FRISCO, Texas — In Week 4, All-Pro edge rusher Micah Parsons’ return to AT&T Stadium with the Green Bay Packers to face the Dallas Cowboys, his former team, was an unavoidable storyline.
This week, there’s another return game storyline surrounding Dallas’ Week 5 matchup at the New York Jets: head coach Brian Schottenheimer’s return to New York. The Jets gave Schottenheimer his first offensive coordinator job at 32 years old under then-head coach Eric Mangini.
Schottenheimer stayed on through then-head coach Rex Ryan’s first three seasons in charge from 2009-11. His tenure included calling plays for Pro Football Hall of Famer Brett Favre at 39 years old in 2008, a campaign that began with a lot of promise thanks to an 8-3 start but then went downhill after Favre suffered a biceps injury, and the team finished 9-7. Schottenheimer built a punishing rushing offense that accentuated 2009 first-round quarterback Mark Sanchez’s skill set. The result was consecutive AFC title game appearances in 2009 and 2010. When he was let go following the 2011 season, Schottenheimer departed as the longest-tenured offensive coordinator in Jets history, as confirmed by CBS Sports Research.
“A little different. It wasn’t as big of a story when I left the Jets,” Schottenheimer said Wednesday after a big laugh when asked about his return this week in comparison to Parsons’ last week. “But it’ll be good. There’s still some people in the organization that I’m really close with. I like to think this way, I spent six years as the OC in New York, and I think that’s the longest-tenured coordinator there since the early 70s. It can feel like dog years at times because they have such great fans, and it’ll be fun to be back there. So I guess I was the coordinator there for 42 years. But, nah, we had great success. We won a lot of games. Proud of the fact that we went to back-to-back AFC Championship Games and things like…
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