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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. asked Jerry directly who would be in charge of hiring the new defensive coordinator. Much is often said about how Jerry Jones runs the Cowboys and it is believed that he preferred Matt Eberflus (these are theories that people posit and nothing that has ever been confirmed to be clear) was a hire that the Joneses made as opposed to head coach Brian Schottenheimer. This was the overall point of the question if not obvious.
Jerry took a second and noted that Schottenheimer had everything to do with the Eberflus hire, even though he made clear that he is the final decision-maker on Cowboys moves. He basically reiterated the same line that they are all involved but Jerry makes the final decisions.
Regarding what the Cowboys are looking for in their new defensive coordinator, Brian Schottenheimer noted that something the Cowboys failed to do this past season was generate turnovers. He mentioned this several times and it stands to reason that this will be something Dallas is looking to rectify.
Schotty also noted that the Cowboys were looking for a “teacher” at the position and would not answer any type of specific scheme that they were looking for from a philosophical standpoint. He noted that the Cowboys want coaches who are flexible and who can figure things out with their players, honestly everything he had to say on the subject was fantastic to hear.
