After a second straight disastrous offensive efficiency to drop the staff to 2-4, s head coach Brian Schottenheimer took to the rostrum and shouldered chunk of the blame. Citing poor execution from his gamers in a Week 6 loss on Sunday night time, ;
At the least one in every of his former gamers agrees with him.
The Cowboys' 23-13 loss to Inexperienced Bay marked back-to-back outings through which the Dallas offense, regardless of having superstars like quarterback Dak Prescott and extensive receivers CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens, failed to attain greater than 17 factors. Whereas the unit nonetheless ranks within the NFL's prime 10 (with Week 6's Monday night time sport nonetheless to play) in whole factors and whole yards, the sudden two-week pattern is troubling certainly for a corporation that was supposedly only a slight defensive enchancment away from competing for a championship this season.
A lot of the main target is beginning to land on Schottenheimer because the offensive play-caller. Now 9-13-1 since taking the pinnacle teaching job in Dallas, many inside Cowboys Nation at the moment are overtly calling for a change and questioning if Schottenheimer was ever the offensive mastermind he was marketed to be.
Former NFL extensive receiver Braylon Edwards pulled again the curtain in a social media submit on Monday, leveling a shot immediately at his onetime offensive coordinator:
"Watching the @dallascowboys wrestle two weeks in a row jogged my memory of why we as a Jets offense have been horrible in again to again afc championship video games in '09' and '10'….mid OC by the title of Brian Schottenheimer."
Watching the s wrestle two weeks in a row jogged my memory of why we as a Jets offense have been horrible in again to again afc championship video games in '09' and '10'….mid OC by the title of Brian Schottenheimer.
— Braylon Edwards (@OfficialBraylon) 6
Edwards was the third general draft decide in 2005. He performed eight seasons within the league with 4 completely different groups. However he spent 2009 and 2010 with the Jets, the place Schottenheimer was the offensive coordinator below head coach Rex Ryan.
In 2009, the Jets completed 9-7, good for second place within the AFC East and the fifth seed within the postseason. They superior to the convention title sport, the place they misplaced to the Colts by a 30-17 rating.
The next season, the staff went 11-5 and once more completed second within the division. Because the sixth and ultimate seed within the playoffs, they went to their second straight AFC championship, dropping this time to Pittsburgh, 24-19.
Certain, there's a large contingent of Cowboys followers who would give something for appearances in consecutive convention championships. And there have been moments below Schottenheimer when the Dallas offense has actually appeared explosive sufficient to do it.
However, as Edwards suggests, it certain wasn't the Jets' offense that took them to inside one sport of Tremendous Bowls XLIV and XLV.
The 2009 Jets offense ranked seventeenth in factors scored and simply twentieth in whole yards. In yards per play, they completed twenty second. On the bottom, the 2009 Jets have been tops within the NFL behind working again Thomas Jones, however the air assault led by quarterback Mark Sanchez and that includes Edwards and Jerricho Cotchery ended the season thirty first out of 32 groups.
In 2010, it was solely marginally higher: the Jets have been thirteenth in whole factors, eleventh in yards, and nineteenth in yards per play. They positioned fourth in dashing with LaDanian Tomlinson and Shonn Greene, however the passing sport (Sanchez, Edwards, Santonio Holmes) ranked twenty second.
Edwards himself recorded 35 catches and 4 touchdowns on 541 receiving yards in 12 video games upon arriving in New York halfway by way of the 2009 season. In a full 2010, he had 53 receptions and 7 scores on a team-leading 904 yards.
The distinction for the Jets squads these seasons? Each had a top-10 protection… below coordinator Mike Pettine. The Cowboys now have Pettine on their very own workers, and so they hope he may help flip round a gaggle that's been hovering close to the underside of the league rankings ever since Dan Quinn left in 2023.
However the Dallas offense, very just lately considered as probably the most explosive in soccer, has out of the blue flatlined, too. And Braylon Edwards, a Professional Bowler and a second-team All-Professional in 2007, thinks he's recognized the explanation why.
Schottenheimer has beforehand seen a barely-middle-of-the-pack unit be carried deep into the postseason by an elite crew on the opposite aspect of the ball. It was believed that if Dallas's top-flight offense obtained just a bit little bit of assist, the protection might be simply first rate enough- very similar to Schottenheimer's Jets offenses- for the complete staff make a deep run.
As a substitute, Edwards's submit on X raises the ever-growing risk that as an alternative, Schottenheimer is dragging the Cowboys offense all the way down to the mediocrity that so lots of his items have displayed previously.
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