FRISCO, Texas — Dallas Cowboys defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus is feeling the heat. His Dallas defense in Year 1 as the team’s defensive coordinator under head coach Brian Schottenheimer is allowing 29.8 points per game, the most in the NFL.
One of the elephants in the room regarding the Cowboys’ defensive decline is the 2025 season was the first without All-Pro edge rusher Micah Parsons, whom Dallas traded away to the Green Bay Packers a week before the season began. Eberflus noted his impact but also accurately assessed Parsons’ departure “is what it is.”
“Obviously you have an All-Pro pass rusher that wins really quick [Parsons], that’s certainly going to help any defense if it’s Micah or if it’s Myles [Garrett] or whoever that might be. But that impact player is always going to help to a certain degree in pass downs and other downs,” Eberflus said Thursday. Again, you can’t look back right? It is what it is and then you just focus where you are.”
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Parsons himself saw that comment on Twitter/X, and he reposted Eberflus’ press conference quote with a number of laughing emojis. He then clarified why he took an apparent shot at Eberflus and the Cowboys an hour after posting the initial reaction.
“Y’all want me to feel bad? Jerry Jones slandered my name to Cowboys media and national media for months,” Parsons posted on Thursday. “So I do think I can react to comment if I want to!…
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