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 coach at defensive coordinator – you have to go back to 2012 with Rob Ryan to find the last one without head coaching experience – so, naturally, many have pointed to Jonathan Gannon, who was just fired as the Cardinals head coach.

Gannon went...

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 Matt Eberflus, could they go with an out-of-the-box choice no one is focusing on? Albert Breer at Sports Illustrated could be on to something.

On Tuesday, when the Cowboys fired Eberflus, [Breer discussed the team’s opening and how it didn’t sound like things would be...

I dug into Raheem Morris’s defenses from 2020 to 2023, and this is what I found. Turnovers popped, but efficiency and drive stops consistently lagged.

Here’s my breakdown of one of the Cowboys defensive coordinator candidates.

This will give you all a conversation piece to be had around the cooler.

Why I Went Digging in the First Place

When the Dallas Cowboys defensive coordinator conversation started heating up, Raheem Morris was one of the first names people gravitated toward.

Look, I get it, he’s coached a long time, he’s been in big games, and he has a [resume...

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 of his deal. When the team changed head coaches to Brian Schottenheimer they needed a new coordinator and Matt Eberflus was hired before being dismissed after a season’s worth of work.

The TL;DR of that is that Dallas is going to have its fourth defensive...

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 and that “finances are no object”.

“We want to get out here and do better than we did this year,” Jones told a group of reporters following the season-ending news conference at The Star. “(There’s) the incentive to, dare I say it, bust the...

Back in April, the Dallas Cowboys drafted two rookie running backs to shore up their backfield. And then seemingly forgot all about them.

Both Jaydon Blue (5th round) and Phil Mafah (7th round) spent most of the year watching the Cowboys play along with the rest of us.

Blue saw action in all four games Dallas played in October. In the months of September, November, and December he was inactive.

No real reason was given for his inactivity other than he “had to get better” in practice.

In his four-game stint in October, Blue had 22 carries for 65 yards...

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 defensive coordinator in as many years. At their annual end of season press conference, Cowboys owner/GM Jerry Jones, COO/co-owner Stephen Jones and head coach Brian Schottenheimer outlined some of the things they’re looking for in the next defensive coordinator.

“A...

The end-of-season press conference that Jerry Jones and the boys hold every single year after it ends in disappointment once again was pure comedy.

Per usual, Jerry danced around any type of important questions that our fans wanted answers to, and credit to the reporters in attendance because they continued to drill him, and he made sure to avoid it as much as possible.

I actually laughed at most of it, and continued to shake my head.

Still, I watched the entire thing, and below are the three biggest takeaways that I took from the conference, and I will post...

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 three years before that, repeated failures to advance in the playoffs, or even look competitive at times, had him on thin ice going into 2024. After not getting a new contract from the Cowboys, McCarthy was not employed by any other team last year.

Of...

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 of people are banging the table for is running back Javonte Williams. While the Cowboys’ season was disappointing one of its brighter points was how Williams ran the ball, and he did so in his first year with the team after signing a one-year deal....

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 a team who believes a ton in free agency, obviously that is always subject to change, but there are a lot of spots on the roster that are going to need to work and improvement.

Stephen Jones was asked where the Cowboys need to improve...

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 would consider playing Smith at left tackle in the future. To be clear this report came shortly after he played the position in the team’s loss to the Los Angeles Chargers.

From a timeline standpoint:

• Tyler was drafted to play left guard in 2022...