Blogging The Boys
When you fire your defensive coordinator (or let him walk, or let him go on a sabbatical, or whatever the Cowboys decide to do with Matt Eberflus), it’s often because the entire organization failed, and not just the guy nominally responsible for the defense. It follows that when you’re looking to fix that defense, you’re going to have to look at more than just the coaching. Because if you don’t, you’ll quickly find yourself back in the position you wanted to get out of in the first place.
While saying goodbye to Eberflus is the right decision, the danger is that it provides the Cowboys with a waaaay too convenient excuse for everything that went sideways with the defense this season, and thus provides carte blanche for the Jones family and the front office to continue doing business as usual.
In Dallas, the general thinking heading into 2025 was that changing out the defensive coordinator and getting key players back healthy should be enough to be a Super Bowl contender again – despite not even having sniffed an NFC Championship game in decades. As such, the Cowboys front office was perfectly content to think that
The odds were stacked against ‘Flus from day one. It’s convenient to think that his scheme is the root cause of it all, but this is a complete organizational failure that goes way beyond just the DC, and it looks like even Jerry Jones is beginning to realize that.
Will the Cowboys get it right this time? I wouldn’t bet on it, but it’s not impossible. Three teams very recently demonstrated what it takes to turn around a bottom 10 defense into a top 10 unit – in just one year.
