Before agreeing to become the 10th head coach in Dallas Cowboys history, Brian Schottenheimer intended to stay with the club regardless of how the interview process went.
Schottenheimer, who had been the offensive coordinator under Mike McCarthy for two years but did not call plays, revealed on an episode of “The Twins Take Podcast” that he had an “agreement” with Jerry and Stephen Jones to stay with the club if he didn’t get the head coaching gig.
“So, what we did is while they were going through the process — because it’s a process, right? I wasn’t sure, and there were a number of other teams — saying this very humbly — that were courting me and trying to say, ‘Hey, we want you to come in and be our coordinator,'” the Cowboys coach said. “And then, you know, after just talking it over with Stephen and Jerry, like, OK, on while we figure this out and you go through the interview process, which is a thorough interview process that you have to go through. We had made an agreement that I would stay here no matter what. And I didn’t want to go. … I really wanted to be the head coach and put our fingerprints, and our plan.”