Dallas Cowboys defensive coordinator search tracker: Candidates to watch, interviews, more – SportsDay Staff, Dallas Morning News The Cowboys have plenty of candidates for their open defensive coordinator position. The Cowboys’ defensive coordinator search is on. After the firing of Matt Eberflus, Brian Schottenheimer and Jerry Jones are searching for the next leader of the Dallas […]
The Cowboys may reside in Stillwater as far as the state of Oklahoma is concerned, but the Dallas Cowboys now hold court in Norman. It was reported on Thursday afternoon that former Cowboys tight end Jason Witten is joining the Oklahoma Sooners staff as their tight ends coach, and in case you did not know, […]
The season is done, and it didn’t end in a way most Dallas Cowboys fans wanted. They lost their final game of the season to the New York Giants and it wasn’t pretty. But how did the Cowboys rookie class perform in their final game of their inaugural season? Let’s jump in and find out. […]
The Dallas Cowboys won’t be playing in the playoffs this season. Again. As they turn the page and look to regroup, a great deal of attention will be directed at fixing the defense. The team took its first step by firing defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus on Tuesday. A new guy running the defense, combined with […]
In Wednesday’s postmortem press conference for the Dallas Cowboys’ 2025 season, Jerry Jones, Stephen Jones, and Brian Schottenheimer covered a lot of topics. One of the biggest sound bites from the media session was Jerry’s expressed goal of finishing his ownership run with the most Super Bowls in NFL history. While highly unrealistic at this […]
Yesterday began an incredible run of football for all of us to watch with the Fiesta Bowl between Ole Miss and Miami. Today offers the Peach Bowl between Indiana and Oregon, and then after that we get three straight days with NFL playoff games. It is wonderful. For our discussion around here today we are […]
The Dallas Cowboys aimed for a fresh start in 2025, but the results were pretty much the same as a season ago. Sadly, the Cowboys ended up with yet another losing season for the second year in a row. For consecutive years they’ve only managed to win a total of seven games. and they’ll need […]
Cowboys schedule first three interviews for open defensive coordinator position – Nick Harris, Star-Telegram The search begins. The Dallas Cowboys have requested to interview three candidates for their defensive coordinator opening, according to a report from ESPN’s Todd Archer. The Cowboys are in line to speak with Broncos defensive pass game coordinator Jim Leonhard, Vikings […]
The Dallas Cowboys have started their search for a new defensive coordinator. Todd Archer of ESPN released a list of the team’s initial requests to interview three candidates. The names included are Minnesota Vikings pass game coordinator Daronte Jones, Cleveland Browns safeties coach Ephraim Banda, and Denver Broncos assistant HC/pass game coordinator Jim Leonhard. Out […]
The Dallas Cowboys boast a number of talented players across their storied history and one of them is the incredible Darren Woodson (who deserves to be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame). Woody was a part of one of the greatest dynasties in NFL history and was individually one of the reasons that it […]
The Dallas Cowboys spoke to the media on Wednesday for the first time since firing Matt Eberflus. Jerry Jones was his usual self, but Brian Schottenheimer offered some clarity on what he’s looking for in his next defensive coordinator. Does that sound like generic coachspeak? Sure. Schottenheimer made sure to throw in several buzzwords, staying […]
If the last 24 NFL seasons are any indication, anything is possible for a team that won only seven games the previous season. Well, almost anything. The historical record tells us that between 2002 (when the league moved to the current divisional alignment), 87 teams finished their season with seven wins. Here’s a topline view […]
The Cowboys are looking for a new defensive coordinator – one that can teach and communicate clearly – after moving on from Matt Eberflus. We already outlined 15 candidates that should be on their radar, but here are five names that should be crossed out right away. Jonathan Gannon The Cowboys love a former head […]
Last year, when the Dallas Cowboys were conducting their head coaching search, many household names were floated as possibilities. Bill Belichick, Kellen Moore, Robert Saleh. Then, an out-of-nowhere name surfaced and became the team’s tenth head coach—Brian Schottenheimer. As the Cowboys venture into finding their fourth defensive coordinator in four seasons after moving on from […]
The Dallas Cowboys are looking for a defensive coordinator and this is a sentence that has been said every year since 2024. Dan Quinn left following the 2023 season to become the head coach of the Washington Commanders and then the Cowboys hired Mike Zimmer to round out Mike McCarthy’s staff in the final year […]
The Dallas Cowboys held their season-ending news conference Wednesday afternoon and there was quite a bit of information that may need to be sifted through based on things Jerry Jones and Company said. One such thing was the Cowboys owner/general manager mentioning about the organization being ready to do some “dramatic things” in the offseason […]
What are the Cowboys looking for in their next defensive coordinator? – Tommy Yarrish, DallasCowboys.com The Cowboys need to get this hire right unlike the last few seasons. FRISCO, Texas – On Tuesday, the Cowboys released defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus after one year of calling Dallas’ defense. Now, the search is on for the team’s fourth […]
Mike McCarthy could be on his way back to the NFC East. The former Cowboys head coach is reportedly among those being interviewed for the New York Giants’ vacancy in 2026. After a five-year run in Dallas from 2020-2024, McCarthy was not brought back following a disappointing 7-10 season. While his Cowboys went 12-5 the […]
The Dallas Cowboys held a press conference to close out the 2025 season on Wednesday and in it touched on a variety of things relative to the offseason and all of the work that will need to take place. A popular topic in the offseason will be re-signing certain players and one who a lot […]
The Dallas Cowboys held a press conference to close the 2025 season on Wednesday, something that we hope we never have to speak of again. The future is all anyone cares about right now and there is a lot of work to be done in that regard. We all know that the Cowboys are not […]
The Dallas Cowboys held a season-closing press conference on Wednesday and discussed a variety of topics, including the most recent season and the future that they are hoping is very different from it. Among the subjects that came up was offensive lineman Tyler Smith. There was a report in the last month that the Cowboys […]
The Dallas Cowboys held a press conference to close out the 2025 season on Wednesday and as you can imagine they were asked a lot of things. A big subject was the recent dismissal of Matt Eberflus as defensive coordinator. Following an opening monologue from Jerry Jones, the questions began and DLLS’ Clarence Hill Jr. […]
The Dallas Cowboys are fully into their offseason mode, having already fired defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus. The Cowboys missing the playoffs was disappointing as was suffering through their second consecutive losing season. There is plenty of blame to go around for the 2025 season. As always, we can start at the very top in Jerry […]
The Dallas Cowboys moved on from defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus on Tuesday which means that they are in the market for someone new to hold the position. Much has been made about how Eberflus was the third defensive coordinator for Dallas in as many years which means his successor will be the fourth. There is […]
The Dallas Cowboys 2025 season is officially over. After dropping their Week 18 game to the New York Giants 34-17, the Cowboys head into the offseason with a lot of work to be done. While the offense was as good as we have seen it in recent years, the Dallas defense gave up more than […]