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Brian Schottenheimer is at a crossroads. His first season on the job as the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys showed some promise, but there was a fatal flaw: the defense. With a slightly better defense this past year, Dallas wins at least four more games, giving them 11 wins and surely a spot in the postseason.
It’s why Matt Eberflus was fired after just one year. And if Schottenheimer can’t get things right on that side of the ball, people will start to question when Schottenheimer joins his former coordinator. Fair or not, that’s the way this league operates....
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Once the regular season clock struck all zeroes in Week 18, NFL teams began making moves with the future of their franchises in mind.
Overall, there were nine head coach openings available across the league before former Ravens HC John Harbaugh agreed to terms with the New York Giants.
That left eight before the Divisional round kicks off, and we covered the first four head coaching vacancies yesterday when we began this topic.
Head coaching opportunities come in all shapes and sizes, and some will be attractive, and others not so much.
The lower tier jobs available right now (Cleveland,...
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The Dallas Cowboys are wrapping up their second week of interviews for their defensive coordinator position, and they have certainly been casting a wide net as far as the search process is concerned.
At this moment there does not appear to be a particular frontrunner, but all of these names have come up in various capacities (you can keep track of the search with our tracker here):
There is a little bit of...
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When I look at the Dallas Cowboys heading into the first round, I keep coming back to the same thought: if they go defensive end or linebacker early, they shouldn’t hesitate to go defense again.
This defense needs a true stabilizer on the back end, and that’s why I have landed on Dillon Thieneman as the 20th pick in the first-round for the Cowboys.
Safety isn’t always the pick that excites people on draft night, but it’s the pick you appreciate a lot more once the season starts.
I’m firmly in the camp that Dallas needs someone who can settle...
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When it comes to upcoming free agency the Dallas Cowboys have a number of important things to tend to. It feels pretty fair to say that priority number one has to be George Pickens and making sure that the team gets a long-term deal done with him. This opinion does seem to vary from fan to fan, so perhaps you do not feel this way.
One name who, for the most part, draws universal agreement is kicker Brandon Aubrey. The Cowboys are very fortunate to have discovered Aubrey a few years ago and now is the time for serious pen...
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The Athletic’s draft analyst Dane Brugler is highly regarded and respected in NFL circles. Because of that, he is tapped into the way teams could be approaching the upcoming 2026 NFL Draft and the players they could be targeting. That means when he releases a mock draft, we may want to pay a little more attention to what he has to say.
Brugler recently released his 2026 mock draft 2.0 and made some interesting selections for all 32 teams. Not surprisingly, he selected back-to-back defensive players for the Dallas Cowboys with their two first-round picks, No. 12 and 20. Do...
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Shifting gears just a little bit from the posts about the defensive coordinator, draft picks and everything else, I wanted to touch base on the Dallas offense a little bit.
This offense was as good as anyone in football last year, but did indeed struggle in one major area for much of the year.
When they got into the red zone, according to team rankings, they scored a touchdown only 56% of the time, ranking them 16th in the football.
Let’s be honest, you would like to see that number be over 60% when you have the worst defense in...
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The Cowboys DC search marches on.
FRISCO, Texas – It’s been nine days since the Cowboys released defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus, and the search is continuing for Dallas’ fourth defensive coordinator in as many years.
Up to this point, the Cowboys have/will interview nine candidates for the position. On Thursday, Cowboys COO/co-owner Stephen Jones discussed where the team is at in the process.
“I think we’re in the initial run,” Jones said. “We’re going to cast a wide net,...
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The NFL defending champions were dethroned last weekend. Sorry, not sorry, Eagles fans.
Half of the division winners got knocked out.
The only team of the four to make last year’s conference championship games to make it back in 2025 are the Buffalo Bills.
Having fresh faces playing for a chance to win the Super Bowl isn’t a bad thing.
I managed a respectable 4-2 in the wildcard round. The Jaguars found out the hard way that experience matters in tight playoff games.
The Chargers learned they may not yet have their franchise quarterback after all.
I...
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The in-season version of Hard Knocks officially wrapped this week and in case you were unaware it spent the last few weeks chronicling the Dallas Cowboys and the NFC East as a whole.
The show that we all know and love pivoted to covering an entire division midseason last year with the AFC North and this season decided that the only division where every team has won a Super Bowl was the spot to be. That decision makes sense given when it was made as the Philadelphia Eagles were the reigning champions, the New York Giants and Washington Commanders are...
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The Dallas Cowboys are going to be getting some inside knowledge. It was announced on Thursday that tight ends coach Lunda Wells is set to serve as the West Team head coach for the upcoming East-West Shrine Bowl. It was also announced that Aaron Whitecotton will be the defensive coordinator for the East Team.
It should be noted, for those unaware, that the Shrine Bowl is played at The Star so the Cowboys have a baked in advantage in that sense. Still though, having Wells and Whitecotton with the opportunity to directly interact with the players throughout his team will...
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The Dallas Cowboys are searching for their fourth defensive coordinator in as many years. You already know that since it has been said a lot in the lead-up to, and obviously throughout, this process so far.
Isolating a filter, so to speak, on the time in question though, this is only the second time they are doing it in one particular way. To be clear this is only the third defensive coordinator search that Dallas has been a part of as Dan Quinn is a part of the “four in four years” narrative, but within the three searches only two...
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