Report: Former Cowboys assistant to return to Dallas as Schottenheimer's coordinator
Dallas’s hiring of Brian Schottenheimer as their next head coach was quickly followed by a report of who will be in charge of the defense. It appears Dallas will also bring back former assistant coach Matt Eberflus as the team’s defensive coordinator.
The former linebackers coach spent seven seasons in Dallas, from 2011 through 2017.
The Cowboys front office reportedly wanted Eberflus to take over as defensive coordinator after the 2017 season for an aging Rod Marinelli but he refused to undercut his mentor. Instead, the rising defensive coach took the Indianapolis defensive coordinator job under then-head coach Josh McDaniels.
In the 2020 and 2021 seasons, Eberflus helped the Colts defense become the only team in the league to have his squad rank in the top ten in scoring, run defense, and takeaways.
In four seasons, his turnovers and run defense in Indy never fell out of the league’s top 10 rankings.
Eberflus spent the last three seasons as Chicago’s head coach, accumulating a 14-32 record in his Bears tenure. Eberflus set Chicago’s franchise record with a 14-game losing streak and was fired midway through the 2024 season after an embarrassing clock management blunder on Thanksgiving against the Lions.
He now becomes the third defensive coordinator in the past three seasons for Dallas and has the task of creating mismatches for defensive end Micah Parsons, among others.
Dallas signed Mike Zimmer to a one-year contract to be the team’s defensive coordinator before the 2024 season and appears to be a one-and-done situation.
Terms of the Eberflus deal have not been disclosed.
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