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Michael Irvin isn’t happy the Cowboys didn’t hire Deion Sanders: ‘We lost an opportunity here’
The Dallas Cowboys have hired Brian Schottenheimer as their new head coach to replace Mike McCarthy, and one famous Cowboys alumnus isn’t happy with the decision.
Michael Irvin, the Hall of Fame wide receiver who spent his entire 12-year career in Dallas, laid into his former team on Saturday in a video posted to his YouTube channel, lamenting their decision to hire someone who was already on staff instead of Irvin’s top choice of Deion Sanders, another Cowboys alumnus.
“Here’s my issue. We lost an opportunity here. I don’t know what happened with Coach Schottenheimer and the Cowboys, but Jerry [Jones, team owner and GM] is a shrewd, shrewd businessman, and this opportunity, I’m shocked he did not see. I was pushing for Deion Sanders to be the next head coach, and I still stand 10 toes down on that push.
“Let me break it down. We have two NFC East teams in the NFC championship game being played tomorrow. All eyes on them. The Philadelphia Eagles and the Washington Commanders. Our enemies on all fronts. And they’re in a position that we haven’t held in 30 f***ing years. The longest drought by any NFC East team. Thirty years. … You bring in someone who’s already inside for head coach. You lose things there that you can’t grab back that I’m worried about.
“We’re losing ground in the NFC. … It was time to bring somebody in here that could shake things up and grab this last leg of Cowboys Nation. If we’ve got 30 years right now, and life expectancy is 100 years, that means by math one third of Cowboys Nation has never felt or lived the glory of a championship story. Don’t even know about it. How the hell can they pass something down when they don’t even know about it?
“Worse yet, that generation has seen total domination from a team named the Kansas City Chiefs. Who in that span is running up on winning three in a row. So not only are you losing football games over here and opportunities over here and divisions over here, you’re about to get our moniker snatched off our backs.”
The moniker Irvin speaks of is America’s Team, which the Cowboys earned in the 1990s during their last run of success that included three Super Bowl titles.
Irvin laid out his issues with hiring someone from the inside, focusing on what he believes are problems with team discipline.
“I know what we needed,” Irvin said. “They don’t have curfew. They don’t have discipline. We were fourth in penalties this year. So how you do fix that? … How do you do that when you’re coming from inside?”
Sanders has experienced success as a college coach in Colorado, where he’s been for two seasons, coaching his son, QB Shedeur Sanders, and Heisman winner Travis Hunter, and taking the Buffaloes to a bowl game. Early in the head coach hiring cycle, Sanders expressed interest in the Las Vegas Raiders opening, but nothing came of that (the Raiders recently hired Pete Carroll as their new head coach).
Jones had reportedly spoken to Sanders about the Cowboys’ head coaching job several weeks ago, but Jones decided to go a different way, much to Irvin’s displeasure.
It’s no secret that Michael Irvin bleeds Dallas Cowboys blue, and he’s not afraid to speak his mind when it comes to his beloved team. The Hall of Fame wide receiver recently expressed his disappointment in the Cowboys’ decision not to hire Deion Sanders as their head coach.In a recent interview, Irvin shared his thoughts on the missed opportunity, saying, “We lost an opportunity here. We lost an opportunity to bring in someone who knows what it takes to win, who knows the game inside and out, and who has a passion for this team like no one else.”
Irvin, who played alongside Sanders during their time in Dallas, knows firsthand the impact Prime Time can have on a team. With Sanders now thriving as the head coach at Jackson State University, many Cowboys fans were hoping he would bring his winning ways back to Dallas.
While the Cowboys ultimately decided to go in a different direction with their coaching search, Irvin can’t help but wonder what could have been with Sanders at the helm. One thing is for sure, the Cowboys may have missed out on a game-changing opportunity by not bringing Prime Time back to Big D.
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Cowboys legend Michael Irvin calls out Jerry Jones for questionable coaching hire: We lost an opportunity here
If Michael Irvin had been in charge of the coaching search for the Dallas Cowboys, it’s safe to say that he would NOT have selected Brian Schottenheimer, who was hired as the team’s new head coach on Friday night.
Irvin took to his YouTube channel on Saturday to talk about the new hire and he definitely did not sound happy about the situation. The former Cowboys star called out Jerry Jones for whiffing on a big opportunity with the hire.
“Here’s my issue: We lost an opportunity here,” Irvin said. “I don’t know what will happen with Coach Schottenheimer and the Dallas Cowboys, but Jerry’s a shrewd, shrewd businessman, and this opportunity, I’m shocked he did not see.”
Irvin pointed out that two NFC East teams will be playing in the NFC Championship on Sunday, which is a round of the playoffs that the Cowboys haven’t made it to since 1995.
“We have two NFC East teams in the NFC Championship game being played [Sunday], all eyes on them,” Irvin said. “The Philadelphia Eagles and the Washington Commanders, our enemies on all fronts, and they’re in a position that we haven’t held in 30 f—ing years. The longest drought by any NFC East team, period.”
The Commanders did hold the record for longest active drought without appearing in an NFC Championship, but that unfortunate honor now belongs to the Cowboys. Before this year, the Commanders hadn’t made it to the game since 1991. With Washington getting there this year, though, that means every NFC team has made it to the conference title game at least once since 2010, except for the Cowboys.
Due to their ongoing struggles, Irvin says the Cowboys might actually start losing fans.
“They’ve lost a generation of fans,” Irvin said. “That’s 30 damn years. Forty years is a generation. Right here, right now was critical mass. It was time to bring somebody in here that could shake things up and grab this last leg of Cowboys Nation.”
With the Cowboys viewed as “America’s Team,” Jones probably hasn’t been worried about losing fans, but it’s something that he should start taking seriously, according to Irvin.
“If we got 30 years right now, life expectancy is 100 years, that means by math, a third of Cowboys nation has never felt or lived the glory of a championship story, don’t even know about it,” Irvin said. “How the hell can they pass something down if they don’t even know about it? It’s a generation that knows nothing about a championship from the so-called ‘America’s Team’. … And worse yet, that generation has seen total domination from a team named the Kansas City Chiefs.”
With the Chiefs gunning for to make NFL history by becoming the first team to win three Super Bowls in a row, Irvin admitted they might steal the Cowboys’ title of “America’s Team.”
“Not only are you losing football games over here, and opportunities over here, even divisions over here, you’re about to get our moniker snatched off our backs,” Irvin said.
If Irvin had been in charge of the coaching hire, there’s no question who he would have picked: Deion Sanders.
“I was pushing for Deion Sanders to be the next head coach, and I still stand ten toes down on that push,” Irvin said.
Irvin had been pushing for Jones to hire Coach Prime for several months, but Jones clearly didn’t listen to the former Cowboys star.
At the minimum, Irvin wanted to see the Cowboys hire a coach with some actual head coaching experience, which Schottenheimer doesn’t have. The 51-year-old has never been a head coach in the NFL despite 24 years of experience as an assistant coach in the league.
“The Raiders hired Pete Carroll, he had some experience,” Irvin said. “Last time, when we did Mike McCarthy, he had some experience. I got to slap myself and say, ‘Give it a chance, at least they walked the walk already.’ Brian hadn’t walked no walk.”
Irvin isn’t the only former Cowboys receiver who wasn’t thrilled with the hire. Dez Bryant also seemed perplexed by the decision. Shortly after the announcement was made on Friday night, Bryant reacted with four interesting words followed by an “smh.”
When you’re using a word like “sabotage” to describe a coaching hire, that almost certainly means you’re not on board with it, so it’s pretty clear that Bryant would have liked to see the Cowboys go a different route.
With the way that Jones is running things in Dallas, Bryant added that he doesn’t feel like there will be “success anytime soon.”
Bryant, who spent nine seasons in Dallas, knows the organization well, so it’s worth listening to what he has to say and he thinks that Jones needs to modernize his thinking.
He also offered some advice on how that can happen: “Somebody in the organization needs to step up and tell Jerry that the old ways of thinking don’t exist in this new era,” Bryant wrote on X.
Now, if you’re going to rip a coaching decision, it’s only fair that you point out someone who would have been a better candidate and Bryant actually did that BACK IN NOVEMBER. Two months ago, Bryant said that if the Cowboys wanted to turn things around, they needed to “steal” Kliff Kingsbury from the Commanders.
Again, Bryant wrote that in November, and it’s a tweet that looks especially smart now with the Commanders getting set to play in the NFC Championship against the Eagles.
Bryant wanted Kingsbury and Irvin wanted Deion and neither of them wanted Schottenheimer.
So will the Cowboys be able to end their NFC title drought anytime soon? Bryant definitely sounds pessimistic about things at this point. Two weeks ago, he told Cowboys fans they “should not expect success soon,” and with Jones making a coaching hire that Bryant doesn’t seem to agree with, the former receiver probably doesn’t have high expectations for the Cowboys going forward.
In a recent interview, Cowboys legend Michael Irvin expressed his disappointment with owner Jerry Jones’ decision to hire a questionable coach. Irvin, who played for the Cowboys in the 1990s and won three Super Bowls with the team, believes that the team missed out on a great opportunity to hire a more qualified candidate.“I love Jerry, he’s like a father to me, but I have to be honest here,” Irvin said. “I think we lost an opportunity to bring in someone who could really take this team to the next level. We need a coach who can inspire and lead these players to success, and I’m not sure if this hire is the right fit.”
Irvin went on to say that he hopes Jones will reconsider his decision and make a change if necessary. “I know Jerry wants what’s best for the team, and I trust that he will do whatever it takes to put us in a position to win. But sometimes you have to admit when you’ve made a mistake and make a change for the better.”
It remains to be seen how Jones will respond to Irvin’s comments, but one thing is clear: the Cowboys legend is passionate about his former team and wants to see them succeed. Let’s hope that his words will be taken to heart and that the Cowboys will make the necessary adjustments to ensure a successful season.
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