{"id":1393,"section":"sports","section_label":"Sports","url":"https://www.brokenews.co/sports/1393","headline":"Cowboys rout Eagles 38-21, but coach is not in a celebrating mood","dek":"Dallas improved to 3-4 with its best offensive showing of the season, yet Brian Schottenheimer stayed curt and edgy afterward.","body":"The Cowboys beat the Eagles 38-21 on Monday night at Lincoln Financial Field, turning in their best offensive performance of the season and pulling their record to 3-4. It was the kind of win that should buy a struggling team some relief, but head coach Brian Schottenheimer did not act like a man enjoying a reprieve.\n\nHis postgame answers were short, his mood tense. Quarterback Dak Prescott described it as a \"hungry, pissed-off version of Shotty,\" adding that Schottenheimer is not naive about where things stand.\n\nThat stands to reason. Jerry Jones has spent heavily building this roster, and the Cowboys are still under .500 nearly halfway through the season, sitting 1.5 games back in their division. A blowout win over a division rival is a step in the right direction, but it does not erase the bigger picture: the pressure on Schottenheimer to save his own job has not gone away just because Dallas looked sharp for one night.\n\nThe expectation now is that Dallas treats this win as a floor, not a ceiling, given how much work remains to turn the season around.","published_at":"2026-10-28T21:48:43.212133+00:00","source_count":4,"written_from":[{"outlet":"Fox Sports","publisher":"Fox Sports","title":"Cowboys Have An Opportunity They Can't Waste, And They Should Be 'Pissed-Off' If They Do","url":"https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/cowboys-eagles-nfc-east-dak-prescott-brian-schottenheimer"},{"outlet":"New York Post","publisher":"New York Post","title":"Why Brian Schottenheimer was so ‘pissed off’ after Cowboys win","url":"https://nypost.com/2026/10/27/sports/why-cowboys-brian-schottenheimer-was-pissed-off-after-cowboys-win/"},{"outlet":"The Athletic","publisher":"The Athletic","title":"Why did the Cowboys get a 'hungry, pissed off' Brian Schottenheimer on Monday night?","url":"https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7728734/2026/10/27/cowboys-brian-schottenheimer-win-eagles-monday-night-football/"}],"more_coverage":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Dallas Cowboys, Brian Schottenheimer get season-saving, likely job saving 38-21 win vs. Eagles","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/dallas-cowboys-brian-schottenheimer-season-044907510.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"A grumpy Cowboys team, led by Brian Schottenheimer, responds to criticism with division win","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/grumpy-cowboys-team-led-brian-060014185.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Schottenheimer's lack of killer instinct remained in Cowboys' Wk 7 win","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/schottenheimers-lack-killer-instinct-remained-131541783.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"What's Bothering Brian Schottenheimer? Cowboys Fans Will Take The Results","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/whats-bothering-brian-schottenheimer-cowboys-000125817.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Cowboys Headlines: Aikman keeps win in perspective; Schottenheimer explains clipped tone","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/cowboys-headlines-aikman-keeps-win-130139154.html"}],"image":null,"embed":null,"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Analysis data is licensed CC BY 4.0. Credit brokenews and link to the story page you took it from. Source headlines, story titles taken from a source headline, and quoted passages remain the property of their publishers and are quoted for comparison, not licensed onward.","terms":"https://www.brokenews.co/about#reuse"}