Ross Tucker on why Cowboys fans should be optimistic about Brian Schottenheimer

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Audacy NFL insider Ross Tucker joined Shan, RJ and Bobby to talk all things Cowboys and Brian Schottenheimer. He gives fans 4 reasons to be optimistic about the hiring, his experience being coached by Schotty in the early 2000's, and what has made the Eagles offense so successful with Kellen Moore.

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00:00I'm going to give you four reasons why I like the Brian Schottenheimer higher.

00:22First of all, a lot of people will tell you that he was never the hot shot coordinator.

00:28Well back when he took Mark Sanchez to two AFC championship games, running the rock,

00:35play action, Sanchez, two playoff games, Brian Schottenheimer was the OC.

00:40That's number one.

00:41Number two, even if you think he's not the hot shot coordinator, you know what the reality

00:47is?

00:48A lot of those guys end up sucking as head coaches because it's a totally different skill

00:54set.

00:55So, you know, game planning and calling plays is not the same as clock management, setting

01:02the culture of the team or everything that goes into being a head coach CEO.

01:07Maybe Brian Schottenheimer was an average coordinator, but he's a great head coach as

01:13opposed to guys that are the opposite, but great coordinators, but they can't make it

01:18as head coaches.

01:19But should we be worried that he's also calling the plays?

01:24That's a fair question.

01:26Let me get to my other two, then I'll get to that.

01:28The other two, I had nine head coaches in the NFL, okay?

01:33His father, Marty Schottenheimer, is the best head coach I've ever been around, okay?

01:40I had Bill Parcells when I was in Dallas, I had Bill Belichick in New England, I had

01:45Joe Gibbs in Washington.

01:47I know that Marty Schottenheimer did not have the success those guys did in terms of winning

01:53Super Bowls or what, I get that.

01:55All I'm telling you is, sitting there as a player, watching what they say to us, watching

02:01how they go about it, Marty Schottenheimer was the best head coach I ever had.

02:05Better than the three Hall of Famers I just named.

02:08And the last thing, maybe the most important thing, the reality is, nobody knows anything.

02:15I mean, you go back to 2016, the guy that was ranked as the worst hire was Doug Peterson.

02:23In 2017, he took the Eagles to their only Super Bowl ever, okay?

02:29And then the next year they went to the Divisional Round, the next year, whatever.

02:33Four years ago, the Eagles hired a guy nobody had heard of.

02:38It was the last guy hired, a guy named Nick Sirianni, who didn't even call the plays for

02:45the Colts.

02:46Frank Reich did, okay?

02:48He's now taken the Eagles to their second Super Bowl in three years.

02:53My point is, the press conference doesn't matter, how much buzz they have when they

02:58get hired doesn't matter.

03:01Nobody really knows.

03:02Everybody likes to act like they do, everybody likes to talk like they do.

03:05Brian Schottenhammer might be awesome, he might be terrible, you don't know until they

03:10actually get in that chair and have that job.

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