Analyst: ‘Doing the Draft Show in October’ if Cowboys don’t correct this Dak Prescott issue
How much different will the Dallas Cowboys’ offense look in 2025? Brian Schottenheimer has been on the staff for the last three years, so his hire as head coach clearly had something to do with continuity, but that doesn’t mean that he was lock-in-step with former head coach Mike McCarthy.
In fact, his differing from McCarthy might have been the sell point of his being retained and promoted by owner Jerry Jones and the Cowboys’ front office. And all of that is clearly centered on what they believe his vision for Dak Prescott and the passing offense looks like. The club’s offense, after several top-flight seasons, cratered in 2024 and that was prior to Prescott’s season-ending injury. It appears that much of that had to do with McCarthy and Prescott not agreeing about the approach.
According to Cowboys analyst and insider Bryan Broaddus, fixing that is going to be the key to a productive season.
“If Brian Schottenheimer tries to do the same thing that Mike McCarthy did, then me and you are going to be doing the Draft Show starting in October.”
In his Wednesday appearance on Voch Lombardi’s show, the discussion started with dissecting recent words of George Pickens, who seemed to indicate that Schottenheimer’s offense is going to be executed through the interpretation of Prescott. Broaddus made it clear he interprets those words as a positive and said, “I think that Dak Prescott and Mike McCarthy being apart now, is very good for Dak Prescott.”
Lombardi chimed in that who was manning the controls of the offense waffled, and it was obvious as things were up and down under McCarthy, saying “some games we were this fantastic motion team, pre-snap, at-snap.. and some times they didn’t run it at all.”
“Make no bones about this,” Broaddus leaned in. “I do believe that Briand Schottenheimer and Dak Prescott are tied at the hip on this one. If Dak Prescott goes out and has success with this Schottenheimer offense and they start to win games, this thing will go on.” But if not, Broaddus thinks it will be the end of the road for both in Dallas. “I could see in a couple years, this thing all dissolving… if it doesn’t work, then we’ll be talking about something completely different here in three years with probably a new coach and a new quarterback.”
Watch the full show here.
This article originally appeared on Cowboys Wire: Analyst: ‘Doing the Draft Show in October’ if Cowboys don’t correct this Prescott issue
Reporting by K.D. Drummond, Cowboys Wire / Cowboys Wire
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