Like I said in other post before this became official. I don't see this as being any worse than any other dumb decision the Jones-tards could have made. We were 7-10 this year, we'll likely be 6-11 or 7-10 next year. We'd have had that same record had Fat Mike returned. We'd have had that same type of record had they hired Kellen Moore. (And to be clear, these were probably the only REAL candidates there were. McCarthy, Moore and Schottenheimer)
Schottenheimer's Dad was an excellent HC for a long time. He never got the team to the Super Bowl but he had some really good teams that played sound fundamental football. Almost blue-collar like teams. If or Schottenheimer has that characteristic, then that's at least some small positive. We need a no non-sense coach that gets these guys to play somewhat disciplined. He's never been a HC before, so we don't know yet what his philosophy is. Pete Carroll and Mike Lombardi speak highly of him and think he can be a quality coach and those two guys are pretty solid football people.
That said, this is a typical Jerry uninspiring move. We have no idea if players will take this move seriously. They made this move in large part to placae the $60 millio mediocre QB, admitting what we all already know. Dak is incapable of learning anything new and certainly can't be expected to perform in a scheme where has has to make quick decisions and actually read the field. Odds are Schottenheimer will just fall right in line with whatever drunken GM and Spawn want done. Spawn I and Spawn II were apparently the drivers behind this decision (ironically, the same thing happened when they hired McCarthy, they talked Daddy into it) and I'm convinced those two clowns are dumber about football than Jerruh is.
They could have done far better. They probably could have done worse. I think Moore would have been worse because I don't see him inspiring a flea to bite a dogs ass. Schottenheimer at least has some rep as a get in your face kind of guy and we have a roster of players who need that.
Bottom line, hire doesn't move the needle and the end results will probably be no different than any other hire they could have made (save for people like Belichick, Vrabel, Nick Saban Kirby Smart etc etc)