Dallas Cowboys is run like a ZOO, says Dalton Schultz after leaving the team for Houston Texans and taking a brutal shot at owner Jerry Jones
Schultz was drafted out of Stanford by the Cowboys in the fourth round in 2018
After five seasons with the Cowboys, he signed with the Texans last March
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Former Dallas Cowboys tight end Dalton Schultz offered a startling insight into the way the franchise is run after leaving the team.
The 27-year-old was drafted out of Stanford by the Cowboys in the fourth round of the 2018 Draft and had spent the entirety of his NFL career in Dallas until last year.
After five seasons with the Cowboys, Schultz signed with the Houston Texans last March and claimed his new team environment was an eye-opener.
He revealed that his experience with the Texans made him realize the way Dallas is run isn’t normal with the tight end thankful the team’s focus is solely on the field.
‘That was one of the first things that kind of stuck out to me is it feels like much more, I don’t want to say college because it’s not, but the focus is just football,’ he said of his arrival in Houston during a guest appearance on the Pat McAfee Show Wednesday.
‘Going back and telling some people how being around the Cowboys’ facility [was], describing some of the interactions and stuff that you see on a day to basis surprised a lot of people.
‘They’re like holy c**p, that actually happens at a practice facility? You think it’s normal and then you come to a place like this.’
He likened being a member of the Cowboys to being an animal trapped in a zoo, suggesting Jerry Jones has built his brand around showing off his players.
‘There’s people literally going on tours while you’re lifting in the weight room,’ he added when host Pat McAfee asked him for examples.
‘They’ve got a one-way mirror for people to look at, it’s a zoo. There’s people tapping on the glass trying to get people’s attention as they’re doing power cleans.
‘That’s the brand that they’ve built. That’s what Jerry Jones likes. That’s the way that they run things and there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s just you don’t realize how many eyeballs and how much that can maybe distract from stuff in a locker room, in the facility until you go somewhere else and there’s none of that.
He likened being a member of the Cowboys to being an animal trapped in a zoo, suggesting Jerry Jones has built his brand around showing off his players.
‘There’s people literally going on tours while you’re lifting in the weight room,’ he added when host Pat McAfee asked him for examples.
‘They’ve got a one-way mirror for people to look at, it’s a zoo. There’s people tapping on the glass trying to get people’s attention as they’re doing power cleans.
‘That’s the brand that they’ve built. That’s what Jerry Jones likes. That’s the way that they run things and there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s just you don’t realize how many eyeballs and how much that can maybe distract from stuff in a locker room, in the facility until you go somewhere else and there’s none of that.
‘This is also a really well run organization in Houston. I think that was one of the things that scared me about leaving Dallas the most is I wasn’t sure what another organization would kind of feel like. And I got here and I was like this place is a well-oiled machine.
‘This is also a really well run organization in Houston. I think that was one of the things that scared me about leaving Dallas the most is I wasn’t sure what another organization would kind of feel like. And I got here and I was like this place is a well-oiled machine.
