Cowboys promote offensive assistant Steve Shimko to QB coach

The Dallas Cowboys stuffed out the offensive aspect of their teaching employees on Monday, retaining continuity and the objective of getting the perfect soccer out of quarterback Dak Prescott in thoughts by means of the complete course of. The choice as to who will truly be within the quarterbacks room with Prescott comes after Dallas already added former Carolina Panthers and Buffalo Payments quarterbacks coach Ken Dorsey as an analyst. As a substitute of Dorsey, it will likely be an inner promotion for present analyst Steve Shimko.

Steve Shimko will turn out to be the Cowboys’ QBs coach, in accordance with a supply. He was an offensive assistant final yr however replaces Scott Tolzien now. He labored with Brian Schottenheimer for 2 years in Seattle. He was the OC at Boston Faculty in 2023.

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Shimko replaces a carryover from Mike McCarthy’s employees who additionally labored his method up from offensive assistant to quarterbacks coach in Scott Tolzien. The previous Packers QB was Prescott’s QB coach over the past two seasons. Clearly, the Cowboys worth closeness and familiarity as issues Prescott has highlighted as vital himself, but nonetheless allowed new head coach Brian Schottenheimer to have his say in selling a coach with ties to his days in Seattle. In Schottenheimer’s first season as offensive coordinator for the Seahawks in 2018, Shimko was a primary time NFL coach as an analyst. That Seahawks group went 10-6 and misplaced within the Wild Card spherical to the Cowboys, Prescott’s first profession playoff victory.

Shimko entered the ranks {of professional} soccer after decrease stage stops at Rutgers, Western Michigan, and JUCO Backyard Metropolis, however did have a cease within the SEC at Georgia as a graduate assistant in 2015.

Shimko served as assistant quarterbacks coach in his second season with the Seahawks, seeing the good thing about staying at a cease lengthy sufficient to be promoted. Present Panthers head coach Dave Canales was the QB coach he labored below. Shimko returned to school after the 2019 season, and once more caught at Boston Faculty lengthy sufficient to go from tight ends coach to quarterbacks in 2022 and offensive coordinator/quarterback coach in 2023.

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The BC Eagles ranked high 15 within the nation in dashing makes an attempt and yards per sport in 2023 with Shimko as OC and QB coach. His résumé checks the entire containers of being a scheme and philosophy slot in what the Cowboys below Schottenheimer wish to accomplish.

The general youth of the Cowboys new employees has been identified by many as a possible constructive in relation to not solely introducing new concepts, however serving to this group create a brand new tradition and identification the place every part is earned. The Cowboys should discover methods to point out any complacency that led to a 7-10 regression out of the playoffs is on its method out of The Star.

Brian Schottenheimer’s first employees as head coach of the Cowboys has come collectively rapidly, and for now reveals a stage of coherency on the soccer aspect of issues this franchise has been missing. As for the way it will translate into on-field success, the perfect that may be mentioned right here is that every one 32 fanbases are actually taking part in the identical ready sport Dallas is following the Eagles Tremendous Bowl win.