FRISCO, Texas – Through six weeks of the 2025 NFL season, the TV' defense ranks last in the NFL in yards allowed per game with 411.7.
Evidently, that's not where the Cowboys want to be at, especially when their offense is leading the league in yards per game and Dak Prescott is playing some of the best football of his career.
In terms of how to find a solution, Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones does not think the answer is to find a replacement for defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus, who he still remains confident in.
"He's had tremendous experience. He's dealt with adversity with a long record of, not only with us, but his tenure in Chicago and Indianapolis, and he's had some great successes…" Jones said on 105.3 The Fan Tuesday. "But he's had his tail kicked. That's who I want in the foxhole with me, because there's no such thing as having all the answers."
"I jumped at it when I saw we had a chance to get him, I still feel as strongly as I did the day we brought him in here."
Jones and the Cowboys were familiar with Eberflus' coaching acumen, as he served as Dallas' linebackers coach from 2011-17 under then defensive coordinator Rod Marinneli. At the end of the day, Jones doesn't believe that the defensive struggles are anything that can't be fixed during the remaining 11 games of the 2025 seaosn.
"These things that we're dealing with here are not one, two major things," Jones said. "They're a lot of little things that you can address and get right. You can adjust the nuances of them… there's a lot of ways to win football games, and Flus is dealing with nuances there that we can adjust and change. And you do adjust, and you do change, and there will be that."
While things haven't gone to plan up to this point, Jerry Jones, COO/co-owner Stephen Jones and head coach Brian Schottenheimer have all come to Eberflus' defense and reiterated their confidence in him amidst the struggles. In Schottenheimer's perspective, he's been in Eberflus' shoes before at multiple other stops earlier in his career.
"I've been Matt. I've been a coordinator. And I've been where people are calling you out and saying you don't know how to coach and, 'Man, this guy is the worst coach in history…'" Schottenhimer said on Monday.
"Matt Eberflus is a damn good football coach. We have to perform better. But I've been him, so part of me being in [defensive meetings] is to help as an asset, to tell him I believe in him. I understand what he's going through. It sucks. It's no fun. We're gonna ride this thing out. And we'll play better. We really will."
