Shan Shariff leads Below The Belt with a nugget of his own: Stephen Jones wanted to get rid of Mike McCarthy after last season's Green Bay playoff loss. Obviously McCarthy stayed around, but could it be Stephen that's driving the push to hire Brian Schottenheimer as the next head coach? Also, Bobby discusses why former Cowboys LB coach Matt Eberflus might not be a fit to return as defensive coach for the next head coach.
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00:00Here's what I was told, Steven Jones actually wanted to make the McCarthy change after the
00:21Green Bay game.
00:24When they lost to the Packers, Steven Jones was like, all right, Pops, we need to make
00:29a change.
00:30Jerry was not going to pay someone to sit on a beach.
00:34He was not going to just watch that money flush down the drain.
00:37So I think the feeling kind of is, Steven loves, loves Brian Schottenheimer.
00:43So I think the feeling kind of is like, Dad, you kept Mike.
00:50Look what ended up happening.
00:52You did it your way.
00:53It's funny, we have this balance beam of opposite methods failing.
01:00So Steven can say to Jerry, you kept Mike.
01:03I wanted to replace him.
01:04Look how it ended up.
01:06Go with Brian.
01:07I love him.
01:09Jerry can say to Steven, your little frugal free agent plans cost us Derek Henry, got
01:15us absolutely destroyed and annihilated with as much criticism as Ben in my 15 years here
01:21covering the team with Choppy in DFW.
01:24So they both have that on each other if they wanted to.
01:26But my understanding is Steven loves Brian and was down to make the change on McCarthy
01:32after the Packers.
01:33So when I hear this much Schottenheimer, it's hard for me to just, and I have not been told
01:40what I'm about to say, but I would deduce common sense, Steven's making a major push
01:45here since he loves Schottie.
01:48And it's not just rogue solo Jerry.
01:51Does that make sense?
01:52Yes.
01:53I also think multiple players have provided their feedback that they would want Schottenheimer
01:56as the head coach.
01:57I do think that's happened.