Nearly two years ago, Jerry Jones made a gamble, and he knew he could pay a heavy price for it. “This is as big a risk as you can take. As big a risk as you can take. No head-coaching experience,” he said of hiring a coordinator as head coach. But even Jones couldn’t have seen how terrible the consequences of that decision could be.

In his second year as head coach, Brian Schottenheimer is on the hot seat following a second straight loss. And Schottenheimer is taking the blame.

“I’m pissed off,” Schottenheimer said on Monday, according to The Athletic’s Jon Machota. “[The players] are pissed off too. We’re ready for a win.”

“Ready for a win” is an understatement for what Cowboys Nation is feeling at the moment. After all, they didn’t just lose to the Packers by 10 points; the loss came on the heels of a loss to a winless Tampa Bay team that had an undrafted rookie at quarterback. However, it was what Schottenheimer said next that had us worried.

“I’ll never not take accountability for the fact that we’re 2-4. It’s not what we planned on being. That’s not where the standard of what we’re trying to do is,” Schottenheimer said, via Cowboys reporter Calvin Watkins. “But again, I think at the end of the day, these guys are focused on the right things and that’s it. We got to play better. We got to coach better and it needs to start this week against Philadelphia.”

The problem is that we’ve heard these comments before. Schottenheimer said something similar in the preseason, when the team couldn’t stop getting into fights on the field. Then, when the penalty problem became apparent, the message was the same. The team was on the right track, but it kept falling short every single time. And that was the same thing we saw on Sunday.

A CeeDee Lamb slip-up gave possession to the Packers. Jake Ferguson failed to return the ball to officials with seconds left in the game. The team committed 11 penalties for 108 yards. However, when the coach was asked what changes were coming, he kept his answer general.

“In terms of changes, no, we’re going to get back to work, and we’ll figure it out,” Schottenheimer said. “We have great trust in our offense. I’m not concerned about our offense. Again, the last two weeks, we own that. It is what it is. It’s not been good enough, but we also have a history of being really explosive, really good. And we’ve done that not only last year, but in four of our games this year.”

At 2-4, the Cowboys need a change, perhaps even a head coach with a firm grip on the players. That’s what Shan Shariff believes.

“I am not saying to hire this guy because of his age, attitude, and GF, but what the Dallas Cowboys really need is someone like Bill Belichick. This team and organization need someone to reteach the basic fundamentals, to be drilled and killed over situational football. We are so behind everyone else in the classroom that you trail in details almost every game… I know this is the ‘new-age’ where AHoles aren’t tolerated, but we’ve tried the nice guy thing, and this team doesn’t respond.”

Could someone like Bill Belichick, a coach with plenty of experience, get the Cowboys over this hump? He certainly kept players on edge and pushing to be better with the Patriots.

As former receiver Julian Edelman put it, “Early in my career it did. When I see him in the hallway now, I still just kind of walk – I don’t have anxiety, but you’re always being tested with him. You could be walking down the hallway, and he’ll say, ‘Who’s the opponent, what [are] his strengths?’ [and] this [and] that. It does keep you on your toes.”

However, the team wants to keep Schottenheimer. Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones seemed to have a lot of faith in his coaching staff. Talking to 105.3 The Fan, Jones said the Cowboys have the resolve to get back to work after the Week 6 heartbreak.

He also expressed his trust in the players and coaches. According to Stephen Jones, even Cowboys owner Jerry Jones believes the team can bounce back.

“There’s not any question in Jerry [Jones] and my mind. He has the team,” Stephen Jones said. “There’s no question they want to go out there and execute and make things happen. Feel really good about our coaching staff. We just got to have it continue to evolve and get to a point to where we can win these football games.”

Schottenheimer and the Cowboys can show their resolve in the upcoming Week 7 game against the Philadelphia Eagles on Monday, October 26.