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How do you feel about the staff Brian Schottenheimer has put together for the Dallas Cowboys?
The Dallas Cowboys will have a new coaching staff in 2025, led by first-year head coach Brian Schottenheimer. The former offensive coordinator’s staff is now complete, giving Dallas a clear direction heading into key player acquisition phases like the NFL draft and free agency. These coaching changes have been the response to Dallas dropping from a consistent 12-win team to 7-10 and out of the playoffs in 2024.
As optimistic as some Cowboys fans have been about different hires like Klayton Adams as OC, Matt Eberflus as DC, or even Conor Riley and Aaron Whitecotton as OL and DL coaches respectively, this is a fanbase that should understand that players and on-field talent win games more than anything. Two former Cowboys coaches squared off in the NFC Championship Game in Dan Quinn and Kellen Moore, doing so with divisional teams that greatly surpassed the Cowboys in talent this year. The Eagles won and went on to win the Super Bowl in dominant fashion before Moore accepted his own first head coaching gig with the New Orleans Saints. Players matter.
Without any indication yet that the Cowboys plan on backing up their willingness to shake up the coaching staff with the same intensity towards the roster, these coaching moves will still serve as the catalyst for discussing how this team may look different under Schottenheimer. One coach to strongly keep in mind here, although he won’t serve as a coordinator or play-caller, is pass game specialist Ken Dorsey.
Dorsey’s 12 years of NFL experience is the second most of any of the new offensive hires, only behind tight ends coach Lunda Wells who was retained from Mike McCarthy’s staff and has been coaching in Dallas since 2020. At the time of his hire, the Cowboys had a vacancy at quarterback coach, which seemed like a natural fit for Dorsey.
The former 49ers and Browns quarterback got his start in NFL coaching as the Carolina Panthers QB coach from 2013-17, and then held the same role for the Buffalo Bills from 2019-21 before being promoted to offensive coordinator. Most recently, Dorsey served as offensive coordinator for the Browns in 2024.
Shortly after hiring Dorsey, the Cowboys decided to keep their QB coach hire closer to the vest and promoted in-house assistant Steve Shimko. Dallas favors familiarity and a tight circle around Dak Prescott in the QB room, but Dorsey has been a very well known name in the coaching circle for a while now and figures to play into the coaching of the Cowboys quarterbacks in Schottenheimer’s scheme as well as the offense as a whole.
Let’s just get this out of the way. There is nothing anyone can do about the fact a large percentage of Cowboys fans will not give this team any chance on Sundays going forward because of the Schottenheimer hire alone. No matter what they do underneath the first-time head coach...
