{"id":364850,"date":"2026-07-08T03:21:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T03:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/364850\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T03:21:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T03:21:30","slug":"brian-schottenheimer-had-an-agreement-to-remain-with-cowboys-if-not-hired-as-hc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/364850\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Schottenheimer had an ‘agreement’ to remain with Cowboys if not hired as HC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before agreeing to become the 10th head coach in Dallas Cowboys history, Brian Schottenheimer planned to remain with the club regardless of how the interview process went.<\/p>\n

Schottenheimer, who had been the offensive coordinator under Mike McCarthy for two years but didn’t call plays, revealed on an episode of “The Twins Take Podcast”<\/a> that he had an “agreement” with Jerry and Stephen Jones to remain with the club if he didn’t get the head coaching gig.<\/p>\n

“So, what we did is while they were going through the process — ’cause there’s a process, right? I wasn’t sure, and there was a number of other teams — saying this very humbly — that were courting me and trying to say, ‘Hey, we want you to come be our coordinator,'” the Cowboys coach said. “And so, you know, after just talking it over with Stephen and Jerry, like, OK, while we figure this out and you guys go through the interview process, which there’s a thorough interview process you have to go through. We had made an agreement that I would stay here no matter what. And I didn’t want to leave. … I really wanted to be the head coach and put our fingerprint, our blueprint on it. And that’s what God had planned.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before agreeing to become the 10th head coach in Dallas Cowboys history, Brian Schottenheimer planned to remain with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9952,102,113,104,103,223,9953,73259],"class_list":["post-364850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-around-the-nfl","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-news","tag-no-minute","tag-offseason-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364850","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=364850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}