{"id":474554,"date":"2025-12-27T08:02:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T08:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/474554\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T08:02:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T08:02:20","slug":"dc-matt-eberflus-trending-down-in-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/474554\/","title":{"rendered":"DC Matt Eberflus Trending Down In Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n By Ely Allen<\/a> |
\n at December 26, 2025 9:58 pm<\/p>\n

There\u2019s been no shortage of coverage on this site concerning the diminishing job safety of Cowboys defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus<\/strong>. As team owner\/president\/general manager Jerry Jones<\/strong>\u2018 negative comments on the situation continue to escalate, the likelihood that Eberflus gets a Year 2 in Dallas continues to fall. As Jon Machota of The Athletic so candidly put it<\/a>, \u201cat this point, a second season of Eberflus as DC would be a surprise.\u201d \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Early on<\/a> in the season, as the Cowboys ranked 32nd in yards allowed and 31st in points allowed, the team stood behind its defensive play-caller. Some of the early struggles were attributed to the growing pains of a defense that lost its best player<\/a> only a week before the start of the regular season. Head coach Brian Schottenheimer<\/strong> preached patience and belief in his coordinator, asserting that things would improve over time.<\/p>\n

Even Jones admitted that Eberflus was dealing with adversity and clung to his \u201ctremendous experience\u201d as some buyer\u2019s remorse appeared to creep in.\u00a0Just under three weeks later, executive vice president Stephen Jones<\/strong> echoed Schottenheimer and his father\u2019s comments, expressing hope that the situation would \u201ccontinue to evolve\u201d and even expressing hope<\/a> that Eberflus would return as the team\u2019s defensive coordinator in 2026.<\/p>\n

At that point in time, the Cowboys remained the second-worst scoring defense while just climbing out of the basement to be 31st in total defense, as well. A week ago, the unit had worked its way up two more slots in total defense while remaining at 31st in points allowed. For the first time last week, Jones brought up the potential of a coaching change<\/a>, calling the consideration of making \u201cadjustments\u2026regarding coaching\u201d a \u201clegit question.\u201d<\/p>\n

Following a three-score loss to the Chargers in Week 16, Jones announced that no firings would occur in the final two weeks of the season but that a full evaluation of all coaches would occur when the season was over. Shortly following the team\u2019s Week 17 win over the division-rival Commanders, though, Jones was quick to make it crystal clear that he still was not happy with the team\u2019s defensive performance.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u201cNo, no, not at all,\u201d Jones replied when asked if he was pleased with the defensive coaching staff and scheme, per Machota.\u00a0\u201cWe have a lot of work to do there. I\u2019m sorry if I have let my enthusiasm for the win yesterday misrepresent. No, not at all. We got a lot of work to do over there, but we can do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the victory, Dallas allowed rookie running back Jacory Croskey-Merritt<\/a><\/strong> just his second 100-yard rushing performance on only 11 carries. Additionally, the Cowboys only walked away victorious after just holding off a second-half comeback by Washington\u2019s third-string veteran quarterback, Josh Johnson<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The issues of personnel seem to have been removed from consideration when defending Eberflus as of late. While the loss of Micah Parsons<\/a><\/strong> is certainly difficult to come back from and multiple injuries have made things even more difficult, the acquisitions of All-Pro defensive tackle<\/a> Quinnen Williams<\/a><\/strong> and linebacker<\/a> Logan Wilson<\/a><\/strong> have not been enough to turn the tide in Dallas. In fact, adding to Jones\u2019 frustrations, Wilson didn\u2019t play a single snap in yesterday\u2019s game, despite not appearing on the injury report or being designated as inactive. What\u2019s worse, Jones didn\u2019t seem to know why Wilson didn\u2019t play.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t have an explanation for you for why Wilson wasn\u2019t in there,\u201d Jones told the media.\u00a0\u201cWe planned to have him in there. He needs to be in there. He has good instincts. The reason we got him was because he reads the play quick and can basically be in his lane of responsibility and react quick\u2026that\u2019s why we got him.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Jones seems to struggle to find anything nice to say about his defensive coordinator, it seems Eberflus\u2019 position in Dallas is becoming more and more tenuous. If the team\u2019s season finale against the Giants in any way resembles the two teams\u2019 Week 2 40-37 overtime affair, Eberflus may not even last until his post-season evaluation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Ely Allen | at December 26, 2025 9:58 pm There\u2019s been no shortage of coverage on this…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":474555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,8998,42277,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-474554","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-cowboys","11":"tag-matt-eberflus","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115790490042822084","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}