{"id":25903,"date":"2025-10-29T09:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T09:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/25903\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T09:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T09:04:13","slug":"cowboys-coach-brian-schottenheimer-promises-changes-to-defense-after-blowout-loss-to-broncos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/25903\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer promises changes to defense after blowout loss to Broncos"},"content":{"rendered":"

“No one is happy with the way we performed [against the Broncos],” Schottenheimer said. “It’s not acceptable. It’s not good enough. I would say both the staff and the players are aware that the standard was not met, so now what do you do? Be solution-oriented.<\/p>\n

“The solutions are making adjustments to scheme, changes to personnel — giving this guy a little bit more playing time and all that. Those things will play themselves out.”<\/p>\n

Some of the issues are personnel problems, with a lack of talent up front to consistently win one-on-one. Some are players missing tackles or getting out of their lanes. Others are schematic problems, with game plans that don’t put players in a position to succeed.<\/p>\n

Schottenheimer added that some of the planned changes likely won’t be installed until the club’s Week 10 bye, following a Monday night tilt against<\/a> the Arizona Cardinals.<\/p>\n

“I just say that because we’ve got Arizona before the bye and, really, bigger changes to our style will happen over the bye week,” he said. “That’s when we get a chance to say, ‘OK, now we’re looking back at nine games. What were those issues and did we get them corrected?’<\/p>\n

“No? Well, now we need to do this and we need to do that.”<\/p>\n

Sitting at 3-4-1, the Cowboys desperately need a win against the 2-5 Cardinals, or any bye-week changes could be too late to change their fortunes in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“No one is happy with the way we performed [against the Broncos],” Schottenheimer said. “It’s not acceptable. It’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9952,102,113,104,103,223,9953,9954],"class_list":{"0":"post-25903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-around-the-nfl","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-cowboys","11":"tag-dallas-headlines","12":"tag-dallas-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-no-minute","15":"tag-regular-season"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}