Texas’s Frisco After Will Harriger left the Dallas Cowboys coaching staff this offseason to become the quarterbacks coach for the Carolina Panthers, the team can reveal that the Cowboys have signed Steve Shimko, the offensive coordinator from Boston College, as an offensive assistant.
Following two seasons together in Seattle in 2018 and 2019, Shimko rejoins offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer in Dallas. Before taking a position as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Garden City Community College in 2016, Shimko worked as a graduate assistant at Rutgers, Western Michigan, and Georgia. Before spending two seasons with the Seahawks, he would occupy that role for two years. Then Boston College called, where he was the offensive coordinator for the Eagles this past season, the tight ends coach in 2020 and 2021, and the quarterbacks coach in 2022.
In his one season as coordinator, the Eagles were 80th in FBS with 24.8 points per game and 68th in total offense with 381.2 yards per game. The team finished 7-6 with a win over No. 23-ranked SMU in the Fenway Bowl.
When head coach Jeff Hafley abruptly left Boston College this winter to take a job as the defensive coordinator for the Green Bay Packers, the program rapidly entered a coaching carousel. Shimko, the offensive coordinator, was left with the option of either giving over control of the offense to Bill O’Brien, the team’s new head coach, or looking for another job. On Thursday, the franchise announced the hire of O’Brien, a former NFL head coach and coordinator.
Shimko is the fifth assistant to join Mike McCarthy’s staff this offseason, and the first on the offensive side of the ball. Newly hired defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer joins Jeff Zgonina (defensive line coach), Paul Guenther (defensive run game coordinator) and Greg Ellis (assistant defensive line coach) as the new faces on the coaching staff this offseason.
