philadelphia Eagles within the 2025 NFL regular-season opener.

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