Brian Schottenheimer has endured some surprising developments throughout his first season as head coach of the Dallas Cowboys.
Whereas talking with reporters on Friday, Schottenheimer indicated he might develop somewhat superstitious if 3-4-1 Dallas notches a house win over the Arizona Cardinals (2-5) on Monday night time.
How far will Brian Schottenheimer go to assist the Cowboys win?
“S—, I will put an elephant in my frickin’ storage,” Schottenheimer revealed, per ESPN’s Todd Archer. “I will do this subsequent. If that is what it takes to win, I will do it.”
Schottenheimer was referring to the odd encounters his household has had with wildlife since September. As Archer famous in a earlier piece, two of Schottenheimer’s canine have been bitten by snakes forward of Dallas’ Week 2 recreation versus the New York Giants. Moreover, Schottenheimer’s 82-year-old mom suffered a damaged arm when she fell on the airport earlier than she might fly to Dallas for that matchup.
The Cowboys finally handed Schottenheimer the primary win of his teaching profession after Dallas’ Brandon Aubrey made a game-tying 64-yard area objective as time expired. Aubrey later kicked a game-winner within the closing seconds of the additional time interval.
The Schottenheimer household versus an owl
Extra just lately, an owl flew into the Schottenheimer household residence on Thursday.
“I am in recreation plan conferences final night time, performing some pink zone stuff, and I go away the assembly about 10 o’clock, and I’m going again to my cellphone, and I actually had 72 textual content messages on my cellphone. Seventy-two,” Schottenheimer defined. “…It actually began with a textual content from my son to his mom saying, ‘Umm, there is a large hawk-sized chicken in right here,’ and I started to look down and there was an owl.”
It seems that Schottenheimer’s son by chance left the sliding doorways open earlier than the owl was found. Schottenheimer added that animal management safely eliminated the owl from the home and “returned to its secure area.”
“I may need to have a look at that as one other job,” Schottenheimer joked. “Simply kinda turn into an animal management man. I am so skilled now with wildlife in and round Dallas. Cannot make it up.”
Shortly after Schottenheimer concluded his remarks, ESPN BET had the Cowboys as 2.5-point favorites over the Cardinals. It seems like some insiders suppose Schottenheimer would possibly quickly have to discover what it could take to maintain an elephant in a storage for at the very least just a few months.
