After landing a lucrative $36 million extension with the Houston Texans, Dalton Schultz found a new way to make headlines just one day later.
Schultz spent his first five seasons with the Dallas Cowboys before joining the Texans in free agency last year. After tallying 59 receptions for 635 yards and five touchdowns, Schultz received a shiny $36 million extension over three years.
Needless to say, it didn’t take the 27-year-old Schultz long to feel a completely different culture in Houston compared to what he endured in Dallas.
During his appearance on “The Pat McAfee Show” (h/t Michael David Smith of Pro Football Talk), Schultz took a shot at his former team, comparing it to “a zoo” and blaming owner Jerry Jones for allowing it to play out as such:
“The focus is just football. Going back and telling some people about being around the Cowboys’ practice facility and game day, describing some of the interactions and stuff that you see on a day-to-day basis, it surprises a lot of people…
“There’s people literally going on tours while you’re lifting in the weight room. They’ve got a one-way mirror for people to look in. It’s literally a zoo. There’s people tapping on the glass, trying to get people’s attention while they’re doing power cleans or whatever. It’s different. That’s the brand that they’ve built, that’s what Jerry Jones likes, that’s the way 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 the locker room being in the facility…”
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Jones’ Cowboys are a playoff contender every year, but they’ve constantly underperformed in the postseason. This is a once-proud franchise that hasn’t been to the NFC Championship Game since 1995, after all.
Jones, of course, can take plenty of criticism in the Cowboys’ constant postseason failures. He kept Jason Garrett around as head coach for 10 years despite logging only two playoff wins, and he has decided to give Mike McCarthy a fifth year as the HC despite a humiliating loss to the underdog Green Bay Packers in the Wild Card Round.
Schultz, meanwhile, gets to enjoy spending more time on an up-and-coming Houston team that’s just getting started. With rookie QB C.J. Stroud and head coach DeMeco Ryans, they won 10 games and a Wild Card Round contest before losing to the Baltimore Ravens in the Divisional Round.
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