New Dallas Cowboys head coach Brian Schottenheimer says he is ready to make his mark after being promoted from offensive coordinator to be the 10th coach in the storied franchise’s history.
The 51-year-old has been chosen to replace Mike McCarthy at the Cowboys who had a disappointing 7-10 season.
“I thought for a while it might not happen, but it’s been a lifelong dream,” Schottenheimer said.
“The top job has been a long time coming, but it’s here. I’ve had some opportunities when I was a much younger man, that I didn’t feel like I was ready.
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“I’m ready now. I know what I want. I know what it looks like.”
Schottenheimer was an assistant with the St. Louis Rams, Kansas City, Washington, the San Diego Chargers and Jacksonville along with three one-year stops in college. His 14 years as an offensive coordinator include six with the Jets, three with the Rams and Seahawks and two with the Cowboys.
“How often do you have someone that has 25 years of working through the human relationship and working, aspiring to learn or have his ears and eyes wide open and looking for techniques and looking for things that make coaches better,” owner Jerry Jones said.
“He’s had 25 years being around the kinds of things that he’s going to have to draw on to be a coach of the Dallas Cowboys.
“This is as big a risk as you can take, as big a risk as you could take. He has no head coaching experience.”
Schottenheimer is the 10th coach in franchise history, and the ninth hired by Jones since be bought the team in 1989 and fired the only coach from Dallas’ first 29 seasons, Pro Football Hall of Famer Tom Landry.
