The Dallas Cowboys have a new head coach for 2025 in Brian Schottenheimer, and while it was a few weeks ago that this officially became the case, the process the team took to ultimately land him felt long and arduous.
A big reason for those feelings was that the Cowboys took forever to start the process to begin with given how they handled the Mike McCarthy situation. We aren’t here to re-litigate any of that, but to discuss one of the more interesting turns that the whole saga took.
You will recall that during the McCarthy conversations, and as the compass ultimately found Schottenheimer, that the name Jason Witten kept being reported by various insiders as someone who could potentially be a candidate.