Cowboys hire Scott Tolzien as coaching assistant
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The Cowboys have hired former NFL quarterback Scott Tolzien as an assistant coach, Mike Fisher of 105.3 The Fan reports.
Tolzien 32, most recently worked as an analyst scouting opponents for Wisconsin.
Tolzien played for new Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy for three seasons in Green Bay. Tolzien made two starts and appeared in four other games from 2013-15 with the Packers.
He last played in the NFL in 2017 with the Colts and then spent time with the Birmingham Iron of the Alliance of American Football a year ago.
Doug Nussmeier will serve as the Cowboys’ quarterbacks coach, replacing Jon Kitna. Nussmeier spent the past two seasons as the Cowboys’ tight ends coach.
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The Cowboys have been working to put together their assistant coaching staff since hiring Mike McCarthy as their new head coach earlier this month and the team formally announced 19 of those coaches on Monday.
Many of the names on the list have already been reported. Offensive coordinator Kellen Moore, defensive coordinator Mike Nolan and special teams coach John Fassel are some of the bigger names on that list.
The Cowboys named Rob Davis their assistant head coach and former Vikings defensive coordinator George Edwards has been given the title of senior defensive assistant.
Offensive line coach Joe Philbin, assistant offensive line coach Jeff Blasko, wide receivers coach Adam Henry, running backs coach Skip Peete, quarterbacks coach Doug Nussmeier and tight ends coach Lunda Wells round out the offensive staff.
The other side of the ball includes defensive line coach Jim Tomsula, linebackers coach Scott McCurley, assistant defensive line coach Leon Lett, defensive backs coach Maurice Linguist and defensive backs coach Al Harris. Matt Daniels will be the assistant special teams coach, Scott Tolzien will be a coaching assistant and Markus Paul will be the strength and conditioning coach.
Yea TEAM! "More wins." Like that's at all helpful. Wave the pom-poms though.
Go back even further than that, Dak wasn't even someone we really wanted to draft. We wanted Lynch and at least one other, but they got picked out from under us so we settled for Dak.
Everything listed above verifies they didn't. They had no clue at all what they were doing.
With Dak still on the board, both times. We never intended to even draft Dak, much less have him be the future franchise.
Two bullets - Lynch is a complete bust. Selected 1st round, 26th overall and spent last year on the Steelers' roster and interestingly, didn't see ANY playing time there last year through the carousel of scrub QBs they went through.
You "remember" it wrong. He was never a "rising star" to the point he might have gone in the 1st round. But the DUI is another element of luck in the Dak story - without that he might well have been taken before where we got him. Late 2nd round, tops.
He was high on Lynch too. So what. He was never going to go in the 1st round. Late 2nd maybe, but more likely early to mid third. His DUI dropped him to where we could get him, that's a fair enough point.
