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The Dallas Cowboys suffered another brutal loss on Sunday, blowing a 14-point fourth-quarter lead and falling to the Arizona Cardinals in overtime. On Monday, a pair of First Take voices let the team have it.
Stephen A. Smith ripped head coach Brian Schottenheimer and said Jerry Jones should try to hire Rex Ryan. And Cowboys legend Michael Irvin went even further, saying his late mother could do a better job coaching the team than Schottenheimer.
Cowboys’ Struggles
The Cowboys led the Cardinals 24-10 early in the fourth quarter on Sunday. But Arizona scored 20 points in the final quarter, including a game-tying touchdown with six seconds left, before winning 33-30 on a field goal in overtime.
The loss dropped Dallas to 3-5 on the season. Schottenheimer, in his second season as head coach, has faced growing criticism, and Jones said he isn’t planning to make a coaching change during the season.
Smith has been especially hard on Schottenheimer. Last month, he ripped the coach for calling himself a great coach, saying he had “no business” classifying himself that way.
On Monday, he picked up right where he left off.
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‘Pluck Rex Ryan’
During Monday’s episode of First Take, Smith took aim at Schottenheimer’s résumé and his “great coach” comments that he ripped him for last month.
“You’re head football coach in the National Football League. It’s 32 jobs. That’s America’s team, right? One of, if not the most prestigious job clearly in all of sports, considering the value of this franchise. You are the head coach of it. You are a coordinator that wasn’t even calling plays, and you got the head coaching job when nobody else was looking to hire you as a head coach. And Jerry Jones put you in that position, and you under .500 and calling yourself a great coach,” Smith said, in a clip shared by Awful Announcing.
“No wonder these cats ain’t prioritizing stuff, because you think you’re great even though your record says otherwise. Your record says you ain’t even mediocre; you ain’t even average. You four games under .500 and you calling yourself great. That’s the damn problem,” he continued.
The Cowboys are actually two games under .500 at 3-5. But Smith’s point was clear, and he had a solution in mind.
“That’s why you need somebody like Rex Ryan coming in there, kick somebody’s [behind], get somebody out up there. Yeah. You know, give them an attitude. That’s what you need. Just like you had Mike Ditka with Buddy Ryan, you need somebody like Rex Ryan. If I’m Jerry Jones, I call ESPN right now trying to pluck Rex Ryan from this job to get him on the sideline this damn weekend,” Smith said.
“I promise you, with four days preparation, that man will do a better job than what the hell we’ve seen the Dallas Cowboys doing all season long,” he added.
‘My Dead Mom Can Coach Them Better’
Irvin, the Hall of Fame wide receiver who won three Super Bowls with the Cowboys, wasn’t impressed by Smith’s confidence that another coach would improve things, because he doesn’t think it could possibly get any worse.
“That’s an easy bet, Steve. It’s a nice bet. You think that’s something big. Anybody will bet they check on it because anybody [could do it],” Irvin said.
“There is no worse that you can be. There’s no worse that you can be than they are right now,” Irvin continued. “There is no such thing as lower than this or worse than this are not as good as this. They are the worst. So anybody, anybody, my dead mom can coach them better.”
Needless to say, when Michael Irvin is this fed up with the Cowboys, things are pretty bad in Dallas.