Former New York Jets wide receiver Braylon Edwards called out Brian Schottenheimer on Monday. He used the Dallas Cowboys’ two-game skid to blame his former offensive coordinator for the Jets’ offense’s performance in back-to-back AFC Championship Game losses after the 2009 and 2010 seasons.

Edwards posted the morning after the Cowboys lost 23-13 to the Green Bay Packers on Sunday night and fell to 2-4 in their second season under Schottenheimer as head coach. The week before, in Week 5, Dallas lost 24-16 at home to the previously winless Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Across the two defeats, the Cowboys scored 29 points combined.

Braylon Edwards Links a Two-Game Skid to His Old Coordinator

The Cowboys never led at Lambeau Field. They trailed 17-0 at halftime, and Dak Prescott finished 34 of 54 for 258 yards with a touchdown and two interceptions. The running game produced 48 yards on 15 carries.

Schottenheimer was blunt about the offense afterward. “Five turnovers in two games, not very good. Got to find a running game. That starts with myself and the offensive staff,” he said.

Edwards had his own take on the slide. He wrote that watching Dallas “struggle two weeks in a row” reminded him “why we as a Jets offense were terrible in back to back AFC championship games.” He didn’t hold back on the reason either, pinning it on a “mid OC by the name of Brian Schottenheimer.”

A Grudge That Dates to Two AFC Title Game Losses

Things started on friendlier terms, as the Jets landed Edwards in a 2009 trade with the Cleveland Browns. After his first practice, Schottenheimer called him “a really sharp guy” and noted that much of the terminology carried over from Edwards’ time in Cleveland.

Both of those Jets playoff runs ended one game short of the Super Bowl. On Jan. 24, 2010, the Jets lost 30-17 to the Indianapolis Colts on the road. All 17 of their points came in the second quarter, including an 80-yard touchdown pass from Mark Sanchez to Edwards, who finished with two catches for 100 yards.

A year later, on Jan. 23, 2011, they lost 24-19 to the Pittsburgh Steelers on the road. They trailed 24-0 until a field goal with nine seconds left in the first half, and Edwards caught three of his seven targets for 50 yards.

Edwards has made this case before. On WFAN’s “Maggie Gray & Bart Scott” show in September 2019, he said “there’s no love lost between me and Schotty.”

He argued the Jets were better than they showed in both title games and objected to the team moving away from the running game that had carried it. In that same 2019 interview, he also questioned what the offense was built to do.

“I felt as though there was too much emphasis trying to be put on ‘let’s make Santonio (Holmes) look good. Let’s make LaDainian (Tomlinson) look good’ … like nobody cares about that. What’s going to win?”

Co-host Bart Scott, who played with Edwards on both of those Jets teams, agreed at the time. He said he felt Schottenheimer was coordinating with an eye on “a head coaching job.”

In 2009, the Jets’ offense ranked 21st onPFN’s Offense Impact Metric with a grade of 71.5, while in 2010, they finished 17th with a grade of 74.4.

Schottenheimer’s 2025 season offers another counterpoint. In 2025, his first year as the Cowboys’ head coach and play-caller, Dallas ranked seventh in the league in scoring at 27.7 points per game and second in yards at 391.9 per game.

For now, the Cowboys are third in the NFC East. They get an extra day to prepare before playing the Philadelphia Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field on Monday, Oct. 26.

“We’re in a hole, we put ourselves there,” Schottenheimer said after the loss to Green Bay. “There’s one way out of it.”