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Todd Archer
Frisco, Texas – is about an hour before Brian Schottenheimer is presented as the tenth chief coach in the history of the Dallas Cowboys.
Through the atrium windows in the star, Dak Prescott is seen rehabilitating the surgery that had to repair an avulsion of the right ischiotibial suffered in a defeat of week 9 against the Halcons of Atlanta. It carries a gray sweatshirt and gray tracksuit pants. With the rehabilitation director Britt Brown holding the cables, Prescott goes through a series of exercises in the field to rebuild the force in his right leg.
Soon, Prescott will sit behind the media, since Schottenheimer, the owner and general manager Jerry Jones and the executive vice president Stephen Jones answered questions for more than an hour, listening carefully to a coach who has grown up in the last three years and who It might be the last coach that has the Cowboys Campo Marshal.
Prescott is signed until 2028. So is Schottenheimer.
“He has had a great impact,” said Prescott. “It was a guy who was a vital part of assembling the game plan every week. Obviously, [former coach Mike] McCarthy was the one who made the calls at the end of the day, but [then-offensive coordinator Schottenheimer] It was a large part in the game process, which was making the call.
“Obviously, I was in the headphones the last part of the year, I heard all that. Very professional. He is ready. He has earned it and deserved every opportunity he is getting.”
Schottenheimer joined the Cowboys as a consultant in 2022. He worked mainly with the then defensive coordinator Dan Quinn in offensive trends of the next opponents, and Prescott was presented from the beginning.
They had some friends in common and only spoke to football.
“Dak and I have an incredible relationship, just as I have an incredible relationship with all these types,” said Schottenheimer. “Dak and I know how to press the other buttons. We know how to have difficult conversations.”
Schottenheimer laughed while he said it. His mind returned to the training camp last summer.
After Prescott had an intercepted pass in practice, Schottenheimer took the field marshal for a play. Prescott was not happy, but that was the established rule, as it was for an offensive liner that jumped early.
“It was delayed,” said Schottenheimer. “The competitor is special. So I think he and I work together, along with the rest of the boys who join the system, there will be adjustments. There will be changes. But he is the type of worker who changes and changes a whole organization.
“And we will have tons of communication moving forward in some of the thoughts of the things we want to do, whether tempo or some of the different things we are trying to do with our action pass game, the career game, things like that.
Prescott was upset at that time, but they quickly reached an agreement.
“It was a great moment of understanding and appreciation that feeling of standard that, yes, we are not accepting a play to leave. But my point [was]”Hey, where do I get my risk versus reward?” Said Prescott. “But that was a conversation that was very unpleasant in the front, but had to approach at some time or another, and it was immediately after practice.
“There were two adult men who understood and mutually appreciated for competitiveness and standard. [I’m] Excited that things like that grow, and not only to me, but throughout each position of our team. “
2016 a 2018, Prescott grew from the NFL’s rookie to the Marshal of the Pro Bowl field with Scott Linehan as its playcaller. Prescott established franchise records with Kellen Moore as its Playcaller (for example, 37 TouchDown passes in 2022) and finished 2 air yards before establishing the team’s record in a season (4,905 in 2019). He finished second in the MVP vote in 2023 after leading the NFL with 36 TouchDown passes with McCarthy like his playcaller.
Now Prescott obtains Schottenheimer as his chief coach and playcaller.
“We have to be able to run the ball, being a little more consistent with that,” said Prescott. “And from there, come back and look at the numbers. I’ve always enjoyed play-action pass, so I can only return to that. But you have to start with the race game, and when you have that, the rest of the offensive It can open. “
Since his rookie year, Prescott occupies the eighth place in the league in TouchDown passes (56) and Yardas (8,427) when he uses play action, according to ESPN Research. In 2021, with Moore as his Playcaller, he had 12 TouchDown passes when he used a falsification of game action, which was tied third in the NFL.
But last season, the Cowboys called for the game action with only 18% of their setbacks, which was the second lowest in the League.
While Schottenheimer has a first story, his three-year period as the offensive coordinator of the Seattle Seahawks (2018-20) with the field marshal Russell Wilson talks about his belief in the game action.
According to ESPN Research, the Seahawks used the game action in 27% of the setbacks during those seasons, eighth more in the league. Wilson was in the first three in the NFL for the playing passes of game action (31, second), percentage of completion (74%, third) and QBR total (82, third).
“My vision for [Prescott] It’s one of the best, “said Schottenheimer.” And through the training that he will obtain, during the hours and hours of time that he and I will spend together, he will play elite level football. And he will take us to championships.
“We have the right boy.”
