Double Injury Headache for Brian Schottenheimer Days Before Cardinals Clash

Heading into the 2026 season, Brian Schottenheimer had it all. A solid draft? Check. A new defensive coordinator? Check. Major defensive additions? Check again. But seven weeks into the season, the Cowboys look worse than they did last year, and that’s saying something. Schottenheimer just hasn’t been able to make the pieces fit. He even admitted it. “The effort is right, the fight is right, but mistakes are killing us… We’re in a hole. We’ve put ourselves there. There’s one way out of it.