COWBOYS PROMOTE OC FROM WITHIN

Brian Schottenheimer was named offensive coordinator for the Dallas Cowboys after serving the past season as a consultant for the team.

Coach Mike Mccarthy announced the move Saturday, three days after team owner Jerry Jones said Mccarthy is set to call plays in 2023 after the club parted ways with offensive coordinator Kellen Moore.

Schottenheimer has 22 years of NFL coaching experience, 12 as an offensive coordinator. In his role as consultant for the Cowboys, who haven’t been past the divisional round of the playoffs since their last Super Bowl 27 years ago, he studied future opponents and assisted both the offensive and defensive units with game planning and self-scouting.

“He has been an important part of our staff already and has a great grasp of where we are and where we want to go,” Mccarthy said. “Brian also has an exceptionally strong foundation, history and relationships beyond his time here that translate very well into understanding what our approach to operating and executing will be for the future.”

The Cowboys moved on from Moore in what Mccarthy last weekend called “a mutual decision to part ways.” Moore was then hired by the Chargers as their new OC.

At the Senior Bowl this week, Jones said Mccarthy plans to run a version of the West Coast offense he used when calling plays as head coach in Green Bay from 2006-18. Moore had kept the play-calling role for three seasons after Mccarthy was hired.

Schottenheimer was passing game coordinator for the Jaguars in 2021 after three seasons as the Seahawks offensive coordinator.

Jacobs, Raiders to talk

Josh Jacobs, who led the NFL in rushing yards this season, said he expects to begin speaking with Raiders management next week about a possible new contract.

He could become a free agent after the Raiders declined last April to exercise his fifth-year option, and he responded by rushing for a career-high 1,653 yards as well as 12 touchdowns that tied his personal best.

“We haven’t talked yet, so I ain’t feel disrespected in any type of way yet,” Jacobs said Saturday at the Pro Bowl Games media day.

The Raiders could place the franchise tag on Jacobs, which would lock him in for a year for a salary $10.1 million, according to overthecap.com.

His base salary this season was $2.1 million and his cap hit was $3.8 million.

Jacobs let it be know such a move wouldn’t go over well, but reiterated his preference to stay in Las Vegas. Many factors would go into that, including money, but so would the Raiders’ ability to win.

NFL infuses Pro Bowl

The NFL finally stopped pretending its all-star game was an actual game, and is breathing life into the exhibition with today’s Pro Bowl Games.

There will be no tackle football played for the first time — not that there was much tackling in recent years, more like two-hand touch.

Flag football is now the marquee event.

Will the dramatically different format work? The league desperately hopes so. Rather than a winner-takeall game, a series of events — each of which accumulates three points — lead up to three flag football contests to determine the winning conference.

Four skills events took place Thursday, and the AFC will try to extend its five-game winning streak after taking a 9-3 lead by winning the precision passing competition, the threeevent lightning round and the long drive.

The NFC won in dodgeball.