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— They sat in Jerry Jones’ office at The Star. Dusk was settling in, and the two practice fields below sat partially in the shadows.

As the Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager spoke to Brian Schottenheimer, the team’s offensive coordinator for the past two seasons and a 27-year NFL assistant, Jones laid out a vision for the team’s next head coach.

“You know, [you’d be] a first-time head coach, and I believe we’re hanging around the rim. I think we’ve got in place a team that can get there right now. I had other coaches tell me that were wanting the job, ‘[This team is] right there. Right there,'” Jones said, playing coy with Schottenheimer.

“I just can’t take the risk of going with someone that was doing it for the first time.”

Some seconds passed before Jones smiled and told Schottenheimer he was the next head coach of the Cowboys.

“I really couldn’t speak,” Schottenheimer said, recalling the moment. “Immediately, I went to seeing my father’s face. And knowing how proud he would be of me.”

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Marty Schottenheimer was a head coach for 21 years with the Cleveland Browns, the Kansas City Chiefs, Washington and the San Diego Chargers. He won 200 regular-season games.

He was his son’s hero and remains so almost four years after he died from the effects of Alzheimer’s disease. He was 77.

Schottenheimer’s first call from Jones’ office Friday went to his mother, Pat. Sometime after that, he called Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott.

A toast was made in the owner’s office, and for the next couple of hours, Jones, Schottenheimer and a handful of others went over what’s to come, while also savoring a moment in Cowboys history.

During the Cowboys’ 12-day search, they conducted three other formal interviews and ignored some higher-profile candidates who had drawn attention from other teams. But Schottenheimer, a career assistant who had no other head coaching interviews this cycle, unexpectedly rose to the top of the pool.

The search concluded with Schottenheimer being named the 10th coach in Cowboys history. Jones hopes the move, promoting from within, will pay off with Schottenheimer delivering what Tom Landry, Jimmy Johnson and Barry Switzer did: win a Super Bowl.

This is how the Cowboys landed on Schottenheimer.