The Dallas Cowboys should fill an infinite gap of their teaching workers after the Washington Commanders employed defensive coordinator Dan Quinn as their subsequent head coach on Thursday.
Per ESPN’s Adam Schefter, it stays to be seen if the 2021 Assistant Coach of the Yr will carry Cowboys assistants to Washington, together with defensive backs coach Al Harris or defensive position coach Aden Durde.
Schefter added every might be a DC candidate for the Commanders if Dallas grants permission to interview them.
The Athletic’s Jon Machota reported Harris, Durde and secondary coach Joe Whitt Jr. are potential in-house replacements. These choices make sense for the Cowboys, as every has served below Quinn for the previous three seasons.
Nevertheless, none has DC or HC expertise. Mike McCarthy — who’s getting into the ultimate yr of his contract — may want this. Machota famous different candidates on the Cowboys’ radar as former Titans HC Mike Vrabel, former Vikings HC Mike Zimmer, former Commanders HC Ron Rivera and former Giants DC Wink Martindale.
Rivera appears the most certainly alternative if Dallas goes outdoors of the group. NFL Community’s Ian Rapoport additionally named him as a possible goal. Whereas he served as HC, the Commanders finished second within the league in yards and fourth in factors allowed in 2020.
Regardless, Quinn’s departure is an enormous loss for Dallas. The Cowboys led the league in takeaways in 2021 and 2022 and have been fifth in factors allowed this previous season.
He has a knack for creating star gamers, too, akin to linebacker Micah Parsons, cornerback Trevon Diggs and cornerback DaRon Bland.
The Cowboys should ace their subsequent rent to interchange one of many high defensive minds within the league.