Dalton Schultz’s time in Dallas made the tight end feel like an animal.
The Texans tight end, who just completed a new three-year, $36 million contract extension, favorably compared his time in Houston to his time with the Cowboys, when he felt like he was there for other people’s entertainment. did.
“The focus is just on football, you know what I mean?” Schultz said of Houston. Wednesday during “The Pat McAfee Show”. “When you go back and talk to some people about the Cowboys’ practice facility and what it’s like on game day, and describe the interactions that you see on a daily basis and things like that, it surprises a lot of people. They’re like, ‘What? It’s like, “Fuck it.” Is that actually happening at the practice facility? If you thought that was normal, you end up in a place like this.
“(Dallas) is literally a zoo. When you’re cleaning or whatever, there are people banging on the glass trying to get attention. No. That’s the brand they’ve built, that’s what it is. [owner] Jerry Jones likes to do things their way, and there’s nothing wrong with that. In the locker room, you don’t realize how many eyeballs there are and how distracting it can be, and just being in the facility makes you go somewhere else and say, ‘Oh my God, that’s not true. Until I started thinking, ‘No.’ ”
Playing on a big-market team isn’t for everyone, and being a star for the Cowboys certainly gets more attention from the media and fans than being a standout player for the Texans.
Jones enjoys that his team is “America’s Team” and leans into all that comes with such differences, both good and bad.
Schultz spent the first five years of his career in Dallas after being selected in the fourth round of the 2018 draft. He then signed a one-year contract with the Texans last offseason.
The Texans have had their own culture issues in the past, but coach DeMeco Ryans, who took over last January, appears to have established a different type of program.
Schultz had 59 catches for 635 yards and five touchdowns last season, and the Texans liked the results enough to keep him with quarterback C.J. Stroud for perhaps three years.
