FRISCO, Texas – The Cowboys employed former Chicago Bears coach Matt Eberflus as defensive coordinator Tuesday for his second stint on the Dallas workers.
Eberflus returned to the Cowboys two months after the Bears fired him 12 video games into his third season, only a day after he botched a timeout in opposition to Detroit late in a sixth consecutive loss. He was 14-32 with Chicago.
The Cowboys additionally added Nick Sorensen as particular groups coordinator to the workers of coach Brian Schottenheimer, who was employed final week to exchange Mike McCarthy.
The Bears employed Eberflus after his four-year stint as defensive coordinator in Indianapolis. He had spent the earlier seven seasons as a linebackers coach with the Cowboys, who ultimately added passing sport coordinator duties.
The 54-year-old Eberflus spent 17 years as a school assistant earlier than becoming a member of the Cleveland Browns as a linebackers coach in 2009. He’s the fifth consecutive former head coach to function Dallas defensive coordinator.
In his 4 years with the Colts, Eberflus had a prime 10 dashing protection every time. Stopping the run was a persistent downside for the Cowboys the previous 4 seasons underneath defensive coordinators Dan Quinn and Mike Zimmer.
Sorensen was fired after one season as defensive coordinator in San Francisco after the 49ers had a major drop-off on that aspect of the ball and completed 6-11 a 12 months after going to the Tremendous Bowl.
Earlier than getting promoted to that function with the Niners, Sorensen spent the earlier two seasons working largely with the secondary and operating the crew’s weekly conferences centered on creating and avoiding turnovers. San Francisco completed within the backside third of the NFL with 17 takeaways.
Sorensen was on Jacksonville’s workers in 2021 when Schottenheimer was the passing sport coordinator, and so they had been on the workers collectively in Seattle from 2018-20.
Sorensen replaces John Fassel, who got here to Dallas with McCarthy in 2020 and had a variety of notable particular groups successes combined with some puzzling faux punt makes an attempt that failed. Tennessee employed Fassel for a similar job.
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