Cowboys Hire Ex-Head Coach to Help Struggling Christian Parker
Head coach Mike Pettine of the Cleveland Browns is now consulting with the Cowboys. Getty
For Dallas Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer, it might have been a good time to have a long weekend following Thursday's embarrassing 24-16 loss the the Buccaneers in Week 5. It gave him plenty of time to weigh what was consistently going wrong with this team, especially with his defense and new coordinator Christian Parker, the 34-year-old who'd gained a very good reputation as defensive backs coach with the Eagles and Broncos, and as a Packers assistant before that. On Monday, Schottenheimer revealed one of the solutions: Mike Pettine, the former Browns head coach with eight years experience as an NFL defensive coordinator.
Pettine will be brought in as a consultant, similar, according to Schottenheimer, to what the Cowboys have offensively with Ken Dorsey. Schottenheimer said the team had weighed two potential candidates to serve as a defensive veteran coaches in consultancy positions this offseason, but added that they, "just didn't work out."
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