Cowboys Insider Questions Mike Florio 'Rumor Logic' on Brian Schottenheimer

FRISCO - Are the Dallas Cowboys going to fire new head coach Brian Schottenheimer after this season?

Fox Sports 1's Colin Cowherd yells "yes.''

ProFootballTalk.com's Mike Florio hints 'maybe.''

Cowboys insider Mike Fisher, with 36 years on the beat, says ...

"What the heck are we doing here?''

It's Cowherd who got this ball rolling.

"Brian Schottenheimer is a one and done," Cowherd proclaimed, adding that he thinks this is his "least surprising prediction.'' "Jerry will know by Thanksgiving he made a huge mistake. Forget the fact that Philadelphia and Washington will probably blow them out in the division twice. 'One and done' happens all the time now.

"I think Dallas is going to be humiliated on a lot of Sundays."

And now to follow up, ProFootballTalk.com's Florio has placed Schottenheimer on his five-man coaches hot seat for 2025. And while that makes little sense to Fish - Jones has never fired a coach after a single season - our insider sounds befuddled as to Florio's logic.

Florio writes, "The key to knowing Schottenheimer’s job security is to know whether and to what extent he has guaranteed money beyond 2025. ... Schottenheimer came cheaper. How cheap? So cheap that there would be no buyout if he’s fired after one year?

"If so, Schottenheimer could need to do enough in 2025 to earn his employment for 2026.''

Counters Fish: "I don't get it. Florio thinks Schottenheimer's contract (however affordable it might be) features no standard buyout guarantees after 2025? He thinks Jerry would keep him if he does a bad job because the coach came cheap? Wouldn't that be a reason to not keep him?

"This - unless Florio has some secret insight that I'm unaware of - feels like a national media outlet is just starting a nasty (and confusing) rumor about money in order to justify putting the Cowboys coach on a list that we all logically know he doesn't belong on.''

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