EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Brian Schottenheimer was walking out of an empty visitors locker room at MetLife Stadium with his former employer, the New York Jets, tucked firmly inside his travel bag.
As the offensive coordinator for Rex Ryan’s 2009 and 2010 Jets teams that advanced to the doorstep of unimagined glory, and as the current holder of the most important job in American sports — head coach of the Dallas Cowboys — Schottenheimer was a good person to field the NFL’s most confounding question.
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Is Same Old Jets actually a real thing?
“I don’t buy into that because we won here,” Schottenheimer told The Athletic. “S—, we went to back-to-back AFC Championship Games. Some of my best years in coaching were here with the Jets. We had a lot of success and we were right there.
“So no, I don’t think so. I think it just takes time and you need the right leader.”
Schottenheimer made it clear he thinks Aaron Glenn is that leader despite the Cowboys’ 37-22 smackdown of the Jets that, as they say, wasn’t as close as the score indicated.
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