Despite being a prominent figure in NFL history and a former Dallas Cowboys star, Deion Sanders was never a serious candidate for the team’s head coaching job

Former Dallas Cowboys star Michael Irvin believes Jerry Jones made a mistake by not hiring Deion Sanders as the team's next head coach. The Cowboys

The Dallas Cowboys hired Brian Schottenheimer and Shannon Sharpe claims they faked interest in Deion Sanders because of Rooney Rule.

Deion Sanders was in the mix for the Dallas Cowboys head coaching job but Jerry Jones had a simple reason for not hiring the former All-Pro for the position.

Michael Irvin didn’t mince words when addressing the Dallas Cowboys' hiring of Brian Schottenheimer to be the franchise’s tenth head coach on Friday. On Irvin’s YouTube channel, he released a video reacting to the hiring on Saturday night which touched on how he found out about the new coach,

Here inside The Star, Cowboys owners Jerry and Stephen Jones are asked separately (after the on-camera press conference introducing Brian Schottenheimer) about the legitimacy of Deion Sanders' coach candidacy.

On Monday afternoon the Dallas Cowboys held an introductory press conference for new head coach Brian Schottenheimer that included an 11-minute rant from owner

Michael Irvin, the Hall of Fame wide receiver who spent his entire 12-year career in Dallas, laid into his former team on Saturday in a video posted to his YouTube channel, lamenting their decision to hire someone who was already on staff instead of Irvin's top choice of Deion Sanders, another Cowboys alumnus.

For the Dallas Cowboys, it’s Brian Schottenheimer time. Could it have been Prime Time instead? Cowboys owner Jerry Jones confirmed Monday that, yes, he and Pro Football Hall of Famer/Colorado head coach Deion Sanders spoke before the team eventually hired Schottenheimer as the 10th head coach in franchise history.

After the Cowboys parted ways with former head coach Mike McCarthy, Sanders was a name that was linked to the role, but he was never formally interviewed. Schottenheimer, who along with Robert Saleh and Kellen Moore, was the only other name on the short list of candidates and he was offered an interview.

For years now, the narrative surrounding the Dallas Cowboys has been that it has been and always will be the Jerry Jones show, and any head coach that he hires will simply be playing a secondary role.