Brian Schottenheimer's Future After Cowboys Collapse

What do you make of the future for Brian Schottenheimer in Dallas after another disgusting loss for the Cowboys? As I mentioned in the opening line, the loss to the Bucs at home as 12.5-point favorites was bad enough. Now they were 6.5-point home favorites against the Cardinals, and they blow a 14 fourth-quarter lead at home with Gardner Minshew coming off the bench and coming out of nowhere to rip apart that Cowboys defense that thought the game was over, and it clearly was not. What is Schottenheimer's future in your mind? Fired, but I don't think it's until the end of the season. Jerry, I don't think he's going to pull the plug because he's invested so many resources. So like the other thing about it, the NFC East outside of the Giants and, you know, we get to throw them as like a 50/50 coin flip. The NFC East is a total freaking mess. Yeah. So, you know, the Commanders aren't going anywhere. The Eagles aren't going anywhere. So you're looking at like, even in the Cowboys where they sit, you're looking at an NFC East that's like, oh, this is still winnable. Like we could still do this. So... I think Schottenheimer probably goes to the season. If they don't win the East, they don't make the playoffs. He's gone because Jerry's invested so much. And the other part about this is. I don't think this is really like, like I'm not saying Schottenheimer is an amazing head coach, but the defense has been a problem and it remains a problem. Christian Parker has not solved any problem. All of the veteran talent that they keep pouring into this defense. Quinn and Williams has not solved their run defense. Joey Porter Jr. Has not solved their pass defense. Selecting Caleb Downs has not solved their pass defense. So it's like every addition they have made has not been. It hasn't solved any of the problems. And so it's like, is this a Schottenheimer problem? Probably to some extent. Like, you know, I don't think he's like an elite leader of men, but I don't think he's a horrible head coach. The defense is still and has been and continues to be the biggest Achilles heel of this entire, like, operation. It's really an interesting look, I think, from a Cowboy fan perspective, because if you were going to win the division, you weren't going to have kind of an easier path than this year. The Eagles are done. The Commanders are out, busted and broken. And the Cowboys and the Giants have been, you know, without their starting quarterback and now running with J.J. McCarthy. So like. If you're a Cowboy fan, you're like, this is the year for us to go ahead and take care of business, win the division, go to the playoffs, have a successful season. And Dak even said it's, you know, it's Super Bowl or bust, let alone playoffs or bust for this roster. And they may not make the playoffs, T-Bro. Like, forget Super Bowl. Yeah, I mean, they might not because this defense is letting them. And again, going back to like how you originally like started this conversation and framing of this. Them losing the lead in the fourth quarter. Yeah, sure. You could say that like, that's, that's the offense and put that on Schottenheimer. Bro, when you're putting up 30 points or close to 30 points, that's not the offense's problem. That is defense. The defense having no killer instinct, the defense, not shutting down a Gardner Minshew led offense and Tyler freaking Algier, who looks like the next coming of freaking Walter Payton. Like, come on, man. Let's at least, like, lay blame where it's supposed to be. Christian Parker, a lot of, like, a puff and praise and hope and hype. Bro, you've been bad. You've been really, really freaking bad. The team has been awful.